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Zee 9. “Six government employees...” Matt Apuzzo, “C.I.A. Officer Is Found Guilty in Leak Tied to Times Reporter,” New York Times, January 26, 2015. The notable exception to policy of seeking imprisonment of intelligence workers found guilty of passing classified information to journalist is the extraordinary case of ex-CIA director General David Petraeus. General Petraeus had given classified information from his personal notebooks to his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell. Although none of this information appeared in her 2012 biography A// In: The Education of Davis Petraeus, he had violated his oath to protect this information. Yet, in a 2014 deal with the Justice Department, General Petraeus was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and sentenced to two years probation and a $100,000 fine. See Eli Lake, “Petraeus, Justice and Washington’s Culture of Leaks,” Bloomberg View, March 4, 2015 http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-04/petraeus-justice- and-washington-s-culture-of-leaks > 10. In an interview in Moscow...”—-Snowden met with James Bamford, the author of the 1982 book The Puzzle Palace. In Moscow in June 2014. James Bamford. “Edward Snowden: The Untold Story,” Wired, August 2014. (Hereinafter Bamford Wired.) 11. “We’ve crossed lines.” --- Snowden quoted by Bamford, Wired 12. “Congressman Ron Paul organized. ..”—Rebecca Shabad, “Former Rep. Ron Paul launches petition for Snowden clemency,” The Hill, February 13, 2014. “Rand Paul” support, see Katie Gluck, “Rand Paul Backs Snowden,” Politico, January 5, 2014 13. “We actually buy cell phones...” Snowden quoted in “New Guardian Interview with Edward Snowden,” Guardian, July 17, 2014. http://www.activistpost.com/2014/07/new-guardian-interview-with-edward.html 14. “Dominique Strauss-Kahn. ...”—Edward Jay Epstein, “What Really Happed To Strauss- Kahn” New York Review of Books, December 22, 2011 15. “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...”—-Newt Gingrich, “A Government Snoop That Puts the NSA to Shame,” Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2015 16. “The FISA court...” The history of the FISA court is a matter of public record. http://www. fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/courts_special_fisc.html 17. ‘Let’s collect the whole haystack,”-- Ellen Nakashima and Joby Warrick, “For NSA chief, Terrorist Threat Drives Passion to ‘collect it all,” Washington Post, July 14, 2013 18. “Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...”—Charlie Savage and Jonathan Weisman. “NSA Collection of Bulk Data Ruled Illegal.” New York Times, May 5, 2015. This court decision was stayed three months later on August 27, 2015 by a 3-judge panel of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020381