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| ® | 88 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS finished his preparations for the journalists. With selected docu- ments copied on a thumb drive, he moved from the residence where he had been staying for ten days to a venue for meeting the report- ers. The place he chose, as noted earlier, was the Mira hotel in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong, where he checked in under his own name. He e-mailed Poitras his name and the address of the hotel; there was no longer any reason to hide his true identity. ® © | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 88 © 9/2916 5:51PM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019576