| ® || Notes to pages 171-184 | 321 169 “touched” documents: Former NSA official who requested anonymity, interview with author. 169 more than half the documents: Staff member of the Senate Intelligence Commit- tee who requested anonymity, interview with author. 170 Snowden also disputed: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” 170 viaa Vice magazine: Leopold, “Inside Washington’s Quest to Bring Down Edward Snowden.” 171 previously cited road map: Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.” 171 The compartment logs showed: Former NSA official who requested anonymity, interview with author. 171 “No intelligence service”: Glenn Greenwald, “Email Exchange Between Edward Snowden and Former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey,” Guardian, July 16, 2013. 171 An answer soon came: Sophie Shevardnadze, “’Snowden Believes He Did Everything Right’: Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena,” SophieCo, RT television, Sept. 23, 2013, //www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/snowden-russia-lawyer-kucherena-214/. 172 “all the reports”: Kucherena, interview with author. 173 Russian cyber service: Former member of the staff of the national security adviser who requested anonymity, interview with author. 174 State Department explicitly told: Ibid. 175 “I had spent ten years”: Hill, “How ACLU Attorney Ben Wizner Became Snowden’s Lawyer.” 176 Inthe case of Stone’s movie: Irina Alexsander, “Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood,” New York Times Magazine, Sept. 4, 2016. 176 “I went the first six months”: Bell, “Edward Snowden Interview.” © 176 “There’s nothing on it”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA ® Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” 176-177 former CIA officer Ray McGovern: Mark Hosenball, “Laptops Snowden Took to Hong Kong, Russia Were a ‘Diversion,’” Reuters, Oct. 11, 2013. 177 “break my fingers”: Snowden, interview with Williams. See also Burrough, Elli- son, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga,” and Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” 178 “said they believed that”: Perlez and Bradsher, “Ch