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23 The only person: “Edward Snowden’s Friend Mavanee Anderson Exclusive Interview,” Last Word, MSNBC, June 12, 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v= beQUMdolBWE.
25 “was trying to break into”: Schmitt, “C.I.A. Warning on Snowden in ‘og Said to Slip Through the Cracks.”
26 explained the discrepancy: Former CIA officer who requested anonymity, inter- view with author.
26 “It was not a stellar”: Drumheller, interviews with author.
26 “e-mail spat”: Snowden was interviewed via the Internet by Risen, “Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia.”
26 “totally incapable”: Snowden, interview with Bamford, “Edward Snowden.”
27 “through the system”: Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.”
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28 “Much of what I saw”: Greenwald, Poitras, and MacAskill, “Edward Snowden.”
30 This “free pass”: Tyler Drumheller, interview with author.
30 “So the guy with whom the CIA”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 284.
30 His initial job for Dell: Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.”
31 Lindsay Mills: The information about Lindsay comes from her postings on In- stagram and her blog L’s Journey, https://twitter.com/Isjourneys. The informa- tion about her and Snowden’s travel to Mount Fuji and other places in Japan comes from the Little Red Ninja blog written by Jennie Chamberlin: https://www
© .facebook.com/Little-Red-Ninja-214045021941347/timeline/. ® 32 working on a backup system: Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.” 32 most of the classified data: Source who requested anonymity, interview with author.
32 spotted a major flaw: Snowden, interview with Bamford, “Edward Snowden.”
32 “Tactually recommended”: Ibid.
33 Snowden made a ten-day trip: Harris, “What Was Edward Snowden Doing in India?” Also, Shilpa Phadnis, “Edward Snowden Sharpened His Hacking Skills in Delhi,” Times of India, Dec. 4, 2013.
33 “It is a dead-end job”: Former Booz Allen official who requested anonymity, interview with author.
33 shaded by a sakura: The description of Snowden’s life in Maryland comes entirely from Lindsay Mills’s Internet postings. See L's Journey.
34 The guest speaker was: Michael Hayden, interview with the author.
34 “They [the NSA] are intent”: Greenwald, Poitras, and MacAskill, “Edward
Snowden.”
34 “none of whom took any action”: Andrea Peterson, “Snowden: I Raised NSA Concerns Internally over 10 Times Before Going Rogue,” Washington Post, March 7, 2014. The NSA’s response came from the NSA spokesperson Vanee Vines in an author interview.
35 U.S. Investigations Services: Dion Nissenbaum, “U.S. Gives New Contract to Firm That Vetted NSA Leaker Edward Snowden,” Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2014.
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