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Snowden's "Shocked" Girlfriend Takes Down Her Blog, Keeps Flickr Photos Online
The search for more clues about Edward Snowden's life and motivations inevitably led the mainstream media to his longtime girlfriend Lindsay Mills, 28, who until recently described herself as "world-traveling, pole-dancing super hero." Why past tense? Because as of today, her blog, L's Journey, no longer exists. Of course, this being the NSA-controlled internet, there is always a cached (we use the term loosely) version of everything somewhere, and the full blog can be found at the following link.
Of note is the body in the last blog post:
For those of you that know me without my super hero cape, you can probably understand why I’ll be refraining from blog posts for awhile. My world has opened and closed all at once. Leaving me lost at sea without a compass. Surely there will be villainous pirates, distracting mermaids, and tides of change in this new open water chapter of my journey. But at the moment all I can feel is alone. And for the first time in my life I feel strong enough to be on my own. Though I never imagined my hand would be so forced. As I type this on my tear-streaked keyboard I’m reflecting on all the faces that have graced my path. The ones I laughed with. The ones I’ve held. The one I’ve grown to love the most. And the ones I never got to bid adieu. But sometimes life doesn’t afford proper goodbyes. In those unsure endings I find my strength, my true friends, and my heart’s song. A song that I thought had all but died away, when really it was softly singing all along. I don’t know what will happen from here. I don’t know how to feel normal. But I do know that I am loved, by myself and those around me. And no matter where my compass-less vessel will take me, that love will keep me buoyant.
The WaPo, which was one of the two outlets tracking the PRISM-gate fallout, has put together what little is known of her narrative.
Edward Snowden, the government contractor who leaked documents revealing a top-secret government surveillance program, was so cautious and distant that even his girlfriend of eight years referred to him as “my man of mystery.”
For a 29-year-old who made his living in the digital world, Snowden has left remarkably few online traces. But as reclusive and private as he was, his longtime girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, 28, who moved with him to Hawaii last year, was outgoing and expressive. Writing in a blog that has vanished from public view, Mills, a native of Laurel, told of having to “kidnap” Snowden and “force a little adventure” on him to get him to join friends on a hike to a waterfall.
Mills’s blog, “Lsjourney,” in which she described herself as a “world-traveling, pole-dancing superhero,” was publicly viewable after Snowden announced Sunday that he was the source of leaks to The Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper about the surveillance programs, but the blog had been taken down by early Tuesday.
Friends of Mills confirmed that she wrote the blog and that the boyfriend she refers to as “E” was Edward Joseph Snowden. Mills, who moved to Honolulu with Snowden, graduated from Laurel High School in Maryland in 2003 and from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2007.
In her postings, she described swing dancing and pole dancing at venues in Hawaii, and being alone for two weeks starting in late March because Snowden was headed to the mainland for a two-week business trip.
Friends said Mills was completely unaware of Snowden’s decision to leak classified records detailing surveillance programs through which the United States collects reams of e-mails, phone records and electronic data.
“I just talked to her,” said a friend of Mills’s in Hawaii. “I know she didn’t have any idea.”
Mills did not respond to messages left on her home phone or cellphone. Efforts to reach her father, mother and stepfather also were unsuccessful.
However, as the saying goes, one picture is worth a thousand words. So we have managed to track down quite a few pictures. Of Lindsay that is, courtesy of her all too public Flickr profile (it appears her boyfriend did not warn her about posting too much of yourself online).
So while Lindsay may not share her (ex-)boyfriend's distrust of the internet and documenting every facet of your life on it, all we can say is Edward had very good taste.
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I would take care of her in his absence
While I advocate the yoga, one should be able to tell the difference between the pole and the dancer. I'm afraid she wouldn't get a rise out of mr miffed who (thank god for me) prefers the voluptuous over the rail thin. Too each his own.
Miffed;-)
Link to pictures?
Ha ha very cute. Thank god for me they're all Polaroid. Haven't seen those naughty things in years. Hmmm. Can you digitize Polaroids? Oh dear god and I married a nerd. WTF was I thinking! Obviously that was the problem. So this is what happens when you combine some frilly words with scotch. We women never learn and you horny dogs are persistently prowling!
