| ® || 314 | Notes to pages 80-96 80 At this point: Former DIA officer who requested anonymity, interview with author. 80 He had visited Hong Kong: Lindsay Mills’s blog. 80 According to Albert Ho: Bradsher, “Hasty Exit Started with Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout.” Also, Keith Bradsher, interview with author. 81 for the next ten days: Former DIA officer who requested anonymity, interview with author. 81 “his first priority”: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 43. 81 “That whole period”: Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” 81 He e-mailed Gellman: Gellman, “Code Name ‘Verax.’” 81 Gellman could not make: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 51-52. 82 more pressure on Gellman: Gellman, “Code Name ‘Verax.’” 82 “I’ve been working on”: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 11. 83 Continuing his string pulling : Greenberg, “These Are the Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks.” 83 asked Appelbaum to help: Appelbaum, “Edward Snowden Interview.” 84 Greenwald was awaiting: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 16-18. 85 Gibson authorized Greenwald’s trip: The description of The Guardian's reac- tion to Greenwald’s offer of a scoop was reported by Luke Harding, a Guard- ian reporter commissioned to write The Snowden Files, a book that Oliver Stone bought the film rights for from The Guardian for $700,000. See Harding, Snowden Files, 100-115. 86 Snowden arranged for Micah Lee: Lee, “Ed Snowden Taught Me to Smuggle Secrets Past Incredible Danger.” @ © cuHapter 10 Whistle-blower 88 “They elected me”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revela- tions, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” 88 “T feel alone”: Lindsay Mills’s blog. 89 “so we don’t have a clue”: Greenberg, “These Are the Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks.” 89 “On timing, regarding meeting”: The description of the meetings with Snowden in Hong Kong, June 3-June 9, is taken from Poitras’s documentary Citizenfour. The film can be found at https://thoughtmaybe.com/citizenfour/. 90 “Th