…anonymously via its TOR software, any party, with access the Snowden files, could have sent it. Greenwald and Poitras also released belated documents. On July 15, 2015, for example, their web publication The Intercept released a Snowden doc...
Poitras
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d not mean that the NSA documents had not fallen into the hands of adversaries. If he had destroyed all of the electronic copies of the NSA’s data before boarding his flight to Moscow, he could he be “100 percent” certain, as he claimed tha...
o the Russians even if they “break my fingers.” Snowden did he specify where, when or how the putative destruction of the files occurred, and offered no witnesses or evidence, other than a blank laptop screen to corroborate it. Even though...
…a new narrative. In it, he would say to say to hand-picked journalists that he had given all his documents to Poitras and Greenwald in Hong Kong and took none of them to Russia, Wizner could then argue that documents such as the FISA warran...
ll working for the NSA, from Poitras. At that time, Poitras did not know Snowden’s real name, but she revealed to Wizner that she had found an anonymous source with access to U.S. government surveillance secrets. So he was not completely su...
ived on May 20, 2013. On June 3rd, according to Greenwald, he was still sorting through the material to determine which ones were appropriate to give to journalists. On June 12th 2013, he told reporter Lana Lam in Hong Kong that he was goin...
…k taken his final job at Booz Allen to get access to these lists. If Snowden had not given these documents to Poitras, Greenwald or other journalists, where were they? The compartment logs showed that Snowden copied and transferred these le...
…as a high-profile blogger in Brazil who did not use encryption or any security safeguards. Next, he contacted Poitras in January 2013 in Berlin who was a magnet for NSA dissidents. Both of these contacts put Snowden’s clandestine downloadin...
on Post, Nation and other elite newspapers. He could join Poitras and Greenwald on the Board of Directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He could be the subject of both an Oscar-winning documentary, the hero of the 2016 Hollywood m...
…y granting interview to the New York Times, Washington Post, Nation and other elite newspapers. He could join Poitras and Greenwald on the Board of Directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He could be the subject of both an Oscar-w...
…ng Kong, but I would rather stay and fight the US government in the courts.” As mentioned earlier, Greenwald, Poitras and MacAskill did not concern themselves with the issue of the mechanics of the largest theft of top secret documents in t...
lf provided the talking points. The filming would eventually provide Poitras with a feature-length movie, CitizenFour, which would be commercially released in October 2014 and win an Academy Award for her. The next day, Wednesday June 4th,...
… bugs. It was not without irony that he went through these security rituals to protect his data as he allowed Poitras to film NSA data on his computer screen. Since he planned to use these journalists as his outlets to go public in a few da...
…ified himself to them in an email as a senior member of the intelligence community. Snowden led Greenwald and Poitras through various corridors of the hotel to his room, 1014. It was in a single room mainly occupied by a king-sized bed. Its...
…spy thriller,” as Greenwald subsequently described the instructions. MacAskill had stayed at the W Hotel when Poitras and Greenwald Poitras went to the Mira Hotel. Poitras did not want to bring along an uninvited guest to the first meeting...
… he would soon be the object of a manhunt that could involve those with whom he was acquainted. He instructed Poitras to mask their email communications in cyber space “so we don’t have a clue or record of your true name in your file commun...
o that no one else at the NSA would be suspected. He instructed her “Your destination is Hong Kong.” Poitras and Gellman were not the only journalists involved in the news event. Poitras also asked the hacktavist Jacob Appelbaum to help her...
… the world a system of secret, pervasive surveillance from which there is no refuge.” Meanwhile, Snowden told Poitras, he was sending her a number of NSA documents including a recent FISA warrant. It had been issued less than a month earlie...
…be published was June 6, 2013, which was well past Snowden’s deadline. Snowden next turned to Greenwald. Both Poitras and Micah Lee had made great efforts to tutor Greenwald on encryption protocols, with Lee, who was in Berkeley, California...
…ted directly with first Gellman and then Greenwald. He emailed Gellman under the alias “Verax .” Already, via Poitras, he had provided this Washington Post journalist with power point slides from a NSA presentation about a joint FBI-NSA-CIA...
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