Miffed;-)
Wow... I'd give up a few things to "out the truth". But, damn. I wouldn't give her up. I would just let people continue believing the fairtales.
She looks like a year 17 year old dude. Gross. I need some meat on my bones.
+1 I like a little bun for my pickle too. Nothing sexy about bones jamming me back. y.
Some people will do anything to get noticed............
fapp'able
She's shocked. Shocked!
And probably hungry. Eat something, girl!
I'd fuck it......
Another piece by desillusioned Jeffrey Goldberg, I urge all zerohedgers to rebutt his crazy rant in the comments section, I will do that as soon as I get off school.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-12/what-conor-friedersdorf-misunderstands-about-terrorism.html
fascism in turkey keeps growing :
CBC reporters Sasa Petricic and Derek Stoffel have been detained by police in Turkey amid ongoing protests in the country.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/06/12/cbc-correspondents-detain...
Canadians trying to introduce hockey in a Muslim country should be arrested.
Who wants to see Dearborn Mich. go all 'Al-Qaida on Ice' ?
Hey hoser, we call that the 'high-stickin hajj"
:D
How do you say you reap what you sow, in Turk?
Broads like her are a dime a dozen
He'll like the "professional dancers" in HK much better
except for the price tag, maybe. damn, the pretty ones are expensive.
Shit I would of left for Hong Kong if she lived there too.
Girlfriend and the stories about her is Exhibit A of how dangerous hindsight intelligence gathering and investigationare. You have some "normal" person saying and writing stuff not because they believed/thought them through but because they sound nice and smart. Probably just plagiarized from somewhere else.
Enter an event that demands scrutiny of said person's life and everything they said/did will be viewed from that perspective. I think Taleb's Black Swan hindsight pitfall applies to this as well.
I'm going to be a mini-hero, stept up, and reveal that this thread has an abundance of classless assholes. You know who you are.
It's not just this thread. We are a nation "led" by classless assholes so how do you expect the followers to behave. We can't really do anything than find humor and make snarky comments. The authority made sure of that.
+1
I feel right at home.
Hey, what'd I miss?
pods
She obviously knows her way around a pole.
It's unfortunate that ZH felt a need post this non story. Would it be gracing these pages if there were no bikini shot of her? Somehow...I doubt it.
Unfortunately for Snowden the country is going to move on in about a week (and nothing will have changed) and so will his then former girlfriend while he will still be holed up in a safe house somewhere.
What she worried about she is now a star, probably get a hollywood job!
Snowden can kiss that shit goodbye. Hell, she's probably already getting banged out by some hippie(s) in CA.
Don't worry about him, he's in Hong Kong.
" Show me the most beautiful woman in the world and Ill show you a guy who's tired of fucking her."
"When you're in love with a beautiful Woman"
Dr. Hook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxpYN-NK54Y
"You know that it's crazy,you wanna trust her,
Then somebody hangs up when you answer the phone."
Just remember, no matter how hot she is some man some place is tired of putting up with her fucking shit.
Love isn't how much you care for someone, rather it is how much of their shit you are willing to tolerate.
what if they are constipated?
I'd like to test that theory on Irina Shayk.
Vice versa and plus ca change!
Her deleted blog
http://web.archive.org/web/20130418231028/http://www.lsjourney.com/
Sense of loss
Blog, March 29: "Rendezvous with E on the east coast and make it back in time to move; pack the house and forego seeing E for a month."
When E is gone, Blog, April 3:
"Flight was the theme of my weekend. Okay, who am I kidding? Flight is the theme of nearly all my recent days. Maybe I just have hollow bones! E flew off Saturday evening giving me six hours to kill before I had to pick up DucatiD from the airport. Luckily Hawaii has good food and friends to pass the time. With E soaring through the sky and friends dropped off, I snuggled to sleep in my empty home."
The rudimentary psych I know states that keeping him nameless, irregardless of nickname, means she cared little for him. She seems like your typical pretentious American girl. I suspect an E! Network show soon. My wife will prolly watch it and ask what movie she's been in....
