transcripted by danassus
This film dramatizes real events ...
... which took place between 2004 and 2013.
So? This is the only alligator.
Four minutes passed. We walk in one minute, he was clear on that.
He's coming.
No, he's too young to have that kind of access.
- What time does the restaurant open? - Noon.
But the food is a little too spicy. This way.
HONGKONG - MONDAY - JUNE 3, 2013
Excuse me.
Right here.
PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB.
It's really great to finally meet you guys.
So first thing, can I get your cellphones, please?
Thank you, we want Laura to be the only one recording.
Right? that's discussed, thank you.
Actually I bought this to blocks UHF frequencies.
You been photographed before, right?
Yes, it's been a while since anybody take a photo of me.
Try think this is your friend.
Take your time.
Can you start by telling us why you did what you did?
and how you gained access to such vast amount of information, all of which right on the plane...
Glenn, how about we just start with your name, OK?
My name is Edward Joseph Snowden.
I am 29 years old. I worked as a private contractor for the NSA.
I also worked as a private contractor for the CIA and directly for the Agency.
I worked various job in the intelligence industry for the last nine years.
I've been a systems engineer.
and a solution consultant.
and a senior adviser for the Central Iintelligence Agency.
- So you want to be part of Special Forces? - Sir, yes sir!
...I think Special Forces would be ashamed to call you soldier!
- Am I right? - Sir, no sir!
Goin' left. Goin'g left, right.
- We first drove in the Cadillac - We first drove in the Cadillac
- We driving convoys in Iraq - We driving convoys in Iraq
Move, soldier!
Go! Go!
Keep it up, your wasted of space, and move!
- Come on, soldiers, go! - Get up!
#Come on!
- Snowden, what the hell are you doing? - Nothing sir.
- Where is your fucking heart? - Right here, sir!
Now I want you to reach way down to that pathetic excused of chest, and you rip it out!
You find your heart and then you get your broken ass to my tower.
- You got that? - Sir, yes sir! - Now get the fuck out of my face.
I need you to my tower, gentlemen! now move!
Move! move!
# get your hands off you dick, and get the fuck out of my barracks!
You guys got one minute! Fallout, move! move!
Fuck!
Help!
- Snowden, where the fuck is Snowden? - Help!
You know, You've been walking around two broken legs. Best I can tell, for weeks.
Now this is what happened when you put a 80 pounds rucksack on a 150 pounds body.
- You get this littel stress fractures, easy, easy. - Sorry.
They build up in your tibias, you don't get them off, eventually they just bust.
You gonna be here for a few weeks, and then I count another 8 weeks or so on the crutches.
OK, When do I go back?
Son, you ever again land on those leg of yours, airborne or not, those bones turn to power.
I'm gonna authorize an administrative discharge.
Many other way to serve your country.
_
Have you ever committed a crime for what you won't caught?
No.
Have you cheated on an exam?
No.
- Do you believe the United States is the greatest country in the world? - Yes.
Why do you want to join the CIA?
How would you explain the Internet to a child?
Granddad retired as admiral and joined the FBI.
Dad is in the Coast Guard, thirty years from now.
What's the most important day in your life?
9/11. We thought my grandfather was inside the Pentagon.
And turned out he's off site that day.
- You wanna to be Special Forces? - Yes sir, I love their motto.
- "De oppresso liber." - Is that what you want to with us?
Free people from oppression?
I like to help my country make a difference in the world.
The Internet is a technology...
that has the power let everyone in the world to understand each other.
...missed the perfect score on the ASVAB test by a single question,
...crash the language learning test.
Some mandarin, some Japanese.
And no high school diploma. Why did you stop attending high school?
I had to make money. My parents were divorcing at the time.
- Any other influences? - I'd say Joseph Campbell.
"Star Wars", Thoreau.
- Ayn Rand. - "One man can stop the motor of the world."
- "Atlas Shrugged". - Yes sir. I believe that.
Let's try again. Why do you want to join the CIA?
Well frankly, sir.
It sounds really cool to have top security clearance.
It's not enough.
Ordinarily. But this is not ordinarily times.
Bombs won't stop terrorism, it brains if we don't have million enough of those.
- I'm gonna give you a shot, Snowden. - Thank you sir thank you very much, you won't regret this.
My name is Corbin O'Brian. I have many titles, among them senior instructor.
You'll be joining my class at the hill.
Stop the vehicle and turn off the engine.
I need to see your ID.
Alright, use you left hand only, pop the trunk.
Now place your hands through the steering wheel, on the dashboard. Through the steering wheel,
On the dashboard. Do not exit the vehicle.
_
- Excuse me. - You would be looking for Corbin's class, end the hall, keep going through the second set of door..
- Thank you, is that an Enigma? - No, the Enigma was broken.
This is the the follow up, SIGABA, never broken.
Cold War's greatest encryption machine.
Ties history to these motor and these rotors.
One day everyone gonna want a machine like this.
I've always wanted to learn cryptography. What's this one?
The hotline. The first direct link between Washington and Moscow.
Probably prevented World War III.
You got a name? How I know you're not a enemy?
- I'm sorry, Snowden, Ed Snowden. - Hank Forrester.
- Where you study, son? - Mostly I'm self-taught.
You can tell me if you're busy, is that a Cray-1?
Yes, yes it is. The first supercomputer.
- We got all on a cellphone now. - Yes, so you are an engineer?
Am I an engineer? Instructor and consular too.
I'm supposed to keep an eye on you CTs.
Make sure you don't buckle to the pressure, turn to drugs and booze.
Well, you won't have that problem with me, I don't drink or do drugs.
- What is your sin of choice? - Computers.
Wow, Snowden, you come to the right little whorehouse.
The front line in the global war on terror, not in Iraq or Afghanistan.
It's here.
And London. Berlin.
Istanbul.
Any server, any connection.
The modern battlefield is everywhere.
Which means you don't have to sit in a ditch eating MRE or dodging mortar fire.
It means that if there is anothe 9/11.
It would be your fault.
Just as the last one was my generation's.
Believe me you do not want to live with that burden.
We gonna start with a aptitude test.
Each of you gonna build a covert communication network in your home city.
You gonna deploy it, back up your site, destory it, and restore it again.
The point of this exercise is keep your infrastructure up running securely.
The average test time is five hours, if you take more than eight, you would fail.
Mr. O'Brian?
I'm done, sir.
You don't have to tell me when you complete in a stage.
- No, I finished the whole thing. - It's been 40 minutes.
- 38. - What?
38 minutes.
Okay. Let's see where you screwed up.
You didn't said we had to do it in order, so I ...
I broke the sequence to save time, and I automated the backup process to run as I build the site.
Eyes on screens.
Sir?
- What should I do now? - Whatever you want.
Are you also so pale in reality?
- Hey. - Hi.
- Finally. - Yeah.
Sorry.
- Do you want ... anything? - No. Let's go for a walk.
- Use some sun. - Yeah, you mentioned that early.
Sorry it took me this long, you didn't wanna see me on crutches.
I was not so agile, and this new job here, so...
- What was it you're doing anthing? - I'm doing analysis for the state department.
- Alright, congratulations. - Thanks. - You're welcome.
Hey, can you do me a favour and point the direction of the state department?
- Yes, it's over there. - Where? Are you sure?
- I mean I'm not that great at orientating myself. - Not that great at lying either.
You gonna work on both if you want to be a spy.
Where I came from, everyone's parents work for the state department.
Plus every time you visited my website this week.
Which was quite often, those from a IP in Virginia.
- You know how to run a IP trace? - Yes
I'm pretty sure the state department has no offices in Virginia.
- Alright, let's see your strut. - Let's see what?
Let's see your strut, show me what you got, you know, your best catwalk.
Don't be shy, come on, you got this.
I don't know.
No to Bush, no to bombs. No to Bush, no to bombs.
- Would you sign up the petition please? - Yes, absolutely.
- Thanks you. - Thank you so much, sir?
