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265 265 265 272) 272 273 274 277 279 280 281 282 282 283 285 285 287 287 289 289 290 Notes to pages 281-293 | 327 Snowden,” Dispatches, July 13, 2015, https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/12 /dispatches-meeting-edward-snowden. “T will be submitting”: “Statement by Edward Snowden,” July 12, 2013, https:// WikiLeaks.org/Statement-by-Edward-Snowden-to.html. “When I accepted the case”: Kucherena, interview with author. Kucherena had personally approved: Shevardnadze, interview with author. CHAPTER 27 Snowden’s Choices Presidential Policy Directive 20: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 75. to trace the theft: Michael Hayden, interview with author. “For our enemies”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 294. “Thad a special level”: Snowden and Taylor, “Are You a Traitor?” “You should remain anonymous”: Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.” He was also willing: Snowden and Taylor, “Are You a Traitor?” “The mission’s already accomplished”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” CHAPTER 28 The Espionage Source “The government's investigation failed”: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” “Tf I were providing information”: Transcript of interview with Snowden in Moscow, Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” Pelton, for example: Victor Cherkashin, interview with author. “This debriefing could not”: Intelligence source who requested anonymity, interview with author. Mike Rogers, the chairman: “Congressman Says Snowden Planned Escape to China,” UPI, June 16, 2013. “a known unknown”: Donald Rumsfeld, press conference at NATO headquar- ters, Brussels, Belgium, June 6, 2002. CHAPTER 29 The “War on Terror” After Snowden “Because of a number”: Amy Davidson, “Don’t Blame Edward Snowden for the Paris Attacks,” New Yorker, Nov. 19, 2015. On the evening of: David Gauthier-Villars, “Paris Attacks Show Cracks in France’s Counterterrorism Effort,” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 23, 2015. According to a declassified: Charlie Savage, “NSA Discloses Inspector General Report,” New York Times, Feb. 16, 2016. “the number one source”: “NSA Slides Explain the PRISM Data-Collection Pro- gram,” Washington Post, June 6, 2013. according to the testimony: Ellen Nakashima, “Officials: Surveillance Programs Foiled More Than 50 Terrorist Plots,” Washington Post, June 18, 2013. Details of four of the plots were then released by the House Select Committee on Intelligence, | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r.indd 327 ® HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019815 9/30/16 e13.am | |