Well that's got to be the most depressing comment I've read in a while. Maybe most women have descended into a world of vacuous thoughts, purposeless lives and mindnumbing entertainment. I don't know, I don't get out much. Is it beauty x brains= a constant? Sometimes I feel embarrassed being a women here.
Miffed;-)
who is the photographer
$122,000......Hawaii......and this chick ???
I am keeping it........Hopefully my honesty, does not offend too many here at ZH
Yes, i know the steak isnt real, but .......
You wouldnt prefer to be hunted down like a rabid dog in a alien society with no status?
Whats wrong with you?
A guy sees a girl at a club. He walks up to her and says "you are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen and I don't want to beat around the bush. I'll give you one million dollars to sleep with me" She says "A million dollars?" he replies "yes. In cash. Right now. How about it?" She considers it for a moment and decides "Ok. For a million dollars. Sure, I'll sleep with you" Then the guy says "Actually, I've only got ten bucks. Can we fuck for ten bucks?" She freaks out and says "What the fuck do you think I am?" To which the guy responds "We've already established what you are, now we're just negotiating the price".
You know what I mean?
One of my old pick up lines in college used to be "Hey, nice legs! What time they open?"
I used to walk down the street in San Francisco and ask pretty women if they wanted to fuck. Sometimes I'd get slapped but sometimes I'd get laid. So the dudes that think you are full of shit should rethink.
Memories of days of wine n roses :
I used to walk down the streets of Copenhagen or Malmo and the women would come up to me and say : How would I like to be fucked by you ? in bed, in the car or in the grass, any place every place. As long as it takes place, heart throbbingly earth moving.
Sometimes I would slap them to orgasm, sometimes I would talk them to spasmodic swooning of wet titted sighs, sometimes I would walk them to shimmering hip churning, amaze them into widening slow moving surrender of arched incandescent thighs. I never needed to fuck them as they were already high at the sight of my eyes.
Not bad for a fool who coudn't hide his glowing tool from his twinkling eyes.
What's that done to the Dow? Has it made the Jones keep up with the Smiths?
I believe, if it's too good to be true, it isn't.
I saw what you did there...........
Saw what you did there-Boxxy disco remix
The recruitment aspect of this op is going to be very successful!
ummm hmmm hmmmm... yes, very nice speed racer!
Why is there no post yet for some actual news?
http://www.c-span.org/flvPop.aspx?id=10737440020
Behind most patriots is a Goddess woman, with beauty and life energy that reminds a man sufficiently what is good and just in this world, enough to risk all to defend it.
What?
And then there's the Tsarnaev's mother.
That is one crazy thought.
Holy preessure cookers!
Damn! The units could be fixed for 6k. As for all you other haters, kiss my ass. In the end, this guy made a huge sacrifice for freedom. Yeah, I'm waiting for Morpheus to show up at my house one day. They need another 65 yr -old guy in prison. Ala sa what? That should get their attention...................
The units are perfect, dont you dare "fix" them!
When the time comes that some lucky guy (hopefully Mr. Snowden) makes her with child, they will expand to fulfill their function. For now, they and she are statuesquely perfect.
I would imagine he told her to deny knowing anything once the shit hit the fan.
And it is good is is far away from his loved ones so they cannot be accused of hear boring a fugitive.
Meanwhile, for a performing artist, any publicity is good publicity.
If he cared even a little about her (or himself), he would've kept her in the dark about his job and this affair...
Our illustriously impartial MSM is letting us know far more about Snowden, his life, his background and whom/what he has fucked that it has about obama. Wonder why that is.
Because Snowden didn't seal all his records by executive order as his first action in orofice... or some such shiot like that.
Oh, gosh.
That didn't answer why that is, did it?
Nevermind...
If Snowden is in Hong Kong right now, I'm in Kazakstan.
Someone may have been using Snowden's credit card, but it was not Snowden.
The kid may be brave, but he certainly does not want a hood over his head and a free plane ride stateside.
And now the alphabets get to play the game, "Where in the World is Snowden?"
Best.
I can see the red & white striped shirt now
I'd slip her a $5 in a g string. Personally, I like a little more bounce for the buck, but lean and mean is ok too.
She could use the money for a course in creative writing.
For all you sensitive types I'll say this about a public webpage: The whole point of it is to be seen...get it?
