Epstein Secrets

ved to Pennsylvania with his @ new wife-to-be. This left Snowden with only one male family mem- @ ber in the area, his maternal grandfather, Admiral Barrett, who was now in the top echelon of U.S. intelligence working at the Pentagon. Barrett was there when a plane piloted by terrorists crashed into it on

to justify it. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 DWARD JOSEPH SNOWDEN was born on June 21, 1983, in Eliza- beth City, North Carolina. His parents were Lon Snowden and Elizabeth “Wendy” Barrett. According to their marriage records, they wed when they were both eighteen in 1979. The following year they had a daug

Leonnig, Johnson, and Fisher, “Who Is Edward Snowden?” 17 “I’ve always dreamed”: Mullin, “NSA Leaker Ed Snowden’s Life on Ars Technica.” 17 Admiral Barrett: Coast Guard Biography, http://www.uscg.mil/history/people /Flags/BarrettEBio.pdf. Also, for his FBI career, see http://wwwl.amn.edu /hamanrts/OathBe

nding”: Snowden, interview with Brian Williams, NBC, May 28, 2014. CHAPTER 1 Tinker 15 “It’s like the boiling frog”: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” 15 Lon Snowden, like his father: The best reporting on Snowden’s childhood was done by Suzanne Andrews. See Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowden Saga.” 16 Brad

Edward Snowden was still a child, his grandfather would become not only an admiral but the head of the Coast Guard’s entire aviation service. Admiral Barrett would be the only grandfather, Edward Snowden would ever know. His paternal grandfather died before he was born in a fatal car crash. He had had a dr

you can come to justify it.” —Snowden in Moscow, 2014 Edward John Snowden was born on June 21, 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. His parents, Lon Snowden and Elizabeth “Wendy” Barrett, according to their marriage records, wed when they were both 18 in 1979. The following year they had a daughter, Jessi