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Extraction Summary
4
People
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Organizations
4
Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Quotes
Document Information
Type:
Book page / manuscript (evidence file)
File Size:
1.68 MB
Summary
This document appears to be page 137 from a book (likely 'How America Lost Its Secrets' by Edward Jay Epstein, based on the ISBN in the footer filename) included in House Oversight Committee files. The text details the aftermath of the Edward Snowden data breach, focusing on the DIA's forensic examination, the creation of the Joint Staff Mitigation Oversight Task Force, and the delayed briefing of CIA leadership (Brennan and Morell) regarding the extent of the theft. It highlights the friction between the NSA and CIA regarding information sharing about the breach.
People (4)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Edward Snowden | Subject of investigation |
Accused of stealing over 900,000 military files; former CIA employee.
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| John Owen Brennan | CIA Director |
Briefed by NSA on the Snowden breach on June 10.
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| Michael Morell | CIA Deputy Director |
Briefed by NSA; expressed astoundment at the breach; demanded CIA involvement.
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| NSA Briefer | Government Official |
Briefed Morell and Brennan; was told by Morell that CIA involvement was urgent.
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Organizations (7)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| DIA |
Defense Intelligence Agency; conducted forensic examination.
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| NSA |
National Security Agency; source of the breach; service organization for CIA.
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| Cyber Command |
Source of non-NSA files; set up in 2011.
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| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency; former employer of Snowden.
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| Department of Defense |
Parent organization impacted by the breach.
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| Joint Staff Mitigation Oversight Task Force |
Unit created to contain damage from the Snowden breach.
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| Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force cryptological services |
Helped set up Cyber Command.
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Timeline (2 events)
June 10 (Year implied 2013)
CIA Director and Deputy briefed by NSA on Snowden breach.
Unknown
Locations (4)
| Location | Context |
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Location where NSA operations were shut down for containment.
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Location where NSA operations were shut down for containment.
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Location where NSA operations were shut down for containment.
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Location where NSA operations were shut down for containment.
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Relationships (2)
the CIA had employed Snowden only four years earlier.
CIA's director, John Owen Brennan, and his deputy, Michael Morell
Key Quotes (4)
"Snowden had copied 'over 900,000' military files."Source
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"triage, analyze, and assess Department of Defense impacts related to the Snowden compromise."Source
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""You might have thought of all the government entities on the planet, the one least vulnerable to such grand theft would have been the NSA," he wrote. "But it turned out that the NSA had left itself vulnerable.""Source
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Quote #3
"Had Snowden been working "with any foreign intelligence service, either wittingly or not"?"Source
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Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (2,489 characters)
The Crime Scene Investigation | 137
The DIA found from its forensic examination that Snowden had copied "over 900,000" military files. Many of these non-NSA files came from the Cyber Command, which had been set up in 2011 by the NSA and the army, navy, marine, and air force cryptological services to combat the threat of warfare in cyberspace. The loss was considered of such importance that between 200 and 250 military intelligence officers worked day and night for the next four months, according to the DIA's classified report, to "triage, analyze, and assess Department of Defense impacts related to the Snowden compromise." The job of this unit, called the Joint Staff Mitigation Oversight Task Force, was to attempt to contain the damage caused by the Snowden breach. In many cases, containment meant shutting down NSA operations in China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran so they could not be used to confuse and distract the U.S. military.
The NSA and the Defense Department were not the only government agencies concerned with determining the extent of the breach. The NSA acted as a service organization for the CIA through handling most if not all of its requests for communications intelligence to support both its international espionage and its analytic operations. Although the CIA and the NSA were both part of the so-called intelligence community, the NSA did not immediately share with the CIA details of the Snowden breach. Despite the immense potential damage of the theft, it was not until June 10 that the CIA's director, John Owen Brennan, and his deputy, Michael Morell, were briefed by the NSA. When Morell realized how much data Snowden had taken, he was astounded.
"You might have thought of all the government entities on the planet, the one least vulnerable to such grand theft would have been the NSA," he wrote. "But it turned out that the NSA had left itself vulnerable." According to Morell, he bluntly told the NSA briefer that it was urgent for the CIA to be brought in on the case. After all, the CIA had employed Snowden only four years earlier. Specifically, Morell said, the CIA needed to find out three things: Had CIA documents been part of the Snowden's haul? How long had Snowden been stealing documents? Had Snowden been working "with any foreign intelligence service, either wittingly or not"?
According to Morell, the effort to get a direct answer from NSA
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