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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Book manuscript page / house oversight committee submission
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1.74 MB
Summary
This document is page 127 from a book (identified by the ISBN in the footer as 'Filthy Rich' by James Patterson) stamped with a House Oversight Committee identifier. The text discusses the polarized views on Edward Snowden, contrasting his supporters' 'whistle-blower' narrative with the views of intelligence officials (Morell, Alexander) and politicians (Feinstein, Rogers) who view him as a traitor or foreign agent. While the page content focuses entirely on the Snowden leaks, the document metadata (Epst_... filename and House Oversight stamp) indicates this page was included in materials reviewed during the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
People (8)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Morell | Intelligence Official (Former Deputy Director of CIA implied) |
Quoted criticizing Snowden's actions as a massive compromise of information.
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| Edward Snowden | Subject of discussion / Whistleblower / Accused Leaker |
Discussed regarding his theft of documents and whether he is a whistleblower or traitor.
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| General Alexander | Head of the NSA (at time of theft) |
Asserted Snowden caused the greatest damage to intelligence systems; his career was ended by the breach.
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| Dianne Feinstein | Democratic Senator (California) / Head of Senate Intelligence Committee |
Stated she views Snowden's actions not as whistleblowing but as treason.
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| Mike Rogers | Republican Representative (Michigan) / House Intelligence Committee |
Suggested on Meet the Press that Snowden might be working for a foreign intelligence service.
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| Barack Obama | President of the United States |
Mentioned in reference to a former prominent member of his cabinet.
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| Glenn Greenwald | Journalist |
Mentioned as the person Snowden contacted four months before the FISA document was issued.
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| Unnamed Cabinet Member | Former prominent member of Obama's cabinet |
Suggested off the record that Snowden was part of a Russian or Chinese operation.
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Organizations (5)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| NSA |
National Security Agency, headed by General Alexander.
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| Senate Intelligence Committee |
Headed by Dianne Feinstein.
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| House Intelligence Committee |
Mike Rogers was a counterpart on this committee.
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| NBC |
Network airing 'Meet the Press'.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Recipient of this document (indicated by Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019615).
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Locations (4)
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State represented by Senator Dianne Feinstein.
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State represented by Representative Mike Rogers.
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Mentioned in the context of espionage theories.
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Mentioned in the context of espionage theories.
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Relationships (3)
Feinstein called Snowden's actions 'an act of treason'.
Text mentions Snowden contacted Greenwald.
Alexander asserted Snowden did greatest damage to intelligence systems; breach ended Alexander's career.
Key Quotes (4)
"Snowden's disclosures will go down in history as the greatest compromise of classified information ever."Source
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"I don't look at this as being a whistle-blower... I think it's an act of treason."Source
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"Snowden might be working for a foreign intelligence service."Source
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"he backed up a virtual tractor trailer and emptied a warehouse full of documents"Source
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The Great Divide | 127
the privacy issue." Instead, as Morell put it, "he backed up a virtual
tractor trailer and emptied a warehouse full of documents—the vast
majority of which he could not possibly have read and few of which
he would likely understand—[and] he delivered the documents to a
variety of news organizations and God knows who else." As a result,
Morell concluded, "Snowden's disclosures will go down in history
as the greatest compromise of classified information ever." General
Alexander, the head of the NSA at the time of the theft, asserted that
Snowden did "the greatest damage to our combined nations' intel-
ligence systems that we have ever suffered." Obviously, military
intelligence officers would not be on Snowden's side of the divide
(and the Snowden breach ended the careers of many of them, includ-
ing Alexander). But political leaders in both parties could also be
found on the anti-Snowden side of the divide. "I don't look at this as
being a whistle-blower," the Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein of
California, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said after
she was briefed on Snowden's theft. "I think it's an act of treason."
The Republican representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, her coun-
terpart on the House Intelligence Committee, said on the NBC pro-
gram Meet the Press that Snowden might be working for a foreign
intelligence service. And a former prominent member of President
Obama's cabinet went even further, suggesting to me off the record
in March 2016 that there are only three possible explanations for the
Snowden heist: (1) it was a Russian espionage operation; (2) it was a
Chinese espionage operation; (3) it was a joint Sino-Russian opera-
tion. These severe accusations generated much heat but little light.
They were not accompanied by any evidence showing that Snowden
had acted in concert with any foreign power in stealing the files or,
for that matter, that he was not acting out of his own personal con-
victions, no matter how misguided they might have been.
tractor trailer and emptied a warehouse full of documents—the vast
majority of which he could not possibly have read and few of which
he would likely understand—[and] he delivered the documents to a
variety of news organizations and God knows who else." As a result,
Morell concluded, "Snowden's disclosures will go down in history
as the greatest compromise of classified information ever." General
Alexander, the head of the NSA at the time of the theft, asserted that
Snowden did "the greatest damage to our combined nations' intel-
ligence systems that we have ever suffered." Obviously, military
intelligence officers would not be on Snowden's side of the divide
(and the Snowden breach ended the careers of many of them, includ-
ing Alexander). But political leaders in both parties could also be
found on the anti-Snowden side of the divide. "I don't look at this as
being a whistle-blower," the Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein of
California, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said after
she was briefed on Snowden's theft. "I think it's an act of treason."
The Republican representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, her coun-
terpart on the House Intelligence Committee, said on the NBC pro-
gram Meet the Press that Snowden might be working for a foreign
intelligence service. And a former prominent member of President
Obama's cabinet went even further, suggesting to me off the record
in March 2016 that there are only three possible explanations for the
Snowden heist: (1) it was a Russian espionage operation; (2) it was a
Chinese espionage operation; (3) it was a joint Sino-Russian opera-
tion. These severe accusations generated much heat but little light.
They were not accompanied by any evidence showing that Snowden
had acted in concert with any foreign power in stealing the files or,
for that matter, that he was not acting out of his own personal con-
victions, no matter how misguided they might have been.
On this side of the divide, Snowden's critics regard the whistle-
blowing narrative as at best incomplete and at worst fodder for the
naive. They point out that the FISA document that gave him cre-
dentials as a whistle-blower was only issued in the last week of April
2013, which was four months after he first contacted Greenwald and
almost nine months after he began illegally copying secret docu-
ments. They further believe that the evidence contradicts Snowden's
blowing narrative as at best incomplete and at worst fodder for the
naive. They point out that the FISA document that gave him cre-
dentials as a whistle-blower was only issued in the last week of April
2013, which was four months after he first contacted Greenwald and
almost nine months after he began illegally copying secret docu-
ments. They further believe that the evidence contradicts Snowden's
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