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Escape Artist | 83 Tam naive.” He also added dramatically, “I have risked my life and family.” Even so, Gellman declined coming to Hong Kong. (Accord- ing to Greenwald, Gellman could not make the trip, because lawyers for The Washington Post were uneasy with having a reporter receive classified documents in a part of China.) On May 24, 2013, Snowden attempted to apply more pressure on Gellman by telling him that the story about the PRISM program had to be published by the Post within seventy-two hours. Gellman could not accede to such a condition, because the decision of when to publish a story was made not by him but by the editors of the news- paper. He told Snowden that the earliest the story could be published was June 6, 2013, which was well past Snowden’s deadline. Snowden next turned to Greenwald in Brazil. Both Poitras and Micah Lee had made great efforts to tutor Greenwald on encryption protocols, with Lee’s sending Greenwald a DVD by FedEx that would allow him to receive both encrypted messages and encrypted phone calls. Even then, Greenwald was unable to fully install it. As a result, Greenwald still had not met Snowden’s requisites on encrypting his © computer. ® With Gellman uncertain, Greenwald was now essential to Snow- den’s plan. If he was to have any newspaper outlet, he needed to persuade Greenwald to come to Hong Kong. At this point, he took matters into his own hands. On May 25, Snowden somewhat aggres- sively e-mailed Greenwald, saying, “I’ve been working on a major project with a mutual friend of ours. You recently had to decline short-term travel to meet with me.” Although he did not specify the “short-term travel” to which he referred, he added pointedly, “You need to be involved in this story.” He suggested that they imme- diately speak on the phone via a website that encrypts conversa- tions. Snowden began the call by complaining, “I don’t like how this is developing.” He made it clear that he, not the journalist he had selected, was pulling the strings. If Greenwald wanted the scoop, he had to follow Snowden’s instructions, which included dividing the scoops between The Guardian and The Washington Post. According to his plan, Gellman would break the PRISM story in the Post, and Greenwald would break the “mass domestic spying” story in The Guardian. In addition, he insisted that The Guardian publish his per- | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 83 ® 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019571