How America Lost Its Secrets Quotes

“There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299)”
― Edward Jay Epstein, How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft

“Snowden’s penetration went beyond whistle-blowing, however. In the vast number of files he copied were documents that contained the NSA’s most sensitive sources and methods that had little if anything to do with domestic surveillance or whistle-blowing. Snowden”
― Edward Jay Epstein, How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft

“He further disclosed that before leaving the NSA, he had gained access to the lists of computers that the NSA had penetrated in foreign countries.”
― Edward Jay Epstein, How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft

“Unless one is willing to believe that the Putin regime acted out of purely altruistic motives in exfiltrating this American intelligence worker to Moscow, the only plausible explanation for its actions in Hong Kong was that it recognized Snowden’s potential as an espionage source.”
― Edward Jay Epstein, How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft

“Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA constituted “the instruction manual for how the NSA is built” and that they “would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it.”
― Edward Jay Epstein, How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft

“would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities.”
― Edward Jay Epstein, How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft