No journalist has been able to meet so long since he fled to Mouscou in June 2013 and it has become, as the title Wired, the “most wanted man the World “.
By passing these three days with Edward Snowden, investigative journalist James Bamford tried to understand why and how this former consultant to the NSA decided to disclose it there is a little more than a year, monitoring practices of American spies. Even leave his life.
The result is a fascinating portrait published on Wired therefore, among new revelations, pepperoni pizza in the room of a Russian hotel, great shots-including the site also tells the scenes .
To achieve its goals, the reporter explained that he had to negotiate nearly nine months with near Snowden. The fact that he finally agreed to give him as much time probably has something to do with the pedigree of the author James Bamford is one of the first to write about the NSA. He is also a whistleblower, also sounded the alarm Sonette face monitoring practices of American intelligence agents. And also recognizes, as such, feel a “relationship” with Edward Snowden
Operations in Syria, China, and Monstermind program. Practices never revealed that worry Snowden
This long portrait is therefore on the journey of this young man, born in 1983, who, after a stint cut short in the special forces of the United States Army-where he broke both legs during a training-, is left with a ‘job as a security guard in a top secret facility “. will open, a career in intelligence: the CIA, then to the NSA, through companies under contract. Until ending up at the head of a service:
“I was the expert in technology reference desk for information sharing in Hawaii , Snowden explains to Wired. I had access to everything. “
And what he sees throughout his career he dislikes. The whistleblower speaks several anecdotes that shaped -for some never completely.
So when the unit hackers of the NSA, the TAO, turned off by mistake all Syrian Internet in 2012-a failure that did not go unnoticed at the time, however, without being linked to the American services. TAO was responsible to install a program in a central equipment Syrian Internet, to access the ‘email and Internet traffic for most of the country “. But the operation went wrong
Also, Snowden is concerned about the surveillance conducted in China .
“Everyone knows we hackons China very aggressively. But we have gone too far. We hackons universities and hospitals and the entire civilian infrastructure rather than targeting genuine government and military targets. And that’s a real concern. “
Another reason for concern: Monstermind program , which Wired also dwells at length. A device meant to not only counter cyber attacks in an automated manner, without human intervention, but also retaliate against the alleged perpetrators of the attack
This poses two major problems. One hand, the origin of the attack can be hidden and the attack against target innocents; on the other, this device requires to identify threats, analyze all Internet traffic. “For everyone, all the time” says Snowden.
The one from the August issue of Wired is dedicated to Edward Snowden.
“I’ll slip”
This is the lie of the former intelligence director, James Clapper, who said in March 2013 the United States Senate that the NSA was collecting “not knowingly” information about millions of Americans who have decided to act Edward Snowden.
He said it had left traces his former colleagues, “key” , to distinguish, he says, the documents he had come out, those that had only consulted. To allow time for intelligence to eventually return to the field. And show that it is not, contrary to what many now say-and all the more so since it is in Russia-a spy for a foreign country.
But the keys were not found.
Edward Snowden does no illusions about the end of history. Despite all his precautions -Remove battery phones in a conversation, avoid places frequented by Westerners …- he even confided:
“I’ll slip and they will hack me. It will happen. “
Today, none of the documents stolen is to it: only a few media, including journalist Glenn Greenwald who helped out the first burst of revelations in hold part
And regarding the existence of a new whistleblower within the NSA, including suggested by Greenwald, Snowden simply refuses to talk about. Although James Bamford, who says he had access to documents Snowden, accredits this thesis:
“Going through the archives [...] I could not find some documents that have been published, which makes me think that there must be a second leak somewhere.”
Snowden or not, history is not about to stop there.
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