Epstein Secrets

the press by an administration already girded for combat. How depressing to look back on those days and see not just the obvious -- Douglas Feith, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice; those who promised America would be "greeted as liberators" (Cheney), and who threatened nuclear "mushroom clouds" (

onald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz suggested the war could be done on the cheap and that it would largely pay for itself. In October 2003, Rumsfeld told a press conference about President Bush's request for $21 billion for Iraq and Afghan reconstruction that "the $20 billion the president reque

lly in Chicago, said he didn't oppose all wars, just the "dumb" ones. They are joined by the small cadre of allies in print — the Washington Post's Walter Pincus, the national security bureau of Knight- Ridder -- who dared to doubt the mise en place of intelligence being hand-delivered to the press by an admi

, neither it nor its allies were able to find a trace of Snowden during that time. It was, in a phrase made famous by the former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, “a known unknown.” Just as likely he could have been staying in a well-prepared safe house anywhere in Hong Kong or even at the home of an unknown a

famous by the former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, “a known unknown.” Just as likely he could have

Guardian’ Journalist: Snowden Docs Contain NSA ‘Blueprint,’ ” USA Today, June 15, 2013. 168 a heart attack: Citizenfour. 168 “keys to the kingdom”: Walter Pincus, “Snowden Still Holding ‘Keys to the Kingdom,’ ” Washington Post, Dec. 18, 2013. Also, Ledgett interview, 60 Minutes, CBS, Dec. 15, 2013. | | Epst_9

made famous by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. “A known unknown.” Yet there HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_02

CCTV cameras, neither it, nor its allies, were able to find a trace of Snowden. It was, in a phrase later made famous by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. “A known unknown.” Yet there HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020371 220 provided no basis to speculate that he was in mainland China. He could have been staying

p.3 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020414 263 14. “Russia had dispatched at least...”.—Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, (Doubleday, New York) 2007, pp.450-451. Also, Walter Pincus, “CIA passed bogus news to presidents,” Washington Post, October 31, 1995 15. “There are no rivers...”—Michael Hayden interview in Wall Street Journ