Epstein Secrets

ted for his fantasy games. It was bur- nished so deeply in his self-image that he cited it eight years later, in exaggerated fashion, in Moscow. When Brian Williams, then an NBC anchorman, began an hour-long television interview with Snowden in 2014 by saying, “It seems to me spies probably look a lot more like E

hat base, who had fled to Hong Kong before the breach was discovered. According to a three-count criminal com- plaint filed by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Vir- ginia, Snowden had stolen government property and violated the Espionage Act by the unauthorized and willful communication of national defens

019795 308 | Notes to pages 8-23 8 appointment with Robert Tibbo: Tibbo, interviews with author. 11-12 “angel descending”: 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 reporti

n’s U.S. passport was revoked on June 22, 2013,” after the Justice Department unsealed the charges that had been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on June 14, 2013. “The Consul General in Hong Kong confirmed Hong Kong authorities were notified that Mr. Snowden’s passport was revoked

the time. Snowden had little concern about misleading journalists when it suited his purpose. For example, he told Alan Rusbridger of the Guardian, Brian Williams of NBC News, James Bamford of Wired Magazine, Katrina vanden Heuvel of the Nation, Barton Gellman of the Washington Post and Jane Mayer of Zhe New Yo

11 Hong Kong. Sarah Harrison arrives in Hong Kong to work behind-the-scenes to assist Snowden. June 14, 2013, Washington D.C. Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia, file a three- count criminal complaint against Snowden charging him with theft of government documents, unauthorized communication of na