Epstein Secrets

ial campaign. Additional reporting on the story was provided by Fox News (02/15, Betz, Singman), HuffPost (02/15, Delaney), Washington Post (02/15, Barrett), CBS News (02/15, Legare, Brown), CNN (02/15, Rabinowitz, Perez, Cohen), New York Times (02/15, Thrush), Bloomberg (02/15, Farrell), Axios (02/15,

es (02/15, Thrush), Bloomberg (02/15, Farrell), Axios (02/15, Falconer), ABC News (02/15, Mallin, Scott, et al.), NBC News (02/15, Reilly, Grumbach, Fitzpatrick), USA Today (02/15, Garrison), Rolling Stone (02/15, Ramirez), The Daily Beast (02/15, Fiallo), The Guardian (02/15, Staff Writer), Washington Times

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

ryption to obscure their messages. Their goal is to free their movements “of any interference from law-enforcement.” In this mind-set, accord- ing to Fitzpatrick, “they believe government intelligence agencies will stop at nothing to stop them from absolute encryption.” Tor software was a means to defeat the

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

Also see Julian Assange, intro- duction to Underground, by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2012). 51 Tor was a creation: Fitzpatrick, Privacy for Me and Not for Thee, pt. 6. 52 “the state is all-powerful”: Fitzpatrick, introduction to ibid. 53 “Meet the Most Dangerous Man”: Appel

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

yption to obscure their messages. Their goal is free their movements from “of any interference from law-enforcement.” In this mind- set, according to Fitzpatrick, “They believe government intelligence agencies will stop at nothing to stop them from absolute encryption.” TOR software was a means to defeat the