Epstein Secrets

multibillion dollar armada of sensors and other apparatus for intercepting signals missed such a massive military operation. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal that cited Pentagon sources, Russian units had managed to hide all electronic traces of its elaborate preparations. If so, after more than a half-cen

mestic Surveillance Under Obama.” Along with it was the FISA warrant to Verizon. The PRISM story broke hours later in the Washington Post. Written by Gellman and Poitras, it claimed that the NSA and FBI were tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S, Internet companies which were knowin

e name and provided his credit card, but he was he in contact with three high-profile journalists, two well-known hacktavists and, as he suggested to Gellman, a foreign diplomatic mission. Even if Snowden had failed to persuade the Washington Post to publish a coded identifier, the mission’s interest would

n Despite Concerns About Resume Discrepancies.” Reuters, June 20, 2013. King, Rachael. “Ex-NSA Chief Details Snowden’s Hiring at Agency, Booz Allen.” Wall Street Journal, Feb. 4, 2014. Lam, Lana. “Whistle-Blower Edward Snowden Talks to the South China Morning Post,” South China Morning Post, June 23, 2013. Lee, Micah.

”: Shils, Torment of Secrecy. 47 “|The elites] know everything”: Roy, “Edward Snowden Meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack.” 47 “What do you think”: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Rev- elations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” 48 violate U.S. espionage laws: Michael Hayden, interview wit

995 15. “There are no rivers...”—Michael Hayden interview in Wall Street Journal. Gerald Baker, “Michael Hayden Says U.S. Is Easy Prey for Hackers,” Wall Street Journal June 22, 2015 16. “The best defense in this...”—Author’s interview with Source B/ “Meanwhile, it had become...”—NMorell. op. cit. p. xv HOUSE_OVER

ed rendezvous with a journalist. As previously mentioned, when he left Hong Kong not a single journalist had agreed to meet him in Hong Kong. Indeed, Gellman considered Hong Kong, as he put it, “in the jurisdiction of a country that’s unfriendly to the United States,” and notified Snowden that he would not