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Extraction Summary
7
People
6
Organizations
4
Locations
2
Events
3
Relationships
4
Quotes
Document Information
Type:
Book excerpt / government evidence
File Size:
1.6 MB
Summary
This document appears to be page 96 from the book 'How America Lost Its Secrets' by Edward Jay Epstein (indicated by the file name 'Epst...'). It details the logistics of Edward Snowden's final interview in Hong Kong, orchestrated by Laura Poitras and involving reporter Lana Lam. The text describes the security measures taken (Tor, confiscated phones) and quotes Snowden regarding NSA activities in China. The document bears a House Oversight Committee stamp, indicating it was part of a government investigation.
People (7)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Glenn Greenwald | Journalist |
Resigned from The Guardian, became co-founding editor of The Intercept.
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| Pierre Omidyar | Internet Billionaire |
Backer of The Intercept.
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| Laura Poitras | Filmmaker/Journalist |
Managed Snowden's interview logistics in Hong Kong.
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| Ewen MacAskill | Reporter |
Guardian reporter who stayed at the Sheraton with Poitras.
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| Edward Snowden | Whistleblower |
Subject of the interview, provided NSA documents.
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| Lana Lam | Reporter |
Australian reporter for South China Morning Post chosen to interview Snowden.
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| Robert Tibbo | Lawyer/Contact |
Suggested Lam to Snowden.
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Organizations (6)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| The Guardian |
Newspaper Greenwald resigned from; paid Poitras/MacAskill's hotel bill.
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| The Intercept |
Online publication founded by Greenwald.
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| South China Morning Post |
Employer of Lana Lam.
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| NSA |
National Security Agency, subject of the leaked documents.
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| Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers |
Location where Poitras and MacAskill stayed and where the interview setup occurred.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' stamp.
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Timeline (2 events)
February 2014
June 12, 2013
Snowden's final interview in Hong Kong with Lana Lam.
Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers (Lam's end) / Safe House (Snowden's end)
Locations (4)
| Location | Context |
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Where Greenwald flew to.
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Primary location of events (Kowloon, Nathan Road).
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Mentioned in context of NSA spying.
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Mentioned as the government committing crimes.
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Relationships (3)
Tibbo suggested Lam to Snowden; found her to be a totally reliable journalist.
Poitras managed the interview, confiscated phones, and supervised the chat connection.
Omidyar backed The Intercept, which Greenwald edited.
Key Quotes (4)
"Hi Lana, thanks for coming for this"Source
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"Last week the American government happily operated in the shadows with no respect for the consent of the governed, but no longer"Source
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Quote #2
"The United States government has committed a tremendous number of crimes against Hong Kong [and] the People’s Republic of China as well."Source
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Quote #3
"I have had many opportunities to flee Hong Kong, but I would rather"Source
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Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (2,356 characters)
96 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS
Greenwald flew back to Brazil that day. Soon afterward, he would resign from The Guardian. In February 2014, he became the co-founding editor of The Intercept, an online publication dedicated to investigative journalism, which was backed by the Internet billionaire Pierre Omidyar.
Poitras remained in Hong Kong, where she moved, along with the Guardian reporter MacAskill, to the five-star Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers, which, like the Mira hotel, was on Nathan Road in Kowloon. The Guardian paid the bill. Her next task was to set up what turned out to be Snowden’s final interview in Hong Kong. It was scheduled for June 12.
The journalist chosen was Lana Lam, a young Australian reporter working for the South China Morning Post. Tibbo had suggested Lam to Snowden. She had served as Tibbo’s outlet on previous news stories, and, as he told me, he found her to be a totally reliable journalist. He brought her to Poitras’s suite at the Sheraton in Kowloon. First, Lam had to agree to the conditions of the interview, which included submitting the story to Poitras for Snowden’s approval. Next, as Lam put it, Poitras “confiscated” her cell phone. Finally, after a ten-minute wait, Poitras took her to another room and sat her before a black laptop. The laptop, which had a Tor sticker on it, had on its screen an online chat room where she was connected by Poitras to Snowden.
“Hi Lana, thanks for coming for this,” Snowden said from his safe house. He told her that the NSA had intercepted data from at least sixty-one thousand different computers in Hong Kong, China, and elsewhere. To expose what he called America’s “hypocrisy” in accusing China of cyber espionage, he supplied her with relevant NSA documents. “Last week the American government happily operated in the shadows with no respect for the consent of the governed, but no longer,” he said. “The United States government has committed a tremendous number of crimes against Hong Kong [and] the People’s Republic of China as well.” Under Poitras’s close supervision, Lam was allowed to ask Snowden more questions about the NSA’s interception of communications in Hong Kong and China. He told her, “I have had many opportunities to flee Hong Kong, but I would rather
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