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Extraction Summary
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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Quotes
Document Information
Type:
Book excerpt / typeset proof (page 4 of 'how america lost its secrets')
File Size:
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Summary
This document is page 4 of a book titled 'How America Lost Its Secrets' (likely by Edward Jay Epstein, given the filename 'Epst...'). It details the June 2013 discovery of the NSA data breach committed by Edward Snowden, his flight to Hong Kong, and the subsequent criminal charges filed against him in the Eastern District of Virginia. The text describes Snowden's video confession and asserts that he stole intelligence regarding foreign adversaries from the NSA, CIA, DOD, and British services, not just domestic surveillance records. The document bears a House Oversight Bates stamp.
People (1)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Edward Snowden | Suspect / Civilian Analyst |
Twenty-nine-year-old analyst accused of stealing NSA documents and fleeing to Hong Kong.
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Organizations (6)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| NSA |
Victim of data breach; agency whose files were stolen.
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| Federal Prosecutors (Eastern District of Virginia) |
Filed a three-count criminal complaint against Snowden.
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| CIA |
Agency from which documents were stolen.
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| Department of Defense |
Agency from which documents were stolen.
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| British cipher service |
Agency from which documents were stolen.
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| FBI |
Agency unable to question Snowden because he fled.
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Timeline (2 events)
First week of June 2013
June 9, 2013
Locations (5)
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Location of the heavily guarded regional base where the breach occurred.
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Location Snowden fled to; where he made the video statement; described as a special administrative region of mainland...
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Jurisdiction where federal prosecutors filed the complaint.
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Location of alleged illegal data collection.
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Referenced in relation to Hong Kong's status.
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Relationships (1)
Snowden was a civilian analyst at the NSA base who stole documents.
Key Quotes (3)
"This was not a whodunit mystery."Source
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Quote #1
"Snowden had stolen a great deal more than documents relating to domestic surveillance."Source
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Quote #2
"He had also stolen secret documents from the NSA, the CIA, the Department of Defense, and the British cipher service revealing the sources and methods they employed in their monitoring of adversaries, which was their job."Source
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Quote #3
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