The Snowden Operation: Inside the West's Greatest Intelligence Disaster

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Jacob Appelbaum — Hacker, cyber-libertarian, cryptography expert. Now living in Berlin.

Glenn Greenwald — Blogger and journalist, former trial lawyer. Fierce critic of American corporate and government wrongdoing. Now lives in Brazil.

Laura Poitras — Heiress, former chef, award-winning filmmaker. Now living in Berlin.

Edward Snowden — Former contractor for the NSA, who took up to 1.7m secret documents and fled to Russia.

CIA — America’s Central Intelligence Agency. Responsible for human intelligence (HUMINT). Based in Langley, Virginia.

NSA — National Security Agency, responsible for collecting electronic intelligence. Based in Fort Meade, Maryland.

GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters: Britain’s counterpart to the NSA, based in Cheltenham.

FISC — Also known as the FISA court. Set up under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to oversee the issuance of warrants for intelligence collection within the United States.

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