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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

rk), 2005, pp. 471°-5 “In 1980, President Ronald Reagan...”—David R. Shedd, “How Obama Unilaterally Chill

penetrate cables...”—Bob Woodward, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987, (Simon and Schuster, New York), 2005, pp. 471°-5 “In 1980, President Ronald Reagan...”—David R. Shedd, “How Obama Unilaterally Chilled Surveillance,” Wall Street Journal, November 30, 2015 “We are approaching a...”--Stansfield Turn

ar. • Russians Arrested In Austria Over Killing Of Chechen Dissident. • Southern Command Rebuilds Intelligence Relationship With Brazil Years After Snowden Damage. • Declassified Navy Videos Create Renewed Interest In UFOs From Congress. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS • Epstein Associate Maxwell Charged With

afficking, and terrorism financing." Brazil once provided "vital intelligence to prevent transnational threats from reaching the US homeland." Then, Edward Snowden published "a trove of classified information in 2013, revealing wiretaps of then- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff." Intelligence cooperation and m

9M) website reports the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan "are now in the South China Sea for military dri

rimination in law enforcement. Two US Carriers In South China Sea For Drills. The Fox News (7/5, Miles, 27.59M) website reports the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan "are now in the South China Sea for military drills, a U.S. Navy official confirms to Fox News." Rear Adm. George Wikoff told the Wall Street Journ

Gabbard may have made some inroads with one potentially skeptical Republican. Sen. Susan Collins asked whether Gabbard would recommend a pardon for Edward Snowden. The former government contractor was charged with espionage after leaking a trove of sensitive intelligence material and fled to residency in Russi

ractor was charged with espionage after leaking a trove of sensitive intelligence material and fled to residency in Russia. Gabbard, who has called Snowden a brave whistleblower, said it would not be her responsibility to "advocate for any actions related to Snowden." The article mentioned that Kennedy

EFTA00162490 unfolded as Trump himself was ranting about how diversity hiring caused the tragic airplane-and-helicopter crash outside Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. And it capped a tumultuous week after the White House abruptly halted federal funding for programs Americans rely on nationwide, u

and-helicopter crash outside Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. And it capped a tumultuous week

earlier, and HealthCare.gov, a Web site that was undertested and overmatched, was a gift to them. There were other beribboned boxes under the tree: Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency; the failure to get anything passed on gun control or immigration reform; the unseemly waffling over

are most about are what's being reported on, and that we're not on any given day chasing after fifteen story lines." Then Obama insisted that what Snowden did was "not akin to Watergate or some scandal in which there were coverups involved." The leaks, he said, had "put people at risk" but revealed no

once he was in office. The debate over the proper scale and scope of the federal government dates to the Founders, but it has intensified since the Reagan revolution. Both Bill Clinton and Obama have spent as much time defending progressive advances—from Social Security and Medicare to voting rights

who crave a rallying cry. It's what compelled him to declare himself a non-pacifist as he was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, in Oslo, and praise Ronald Reagan in a Democratic primary debate. EFTA00684472 And that was the end of the performance. A few minutes later, the motorcade was snaking through the

entation of more sophisticated secu- rity procedures, such as the polygraph examination and extensive background checks. In 1995, eleven years before Snowden joined it, the CIA’s inspector general completed a study of the KGB’s use of false defectors to mislead the U.S. government from the end of the Cold

sses of a nation’s potential adversaries. The most impor- tant of these in peacetime is communication intercepts. It was just such state secrets that Edward Snowden took from the NSA in the spring of 2013. Before that breach, America’s paramount advantage in this subterranean competition was its undisputed domina

ir impor- tance) that had been provided to Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Even more s

n prepared in Moscow had been incorporated into reports (which had a distinctive blue stripe to signify their impor- tance) that had been provided to Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Even more shocking, in tracing the path of this disinformation, the inspector general found that the “senior CI

ence community’s unambiguous assessment of Edward Snowden as a betrayer of national secrets rather than a w

their horror of Donald Trump. Much of the left—which had resoundingly and scathingly rejected the intelligence community’s unambiguous assessment of Edward Snowden as a betrayer of national secrets rather than a well-intentioned whistle-blower—now suddenly embraced the intelligence community’s authority in its s

the spot, many of whom he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the president-elect’s lack of immediate focus on a White House structure that could serve and prote

hiefs have included Richard Nixon’s H. R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig; Gerald Ford’s Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney; Jimmy Carter’s Hamilton Jordan; Ronald Reagan’s James Baker; George H. W. Bush’s return of James Baker; Bill Clinton’s Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles, and John Podesta; George W. Bush’s Andrew Card;

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”:

or_review/black_chamber.shtml. “Its far-seeking eyes”: Kahn, Codebreakers, 358. The NSA also organized: Woodward, Veil, 471-75. In 1980, President Ronald Reagan: David R. Shedd, “How Obama Unilaterally Chilled Surveillance,” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 30, 2015. “We are approaching”: Turner, Secrecy and Democr

oodward, Veil, 471-75. In 1980, President Ronald Reagan: David R. Shedd, “How Obama Unilaterally Chilled

101 Even though Snowden had greatly exaggerated the positions he held with the CIA and DIA, no effort was made to check them by the team of journalists. Instead, MacAskill w

t does those sorts of things.” He had succeeded in defining himself for the public. The Guardian story accompanying the video carried the headline, “EDWARD SNOWDEN: THE WHISTLE BLOWER BEHIND THE NSA SURVEILLANCE REVELATIONS.” Snowden’s identity as a whistle-blower was now established in the media. Overnight, Sno

provided to the three American Presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Even more sho

been incorporated into reports, which had a distinctive blue stripe to signify their importance, had been provided to the three American Presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Even more shocking, in tracing the path of this disinformation, the Inspector General found that the "senior CIA

70 Slate, 98-99 Slovenia, 15 Smith, Justin, 78 Snowden, Edward, 42, 95 Soros, George, 178 Special Opera

ducers, The (film), 15-16 Pruitt, Scott, 21 Putin, Vladimir, 7, 8, 24, 37-38, 99-102, 153, 155 Qatar, 230-31 Raffel, Josh, 142, 207, 258-59, 279 Reagan, Ronald, 26, 27, 34, 58, 90, 126—27, 144, 201, 222 Remnick, David, 154 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020133 Renaissance Technologies, 58 Republican National Comm