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169 “touched” documents: Former NSA official who requested anonymity, interview with author.
169 more than half the documents: Staff member of the Senate Intelligence Commit- tee who requested anonymity, interview with author.
170 Snowden also disputed: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.”
170 viaa Vice magazine: Leopold, “Inside Washington’s Quest to Bring Down Edward Snowden.”
171 previously cited road map: Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.”
171 The compartment logs showed: Former NSA official who requested anonymity, interview with author.
171 “No intelligence service”: Glenn Greenwald, “Email Exchange Between Edward Snowden and Former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey,” Guardian, July 16, 2013.
171 An answer soon came: Sophie Shevardnadze, “’Snowden Believes He Did Everything Right’: Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena,” SophieCo, RT television, Sept. 23, 2013, //www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/snowden-russia-lawyer-kucherena-214/.
172 “all the reports”: Kucherena, interview with author.
173 Russian cyber service: Former member of the staff of the national security adviser who requested anonymity, interview with author.
174 State Department explicitly told: Ibid.
175 “I had spent ten years”: Hill, “How ACLU Attorney Ben Wizner Became Snowden’s Lawyer.”
176 Inthe case of Stone’s movie: Irina Alexsander, “Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood,” New York Times Magazine, Sept. 4, 2016.
176 “I went the first six months”: Bell, “Edward Snowden Interview.”
® 176 “There’s nothing on it”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA ® Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.”
176-177 former CIA officer Ray McGovern: Mark Hosenball, “Laptops Snowden Took to Hong Kong, Russia Were a ‘Diversion,’ ” Reuters, Oct. 11, 2013.
177 “break my fingers”: Snowden, interview with Williams. See also Burrough, Elli- son, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga,” and Bamford, “Edward Snowden.”
178 “said they believed that”: Perlez and Bradsher, “China Said to Have Made Call to Let Leaker Depart.”
178 “Both the Chinese and the Russians”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 284.
179 “What I can say”: Snowden interview, ARD-TV, Jan. 26, 2014, https://docs .google.com/file/d/0B951d3jOMO0lrdDA5WI1Zd11Ubjg/ preview.
179 She urgently texted Snowden: Citizenfour.
180 Poitras’s co-interrogator: Appelbaum, “Edward Snowden Interview.”
180 there was no document: Former NSA official who requested anonymity, inter- view with author.
180 He reported that no: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.”
181 another person in the NSA: Ibid.
181 Greenwald suggested to the New York Times: Jo Becker, Steven Erlanger and Eric Schmitt, “How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveal’s the West’s Secrets, “ New York Times, Sept. 1, 2016.
181 Greenwald and Poitras: “Snowden Leak: Israeli Commandos Killed Syrian Gen- eral at Dinner Party,” Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2015.
182 Specifically, it disclosed: Cora Currier and Henrik Moltke, “Spies in the Sky,” Intercept, Jan. 28, 2016.
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