No, thank you.
- Excuse me, Ma'am, would you like to sign? - I actually just signed.
- Thank you very much. - Thank you.
Too much independent spirit for you?
No, I just don't really like bashing my country.
It's my country too, and right now it has blood on his hands.
Sorry, I have friends who are over there right now.
I'm not talking about the troops, I'm talking about moron sending them to war.
- Moron? Our commander-in-chief? - Yes whatever you wanna call him, he's still wrong.
How do you know he's wrong? You're just lashing out.
No, I'm not lashing out, I'm questioning our government.
that's what we do in this country, that's the principle we're founded on.
OK, how about questioning the liberal media?
You're just buying into what one side said.
Maybe I am, 'cause my side is right.
- See that's funny, cause my side is right. - Really? - Yeah.
Why is smart conservative always making me so mad?
Probably cause you don't like hearing the truth.
You're a very frustrating individual, you know that?
- How am I gonna make you see? - I can see just fine, thank you.
Does it help or not?
No, that did nothing for me, tasted like liberal.
Not my thing.
"Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts."
Does it Constitutional bypasses the Courts?
No. The fourth amendment prevent searches and seizures without a warrant.
That's absolutely right, Rio. Which means...
You're commander-in-chief, the President of the United States is breaking the law.
That is what you're saying, isn't it, Rio?
Well, I guess it depends... Who you talk to.
If you talk to journalists?
Who more often than not don't have a full picture or neglect to report it.
You only get a partial truth.
"Foreign Intelligence Surveilance Act", The FISA Court.
We do respect the fourth amendment of this country.
We issue warrant base on suspicion.
But sometimes these warrants have to be issued by secret court.
So we don't alert the suspect we're spying on.
These court proceedings are classified, which means surprise.
They don't appear in papers such as New York Times.
- Did you see my test score? - Yes, top of my class like you.
- Here? - NSA.
They like me plenty. They put me on all the best teams.
Soviet frontier, Desert Storm, and the big challenge.
Find the terrorists in the Internet haystack, hell of haystack.
Hundreds of terabytes per minute, I mean we taking 400 years to read the e-mails.
And then you have to analyze them. Sometimes the more you look, the less you see.
- What did you come up with? - Something beautiful in house.
for three million dollars. A program that can differentiate...
between foreign and domestic.
Encrypt everything we won't targeting, so we remain private.
It was elegant, streamlined. It's the best work I have ever done.
Have a seat.
What was it called?
Ed, rising to the top in our world.
can sometime be hard on a man.
I mean you think you're making strides.
You think you're taking the initiative.
And then the next minute they grind your work out of existence.
- They didn't used it? Why not? - Well, they never tell you why.
Two years later, after 9/11.
A friend of mine tells me about this new contractor program they're using.
Cost four billion dollars to deploy, model after mine.
But with no filters, no automation.
Ingest everything. They're drowning in data. It was a fucking disaster.
OK, but there must been some big picture, right?
Spend that kind of money, they're not stupid.
You would think intelligence count for something in the intelligence business.
But you wanna to know what it really is? What really sets the agenda?
Military industrial happiness management.
You keep the coffers opening in Congress, you keep the money flow into the contractors.
Efficiency and results, they go out the window.
Not to mention ...
- Well, you're late for class. - OK, thank you.
- Can I take another one? - Sure.
Did you ever said anything to anybody?
Yeah, I went to the legal, we filed complaints.
Now here I am, tucked away and teaching you.
Maybe that's more important in the long run, keep getting better.
My favorite spot in campus.
You hunt, Ed?
Did some skeet shooting with my dad a few times, but I never went hunting.
- Then go one day. - That would be great.
- Mr. O'Brian, Can I ask you a question? - How about just call me Corbin?
Okay. Thank you sir. Corbin.
I was talking with Hank Forrester, and I wanted to know.
Are all our of stadium signal programs specifically targeted?
Of course. What good would they be if they won't?
Yes, I don't know.
- You have a girlfriend, Ed? - Nothing serious.
- What's her name? - Lindsay.
Is she going with you?
No, I would't wanna put her into any danger.
You won't have to. We're not sending you to the Middle East.
Sir, I'm your best student. Does that count for something?
In 20 years, Iraq will be a hellhole nobody cares about.
Terrorism is a short-term threat.
The real threats would come from China, Russia, Iran.
And they'll come in secret injection of malware.
And without minds like yours, this country will be torn apart in cyberspace.
I don't wanna risk losing if for some horseshit war over sand and oil.
Sir, I'm surprised you would say that.
You don't have to agree with the politicians to be a patriot.
- Sir, where you sending me? - Take a moment, enjoy the view.
_
This is Laura.
- Hello. - Hello, nice to meet you.
- Ewen MacAskill from the Guardian. Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you too.
I-If you don't mind, I'd like to record...
- Cellphone goes to microwave. - Did I ask why?
We'll get to that after you've asked your questions.
Before we get on the story, I need to know more about you.
Your career by Glenn's account is very vary, but Guardian needs evidence...
Yes, this is my diplomatic passport for friendly country.
My tourist passports for everywhere else. You can check that visa stamps.
This is my NSA badge with Booz Allen, my CIA badge with Dell.
And this is my DIA instructor badge.
This is a photo of me with Michael Hayden...
who's the former head of the NSA and CIA.
When can you publish it?
- OK, do you mind if I sit down? - No, please.
Glenn says you wan to tell people your identity. How do you think you government gonna react?
Well, they'll charge me under the Espinonge Acts.
And they'll say I endanger national security.
They'll demonize me, and my friends and my family.
And throw me in jail, that's best case scenario.
And the worst?
Well, if I dno't have immediate cover, then I'll be rendered by the CIA...
and interrogated outside the law.
- And they have a station right out the street. - But how would they know what you did?
Because I left digital footprint in my logs, so they'll figure it out.
I did not want a manhunt, I know what they would do to my colleagues.
Look, Mr. MacAskill, this is not about money or anything for me.
There's no hidden agenda. I just want to get these data to...
established journalist like youself.
So you can present it, so the world and people can decide.
Either I'm wrong.
Or there's something going on inside the government that's really wrong.
So ...
This one is everything I have on your British intelligence agency the "GCHQ".
encryption key will follow.
You gonna want your technical people at The Guardian look through that thoroughly, there's a lot of stuff there.
Listen, they're gonna investigate it, and they're gonna figure it out what I've done.
And they're gonna come for me. And now we made contact.
They're gonna come for all of you too.
Do you mind if I go looking in the microwave?
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- Ewen, I'm on with Stuart. - Hi, Ewen.
- Hi, Stuart. look, I got one thing to say. The Guinness here is great. - Wonderful
- Well, absolutely the genuine aticle. - Good.
But shockingly different from what I expect.
So, Now we have lawyers to deal with, and no doubt the White House.
- I got the go ahead. - That's great. - Good.
Let's get started, we have a lot to go through here, it's not easy meaning#.
We can start by showing the XKeyscore.
- Good idea. Can you bring it up again and work us through it? - Yeah.
- Do we all get under there now? - He's protecting his passwords.
Okay. so...
This was introduced during my first deployment at the CIA in Geneva.
XKeyscore. What does that do?
It like search interface.
- What does it search for? - Anything you want.
What was your assignment in Geneva?
Well, I was assigned with diplomatic cover to the UN mission...
to maintain the CIA computer security network.
- _ - I spend almost two years as a CIA field office.
I'm sorry sir, but I don't understand.
- Shelmon said you hacked Human Resource's site. - Yeah, it's my job to find the flaws.
The security of the HR site is not your problem. You went ouside the wheelhouse.
OK, just to clarify, I did not hack it.
I had showed it could be hacked. You told me to find a patch.
- Did you had that in writing? - Yes, I do.
Then I'll sent you the proof of concept.
Doesn't matter what you did, Snowden, right or wrong, you need to let this thing be someone's problem.
