Epstein Secrets

also finance and release Mediastan. This sponsorship suggests that the Russian government saw potential value in the document-gathering activities of WikiLeaks. Snowden telephoned Assange at his refuge at the Ecuador embassy on June 10, 2013. According to Assange, Snowden needed help for his exit plan. He w

| | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 98 @ 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019586 CHAPTER 11 Enter Assange Thanks to Russia (and thanks to WikiLeaks), Snowden remains free. —JULIAN ASSANGE, Newsweek, 2015 ULIAN ASSANGE had made a brilliant career of trafficking in state, military, and corporate

athrow, where British authorities detained him and temporarily took the thumb drive from him. Poitras had written out the password for Greenwald, and Miranda kept it with the thumb drive. The Brit- ish copied the contents and shared them with the NSA. As a result, the NSA discovered that Snowden had only g

is copy was corrupted. But Poitras still had her digital copy of whatever stolen documents Snowden had distributed to them. So Greenwald dis- patched Miranda from Rio to Berlin to get a copy of Poitras’s thumb drive. On the return trip, Miranda’s plane stopped at Heathrow, where British authorities detaine

ir IP addresses. Since Wikileaks did not know the identity of their sources, they could not be legally compelled to reveal them. "Tor's importance to WikiLeaks cannot be overstated," Assange said in an interview with Ro/ling Stone in 2010. Indeed without the anonymity provided by its TOR software, Wikileaks

ned at Heathrow Airport by British Authorities under Schedule Seven of Britain’s Terrorism Act. At the time, as British intelligence presumably knew, Miranda was acting as a courier for Greenwald and Poitras. According to Greenwald’s account, Snowden had given both him and Poitras identical copies of the N

E. I he had previously lied to the. about the $50,000, took posse counting it. Rodriguez was then detai Proceedings, Title 18, U.S. Co tioned. After Miranda warning Rodriguez waived his rights a those rights. Rodriguez admiti and book in his possession an to local law enforcement or th HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_0

drew had had his troubles already—with shady feal estate deals, sticky romances, highly embarrassing docu- ment dumps (courtesy of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks), and 222 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022030 --- PAGE BREAK --- James PATTERSON questionable ties to Tunisian oligarchs, corrupt presidents of former Soviet