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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019583)" |
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| Whistle-blower | 95 |
| the NSA "to wiretap anyone, even the president," the press largely |
| accepted his claims as established facts. As for American surveillance, |
| he declared, "I don't want to live in a society that does those sorts of |
| things." |
| The Guardian story accompanying the video carried the headline |
| "Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveil- |
| lance Revelations." Overnight, Snowden became a global celebrity |
| and, to much of the world, a hero. |
| The next morning he packed his belongings into a backpack and |
| moved, without notifying the front desk, to another room Poitras |
| had rented at the Mira. Complicated schemes, especially when they |
| involve transferring state secrets to unauthorized parties in a for- |
| eign country, do not necessarily go as planned. That was true of |
| Snowden's escape plan. Snowden had no plan to stay put and face |
| the music. On the morning of June 10, though, there was apparently |
| a problem. Robert Tibbo and Jonathan Man, the lawyers who, along |
| with Albert Ho, had been retained for Snowden by an unidentified |
| party, received an emergency phone call early in the morning tell- |
| ing them to help Snowden move to a safe location. Although Tibbo |
| would not identify the person who had called, the message had been |
| relayed to Man and him through Ho's office. When Tibbo called |
| Snowden offering to help him move, Snowden told him, "I can make |
| myself unrecognizable." |
| Tibbo and Man immediately proceeded to the mall adjacent to |
| the Mira hotel, where they met Snowden. After he signed a docu- |
| ment appointing Ho's law firm as his "legal adviser," the three of |
| them slipped out via the mall exit. Tibbo and Man planned to move |
| Snowden to the apartments of refugees who were their clients. |
| Snowden's credit card had been frozen, so it is not clear who |
| paid his sizable hotel bill. According to hotel records, it was paid |
| by another credit card. Poitras, who had taken a room at the hotel, |
| might have used her own credit card, or Snowden might have had |
| another benefactor in Hong Kong. In any case, the lawyers escorted |
| Snowden to a prearranged residence. |
| "I am in a safe house for now," Snowden wrote to Greenwald on |
| June 11. The situation might not have been totally under his control, |
| because he added, "But I have no idea how safe it is." |
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