ZH didn't hack a private account or go in her underwear drawer.
I'm beginning to think Snowden himself is an NSA op.
Time for a pole shift....
And some solar flares...
Now these are the kinds of posts we need more of!
"...he had very good taste."
lots of possibilities there.
To keep this at least somewhat above the misogynistic, I can only say Bond always gets the beauties.
Wait, that totally wasn't, but it's the shitty level of Huffpo and MSM commentary. (*Major Eye Roll Going Down*).
I suspect however, unlike Snowden, she's hiding at least a PhD and her physique suggests she'd be a great MMA fighter. And I bet her craftwork is good enough to totally fool anyone into thinking she's a stripper, because men are easily manipulated.
The DERP is strong in this thread. I suspect he wrote a note because he grew up learning the lessons of Total Recall.
MMA fighters look like anorexic ballerinas who can be snapped with 2 fingers? Interesting.
Sorry to disappoint your predictable preconceptions but I'm really not interested in her looks except insofar as they confirm what the text suggests - that she would not give Snowden the time of day, and he wouldn't know what to do with her.
No mention of this glaring disparity from you, when the quoted excerpt itself makes direct reference to their incompatibility.
A midlevel computer-heavy deskjob at Booz-Allen a James Bond does not one make.
you missed the sarcasm. totally rolled off you. wow!
I'm getting the feeling you're not a native speaker, you seem unable to parse the basic rhetorical devices. The lack of a sense of humor also suggests a Teutonic bent. The lack of imagination suggests an accountant or bank worker.
This is for you.
p.s. I obviously sexually excite you, you follow me around like a dog, and when given good answers skulk off to sniff around another day, without saying thankyou or acknowledging them. Whatever gets you off, Big Boy, but you're one rude cunt. - So no more soup for you, ever!
Lady Marmalades has an opening for you....and a new pad
Looks like she's about to flatline it.
Something is not right. The pics are too professional. The blog too ethereal. The Hong Kong thing a bit too puzzling. Seems as though there may be more to this than what we see on the surface. Spy vs. spy within? Spy vs. foreign spy? Maybe it just is what it is. Will be interesting to see how it plays out - assuming we ever know.
I'm thinking that there's a power shuffle going on at the NSA/USGovt. Someone is consolidating by marginalizing their opposition. Booz Allen Hamilton and the Obama administration were just made fools on the world stage. Obama is done politically.
After all is said and done, The NSA will continue to spy on us all and collate info.
I agree. There is obviously a coup. Just will be a question of whether we careen towards despotism, fascism, authoritarian rule or totalitarianism. So many evil ways to rule....so little time.
> Just will be a question of whether we careen towards despotism, fascism, authoritarian rule or totalitarianism.
I bet it will be the one that sucks the worst for the most people possible to keep a few people feeling "safe".
All Out Of Bubblegum, why don't you have Roddy Piper in your avatar?
Booz Allen Hamilton and the Obama administration were just made fools ...
Booz Allen Hamilton is owned by the Carlyle Group. Check out who the major players in the Carlyle Group are - including the Bush and Bin-Laden families.
worry not...
you'll know what you're supposed to know
when you're supposed to know it
carry on.
considering how much money her boyfriend made I'm sure she could afford a good camera and maybe even learn how to set the shutter speed & white balance so the pictures looked good.
Believe it or not professional photographers are only "above" others who are not stupid by spending giant stupid amounts of money on special lenses for close-ups or far distance, or if they develop on film.
For the rest of us good photos are entirely possible if you're not a dumb murrikin redneck.
You have to give it to 'americans', they love their story.
A world travelling pole dancer super hero. Nothing less.
Man, how much they are going to sell their story to cable tv...
For 'AnAnonymystics', there is no other way but to tell that reminding all that is like telling nothing is somehow very something due to their supercify expressed crustiness.
Maybe time to grow a decency.
http://uberhumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/36gow.gif
The closer to the bone the sweeter the meat.
Will you old farts get off the pole dancing hang-up? Apparently pole dancing is the latest in workout routines.
She was a ballerina before that, which explains the lack of weight and definition.
