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insights. Through the eyes of the KGB, a penetration of American intelligence was clearly opportunistic. If these practices continued, they put the Snowden case in a new light for me. If Russian intelligence considered it worthwhile to send an ex-civilian worker at the NSA, such as Ronald Pelton, from Wa

ebruary 19, 2015 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020402 21 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Enter Assange 1. “Thanks to Russia ...”--Julian Assange, “How 'The Guardian' Milked Edward Snowden's Story,” Newsweek, April 20, 2015 “Julian Assange had made...”-- David Leigh and Luke Harding, “Julian Assange: the teen hacker who became insurgent

hor’s Interview with former CIA officer who requested anonymity (Hereinafter Source E.) 3. “The only person there to...”—Mavanee Anderson interview, “Edward Snowden's Friend Mavanee Anderson Exclusive Interview,” MSNBC,’Last Word,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQUMdolBWE 4. “He received an unfavorable evaluation,,,”—Er

wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies” in the fifth volume of his autobiography Closing the Ring, (Houghton Mifflin, 1951) 36. “Clapper answered that the NSA...”—the transcript was published by the Washington Post, January 29, 2014. For Clapper’s earlier closed do

ix A of this book. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020382 ZS'L aT. 38. 39. 40. 32.”Fact and Fable in Psychology,” Joseph Jastro, Fact and Fable in Psychology, Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1900, pp.202-204 33. “I haven’t shot anybody...” Statement Analysis: “The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald.” http://www.statemen

oward NSA surveillance. It there- fore seems entirely plausible that he found a co-worker willing to cooperate or, vice versa, a co-worker found him. Snowden might not have been aware of his new accomplice’s true motives or affili- ations, but without some co-worker’s providing him with entry to the sealed

ith author. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 308 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019796 Notes to pages 23-25 | 309 23 The only person: “Edward Snowden’s Friend Mavanee Anderson Exclusive Interview,” Last Word, MSNBC, June 12, 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v= beQUMdolBWE. 25 “was trying to break into”:

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dopamine jump who were chasing machines with a blind addicts urgency. It infects governments too. “Surprising realization (at least for me) after the Snowden leaks,” Dullien observed. “Hacking is so addictive that entire organizations can become addicts and show addict-style behavior.”!55 This was the NSA

ability. “I remember what the Internet was like before it was being watched and there had never been anything in the history of man that is like it,” Edward Snowden once observed, nostalgic for the datascape he saw melt away during his time at the NSA. 157 I realize now that there is a whole new generation of you

e system may be pwned before we're quite aware. Such 173 “Democracy”: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 246 174 “Our constitution”: Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War, (Oxford: Oxford University Clarendon Press, 1881),119 119 HOUS