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Extraction Summary
1
People
6
Organizations
5
Locations
2
Events
1
Relationships
3
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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"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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Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (2,386 characters)
4 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS
their secret messages, the NSA goes to extraordinary lengths to keep
them secret. Draconian laws protect this secrecy.
them secret. Draconian laws protect this secrecy.
In the first week of June 2013, the NSA learned that there had
been a massive breach. Thousands of secret files bearing on com-
munications intelligence had been stolen from a heavily guarded
regional base in Oahu, Hawaii.
been a massive breach. Thousands of secret files bearing on com-
munications intelligence had been stolen from a heavily guarded
regional base in Oahu, Hawaii.
The suspect was Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old civil-
ian analyst at that base, who had fled to Hong Kong before the
breach was discovered. According to a three-count criminal com-
plaint filed by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Vir-
ginia, Snowden had stolen government property and violated the
Espionage Act by the unauthorized and willful communication of
national defense information to an unauthorized person. He also
likely violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by entering com-
puter systems illicitly.
ian analyst at that base, who had fled to Hong Kong before the
breach was discovered. According to a three-count criminal com-
plaint filed by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Vir-
ginia, Snowden had stolen government property and violated the
Espionage Act by the unauthorized and willful communication of
national defense information to an unauthorized person. He also
likely violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by entering com-
puter systems illicitly.
This was not a whodunit mystery. On June 9, 2013, in an extraor-
dinary twelve-minute video made in a cramped hotel room in Hong
Kong, Snowden identified himself as the person who had taken the
NSA documents. Watching the video, the world saw a shy, awk-
ward, and sympathetic-looking man wearing a rumpled shirt, rim-
less glasses, and a computer-geek haircut, passionately speaking out
against what he termed the NSA's violations of the law and, in a
shaky voice, expressing his willingness to suffer the consequences
for exposing them.
dinary twelve-minute video made in a cramped hotel room in Hong
Kong, Snowden identified himself as the person who had taken the
NSA documents. Watching the video, the world saw a shy, awk-
ward, and sympathetic-looking man wearing a rumpled shirt, rim-
less glasses, and a computer-geek haircut, passionately speaking out
against what he termed the NSA's violations of the law and, in a
shaky voice, expressing his willingness to suffer the consequences
for exposing them.
Snowden had an innocent, idealistic, principled look about him,
and the world was ready to congratulate him for revealing the NSA's
alleged illegal collection of data inside the United States. But in fact,
Snowden had stolen a great deal more than documents relating to
domestic surveillance. 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.
and the world was ready to congratulate him for revealing the NSA's
alleged illegal collection of data inside the United States. But in fact,
Snowden had stolen a great deal more than documents relating to
domestic surveillance. 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.
By the time the theft had been discovered, in the first week of
June 2013, it was impossible for the FBI, a grand jury, or any other
U.S. agency to question him because he had fled the country. His
first stop, Hong Kong, the economically autonomous city of 7.2 mil-
lion, is a special administrative region of mainland China. Under the
June 2013, it was impossible for the FBI, a grand jury, or any other
U.S. agency to question him because he had fled the country. His
first stop, Hong Kong, the economically autonomous city of 7.2 mil-
lion, is a special administrative region of mainland China. Under the
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