emed this cooperation to infringe on privacy rights, he revealed documents bearing on the NSA’s data exchange with Israel. He subsequently told James Bamford, in an interview in Wired magazine in August 2014, that supplying such intelligence to Israel was “one of the biggest abuses © we've seen.” Snowden

- PAGE BREAK --- Notes PRoLoGuE Snowden’s Trail: Hong Kong, 2014 3, “No Such Agency”: The best description of the birth of the NSA can be found in Bamford, Puzzle Palace, 1-4. 4 the NSA learned: General Keith Alexander, interview with author. 4 twelve-minute video: This video can be seen at http://www

ld, the NSA vastly exaggerated the magnitude of the theft in order to “demonize” Snowden. Snowden also disputed the 1.7 million number. He told James Bamford of Wired in early 2014, that he took far less than the 1.7 million documents that the NSA reported was compromised. He further claimed in that same i

uthor of the 1982 book The Puzzle Palace. In Moscow in June 2014. James Bamford. “Edward Snowden: The Untold Story,” Wired, August 2014. (Hereinafter Bamford Wired.) “We’ve crossed lines.” --- Snowden quoted by Bamford, Wired “Congressman Ron Paul organized...”—Rebecca Shabad, “Former Rep. Ron Paul launc

blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation.” In an interview, Bamford said, “What the Joint Chiefs indicated in their plan was, they would have people shot on American streets, bombs blown up, refugee boats sunk on the