- He also put a derog in your file... - Excuse me? - Let that be a lesson.
I don't want him calling me again about another Ed Snowden moment. OK?
Why you take it easy the rest of the day, go work on the scrubbing pipe.
- That didn't look like it went well. - Hey, man.
Yeah, no, I just got a derog for doing my job.
Politics man, the culture of fear wins again.
I can't get anything done here.
- What about that idea that we were talking about? - I'm working on it.
Waiting for a call back from our friend at The Hill.
Who? Corbin? you called Corbin? You think he can do something?
We'll see, maybe some limited field out under my supervision.
- Yes, that would be amazing, I would love... - Easy, Ed.
- I got to see a cleric in Milan. we'll talk after. - Okay. Thank you.
- Damn, CIA does not like the way we train, son. - Can I help you?
You get curious to check one out?
See what kind of crazy ass covert kill mission you might be erasing from the history?
- I'm sorry, who you with? - No such agency. Downplays Its Activities.
I'm Gabriel Sol. I am the fifty pounds brain from consular wizards and warlocks.
- Excuse me? - Give you intel from Bucharest.
Unless there's another Dave Churchyard.
No, that's me. right this way.
- I'll be right ouside. - You could stay if you want.
I don't have authorization to use NSA program.
If you're here for message to Bucharest, you must have a private clearance to finished intel. Yes.
- Yeah. - Yes, what difference it makes, you'll see, let's put it together.
That's up to you, man.
- You give me just names? - I know a lot more than names.
What I'll provide you and the fine gentlemen of the Secret Service...
is a list of every threats made about the president since 3 February.
And a profile of every threat maker.
And these are like existing targets?
99% come from the bulk collection program.
- Upstream, Muscular, Tempora, PRISM. - PRISM?
You're like Snow Ehite, aren't you?
Which makes me feel like the witch bring you a poison apple. Here.
Exhibit A: Oakland resident Justin Pinsky posted on message board.
"Romania has a storied history of executing their leaders,
Couldn't they do us a solid and take out Bush?"
This looks juicy. It's from a Gchat.
"... attack your bush ...
... With the biggest python you've ever seen."
How is this possible?
Keyword selectors. "Attack", "take out" "bush".
So think it is a Google search, except in stead of searching only...
what people made public, we also looking at everything they don't.
- So, e-mail, chat, sms, whatever. - Yes, but which people?
The whole kingdom, Snow White.
- Which ambassador you see again? - De la Hoya, he's in World Trade Ognization.
So, O'Brian came through for you.
He agree your talent's being wasted. Ready for a little action?
- Really? or you mean right here? - Yes, now.
See that woman in the pink number?
Credit Suisse. JP Morgan's on her arm.
Grandma with Deutsche Bank. 10,000 bankers in this town.
All you need to turn is the one.
Socialize, meet a few. Preferably one sit on a pile of...
dirty Saudi money that is funding bin Laden.
He is either a fool or a spy.
Mr. Narailin# asks your business card please.
An ambassador, wow, I wish I have your exclusive skills.
- That's why you have me. - You don't know anye bankers, do you?
Bankers? Are you in some kind of assignment or something?
Relationship cultivating, and not well.
- Let me help you. - No. - Yeah.
- This is serious. - I know it's serious, trust me.
- Any luck? - No bites.
Is there some kind of trick to it?
It's all about finding the pressure point.
Everything else is just pushing over.
Looks like you being summoned.
Marwan, may I interrupt? This is my boyfriend Dave.
- Hello Dave, nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
Marwan works in Monfort. We were talking.
And after last week he maybe able to give you some tips.
- Gentlemen I'll see you inside. - Last week?
He's embarrassed. It was a lot of money for us.
Day trading is a perilous sport, you shouldn't be ashamed of it.
Yeah, I'm gonna grab some food, see you guys inside?
Sure.
- You have a lovely girlfriend. - Thank you so much.
I work in IT, so I just figure I could crack the market...
like a weak network.
May I ask how specific your loss was?
Well, I told Lindsay it was 20,000, but between you and me.
it was closer to 45. I try to recoup, but...
that was a mistake, and now without new grounding, I feel like I'm just sliding uncontrl.
I've seen it many times and I'm always happy to help a man break a bad habit before he gets going.
Oh thank you, I really appreciate that.
It's cleanest Pakistani I have ever seen.
We got no first degree ties to the government or ISI, no shitty family.
The second degree contact are off the chart, but that's everyone in the Middle East with 6 figure income...
It's no dirt that we need necessarily, it's a pressure point..
Something intimate, some kind of weakness. Can we look through his family?
What about his sister in law?
- What is that? is that some video that she sent somebody? - No, it's live.
- Out of Paris. - What do you mean "live"?
Optic Nerve. It's camera and mic activation.
I wish we could take credit, but British wrote it.
- Activation? - Yes, her laptop is off. Or what? she just forgot to close it.
Of course how would she know? Shit is so sly, the webcam light doesn't even turn on.
I've always wondered what was under those.
Let's just stick to the family in Geneva. Alright?
Okay, Snow White.
- 15 year-old daughter at the International School. - Yeah.
- Facebook? Is that possible? - Dude, Facebook is my bitch.
Seriously? Like she fights with her parents.
Don't worry, don't worry. I know all the hoaxes for this kind of fish.
Query name, so e-mail, keyword whatever selected you want.
And justification, this is where I write.
In other words, we turning your daddy into a CIA informant.
- That's it? -Yes, it is bro.
You don't have to get a FISA Court order?
No, not here. XKeyscore is under 702 authority, which means no warrants.
OK, but U.S. targets, then you have to get the court order?
You mean FISA? Yes, there's big ass rubber stamp it.
I mean FISA's judges are all appointed by the Chief Justice, like you know.
Darth Vader when it comes to national security boom. Here we go.
And the boy third base is ...
... Nadim. Okay.
He is 18. Salma say she wants to marry him, but scare to tell her parents.
What she doesn't know is that his other name is ...
... Nicolas.
And he's currently banging Geraldine and Juliet.
And ...
He and his Turkish mother are here illegally.
That's it.
- Now what are we doing here? - You're making people very happy.
Mr. Marwan's bank handles serious Saudi money and whole bunch of Russian billionaires.
Any al Qaeda money? Anything promising?
Ed, I'm offered promotion soon, and I will not forget my friends.
Thank you, this is all going kind of fast, so I just send some initial backgroud.
- There he is, the man. - Hey, Marwan.
- Dave, wonderful to see you. - Good to see you too.
I was counting, Marwan, you still not getting extra half hour back there watched. You cheated you an extra half hour.
I # listening to an old man's word.
- Oh, I see. yes. - How are you, Marwan?
I must tell you, Dave, since we met.
My life has gone some topsy-turvy.
Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that.
But your colleague Charles has gracious to offer his help.
- So I owe him and you a great deal. - Can I ask what happened?
My daughter had a ...
Marwan's daughter took too many sleeping pills. She's alright.
It has something to do with her boyfriend, who was recently deported.
We try to secure a visa for him.
Even so, I'm afraid that Salma will ...
I'm sorry, I won't trouble you in such matters.
Hey, you talk as much as you want, alright? Family comes first.
Where is my little beauty?
- I've never like this before. - No, sure of course.
You sit down, sit down, you sit down.
What the fuck is is going on?
I have been acting swiftly and effectively on the very good signal intelligence you provided.
- And if his daughter had died? - We could use that too.
Are you serious? in the name of a promotion?
Marwan can't be away from his family right now.
So in the morning, when he's facing weeks in jail, we gonna offer him a deal and he won't turn it down.
Wait, jail? for what?
Drunk driving. Now I want you to call the police, tell them you saw a Mercedes heading north...
No, he's not driving right now, look, he's puking himself.
Okay. I'll call them.
Hey, he's not driving.
Remind me, are you authorized on any of NSA programs you used?
So we both do a little fucked up shit here.
