Epstein Secrets

ll as other personal data. The loss would make it difficult to reconstruct her past activities with Snowden. In Hong Kong, if Snowden were following Lindsay’s online jour- nal, he would have read that his girlfriend had returned home, lost her data, and needed a “reprieve” from the situation in which he h

ght not be totally coincidental. Snowden blamed high officials in the U.S. government who pur- posely “trapped him” in Russia. He told the editor of The Nation, “I’m in exile. My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled” and “chose to keep me in Russia.” He repeated that assertion over

about Snowden’s modeling career comes from his posts on Ars Technica. See Mullin, “NSA Leaker Ed Snowden’s Life on Ars Technica.” 19 Jonathan Mills, Lindsay’s father: Daniel Bates, “Snowden Totally Abandoned His Girlfriend When He Fled amid NSA Revelations, Her Dad Says,” Daily Mail, Jan. 17, 2014. The in

have caused any harm is preemptively dis- missed as government propaganda. Snowden’s word also is taken over that of government officials because, as The Nation explained, Snowden speaks “truth to power.” Such a formulation of distrust allows those who accept it to dismiss all assertions of government officia

ing Lindsay Mills around this time. She was an extremely attractive 19-year old art student at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Jonathan Mills, Lindsay’s father, was an applications developer at the Oracle Corporation. According to him, she met Snowden on an Internet dating site. However they met, Sn

g with the intention of staying in Russia, but that the U.S. government “trapped him” at Moscow’s Airport by revoking his passport. He told editor of The Nation magazine: “I’m in exile. My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled.” He added that the U.S. government “chose to keep me in