aboard a Japan Airlines flight. I checked in to the Mira hotel in the Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district of Kow- loon, a ten-minute ferry ride away from Hong Kong Island, where most of the foreign consulates are located. I chose the Mira because it was the five-star hotel in which Snowden had stayed and where he had

, who had worked closely with Ho on the Snowden case. He immediately agreed to see me. I met Tibbo in the tea room at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on Hong Kong Island, where I moved to from the Mira hotel. The Mandarin was also convenient to Tibbo’s office at the court. Tibbo was a tall, round-faced man, with thin