Epstein Secrets

ation." Trump's lawyers have "said the grand jury subpoena for the tax returns was issued in bad faith and amounted to harassment of the president." Vance "has disclosed little about what prompted him to request the records, other than part of the investigation relates to payoffs to women to keep them

l with the Taliban." The AP also reports "the peace accord aims to recruit the Taliban to battle the militants from IS, which US officials have told The Associated Press is the Americans' biggest foe in Afghanistan." The AP describes the Taliban and ISIS as "staunch rivals." Reuters (8/3, Sultan, Sediqi) reports Afg

ttorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.'s treatment of him. The Times's Jan Ransom reports: "During a hearing in 2011, a seasoned sex-crimes prosecutor from Mr. Vance's office argued forcefully in court that Mr. Epstein, who had been convicted in Florida of soliciting an underage EFTA00044385 prostitute, should

Force general tapped as the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of sexual misconduct. From the AP's Lolita C. Baldor: "The officer told The Associated Press that Gen. John Hyten subjected her to a series of unwanted sexual advances by kissing, hugging and rubbing up against her in 2017 while she was one

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 headlines by refusing to comply with a court order to hel

y documents. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2013 A CRITICAL MISSING PIECE in the Snowden enigma is the where- abouts of the NSA documents. Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA constituted “the instruction manual for how the NSA is built” and that they “would allow someb