Who knows, she just might not be a lady for hire, you old fuddy duddy child molester wannabees
I'd tell her to eat a few burgers but I reckon she's the kind of girl who'd be in the bog 30 minutes later trying to puke it all up.
Ooops sorry you beat me to it re: my comment below.
Kinky....
Will he now find himself a HK girlfriend? Would that be better ? ...
It's all pink in the middle!
LOL
That's not quite the line....
You don't find a HK girlfriend, they find you, and yes they are better
flat chested bimbo
"more than a mouthful is wasted . . ."
the blog may be down but not gone. Still on Archive.org
http://web.archive.org/web/20130418231028/http://www.lsjourney.com/
There is a video too!
Hold on one second... They have been together for 8 years... What is stopping that girl from like.. FLYING TO HK and giving him MORAL SUPPORT. WTF is wrong with her ?
What's wrong with her? trading up to an investment banker I'd say.
There is no M in ORAL.
Oh there can be!
If she's old enough to take out All her teeth, she takes a mouthfull of KY and gums him... called a munchie
:D
giggity giggity google!
http://www.doeball.com/giggity.jpg
nice body but her face is busted
What was an archetypical white-collar computer nerd doing with her? Using his NSA/Booz Allen salary to pay for arm-candy? Forgive me if to me she doesn't seem particularly (read at all, in any way, whatsoever) actually, in the least, perturbed or disturbed by breaking up with him. The level of self-indulgence and self-obsession would make Jamie fucking Dimon blush.
And she was with this mild-mannered nerd? I just don't see the attraction, or the reward. I'm sure she's a Really Very Nice Person(tm) beneath the 10-foot thick steel-reinforced shameless self-promotion, who really did love him for who he was.
And Ben Bernanke isn't knowingly manipulating equity markets.
and she was banging him because he had a high paying gig at the NSA.
She could afford a few cheeseburgers.
@pupton HAHAHA , wouldn't be the first time a woman is at the source of world changing events !
It's tough today for a third grade girl not to start dressing for the pole, whether private or more public. The ho-society dominance game ginned-up all 'round with fake get-rich-quick stories. Grow up but stay alert for we are but bait other than wise.
Can we add "ho-ciety" to the Urban dictionary?
+1
Skinny, keeps hiding her face because she doesn't have a good side, "arty".
Seems to be in love with herself. Did she notice he was gone for weeks? When, after the story broke?
Do not be distracted. The story is about government spying on innocent people. Forget the fluff of this page, there are serious problems coming.
Jesus....narcisistic much? Look at me!! *STOMPS FEET LIKE PETULANT 4-YEAR-OLD* Look at me, goddamn you!!!"
I'm not surprised that she took the blog down as she's clearly a vacuous idiot. I'm also not suprised she left the Flickr intact as she is vacuous idiot.
I just want to know if anyone has seen her in the last few days? Perhaps someone already knows that she knew something she wasn’t supposed to know and she has been, uh, disappeared.
The girl has a great set of stems for sure.
"Snowden'd" a new term derived from the website Zeroghedge.com describing a gentlemen being; a) patriotic, and b) having a hot girlfriend.
"I'd rather be 'Snowden'd' than 'Corzined'...ect
Too boney for my liking. I think I'd go hide in HK also.
I wonder if she is on Twitter... studies have shown Twitter users believe themselves to be "sexier" and "better in bed" than SpyBook users.
Jeez! What a bunch of judgmental prudes in this thread!
Who knows? Maybe superheroes both. One certainly is.
How about some benevolence folks. Live and let live.
I almost never call out the gender card when commenting on posts onZH but this pushed me a bit.
1. This is a distraction
2. He is actually a good looking guy who seems to have some morals. Sorry all you fat fucks who work on wall street and eat too much for lunch.
3. Lots of women have been doing poll dancing for years as exercise - it is really hard - try it.
4. Distraction ...
"For a 29-year-old who made his living in the digital world, Snowden has left remarkably few online traces."
Most stupid remark of the day since people who have lived in the digital world whole their live know the dangers all too well.
So the sentence must be: For a 29-year-old who made his living in the digital world, Snowden obviously left few online traces.
I don't like her.
She should be pretty well set after a book deal and a Playboy Centerfold session.