--- title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019815)" source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" sourceUrl: "https://www.justice.gov/epstein" date: "2026-01-01" category: "House Oversight" eftaNumber: "HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019815" ocrPages: 1 ocrChars: 2462 ocrElapsed: 0.0 parseTier: "external-legacy" engine: "engine undisclosed (ep-nov-12.greg.technology mirror)" externalSource: "greg-ep-nov-12" externalLicense: "not granted" externalCredit: "ep-nov-12.greg.technology" externalUrl: "https://ep-nov-12.greg.technology" --- 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 had a special level": Snowden and Taylor, "Are You a Traitor?" 277 "You should remain anonymous" : Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, "Snowden 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 "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." 32 Pelton, tor example: Victor Cherkashin, interview with autho "This debriefing could not": Intelligence source who requested anonmit 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 Discloses Inspector General Report," New York Times, Feb. 16, 2016. 289 "the number one source": "NSA Slides Explain the PRISM Data-Collection Pro- gram," Washington Post, June 6, 2013. 290 according to the testimony: Ellen Nakashima, "Officials: Surveillance Programs Foiled More Than 50 Terrorist Plots," Washington Post, June 18, 2013. Details of four of the plots were then released by the House Select Committee on Intelligence, Epst_9780451494566_ 2p_all_r1.indd 327 9/30/16 8:13 AM | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019815