- Watch youself, Ed. - I'll tell him who you are.
You reveal the identity of an undercover office, you're going to jail for a lot longer than Marwan.
Hey!
- Hey. - Sorry I'm so late.
How was work?
It was ...
alright.
I have to wake up in like three hours. My flight is at seven.
We better be quick then.
I will provide our intelligence and law enforce agencies...
with tools they need to track and take out the terrorists...
without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.
That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens.
No more ignoring the law when it's in convinent. That is not who we are.
- Hey Hon. - Hey.
What happened to the London trip?
Turns out I'm not going.
What's going on? Who's winning?
- Michelle Obama voted this morning in Chicago. - I voted
It's still early.
- Obama aheads 67% to 32%. - Come on, Big Eear(Dumbo).
Check out Florida.
Holy shit, he's gonna win it.
- Florida? - Yes.
- That's big. - that's huge.
You can act nonchalant, but I know you're starting to root for him.
I've been watching you inner liberal grow, and I will take a modest percentage of the credit.
And you deserve it.
What is this?
Oh, yeah, just leave that there, it's...
Russian hackers. Agency says they can activate webcams now.
- That's creepy. - Yeah, that's bothering me.
- Whatever, it's not a big deal, you shouldn't let it bother you. - It's not a big deal?
- No. - That someone could be watching you right now?
No, I'm not hiding anything.
- That's such a bullshit lie. - What it is? - Nothing to hide.
- I don't. - Everyone does.
Okay, what do I have to hide?
- Forget it. - No. What do I have to hide? - No, let's just drop it.
Apparently you think I'm hiding something, so.
Okay, the other day your computer was open, and I have been noticed you were on the site where we met.
- And you looked at the other guy. - So you just look at my computer?
- I wouldn't even brought this up. - You asked me "what do I have to hide".
And that's something you are not telling me.
It's not... I don't do anything. I don't meet any those of people.
You're gone for weeks at a time. So it's like I'm peering into other people's lives.
Because my own is temporarily on holded.
- That sounds like an excuse. - It's the truth.
I should have told you, and I didn't, and sorry.
But it's not the big deal.
Look at me. I don't want anyone else.
I don't want any other life. Okay?
Listen...
I didn't go to London today because I resigned.
- What? - It's personal difference, it's a matter of principle.
Can you tell me anything else?
- At least you get rep#? - No, no, I resigned from the CIA.
- So what does that mean? What do we do? - I don't know.
I'll figure it out, but listen, I ...
This is the good thing, trust me.
I do.
He's gonna win.
He better.
CNN now project that Barack Obama, 47 years old, becomes the president of the United States.
Every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side...
not those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known.
Janine is the website editor of a small state site office of British newspaper...
up against the most powerful government in the world.
She would be bullied.
- We need to establish that we're no compromising national security by publishing. - We need to have alternatives.
Listen, Ed, you really sure hear is that they need the White House are aware of Janine...
has a leaked, top secret FISA court order. Anything could happens.
They could subpoena The Guardian，if that matters, they could break through that door in any minute, ending all of this..
We're running out of time. We seriously have to think about doing this on our own website. We have no choice.
You can't just start dumping articles on the Internet. Glenn, be serious.
Look WikiLeaks. It destory their credibility.
Look, Ed, you said it youself, if this isn't done properly, the world's gonna take notice.
You need experienced journalists to lead the public through some very, very complicated story.
- We are experienced journalists. - My feeling...
- Has any call here before? - Not once, not in three weeks.
- Should I answer it? - Tell they it's the wrong number?
Yes?
No I don't.
Okay. Thanks you.
... asked if I want a turndown service?
She said that "do not disturb" sign is off the door.
So?
Do we wait or go on our own?
Look, I said from the begining that how you publish is your business. I trust you.
The ony thing I ask is that you study the data, be responsible,
No names, no specifics, anything ongoing that's critical, you don't release.
You just stay to the issue of mass surveillance, and let the people decide.
- You haven't worry on that, that's not the question, we have to ask... - Ed.
Right now the White House is arranging a conference call between Janine and the intelligence services.
That's gonna happen in a few hours. Let us at least wait for it.
See what they say to her.
I say we pause a moment.
Yes, I think we should reassembling in this room after the call takes place. So that's at the midnight.
- Be noon in New York. - Alright.
I take another pass at the PRISM story in the mean time.
- We'll be in our hotel room if you need us, OK? - Thanks.
Do you mind if we take a break from that? For a second?
Yes, alright.
You wanna take a look? might make you feel better. It's not recording, just on standby.
When does it start feel like one of your photo taken.
Probably in Japan. Remember every time a camera got pointed at me, it was ...
- I couldn't breathe. - Why was that?
Probably I spend too much time looking at other people through cameras.
Japan was your first NSA job, right?
Yes, I was a contractor at the Dell. I had a lot of access.
Why did you go back after Geneva?
Cause the money, cause I wanted to live in Japan.
Because of Obama. Actually I thought thing would getting better with him.
I was wrong.
_
What was it like there?
Well, in the first part of my day, I was building this round-the-clock backup system...
called Epic Shelter.
So if there's some catastrophe, say terrorists burn down every embassy.
and NSA posts in Middle East, this program will insure...
we wouldn't lose any of that data.
But then I had to put it aside when visitors would show up.
NSA wanted to impress the Japanese, to show them what we reach.
They loved the live drone feeds.
This is Pakistan right now.
They were not as thrilled to learn that we wanted them...
to help us spy on Japanese population
They said it was against their laws.
Of course we tapped entire country anyway.
And we didn't stop there. Once we own their communication system.
We started going after physical infrastructure.
We sliped these little sleeper programs into their power grids, dams, hospitals.
The idea was if the day came when Japan was no longer an ally.
It'll be a lights out.
And it wasn't just Japanese. We were planting malware in Mexico ...
Germany, Brazil, Austria.
I mean, China I can understand, or Russia, or Iran, Venezuela, okay.
But Austria?
You also been following most world leaders, and heads of industry.
You tracking trade deals, sex scandals, diplomatic cables.
To give the U.S. an advantage in negotiations of G8.
Or leverage over Brazilian oil companies.
Or helping the ouster of some third world leaders not playing ball.
Ultimately the truth sinks in that no matter what justification you selling youself.
This is not about terrorism.
terrorism is the excuse.
This is about economic and social contrl.
And the only thing you're protecting is the supremacy of your government.
Were you thinking about going to journlists then?
No, no, that would neven occured to me back there.
I thought, you know, the system would self correct.
The President would keep the promise got him elected.
That's actually when I first start reading about you and your films.
But in Glenn's blog, you were in detained in airport for hours?
37 times. You investigating your own country's wars.
That's why I'm going back to Berlin to edit.
- You can trust me with this. - I do.
I haven't trusted anyone years.
There was a welcome change when they put me on terrorism watch duty.
Every day I go in and I get starting point for sigin.
Which is signal intelligence.
A lot of them were Americans which feels strange.
But you just keep reminding yourself...
I could stop a dirty bomb attack and save thousands lives.
Thing is you're not just following your bad guys, targets, you also following their metadata.
Which is basically, all the phone numbers they're in touch with.
Let's say your target is a shady Iranian banker operating out of Beirut, OK.
So you watching his stuff, you also watching people that he talks to.
Including, you know, his cousin who's just some dentist living in Buffalo.
And then you have to watch all of that guy's contacts.
And by the time you go a thorough hop out from your original target, you watching this bartender ...
chat with his mother about Botox.
Cause three hops from anyone with, say, 40 contacts.
You'll get to listen 2.5 million people.
And there's a moment when you're sitting there, and the scale of it hits you.
The NSA is really tracking every cellphone in the world.
No matter who you are, everyday of you life, you're sitting in a database ...
just ready to be looked at.
_
Not just terrorists or countries and corporations.
But you.
Was Lindsay with you in Japan?
Japan was difficult for us.
- I guess you couldn't talk about your work. - No.
