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8 appointment with Robert Tibbo: Tibbo, interviews with author.
11-12 “angel descending”: Snowden, interview with Brian Williams, NBC, May 28, 2014.
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15 “It’s like the boiling frog”: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.”
15 Lon Snowden, like his father: The best reporting on Snowden’s childhood was done by Suzanne Andrews. See Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.”
16 Brad Gunson, who knew Snowden: Carol D. Leonnig, Jenna Johnson, and Mare Fisher, “Who Is Edward Snowden?,” Washington Post, June 15, 2013.
16 Snowden stayed home: Kinsey, interview with author.
16 Posting under the alias: Mullin, “NSA Leaker Ed Snowden’s Life on Ars Technica.”
16 He even went to anime conventions: Christopher Johnson, “Chatting About Japan with Snowden,” Japan Times, June 18, 2013.
17 “body fat percentage”: Leonnig, Johnson, and Fisher, “Who Is Edward Snowden?”
17 “I’ve always dreamed”: Mullin, “NSA Leaker Ed Snowden’s Life on Ars Technica.”
17 Admiral Barrett: Coast Guard Biography, http://www.uscg.mil/history/people /Flags/BarrettEBio.pdf. Also, for his FBI career, see http://wwwl.amn.edu /hamanrts/OathBetrayed/FBI% 2047 pdf.
® 18 Army records show: Author interviews. The U.S. Army spokesman George ® Wright stated Snowden was enrolled in the program between May 7, 2004, and September 28, 2004. The spokesman Colonel David Patterson said, “He attempted to qualify to become a Special Forces soldier but did not complete the requisite training and was administratively discharged from the army.”
18 taking a job as a security guard: Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.”
19 “So sexxxy it hurts”: The information about Snowden’s modeling career comes from his posts on Ars Technica. See Mullin, “NSA Leaker Ed Snowden’s Life on Ars Technica.”
19 Jonathan Mills, Lindsay’s father: Daniel Bates, “Snowden Totally Abandoned His Girlfriend When He Fled amid NSA Revelations, Her Dad Says,” Daily Mail, Jan. 17, 2014. The information about Lindsay Mills comes from her Twitter and Instagram postings.
19 The CIA’s minimum requirements in 2006: https://www.cia.gov/careers /application-process.
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22 “It seems to me spies”: Snowden, interview with Williams. 23 team of information technologists: Former CIA officer who requested anonym- ity, interview with author.
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