Epstein Secrets

t Harvey Weinstein" in February, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. "still has not said whether he is seeking re-election." The Times says Vance "remains politically vulnerable: He is facing a growing list of emboldened challengers, including two civil rights lawyers, an assemblyman and a for

testimony from former U.S. Trade Representative / former Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs Michael Froman; former National Security Council Senior Director for European Affairs Dr Karen Donfried; former Office of the Secretary of Defense Principal Director for European and NATO Policy Ra

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

is not known to take no for an answer in issues involving espionage. Even if Snowden refused to furnish his key encryption, accord- ing to a former National Security Council staffer, the Russian cyber service in 2013 had the means, the time, and the incentive to break the encryption. It is unlikely it would have had to go

erview -transcript. 121 Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Edward Jay Epstein, “What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn,” New York Review of Books, Dec. 22, 2011. Vance made his state- ment on the Charlie Rose show, Feb. 19, 2016. 121 Apple made headlines: Mike Isaac, “Apple Still Holds the Keys to Its Cloud Ser- vi

ties”: Chris Strohm and Gopal Ratnam, “NSA Leader Seeks Openness on Secret Surveillance Orders,” Bloomberg News, June 13, 2013. Also, staff member of National Security Council who requested anonymity, interview with author. CHAPTER 18 The Unheeded Warning 185 “The NSA—the world’s”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 287. 185