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Notes to pages 141-159 | 319 141 “I'm in exile’: Former member of the national security staff who cited State Department records, interview with author Also, Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, told AP, “As is routine and consistent with US regulations, per- sons with felony arrest warrants are subject to having their passport revoked.” That arrest warrant was issued on June 14, 2013. The State Department Opera- tions Center alert said “Snowden’s U.S. passport was revoked on June 22, 2013,” after the Justice Department unsealed the charges that had been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on June 14, 2013. “The Consul General in Hong Kong confirmed Hong Kong authorities were notified that Mr. Snowden’s passport was revoked on June 22,” according to the State Depart- ment’s senior watch officer. 142 had met nearly every day: Miller, “U.S. Officials Scrambled to Nab Snowden.” 142 Putin admitted: Interview, Channel One, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president /news/19143. 143. “Vladimir Putin had personally approved”: Jennifer Martinez, “Report: Snow- den’s US Passport Revoked,” Hill, June 23, 2013. CHAPTER 15 Did Snowden Act Alone? 146 “When you look at the totality”: Hayden, interview with author. Also, “Hayden Interview,” Meet the Press, NBC-TY, Dec. 15, 2013. 146 whistle-blower Bradley Birkenfeld: David Kocieniewski, “Whistle-Blower Awarded $104 Million by LR.S.,” New York Times, Sept. 11, 2012. © 147. whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg: Martin Arnold, “Pentagon Papers Charges Are ® Dismissed,” New York Times, May 11, 1973. 147 FBI office in Media: Mark Mazzetti, “Burglars Who Took On EB.I. Abandon Shadows,” New York Times, Jan. 7, 2014. 147 “treasure trove”: Andrew, The Sword and the Shield, 206. 150 “It is inconceivable to me”: Former Booz Allen executive who requested ano- nymity, interview with author. 152 we know that Snowden: Sandvik, “That One Time I Threw a CryptoParty with Edward Snowden.” 152 The FBI, which was: Senate Intelligence Committee staff member who requested anonymity, interview with author. 153 “Snowden may have carried out”: Drumheller, interview with author. 153 As Snowden acknowledges: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” 154 “absence of evidence”: Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Random House, 1980), 49. 154 “The greatest trick”: Cherkashin, interview with author. The quotation from The Usual Suspects was adopted by the movie from Charles Baudelaire’s observation “La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu’il n’existe pas.” CHAPTER 16 The Question of When 156 “The NSA was actually”: Bamford and De Chant, “Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare.” 156 The career of the KGB mole: Bagley, Spy Wars, 46. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r.indd 319 ® 9/3016 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019807