There was this one night, towards the end when...
We supposed to go climb Mt. Fuji the next day.
- Well, are you gonna post that on Twitter? - No. They just for me.
- What do you think? - You should delete those.
It's not quite the artistic critique I was going for.
- I'm sorry, you just, you can't have selfie tit on your hard drive. - Yes, I can.
Can... you just please, I'm ask you, can you delet them?
- Russian hackers again? - No.
Is it us?
- It's classified. - Am I a target?
- Of course not. - Clearly someone is looking at my nude portraits.
OK, I shouldn't brought it out. It's national security.
Well, I'm flattered that, my boobs are considered an issue of national security, but you gonna do a lot better than that.
I would rather not talk about stuff can land us in jail.
So that's bandages are about then? And your camera phobia?
Because of work? Are they watching us?
- Who are they watching? - No one, OK, let's just stop talking about.
Let's go to bed, and wake up in the morning, go climb this fucking mountain, alright?
Of course we're not gonna talk about it.
- What is that supposed to mean? - It means we don't talk about anything anymore.
You work 12 hours a day, you come home depressed.
You play fucking video game, and you fall asleep.
Yes, I'm tired because I have a job that's what pays for this apartment in the most expensive city in the world.
Which you asked me to come knowing that I did not have a work visa.
OK, what if you have one, would you really give up your beatiful life of eating and sleeping and going out all the time.
- You think you really want a career? - A career like yours?
Where I'm miserable all the time? No.
That's called responsibility.
Fuck this.
You know what, you have no fucking idea what it's like to be accountable for other people's life..
Because you live in a fairytale land where there's no consequences, and no one ever gets hurt.
No. you, you don't get hurt.
- I get fucking crashed - Fucking bullshit, I've done nothing to you!
That's exactly! You have done nothing!
You don't hang out with me. You don't laugh with me.
You don't even fucking touch me anymore.
- I'm sorry. - Stop! No!
We never made it to Mt. Fuji. Lindsay left pretty soon after that.
I was really lonely there. After three months, I left too, I went to Maryland.
I promised her I'll change, and we moved back in together.
Make sure your legs stay bent, and then you can fully extent once you feel stable. Ready?
1, 2, 3. All the way up, and you wanna clench between your knees.
It'll burns, but it's a good burn. Perfect.
Turn around.
Perfect! Oh my God, I'm so proud of you!
When you're really happy, there's a large part of you that just wants to stay happy.
And you start to think: What could be more important than this?
What? Oh my God, it's so beautiful.
You know, lots of people cruise happily through life.
Why can't I?
_
I went back to work at the CIA.
My official title was the solution consultant.
Basically I was hawking priced hardware for a living.
- I thought you had resigned. - Yeah, It was all contractual work after Geneva.
You know, it's Booz Allen Hamilton or Dell in partnership with the CIA, or NSA and DIA.
It's the intelligence community revolving door.
How was it being back to the States?
It was ...
It was really good to be home.
But Maryland was where thing start to turned from me.
Every time I felt like I was finally letting go all the anxiety, all the question used to keep me up at night.
I learn something else, and I just couldn't ignore it.
Like there were three high level officials at the NSA. Bill Binney, Ed Loomis and Kirk Wiebe.
They've been filing complaints about abuses of overreach for years.
That's all they did, just filed complaints.
And the FBI raided their homes.
And there was Thomas Drake, like other three guys.
Drake was trying to change system from inside.
But when nothing worked, he did go to the press.
So they hit him with espionage, and we were shocked, the whole intelligence community.
- Why were you thinking you were charged? - To send a chilling message.
- To whom? - To other whistleblowers, to others in the government.
Do not to speak out. Do not tell truth to power.
We`ll hammer you.
There's a new program being developed in NSA's op center in Oahu.
You'll be going up against Chinese cyber divisions.
Interested?
Oops vast amount of money you're making now.
You'll be performing a critical service to your country, I know that's important to you.
- You mean service like in Geneva? - That was a mistake.
- Shouldn't push you into that. - You didn't push me into it.
I asked for exposure to field ops, and you give it to me. I won't hold that against you.
Is there something you do hole against me?
You didn't told me we were running a dragnet around the whole world, Corbin.
- Great shooting, Ed. - Thank you.
That's terrific.
So, once again the army I was good at.
You ever thinking since the Second World War, it's been 60 years...
and still no WW3?
Why? Because we abuse our power generally for the good of the world.
For prosperity, order.
How can we defend ourselves against nuclear war, terror attacks,
cyber attacks without a centralized intel factory working around the world night and day.
So we should catalog billions of people's lives?
These people already catalog their life for public consumption.
Well, they catalog part of their lives, and they do it by choice. We're not give them the choice, we just taking everything..
Most Americans don't want freedom. They want security.
It's a simple bargain. Good girl. Good girl.
If you wouldn't play with all the new toys, be safe.
You pay the price of the mission.
Except the people, they don't even know they made that bargain.
Where is the modern battlefield, soldier?
- Everywhere. - What's the first rule of battle?
Never reveal your position.
And if one unauthorized person know, if Congress know?
- So would the enemy. - That, Mr. Snowden, is the state of the world.
Secrecy is security, and security is victory.
Thank you sir.
Someone I want you to meet.
Mr. Lowell. Jim. How are you?
Dorian. Allan. Welcome to the U.S.
- How you make out today, Corbin? - Ah, very mediocre.
Nothing like Ed here.
- Apparently the army training people to shoot straight. - So this is Ed Snowden.
- Sir, pleasure to meet you. - The brain behind Epic Shelter. - That's right.
- That's brilliant work. - Thank you sir.
- I had a few questions I want to ask. - Jim ...
- Will you excuse me gentlemen? excuse me. - Nice to meet you.
It's proving very useful for our UAV program.
Yes, I heard, with foreign site intel transfer.
Transfer happens after collection, it will straight to the Pentagon.
Mossad if they need it. Action immediately so no one see it.
It's improved response some our drone pilots by 5 up to 10.
- Tell me you worked signal intelligence in Japan too, yes? - Yes sir.
- How you like it? - It was a very empowering job, sir.
With this new job in Hawaii, that would be even more access.
I asked Corbin to start the conversation, but the offer is mine.
Take your time. It's gonna take a few months to get this program on its feet.
Will you excuse me, gentlemen, I see dinner.
- A beer sir? sir, and you? - No thank you.
Epic Shelter was mean to be a backup program.
Lowell is creating this position for you, Ed.
You will be the first contractor who has sign for meat work in counter cyber.
It's your ticket to the top.
Do you believe the United States is the greatest country in the world?
Yes.
Have you ever used any programs you're not authorized for?
No.
I'm not usually supposed to submit on work
But my editor said she make an exception.
Pretty neat?
I get to submit entry. have to send something in.
You're ignoring me on purpose or what?
No sorry.
- I just thinking. - About what?
I want to talk to you about it at dinner, but let's just, come and sit down.
- Is everything OK? - Yes.
The Deputy Director of the NSA.
He offered me a new position.
And that was a while back, and now they need an answer.
Was it something you want to do?
I would be good at it.
Can you tell me anything about it?
- You know, I can't. - I know, the mission first.
Are theresocial social purpose? White House Gala maybe?
The position is in Hawaii.
We worked really hard to get where we're at.
And you're willing to rip all from begin?
We finally have a house that we love, and a job I really like.
- And real friends, and we're close to our families. - I understand.
And if you want to stay, then we will stay. That's it.
Don't just say that cause I want to hear.
I'm not.
I let you go once. I'm not gonna do it again.
Shit, I'm sorry. The pasta. One second.
Yeah, I think I actually came pretty close getting it right this time.
I'll get some candles.
Oh my God, Ed, Ed.
I know Tegretol. That slows you down as I've seen it on my mom.
She's taken all kinds of medicines her whole life.
Well, they working 70% of the cases.
Ed, epilepsy is a serious condition. If you have a seizure...
