ie Valentine’s Day gala sponsored by corporate members of the Armed Forces Commu- nication and Electronics Association. The guest speaker was Michael Hayden, who had headed the CIA when Snowden was abruptly © forced out two years earlier. Nevertheless, Snowden joined the cue © to have his photo taken wit

e-piping.” One result was that the NSANet, which Snowden had access to at Dell in 2012, became a shared network. It had common access points. General Hayden described them to me as the equivalent of “reading rooms” in a library. They served as a means for NSA workers to exchange ideas about the problems t