| ® | Ld | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS whole story. Of far more importance is the quality of some of the data that Snowden had copied. Just a single one of these documents could cripple not just the NSA but America’s entire multibillion- dollar apparatus for intercepting foreign intelligence. The previously cited road map, which was thirty-one thousand pages long, listed critical gaps in U.S. coverage of China, Russia, and other adversaries, including those cited by President Obama’s national security team. It was not found among the files on the thumb drive given to Poitras and Greenwald. Nor were most of the missing Level 3 lists concern- ing NSA activities in Russia and China found on the thumb drive, even though Snowden said he had taken his final job at Booz Allen to get access to these lists. If Snowden had not given these docu- ments to Poitras, Greenwald, or other journalists, where were they? The compartment logs showed that Snowden copied and trans- ferred these Level 3 documents in his final week at the NSA. He presumably had them in his possession in Hong Kong when he arrived on May 20. On June 3, according to Greenwald, Snowden was still sorting through the documents to determine which ones © were appropriate to give to journalists. On June 12, he told the re) reporter Lana Lam in Hong Kong that he was going through the documents, country by country, to determine which additional ones he should pass on to journalists. Eleven days later, he departed Hong Kong for Moscow carrying at least one laptop computer. After arriv- ing in Moscow, he suggested he still had NSA secrets in his posses- sion. “No intelligence service—not even our own—has the capacity to compromise the secrets I continue to protect,” he wrote to the former senator Gordon Humphrey. “I cannot be coerced into reveal- ing that information, even under torture.” Much of the material he copied while working at Booz Allen remained, as far as the NSA could determine, missing. Had he brought thes