| ® || Notes to pages 281-293 | 327 Snowden,” Dispatches, July 13, 2015, https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/12 /dispatches-meeting-edward-snowden. 265 “I will be submitting”: “Statement by Edward Snowden,” July 12, 2013, https:// WikiLeaks.org/Statement-by-Edward-Snowden-to.html. 265 “When I accepted the case”: Kucherena, interview with author. 265 Kucherena had personally approved: Shevardnadze, interview with author. CHAPTER 27 Snowden’s Choices 272 Presidential Policy Directive 20: Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 75. 272 to trace the theft: Michael Hayden, interview with author. 273 “For our enemies”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 294. 274 “I hada special level”: Snowden and Taylor, “Are You a Traitor?” 277 “You should remain anonymous”: Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.” 279 He was also willing: Snowden and Taylor, “Are You a Traitor?” 280 “The mission’s already accomplished”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” CHAPTER 28 The Espionage Source 281 “The government's investigation failed”: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” © 282 “If I were providing information”: Transcript of interview with Snowden in ® Moscow, Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” 282 Pelton, for example: Victor Cherkashin, interview with author. 283 “This debriefing could not”: Intelligence source who requested anonymity, interview with author. 285 Mike Rogers, the chairman: “Congressman Says Snowden Planned Escape to China,” UPI, June 16, 2013. 285 “a known unknown”: Donald Rumsfeld, press conference at NATO headquar- ters, Brussels, Belgium, June 6, 2002. CHAPTER 29 The “War on Terror” After Snowden 287 “Because of a number”: Amy Davidson, “Don’t Blame Edward Snowden for the Paris Attacks,” New Yorker, Nov. 19, 2015. 287 On the evening of: David Gauthier-Villars, “Paris Attacks Show Cracks in France’s Counterterrorism Effort,” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 23, 2015. 289 According to a declassified: Charlie Savage, “NSA D