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e of Snowden’s “carer” and Snowden’s whereabouts for those eleven crucial days. At this point, I got some much-needed help from an old friend on the Obama White House staff. Before I had left New York, I asked him if he could find someone at the consulate in Hong Kong who might brief me on the Snowden c
the president. “By ordering illegal eavesdropping, the president had committed crimes and should be held accountable for them,” Greenwald wrote. When Barack Obama became president in 2009, Greenwald also attacked him for breaking the law by “ordering illegal eavesdropping.” Because of his opposi- tion to Obama,
ity situation at the NSA in 2014 as a mem- ber of President Obama’s NSA Review Committee, found that the NSA in the
held accountable for them,” Greenwald wrote. When Barack Obama became president in 2009, Greenwald also at
t led back to them.” (Ulbricht received a life sentence for running this criminal enterprise in May 2015.) Tor software was also employed by Private Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning) to transfer some fifty thousand diplomatic cables and military reports from his laptop to Assange’s WikiLeaks website. Eventual
lly given the “authority” at the NSA to intercept President Obama’s private communications, which, according to an
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019604 The Great Divide | 117 Barack Obama’s presidency, there were six government emp
rance, even to the extent of meretriciously claiming in the video that he had been personally given the “authority” at the NSA to intercept President Obama’s private communications, which, according to an NSA spokeswoman, was not true. No NSA employee, and certainly no civilian contract worker, was given
e almost always prosecuted. During | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 116 @ 9/29/16 5:51PM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019604 The Great Divide | 117 Barack Obama’s presidency, there were six government employees who, as a matter of personal conscience, shared classified informa- tion they obtained from the FBI,
e, he co-founded WikiLeaks, a website in which secret documents could be anonymously sent and posted. The site received little public attention until Bradley Manning sent it several hun- dred thousand lowly classified U.S. military and State Department documents in April 2010. With these stolen documents, WikiLeak
nd other Snowden supporters, described the NSA activities exposed by Snowden as part of a vast criminal conspiracy involving, among others, President Obama, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence and both Democrat and Republican members of the Congressional oversight committees. It further
e president. “By ordering illegal eavesdropping, the president had committed crimes and should be held accountable for them,” Greenwald wrote. | When Barack Obama became President in 2009, Greenwald also attacked him for breaking the law by “ordering illegal eavesdropping.” Because of his opposition to Presiden
vast criminal conspiracy involving, among others, President Obama, James Clapper, the Director of National Intellig
ld accountable for them,” Greenwald wrote. | When Barack Obama became President in 2009, Greenwald also at
y 2015.) To eradicate the Internet trail, Silk Road employed TOR software. TOR was also employed to steal and transfer classified secrets by Private Bradley Manning (now called Chelsea Manning.) He used TOR software to transfer some 50,000 diplomatic cables and military reports from his laptop to Julian Assange’s
four a.m. when Hillary Clinton’s plane touched down at Andrews Air Force Base, and by midmorning she was in the Oval Office conferring with President Obama. The night before, as her plane was en route from Tunis, they had agreed that the vote of the United Nations Security Council to impose a no-fly zone
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024975 →orning she was in the Oval Office conferring with President Obama. The night before, as her plane was en route from
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024975 →andled by nato. Whatever the burden-sharing logistics, the United States was in deep now, on a course that no one could predict. Madam Secretary For Barack Obama, the Arab Spring and its aftermath will shape just one critical piece of his record. But, for Hillary Clinton, the swirling challenges of the region
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024979 →departure of U.S. ambassadors in Mexico and Ecuador, with more fallout on the way. Hillary told staff that she could not fathom how an army private, Bradley Manning, with psychological problems and a drag-queen boyfriend could single- handedly cause the United States unprecedented embarrassment just by labeling m
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024979 →s sword. “Ulti- mately, I’m accountable.” Because President Obama did not want the head of the NSA resigning in the
nder tendered his resignation on June 30, 2013. “I’m the director,” he said, falling on his sword. “Ulti- mately, I’m accountable.” Because President Obama did not want the head of the NSA resigning in the midst of the Snowden crisis, he asked him to stay on for another six months. He then appointed Roge
_OVERSIGHT_019768 Snowden’s Choices | 281 need for him to expose himself in this way. If he merely wanted to be a whistle-blower, he could have, as Bradley Manning did, anony- mously sent the documents to journalists as “Citizen Four.” In fact, in late May 2013, that was exactly what he did. He anonymously sent
enwald’s byline, it said: “Exclusive: Top Secret Court Order Requesting Verizon To Hand Over Call Data Shows The Scale of Domestic Surveillance Under Obama.” Along with it was the FISA warrant to Verizon. The PRISM story broke hours later in the Washington Post. Written by Gellman and Poitras, it claimed
nd the U.S. Since its President had just met with President Obama in California, China also had an interest in avoi
e, he co-founded Wikileaks, a website in which secret documents could anonymously be sent and posted. The site received little public attention until Bradley Manning sent it several hundred thousand lowly-classified U.S. military and State Department documents in April 2010. With these stolen documents, Wikileaks
while still at Dell, it will be recalled, he had he had told Poitras he had a copy of Presidential Policy Directive 20, a document in which President Obama authorized the NSA to tap into fiber cables crossing the United States. Snowden described it to her as “a kind of martial law for cyber operations, c
ice intriguing is that there was no evident need for him to expose himself in this way. If he merely wanted to be a whistle-blower, he could have, as Bradley Manning did, anonymously sent the documents to journalists as “Citizen 4.” In fact, in late May 2013, that was exactly what he did. He sent Barton Gellman th
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