Epstein Secrets

. The AP (7/6) reports Britain on Monday announced economic sanctions against "individuals and organizations from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and North Korea under new U.K. powers to punish human rights offenders." Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the sanctions targeted those behind "some of the notor

providing material support to terrorists." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (7/6, 895K) reports that the alleged plot "was thwarted by the FBI and the U.S. Army in late May, according to the department, and the FBI arrested Melzer on June 10." Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss for the Southern District of

e countries had stopovers in a country that was an ally of the United States, where officials could seize Snowden. The three excep- tions were China, North Korea (via China), and Russia. The only one of these three countries that Snowden is known to have had contact with directly during his thirty-three-day s

ent employees who, as a matter of personal conscience, shared classified informa- tion they obtained from the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, and the U.S. Army with journalists. They were all convicted: Sha- mai Leibowitz in 2010, Chelsea Manning in 2013, John Kiriakou in 2013, Donald Sachtleben in 2013, Ste

ations Center in Oahu. It employed threat analysts to surrep- titiously monitor the secret activities of potential enemies, mainly China, Russia, and North Korea. A large part of their job was to make transparent to the United States the hostile activities of the Russian and Chinese services so that they posed

ly, a cipher, in which numbers are sub- stituted for letters. Making and breaking codes and ciphers became a crucial enterprise for nations. By 1914, the U.S. Army and Navy @ had set up units, staffed by mathematicians, linguists, and crossword @ puzzle solvers, to intercept and decode enemy messages. After the