Gordon Corera
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Was it an alligator skin couch or was it a couch that looked like an alligator? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe someone can tell us who stayed at the hotel, which faced the back wall of the room and a large mirror. After two minutes, I heard someone come into the room.
Rather than turn around to see who'd entered, I continued to stare at the back wall mirror, which showed a man's reflection walking towards us. Only when he was within a few feet of the couch did I turn around. The first thing I saw was the unsolved Rubik's Cube twirling in the man's left hand. It's not even solved. That's my sin number six. Failing to solve the Rubik's Cube.
Rather than turn around to see who'd entered, I continued to stare at the back wall mirror, which showed a man's reflection walking towards us. Only when he was within a few feet of the couch did I turn around. The first thing I saw was the unsolved Rubik's Cube twirling in the man's left hand. It's not even solved. That's my sin number six. Failing to solve the Rubik's Cube.
Rather than turn around to see who'd entered, I continued to stare at the back wall mirror, which showed a man's reflection walking towards us. Only when he was within a few feet of the couch did I turn around. The first thing I saw was the unsolved Rubik's Cube twirling in the man's left hand. It's not even solved. That's my sin number six. Failing to solve the Rubik's Cube.
You're probably one of those people who does it like that. Anyway, so here's the really interesting thing. And I think this is a really interesting detail is they're shocked by who he is because here is this guy and they had been in their heads for
You're probably one of those people who does it like that. Anyway, so here's the really interesting thing. And I think this is a really interesting detail is they're shocked by who he is because here is this guy and they had been in their heads for
You're probably one of those people who does it like that. Anyway, so here's the really interesting thing. And I think this is a really interesting detail is they're shocked by who he is because here is this guy and they had been in their heads for
expecting someone in their 50s or 60s like a chain smoking you know alcoholic washed up spy as they put it snowden himself says expecting someone with terminal cancer and a guilty conscience and and instead they get basically they look at it they go really It's a young guy in a white T-shirt with some faded lettering. And as Greenwald puts it, jeans and chic nerd glasses.
expecting someone in their 50s or 60s like a chain smoking you know alcoholic washed up spy as they put it snowden himself says expecting someone with terminal cancer and a guilty conscience and and instead they get basically they look at it they go really It's a young guy in a white T-shirt with some faded lettering. And as Greenwald puts it, jeans and chic nerd glasses.
expecting someone in their 50s or 60s like a chain smoking you know alcoholic washed up spy as they put it snowden himself says expecting someone with terminal cancer and a guilty conscience and and instead they get basically they look at it they go really It's a young guy in a white T-shirt with some faded lettering. And as Greenwald puts it, jeans and chic nerd glasses.
With a bit of a kind of goatee and some stubble.
With a bit of a kind of goatee and some stubble.
With a bit of a kind of goatee and some stubble.
So you can see that they're again going like, really? Is this for real?
So you can see that they're again going like, really? Is this for real?
So you can see that they're again going like, really? Is this for real?
I don't know. It's what you'd imagine. Like when you watch All the President's Men and Deep Throat and these things, you know, you always imagine this kind of older guy who's at the end of his career and is unhappy with the way things have gone and who knows all the secrets. Because I guess maybe they're thinking to have access to all these secrets. He's got to be a senior. Senior. Yeah.
I don't know. It's what you'd imagine. Like when you watch All the President's Men and Deep Throat and these things, you know, you always imagine this kind of older guy who's at the end of his career and is unhappy with the way things have gone and who knows all the secrets. Because I guess maybe they're thinking to have access to all these secrets. He's got to be a senior. Senior. Yeah.
I don't know. It's what you'd imagine. Like when you watch All the President's Men and Deep Throat and these things, you know, you always imagine this kind of older guy who's at the end of his career and is unhappy with the way things have gone and who knows all the secrets. Because I guess maybe they're thinking to have access to all these secrets. He's got to be a senior. Senior. Yeah.
And so anyway, they're surprised by it. They exchange the recognition phrase, what time does the restaurant open? At noon, but don't go there. The food sucks, Snowden says. Greenwald actually, according to Luke Harding's book on this, you know, he's a Guardian journalist. He says Greenwald struggled to keep a straight face because he found it all slightly comic.