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Summary
This document is page 197 from a book (Chapter 19: 'The Rise of the NSA'), likely 'How America Lost Its Secrets' by Edward Jay Epstein (indicated by ISBN and filename 'Epst'). It discusses the NSA's dominance in communication intercepts and the vulnerability exposed by Edward Snowden in 2013 due to the agency's reliance on civilian technicians. The page bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' Bates stamp, indicating it was produced as evidence for a congressional investigation.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| James Clapper | Director of National Intelligence |
Quoted in the chapter epigraph regarding intelligence blowback.
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| Edward Snowden | Former NSA contractor/leaker |
Mentioned as taking state secrets from the NSA in spring 2013.
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| Civilian computer technicians | NSA workforce |
Described as the NSA's 'Achilles's heel' due to potential lack of shared values.
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Organizations (3)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| NSA |
National Security Agency; subject of the chapter.
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| United States |
Country utilizing the NSA for intelligence dominance.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Inferred from the 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019685' stamp at the bottom right.
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Timeline (1 events)
Spring 2013
Edward Snowden took state secrets (communication intercepts) from the NSA.
NSA (implied)
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Referred to as 'America'.
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Relationships (1)
Edward Snowden took from the NSA in the spring of 2013.
Key Quotes (1)
"There are many things we do in intelligence that, if revealed, would have the potential for all kinds of blowback."Source
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CHAPTER 19
The Rise of the NSA
There are many things we do in intelligence that, if revealed, would have the potential for all kinds of blowback.
—JAMES CLAPPER, director of national intelligence, 2013
—JAMES CLAPPER, director of national intelligence, 2013
IN THE GAME OF NATIONS, which often is not visible to public scrutiny, the great prize is state secrets that reveal the hidden weaknesses of a nation's potential adversaries. The most important of these in peacetime is communication intercepts. It was just such state secrets that Edward Snowden took from the NSA in the spring of 2013. Before that breach, America's paramount advantage in this subterranean competition was its undisputed dominance in the business of obtaining and deciphering the communications of other nations. The NSA was the instrument by which the United States both protected its own secret communications and stole the secrets of foreign nations. The NSA, however, has an Achilles's heel: It is dependent on civilian computer technicians who do not necessarily share its values to operate its complex system. Because of this dependence, it was not able in 2013, as it turned out, to protect its crucial sources and methods.
Snowden exposed this vulnerability when he walked away with the aforementioned descriptions of the gaps in America's coverage
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