Driving youself or with someone else in the car?
or you are in a place where you could fall.
It's not something to be lightly regarded. It's essential you commit youself to this medicine.
Okay?
Yeah.
Oh, thank you.
I've been thinking about what doctor said, about the stress.
A warmer climate could help.
If Hawaii is something that we decide would be better for you.
I'll go.
_
Janine, how the White House conversation go?
I made quite clear that we're in possession of an authentic FISA court order.
- They want to see it. - We refused. Now I just pray that it is actually authentic.
- Are you actually questioning us? - Glenn, no one has ever seen a FISA court order. There's no precedent here.
Our source risked his lives for that document. It's real.
Tell us, did the White House make any specific claim about national security...
that would prevent you from publishing?
No. I asked them repeatedly, and they have no substantive answer.
Then there you go, what more do you want? You can go out and know you're safe.
Glenn, I like to talk to Alan before we go any further.
- When does he lands? - in six hours.
No, absolutely not, we are sitting ducks here, it's 1 PM in New York.
If you don't get this out in the next four hours, you'll miss evening news on the East Coast.
We can post it later tonight.
I'm sorry, Glenn, but Alan is our chief in editor, and...
Bullshit! the government knows we have these documents now.
The CIA could barging through this door in anytime, and you want more time?
Act like a fucking journalist and stop string us along.
I just stood my ground with the goddammit White House.
I risk my career. How dare you question my commitment to this story.
- Let's just keep our voice... - No, you're right I'm questioning.
This is absolutely inappropriate.
We're publishing ourselves. You're out.
Alright, Glenn, we'll have it ready by 4 PM.
- I have to go over the story once more. - Why?
Because it still needs editing, damn you.
All these fucking intelligence jargon is hurting our brain.
- This PRISM story is still incomprehensible. - PRISM is the second story.
Verizon is the first story, have it ready posted by 4 PM, 5 at the latest.
No games, so we're gone.
_
So my new job was counter-spy on the Chinese.
at the NSA regional cryptological center on Oahu.
Place your bag down there, sir.
No personal laptops, no usb sticks, no cellphones...
- No electronic devices of any kinds. - No sir.
Thank you.
Snow White, is that you?
- Gabriel? - Dude, what the hell are you doing here?
It's amazing.
- Do you work here? - Yes, three years, two months and five days.
But who's counting, right?
It's like who knew a secret underground WWII air base...
would become munchies heaven for a thousand geeks, right?
- Is the here serve good pizza? - Good pizza, yeah - It's important - The elevator is slow as shit though.
- Jesus. - It's something else, huh?
- So, what deck you working on? - You're NTOC or ROC?
Between you and me? NTOC.
Cool. You get to hack the hackers. You come over #.
Fresh brain for you, Trevor.
Trevor James, Interactive Ops division chief.
Ed Snowden. I have been briefed.
Next door is NTOC. Defense, that's where you'll be working.
Over here we have ROC, our offense.
- I move between the two. we're on a tight shift here, son. - Yes sir.
- You'll be working with Haynes. - Patrick Haynes. - Nice to meet you. - Good to have you.
Watch out for him. He's the smartest guy in the building right here.
- Come on. - How many languages do you speak again?
- Seven in Code, six spoken, two signs. - That's cool.
I know some American Sign Language.
That's awesome.
- Great. Only language I can't understand. - I'll check you later.
Wait for it.
Any moment.
Lights over Waziristan, gentlemen. - So, what exactly do we contribute to this?
The underside of the Reaper drone is fixed with a big ass antenna.
Sniffing the hardware, IDing anything that broadcast.
We'll geo locate it. My friend Tasha here, the Air Force brings out Hellfire.
- Hey, Trev. you like the show? - You know it.
- We track them, you whack them. - And who do we just track?
Not who, what. We're targeting bad guys' cellphones. Sometimes, a SIM card.
Okay, and how do we know the bad guy is in possession of that cellphone when we strike?
- We don't. - Of course we do. JSOC and the CIA has their people in the field.
What's the program's name?
Epic Shelter. It was originally some backup program for...
- Catastrophe site failure. - Yes, how would you know that?
- I build it. - You?
You know, actually I've been thinking about another use for Epic Shelter
What do you have in mind?
- Well, I was chatting with Jim Lowell about how so many programs... - The Deputy Director Lowell?
Yes. And we were saying there're so many programs nowadays, it's kind of impossible to keep tracking them anymore, right?
Why not create a centralized database?
- Ah, like an index? - Yes, exactly, something updated at the real time.
You know, we already got Epic Shelter collecting our finished intel.
We just need a web portal to catalog.
- Make them searchable. - Let me think about it.
- Any case, I have to run past Fort Meade. - Of course. - Do you have a name?
Yeah, it it's not taken, I'll call it Heartbeat.
Heartbeat.
... 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Engage the target.
- You're okay down there? - Yes.
So this is why I keep saying we need to hike more.
- You're right. - Could you look at me?
Come on. It's been years.
By social media standards, you don't even exist anymore.
Just one, big smile, show me your teeth.
Finally some ease, finally captured.
- So now I'm a viable boyfriend? - Yes.
What a shame. You're such a cute little model.
- Little? - Yeah. - Was that little. - Wait.
Stop.
Oh my God. I think you've got some sun.
- I'm serous. It looks good. - That's impossible.
Hey, been meaning to ask you by the way. Did you switch pharmacies?
Cause I try to pick up your prescription.
- And I couldn't. - Why did you do that?
Because I was there and thought it would be helpful.
I stopped taking Tegretol.
- What? When? - A couple of months ago.
- And you just now telling me? - I wanted to tell you.
I didn't... I just... I can't take that stuff, it makes me groggy.
I needed to be sharp for work. I'm gonna be on the board all the time.
What is about this fucking job that makes more important than your life?
- I don't understand. - Our government.
Our government what?
Our government is hemorrhaging billions of dollars every year to Chinese hackers.
And I've been hired to shut them down.
A lot of people are dependent on me.
More so than anyone else?
Yes.
No, this ... this is bullshit.
We didn't come to Hawaii for you could healed, did we?
There was never gonna be a less stressful job out here.
I feel like I was made to do this, and if I don't it, then...
I don't know anyone else that can.
It's like I'm on a trajectory that I can't turn back from.
You always turn back.
When I wanted to see is if you can give me a yes or no answer to the question?
Does the NSA collect any type of data at all...
on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?
- No sir. - It does not?
Not willingly.
There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect.
- But not willingly. - Really?
Thank you, I don't have additional questions could give you in writing.
Okay, so what I want to show you guys is a slide I ran across...
while I was building index program.
- And what is this? - This is data collection for the month of March.
Worldwide e-mails and Skype calls. France, 70 million.
Germany, 500 million.
Brazil, Two billion.
Inside the U.S.
3.1 billion e-mails and calls, this aren't including any by telecom company data.
So, what's the collection of the Russia?
Russia is 1.5 billion.
- Wait, so we're collecting twice as much in the U.S. as we're in Russia? - I figure it is a lot.
But this shit is out of hand, man.
You show this to anyone else? - No, you guys are the first.
Yeah, you know, I would be careful about that. It could seems like youing rock the boat.
Yeah, you're right. I just.. I need to know that I'm not the only one... would like to know if I'm the only one #
who thought this is crazy.
- What the fuck is going on? - Hey, Trevor - What are you doing here?
It's nothing. I just showing them this one slide I need some input.
- Why the heat map? - It's my bad. Trevor.
I made a bet with Ed about which country we're collecting the most signal from.
He said Iran and I said Pakistan.
- Who won? - Ed.
Yeah, I need to head out, I'll see you guys.
- You're going down next time. - Okay.
No more bets. And I don't want anyone unauthorized in here again.
- Especially not with Heartbeat. - You are right, it won't happen again.
Happy birthday!
... In Vegas looking at Afghanistan, so we running late hours.
