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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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Quotes
Document Information
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Book excerpt / congressional exhibit
File Size:
969 KB
Summary
This document appears to be page 169 from a book (Chapter 17: 'The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing') discussing Edward Snowden and the NSA leak. It references journalist Greenwald describing the stolen documents as an 'instruction manual' for the NSA, and NSA official Ledgett confirming the loss of the 'keys to the kingdom.' The document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' stamp, suggesting it was used as an exhibit in a congressional investigation. Note: The file slug 'Epst' refers to the author Edward Jay Epstein (author of 'How America Lost Its Secrets'), not Jeffrey Epstein.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Edward Snowden | Subject / Whistleblower |
Quoted regarding document security; subject of the chapter regarding stolen NSA documents.
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| Greenwald | Journalist |
Likely Glenn Greenwald; quoted telling the Associated Press about the significance of the stolen documents.
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| Ledgett | NSA Official |
Conducted the damage assessment regarding the Snowden breach; used the phrase 'keys to the kingdom'.
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Organizations (3)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| NSA |
National Security Agency; the organization from which documents were taken.
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| Associated Press |
News agency that Greenwald spoke to.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019657' stamp at the bottom.
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Timeline (2 events)
Locations (3)
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Location of Edward Snowden in 2013 during the quote attribution.
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Location of Snowden's interview in June 2013.
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Mentioned in the context of its intelligence system.
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Relationships (2)
Greenwald commenting on the nature of documents Snowden took.
Ledgett conducted the damage assessment on Snowden's theft.
Key Quotes (4)
"There’s a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents."Source
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"the instruction manual for how the NSA is built"Source
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"would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does"Source
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"keys to the kingdom"Source
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Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (1,280 characters)
CHAPTER 17
The Keys to the Kingdom
Are Missing
Are Missing
There’s a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have
received any documents.
—EDWARD SNOWDEN, MOSCOW, 2013
received any documents.
—EDWARD SNOWDEN, MOSCOW, 2013
A CRITICAL MISSING PIECE in the Snowden enigma is the whereabouts of the NSA documents. Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA constituted “the instruction manual for how the NSA is built” and that they “would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it.” Snowden, for his part, said on camera in his Hong Kong interview in June 2013 that NSA investigators would have “a heart attack” when they discovered the extent of the breach.
Ledgett, the NSA official who had conducted the damage assessment, while not having a heart attack, confirmed that Snowden had taken a massive number of documents and among them was what he deemed the NSA’s “keys to the kingdom.” These keys could presumably open up the mechanism through which the United States learns about the secret activities of other nations and, by doing so, bring down the American signals intelligence system that had for
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9/29/16 5:51 PM
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9/29/16 5:51 PM
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019657
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