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“Unless one is willing to believe that the Putin regime acted out of purely altruistic motives in exfiltrating this American intelligence worker to Moscow, the only plausible explanation for its actions in Hong Kong was that it recognized Snowden’s potential as an espionage source.”
― How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
― How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings when his father had been speaking. There had been a hideous sense of inevitable disaster, and no possible way to stop it. There”
― Point of No Return
― Point of No Return
“He was speaking more rapidly and confidently and suddenly Charles understood that he was cutting the cloth to fit his faults, as everyone did at some time or other.”
― Point of No Return
― Point of No Return
“would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities.”
― How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
― How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
“It’s so much easier when one faces facts, but then all life is largely based on an avoidance of fact, and I admit I try to avoid them. I”
― Point of No Return
― Point of No Return
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