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Extraction Summary
4
People
4
Organizations
1
Locations
2
Events
2
Relationships
4
Quotes
Document Information
Type:
Book proof / congressional record exhibit
File Size:
1.69 MB
Summary
This document appears to be a page from a book proof (likely by Edward Jay Epstein, given the filename prefix 'Epst') stamped as a House Oversight exhibit. It discusses Edward Snowden's (referred to as C4) communications with a journalist (implied Laura Poitras), contrasting Snowden's willingness to leak documents with William Binney's refusal to break the law. The text argues that Snowden misled the journalist regarding the scope of domestic surveillance in 2013, claiming the Stellarwind program had been terminated by President Bush and replaced by the more restrictive FISA Amendment Act of 2006.
People (4)
| Name | Role | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Binney | Former NSA official / Source |
Refused to violate oath or statutes; made allegations in a film.
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| C4 / Snowden | Source / Whistleblower |
Referred to as 'C4' and later 'Snowden'; willing to provide secret documents; accused by the text of misleading the j...
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| Her / Poitras | Journalist / Filmmaker |
Recipient of the emails and leaks; implied to be Laura Poitras based on the context of 'her film' (Citizenfour).
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| President Bush | US President |
Ended the Stellarwind program after Justice Department objections.
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Organizations (4)
| Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|
| NSA |
National Security Agency; subject of the surveillance documents.
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| Justice Department |
Insisted on the termination of Stellarwind; oversees task force for expunging data.
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| Congress |
Asked by Bush to revise FISA.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Indicated by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Timeline (2 events)
2013
Snowden contacts journalist claiming comprehensive domestic surveillance.
N/A
Snowden
Poitras
Locations (1)
| Location | Context |
|---|---|
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Target of surveillance discussion.
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Relationships (2)
Snowden
→
Source/Journalist
→
Poitras
He was offering in these e-mails to provide her with secret government documents
Binney made it clear to her... that he was not a lawbreaker.
Key Quotes (4)
"What you know as Stellarwind has grown"Source
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"The expanded special source operations that took over Stellarwind’s share of the pie have spread all over the world to practically include comprehensive coverage of the United States."Source
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Quote #2
"Poitras had no way of knowing at this early state that her source was misleading her."Source
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Quote #3
"I know the location of most domestic interception points"Source
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Quote #4
Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (2,541 characters)
String Puller | 67
to back up the charges he made that Stellarwind was an unlawful
domestic surveillance operation. He could not have done so without
violating his sworn oath and, for that matter, U.S. anti-espionage
statutes. Binney made it clear to her and other journalists that he
was not a lawbreaker. But her new source, C4, was willing to do
what Binney (and other insiders) had refused to do. He was offer-
ing in these e-mails to provide her with secret government docu-
ments, even though it would implicate him as an outlaw. To further
whet her appetite, he told her that these up-to-date NSA documents
would fully substantiate the allegations that Binney made in her
film. Even more important, he said Binney’s 2001 disclosures were
still relevant to her cause. “What you know as Stellarwind has
grown,” he wrote to her. “The expanded special source operations
that took over Stellarwind’s share of the pie have spread all over the
world to practically include comprehensive coverage of the United
States.” In fact, as Snowden knew from the Inspector General report
he had read, the NSA had terminated Stellarwind almost a decade
earlier. President Bush ended it after top officials of the Justice
Department insisted that he did not have the legal authority for the
domestic part of Stellarwind. Instead, he asked Congress to revise
FISA to meet the objections of the Justice Department. The result
was the FISA Amendment Act of 2006. Unlike the previous Stel-
larwind program, it did not permit domestic surveillance. It speci-
fied that the government could not target any person in the United
States or anywhere else in the world under this authority. Nor could
it target any foreign person, even one residing outside of the United
States, to acquire information from a particular known person inside
the United States. As the act recognized that information about U.S.
citizens might mistakenly be intercepted by the NSA, it required
that such data about Americans be expunged in a bimonthly review
by a Justice Department task force. Although the NSA program in
place in 2013 was not the comprehensive domestic surveillance that
Snowden claimed it to be, Poitras had no way of knowing at this
early state that her source was misleading her.
domestic surveillance operation. He could not have done so without
violating his sworn oath and, for that matter, U.S. anti-espionage
statutes. Binney made it clear to her and other journalists that he
was not a lawbreaker. But her new source, C4, was willing to do
what Binney (and other insiders) had refused to do. He was offer-
ing in these e-mails to provide her with secret government docu-
ments, even though it would implicate him as an outlaw. To further
whet her appetite, he told her that these up-to-date NSA documents
would fully substantiate the allegations that Binney made in her
film. Even more important, he said Binney’s 2001 disclosures were
still relevant to her cause. “What you know as Stellarwind has
grown,” he wrote to her. “The expanded special source operations
that took over Stellarwind’s share of the pie have spread all over the
world to practically include comprehensive coverage of the United
States.” In fact, as Snowden knew from the Inspector General report
he had read, the NSA had terminated Stellarwind almost a decade
earlier. President Bush ended it after top officials of the Justice
Department insisted that he did not have the legal authority for the
domestic part of Stellarwind. Instead, he asked Congress to revise
FISA to meet the objections of the Justice Department. The result
was the FISA Amendment Act of 2006. Unlike the previous Stel-
larwind program, it did not permit domestic surveillance. It speci-
fied that the government could not target any person in the United
States or anywhere else in the world under this authority. Nor could
it target any foreign person, even one residing outside of the United
States, to acquire information from a particular known person inside
the United States. As the act recognized that information about U.S.
citizens might mistakenly be intercepted by the NSA, it required
that such data about Americans be expunged in a bimonthly review
by a Justice Department task force. Although the NSA program in
place in 2013 was not the comprehensive domestic surveillance that
Snowden claimed it to be, Poitras had no way of knowing at this
early state that her source was misleading her.
He offered to substantiate her worst fears about the growth of
NSA surveillance: “I know the location of most domestic intercep-
tion points, and that the largest telecommunication companies in the
NSA surveillance: “I know the location of most domestic intercep-
tion points, and that the largest telecommunication companies in the
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