Epstein Secrets

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n rebels was made against the advice of his top national secur=ty officials at that time, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, CIA Director David Petraeus, Joint Chi=fs Chairman Martin Dempsey, and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. His las=-minute decision in August 2013 not to strike Syria after its

0451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 294 @ 9/30/16 11:09 AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019782 The “War on Terror” After Snowden | 295 secretly briefed on in 2009. Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Sen- ate Select Committee, pointed out with privileged knowledge that it saved “subway cars stuffed to the gunwales with people”; R

nment of intelligence workers found guilty of passing classified information to journalists is the extraordinary case of the ex- CIA director General David Petraeus. Petraeus had given classified information from his personal notebooks to his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell. Although none of this informa

litical leaders in both parties could also be found on the anti-Snowden side of the divide. “T don’t look at this as being a whistle-blower.” Senator Dianne Feinstein (D. - Calif.), the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said after she was briefed on Snowden's theft of documents. "I think it’s an act of tre

e needed to immediately encrypt his computer. To make his point, he cited Greenwald’s own November 12, 2012 blog. In it, Greenwald noted that General David Petraeus, then the CIA director, had been caught in a minor sex scandal because his personal emails had been intercepted, Snowden wrote Greenwald that Petraeu