Epstein Secrets

the tip of the iceberg. —RETIRED ADMIRAL MICHAEL MCCONNELL, vice-chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton, 2013 | | E

98 PART TWO THE INTELLIGENCE CRISIS What you've seen so far [in the Snowden theft of documents] is just the tip of the iceberg. —RETIRED ADMIRAL MICHAEL MCCONNELL, vice-chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton, 2013 | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 111 @ 9/29/16 5:51PM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019599 | | Epst_978045

electronic key records, e-mails, room service bills, and the CCTV videos of his activities (some of which I published in my article about the case in The New York Review of Books). Nor is this access uncommon. According to Vance in 2016, his office issues thousands of such sub- poenas every year. Even though Apple made headlin

ndd 27 @ 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019515 CHAPTER 3 Contractor Private contractors don’t clear employees. The government does. —ADMIRAL MICHAEL MCCONNELL, former vice-chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton GroNeeN aged twenty-five, returned from Europe and moved into his mother’s condo. Not only was he unempl

an Michael McConnell said with the bene- fit of hindsight. As a result of the theft, he appraised, “an entire gen- eration of intelligence was lost.” McConnell, a former NSA director, was in a position to know. Snowden’s sudden career change had both advantages and disad- vantages for the enterprise he was

nderers, contract killers, inside traders, anarchists, terrorists, and the intelligence services of many countries. Sue Halpern, writing about it in The New York Review of Books, @ noted, “My own forays to the dark Net include visits to sites offer- @ ing counterfeit drivers’ licenses, methamphetamine, a template for a US tw

ion to the direct and significant cost to taxpayers represented by this investiga- tion, one measure of how serious the loss has been was revealed by Michael McConnell, the vice-chairman of the company for which Snowden had worked at the time of the breach. McConnell stated publicly, “Snowden has compromised more ca

serious the loss has been was revealed by Michael McConnell, the vice-chairman of the company for which Snowden had worked at the time of the breach. McConnell stated publicly, “Snowden has compromised more capability than any spy in U.S. history.” McConnell had no obvious reason to exaggerate the @ loss be

ess book for Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. He has writ- ten investigative pieces for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Atlan- tic, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 353 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019841 | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1

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