So this blurring object comes wandering into the striking zone.
We all knew it was a kid. Poof, he's gone.
We called on for clarification, and report came back, that...
it was a dog. OK fine.
Shift's long, Day and night, I remember.
But same village, two three days later.
We see the funeral. We knew it was a kid they buried.
Mom and dad wailing. And then order comes down, clear, hit them.
Poof.
And then they are gone in a cloud of dust.
All of their fucking family.
But the craziest thing is you come home after work...
kiss your wife and kids, back to work the next day.
Pretty soon, it all start come, come routine.
Fuck that. You make it sound like criminal, man.
- It's war, it's a job. - Ah, I don't know, man.
- Can't a job be criminal? - Not if you work for the government.
You ever heard about Nuremberg trial, Trev?
- It won't that long ago. - Yes.
And we hung the Nazi big shots, right?
Yes. The big shots were the first trial, and the next trial...
were just the judges, lawyers, policemen, guards.
Ordinary people just doing their jobs, following ordres.
That's where we got the Nuremberg principles, which then the UN made it to international law.
In case ordinary jobs become criminal again.
I'm just saying.
See I told you not to grab my hand.
... do not fucking touch me.
- Dude, dude, are you okay? - Ed, you okay?
- You okay, man? - Get away, don't touch him.
Don't touch him, don't touch...
Hey, Ed, how are you? How's your health?
Hi, Corbin. It's...
It's fine, thanks for asking.
Must be nerve-racking living with that condition.
You wouldn't know it, looking at your numbers.
200 Chinese IPs down in your first four months.
Those are internal numbers.
Your colleague Trevor, he's out of CIA like you.
He's been keeping me informed of your progress.
It's a outstanding work, Heartbeat as well.
Thank you. That means a lot. Lowell is very pleased.
- He sends his regard. - It's great to hear.
He...
He doesn't know about your heat map conversations ...
or some of the ideas you express to your colleagues.
- And he's not going to. - Yes ...
You know, Heartbeat is proving a tricky project collecting from multiple agencies... a difficult project. To collect from several organizations.
and knowing where to pull from.
It is helped to talk it over with colleagues.
I believe in you, Ed. Which is why nothing happened to you after the Derog in Geneva.
And I'm very grateful you look out for me.
Or after you "omitted the truth" in your last polygraph.
What was it you withholding exactly?
You remember that day in class you were talking to us about the FISA court?
You said that they approved Bush's wiretapping programs.
Sometimes we're restrained to tell the whole truth.
- Doesn't give us permission to lie. - Come on, Corbin.
The Director of the National Intelligence just lied to Congress.
Sorry.
Look at me.
Did you access unauthorized program...
that I did not know about?
Yes. It was ...
It was in Geneva, it was Lindsay, I was jealous. I'm sorry.
I never did it again.
Listen.
I know it's been up and down with you and Lindsay since Geneva.
It's tough keeping any relationship going, few of us do.
So if it'll give you any peace of mind, I can assure you she's not sleeping that photographer friend of hers.
If that's what you're thinking.
I have to do a # conference in Sydney in the couple of weeks, I'll stop at Hawaii on the way back.
Okay?
Okay. Thank you.
I'll see you soon.
Hi Dad.
Did you get the e-mail I sent you the photos?
I was hoping you could delete them.
What are you doing?
Sit down.
- Your e-mail being monitored. - So?
It's different now, it's not passive collection. It's full take surveillance.
So all of your e-mails, calls, texts, social media, everything.
It's also possible that the house is bugged.
- I'm not sure. - By who?
By a senior officer of the CIA.
You're in trouble, the Chinese thing?
Look, there are things that I wish I could tell you.
But I can't because you could get very hurt.
What's keep you safe is you don't know anything.
I'm sorry. I really didn't want any of this for you.
But I know you would think I was doing the right thing.
So just listen to me for a second, okay? When we go back in the house, everything has to appear normal.
We must act like nothing has changed.
But if you do notice something that's weird, you need to tell me right the way.
And you gonna use encrypted e-mail that I'm setting up for you.
- I don't think I can do that. - Yes, you can. I know you can.
- Do I even have a choice? - I'm asking you to trust me.
Lindsay, I think it would best if you went back to Maryland for a while.
Tell your parents that I'm away on a business trip.
- And you're homesick. - Are you going away?
Yes, but just for a little while.
- No, I can't go. - Please, just until I get back? - I can't go.
You just said that we have to appear nothing has changed.
If both of us left at the same time, wouldn't that seem suspicious?
I would do this for you.
But it is the last time.
We will meet in the mall, opposite the Mira Hotel, on the Monday two two weeks from now.
I will be holding a Rubik cube. More to follows.
- Have you heard about Trevor, bro? - About what?
We now oped only Internet in Syria.
Trevor and his TIR team crashed the core router.
- Brought the whole country gone dark. - Jesus Christ.
- Figure it out! - Poor bastards.
- OK, I'm gonna... I got to get to work. - Yeah, me too.
How's Heartbeat coming?
That's close. It's very close.
Don't tell me you involve in this too.
Trevor fucking roll me into go through their zero day exploit code. It's a fucking mess.
- Why I agree with this? - Good luck.
- ... to try. - Yeah.
Trouble with nav? Are there problems with the fleet?
One of those idiots scripted some bullshit piece of Israeli code, and jam down our payload, you fucking believe that?
- Script kiddies. - I know, I know, I should listen to you, godammit.
- Is it this? - Yes, it is.
I'll make the godammit Israelis to take the fall for this.
- Got it? - Not taking the fall for this.
Patrick.
I might not see you again.
You gonna leave me here...
...with Captain America?
Thanks a lot.
The NSA may come after you.
I don't know what you're talking about.
- You're heading home already? - Yes. I'm not feeling so well.
Might not be in tomorrow either.
You know, Trevor is kind of busy, maybe you could let him know for me?
Yeah, yeah, # my plesure
You know, if you're really not feeling well, maybe you should go back to States and see your doctor.
I think the folks would understand that.
Sounds like a smart thing.
- Take care of yourself. - Yeah, you too bro.
- Hey. - Hey.
Ever play one of this?
Yes, when I was a kid.
Yes, you should try it. It's hard.
I can't figure this out.
I don't know about this...
You got to start with the white cross actually, and then you do the corners.
Oh man, I love these things.
- Have a good weekend, man. - You too, buddy.
It is live.
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There is a link to the FISA court order.
Well done, Janine. I told you she was not push over.
I feel so godammit good to be wrong.
NSA collecting phone record of millions of Americans daily.
Breaking news tonight reported, since a secret court order, the Obama administration...
is collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers.
That's being reported by The Guardian newspaper in the UK.
The specific court order shows that all the information is going to National Security Agency.
How was that for the main stream media, Glenn?
- Now they can't shut this down now, we got four more days left... - They have no idea what their story for.
It's fantastic.
Another explosive article, and just appearing this time shows in the Washington Post.
The breaking news reveil another broad and secret U.S. government surveillance program.
The Washington Post and The Guardian in London reporting... 
that the NSA and the FBI are tapping directly into the essential servers of nine leading internet companies.
including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, 
 Skype, YouTube and Apple.
The Post said they're extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents,
and connection logs that enable to analyse connector's movements and contacts over time.
FRIDAY, June 7, 2013
In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok.
But when you actually look at the details, then I think we've struck the right balance.
U.S. President Obama staunchly defended U.S. goverment programs
insisting that they were conducted with broad safeguards...
and to protect against abuse.
He reach the conclusion what was happening inside this really secret agency...
was very threatening and menacing to privacy right, to internet freedom, to basic political liberty.
Not only in United States, but all around the world. And he felt it was his duty...
as a human being to disclose it.
My name is Ed Snowden. I am 29 years old. I work for Booz Allen Hamilton...
as a infrastructure analyst, for NSA in Hawaii.
You can't come forward against the most powerful intelligence agency in the world...
without expecting have some risks. They are just such powerful adversary.
