| ® || Notes to pages 71-80 | 313 71 When they finally settled: The descriptions of the initial two meetings between Greenwald and Poitras in April 2013 are provided in Greenwald's 2014 book, No Place to Hide, pp. 10-15. cuapter 8 Raider of the Inner Sanctum 73 “They think there’s a smoking gun”: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” 74 system for stratifying its data: Michael McConnell, interview with King, “Ex- NSA Chief Details Snowden’s Hiring at Agency, Booz Allen.” 74 Snowden applied to Booz Allen: Booz Allen officer who requested anonymity, interview with author. 5 “Snowden was an IT guy”: John R. Schindler, “Snowden Is a Fraud,” XX Com- mittee, June 12, 2015. 75 “get access to lists”: Lana Lam, “Post Reporter Lana Lam Tells of Her Journey into the Secret World of Edward Snowden,” South China Morning Post, June 23, 2013. 75 “He targeted my company”: King, “Ex-NSA Chief Details Snowden’s Hiring at Agency, Booz Allen.” 75 he would not have password access: Former NSA executive who requested ano- nymity, interview with author. 75 engaged in a minor subterfuge: Hosenball, “NSA Contractor Hired Snowden Despite Concerns About Resume Discrepancies.” 76 “playing with fire”: Spencer Ackerman and Ewen MacAskill, “Snowden Calls © for Whistleblower After Claims by New Pentagon Source,” Guardian, May 22, ® 2016. 76 establish a paper trail: Director of National Intelligence, IC on the Record (blog on Tumblr), May 27, 2014, http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/87218708448 /edward-j-snowden-email-inquiry-to-the-nsa-office. Snowden response, in “Edward Snowden Responds to Release of E-mail by U.S. Officials,” Washington Post, May 29, 2014. 77 He returned on April 13: Lindsay Mills’s blog. 77 a brief medical leave: Former NSA executive who requested anonymity, inter- view with author. 77 needed to get passwords: Stephen Braun, “NSA to Congress: Snowden Copied Co-worker’s Password,” Military Times, Feb. 13, 2014. 78 software applications called spiders: David E. Sanger an