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story 9, 1:25, Llamas, 6.93M) Ian Pannell reported, "The White House is saying it's going to work with allies to hold those in Russia accountable." Merkel: Navalny Was Poisoned With Nerve Agent. Reuters <https://www.reuters.corn/article/us-russia-politics- navalny-germany/putin-critic-navalny-was-poison

tin-critic-navalny-was-poisoned-with-novichok-nerve-agent-says-merkel- idUSKBN25T272> (9/2, Nasr, Osborn) reports that according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, "Kremlin critic" Alexei Navalny, "who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital, was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent in an attem

White House on Wednesday joined other world governments to condemn the apparent poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny." White House National Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot said, "The United States is deeply troubled by the results released today. Alexei Navalny's poisoning is completely reprehe

on an 'unimaginable scale.- - In Germany, Angela Merkel made a symbolic visit to the former Nazi concent

kubets was the 'leader of a criminal cyber gang' and had been involved in cyber crime for the past decade on an 'unimaginable scale.- - In Germany, Angela Merkel made a symbolic visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz for the first time in her 14 years as chancellor. (Loveday Morris) -- Aus

ompared Trump to Richard Nixon: Trump went after Pelosi after she made her impeachment announcement: A quote from Fiona Hill, who worked on Trump's National Security Council until this summer and testified against him last month, seemed apropos: Trump's campaign manager tried to use polling from a district held by a fre

The most sensational of them was a purported document attrib- uted to Snowden concerning the NSA hacking of the cell phone of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. The story was published on October 23 on the Der Spiegel website. Appelbaum was the co- author of the story. Even though Snowden had by now been in

istent with @ Kucherena’s assertion that he had access to the archive. @ Adding to the intrigue, Poitras was apparently caught by surprise when the Merkel story broke in Der Spiegel. She urgently texted Snowden on what she called “background” (which ordinarily means that a journalist will not attribute

is not known to take no for an answer in issues involving espionage. Even if Snowden refused to furnish his key encryption, accord- ing to a former National Security Council staffer, the Russian cyber service in 2013 had the means, the time, and the incentive to break the encryption. It is unlikely it would have had to go

s expose purported U.S. government actions in foreign lands, including the alleged tapping of friendly government officials’ con- versations, such as Angela Merkel’s, these are implicitly conflated with the NSA’s domestic surveillance program, around which a | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 303 @ 9/30/16 8:1

ficial who requested anonymity, inter- view with author. 183 German federal prosecutor: Theodore Schleifer, “Germany Drops Probe into U.S. Spying on Merkel,” CNN Politics, June 13, 2015. 184 “Russian planners might have”: Adam Entous, Julian E. Barnes, and Siobhan Gorman, “U.S. Scurries to Shore Up Spy

ties”: Chris Strohm and Gopal Ratnam, “NSA Leader Seeks Openness on Secret Surveillance Orders,” Bloomberg News, June 13, 2013. Also, staff member of National Security Council who requested anonymity, interview with author. CHAPTER 18 The Unheeded Warning 185 “The NSA—the world’s”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 287. 185

ovided it. The most sensational of them was a purported document attributed to Snowden concerning the NSA hacking the cell phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The story was published on October 23, 2013 on the Der Spiegel website. The co-author of the story was Jacob Appelbaum. Even though Snowden had by n

istent with Kucherena’s assertion that Snowden had access to the archive. Adding to the intrigue, Poitras was apparently caught by surprise when the Merkel story broke in Der Spiegel. She urgently texted Snowden on what she called “background” (which ordinarily means that a journalist will not attribute

arrier for the FSB. Snowden may have had confidence in the power of his encryption protocols but, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020290 139 according to a former National Security Council staffer, the Russian cyber service in 2013 had the means, the time and the incentive to break the encryption. It is unlikely they would have gone to