So no one can meaningfully oppose them. If they want to get you, they'll get you in time.
The kid did it.
This gonna get worse for the next generation as they extend the capability of this sort of architecture oppression.
Then you realize that you might be will to accept any risks... perhaps is willing to take any risk, ??
as long as the public is able to make their own decision about how that's applied.
Because even if you hadn't done anything wrong, you'll being watched.
I have access to the entire intelligence community.
So if I wanted to harm the U.S.
You can shut down the entire surveillance system in an afternoon.
But that was never my intention, and I think anybody making that argument...
they have to think.
If they were in my postion.
Living in Hawaii in paradise, making a ton of money.
What would it take to make you leave everything behind.
The fear the most...
in regards to the outcome for America this disclosures...
is that nothing will change in the coming months and in the coming years, so just getting worse.
And then, eventually at some point...
some new leader will be elected...
who flip the switch,
and the people won't be able to do anything by that point to oppose it.
And it will be turnkey tyranny.
- How are you holding up? - I'll be fine.
You guys have to start watching up yourselves now.
Now, if you have any reason to believe that you're about to be raided or intercepted, or breached in any way.
Format and destory all you data immediately.
You have the encrypted backups.
And now I...
I no longer have any access to this files myself, you guys have them all.
Keep focusing on the stories, that's all that matters.
If you'll excuse me, let's ...
- We all should get some rest we could use it. - Yeah.
I should probably lay down in a soft bed while I still have one available, right?
- You rest well. - Thank you.
- See you tomorrow. - Good night.
Can you at least tell me where you're going?
Listen, I know that I ...
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Ewen, I'm on the second floor.
I don't see Tibbo.
No, no, wait, I think I see him.
Shit. There are press wait me all over the hotel.
I don't know, I'll figure it out. I stop them with a press conference or something.
I'm Glenn. Look, we really appreciate this, we understand you're one of the best lawyers in Hong Kong.
- We do our best, we're gonna take him to the UN first, then I prefer not to reveal. - I understand.
Shit, they spotted me. You guys get going.
I'll answer your questions in an orderly fashion, please.
- Did you get them? - Yes, this is the best I can do.
You have a meeting with Tibbo in five minutes.
On the skybridge opposite the largest mall.
I have met a lot of astonishing people in my life, but you...
Okay, lad, you have to go.
We won't let you down.
You'll make a shitty journalist without a camera.
Are you sure?
Okay. That's a great idea.
Thanks.
You don't wanna leave your luck behind.
Oh, I think I like you to have that.
- Thanks. For everything. - Thank you.
I have a van down the street.
NSA leaker Edward Snowden has now been charged...
formally with espionage, theft and conversion of government property.
US official has asked Hong Kong to detain the formal contractor, #on provisional arrest warrant.
Snowden has been in Hong Kong since May.
Snowden has checked out of the luxury hotel in Hong Kong where he had been holed up.
Might turn your eyes that way.
...take action against him, on the arrest warrant from U.S.
Snowden, if he try to cross the border, he would be intercepted and detained.
The Americans now are closing in. They almost certainly know where he is.
- They just need Hong Kong's approval to get him. - The Hong Kong government does have extradition agreement with Washington.
- But the ultimate decision is... - ... Where is he now?
- Thank you, this is Ed. - Ed, Mayana. - Welcome.
These are good people. They won't talk.
- I knowing their cases for years. They're like you. - That's so nice.
They are stateless.
They are waiting on the UN application for refugee status.
- Just in case you are arrested, this is where you call me. - Yeah.
- Good. - Thank you so much.
You might not feel it, Ed.
- You are not alone. - OK.
His long-time girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, an amateur photographer...
has not been heard from. It's believe she's in seclusion in her parents' home in Maryland..
She has been questioned by the FBI and remain under the investigation.
Ten days has now gone by as the world looks for Edward Snowden.
Rumor has surfaced that rich supporter is hiding Snowden...
somewhere in the Hong Kong # in a private mansion.
It is now confirmed that Edward Snowden has boarded a flight from Hong Kong to Moscow.
The State Department is very disappointed with authority in Hong Kong for letting Snowden go..
He was accompanied by a representative from WikiLeaks.
Snowden is trying to make his way from Russia to Cuba, and then to Ecuador for political asylum.
Moscow airport official say he won't be permitted to make his connecting flight...
because the U.S. government has revoked his passport.
The United Stated Secretary of State John Kerry is outraged...
that Russia is refusing to arrest the American fugitive.
Now a man without the country stranded inside the Moscow airport.
No, I'm not gonna scrambling jets...
to get a 29 years old hacker.
The President of Bolivian's plane was forced to down in Austria airspace today.
Following U.S. suspicion that Snowden may have been on board.
After 39 days at the airport hotel, he's left with his Russian lawyer...
and a legal adviser from WikiLeaks, Sarah Harrison.
He can now enjoy all of swift sweet liberty allowed under the regime of President Vladimir Putin.
There's still a big call for execution
Mr. Snowden actually deserve asylum and protection around the globe.
But he does has a asylum in Russia at least.
We can engage the debate he started.
And the world now has an example you could do the right thing.
You don't have to end up in a cage, one room, a prison.
After more than a year in the country under temporary asylum.
Edward Snowden has received a three years residence permit in Russia.
And now here, live from Moscow, Edward Snowden.
Hi, Ed. How are you doing?
Thank you. Forgive me if I get my bearing a little bit here.
People always said I was kind of a robot.
How was it you came to be in Russia?
Well, I never intented to come here, you know, My passport was revoked...
on route to Latin America, so when people said why are you in Russia?
I said: "Ask the State Department."
Does that mean you are willing to go back and face trial?
Absolutely. If it was a fair and public trial.
Unfortunately, that's not what would happen right now...
as long as Espionage ACT is being use to against whistleblowers.
- Do you still think it was worth it? - Yes, I do.
Without the information to start a public debate, we are lost.
You know, the people being able to question our government, and hold it accountable.
That's the principle of the United States of America was founded on.
So, if we want to protect our national security.
We should be protecting that principle.
What if your argument falls on deaf ear, what if our leader don't act?
I believe that if nothing changes this...
more and more people all over the world will come forward.
Whistleblowers and journalists, but also regular citizens.
And when those in power try to hide...
by classifying everything, we will call them out on it.
When they try to scare us to sacrifice our basic human rights.
We won't be intimidated, and we won't give up.
We would not be silenced.
You are living in a foreign country. You'll be extradited if you try to leave.
That must be hard.
When I left Hawaii, I lost ...
...everything.
I had a stable life.
A stable love, afamily, a future.
And I lost the life, but ...
... I've gain a new one.
And I'm incredibly fortunate.
And I think...
the greatest freedom I've gained is the fact I no longer have to worry about...
what happens tomorrow, because I'm happy with what I've done today.
Live from the Internet, Edward Snowden.
As of this date, Edward Snowden resides in Moscow.
Lindsay Mills has moved there to join him.
Did your mind change about him? He now more of a whistleblower than he is a hacker?
Obama to call for end to the NSA's bulk data collection.
NSA collection of Bulk call data is ruled illegal.
House votes to end NSA's bulk phone data collection.
Congress passes NSA surveillance reform in vindication for Snowden.
Barack Obama signs the 'USA Freedom Act' to reform NSA surveillance.
- What is going to happen to Edward Snowden? - He' gonna die in Moscow.
He's not coming home.
Edward Snowden, is he a traitor or a hero?
He stole very important information.
We have breaking news tonight.
Among the reforms, work with Congress to change how the NSA collect phone record.
mandate more transparency by the secret court...
regularly approve the surveillance.
Well, is it a victory for Edward Snowden? That's gonna depends on the eye of the beholder.
American government was acting illegally.
I don't think he should be brought home without facing music.
Snowden played a very important role in educating the American people...
to the degree in which our civil liberties and our constitutional rights are being undermined.