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

to the crime scene: the NSA’s base in Hawaii. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 133 @ 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019621 CHAPTER 14 The Crime Scene Investigation Any private contractor, not even an employee of the government, could walk into the NSA building, take whatever they wanted, and walk out with it an

Instead of asking them to “throw off their chains,” as Marx did, he asked them to send clas- sified documents about secret government activity to the WikiLeaks site. Snowden, as a “sys admin,” was aware he had the power to do so. He recalled in Moscow in 2014, “I actually recommended they [the NSA] move to t

histle-blower 88 CHAPTER 11 Enter Assange 98 CHAPTER 12 Fugitive 104 part two THE INTELLIGENCE CRISIS CHAPTER 13 The Great Divide 113 cuapter 14 The Crime Scene Investigation 133 | | Epst_9780451494566_2p all_r1.z.indd 9 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019487 9/29/16 5:51PM | | x | Contents CHAPTER 15 Did Snowden Act Alone? 146 cart

nly one door”: Gotta, e-mail exchange with author. 250 “A special operation”: Gridasov, Yavlyansky, and Gorkovskaya, “Secret Services in Moscow with WikiLeaks Conducted Operation Snowden.” 251 “If they [the U.S. government]”: Vanden Heuvel and Cohen, “Snowden Speaks.” 251 Overa hundred reporters: Irina Ga

3, 2013. 131 “had an enormous interest”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 284. 131 the Enigma machines: Sebag-Montefiore, Enigma, 286-94. CHAPTER 14 The Crime Scene Investigation 133 “Any private contractor”: Snowden, interview with Williams. 133 Fifteen miles northwest: U.S. Navy Information Operations Command, “History @ of