its Level-3 secrets without great success. Yet it was precisely these secrets that Mr. Snowden changed jobs to steal. In an interview in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post on June 15, 2013, he said he sought to work on a Booz Allen contract at the CIA, even at a cut in pay, because it gave him access to secret lists of

al- times.net/2013/05/sensitive-words-seven-say-nots-and-more/. 25. Raymond Li, “Seven Subjects Off Limits for Teaching, Chinese Universities Told,” South China Morning Post, May 10, 2013, http:// www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1234453/seven-subjects-limits-teaching-chinese-universities-told. 26. Tom Mitchell, “China De

itory, an early sign that they wanted to send a strong message to their government and to the Communist Party in Beijing. Early results compiled by the South China Morning Post showed pro-democracy parties winning 278 of the first 344 seats to be declared, pro-Beijing parties taking 42, and independents 24. Many prominent

figured out that our contract, and what we did @ on that contract, were the types of gates he needed to get access to.” @ Snowden subsequently told the South China Morning Post that he took this job to “get access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA had hacked.” If so, he was after the keys to the NSA’s king- dom

ry to monitor threats. Despite the cut in pay, Snowden took that job. Snowden made no secret of one of his reason for this move. He subsequently told the South China Morning Post, as will be recalled, that he took it to “get access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA had hacked.” If so, he was after the keys to the