Epstein Secrets

n dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. In late 2003, Berger was called to testify before the 9/11 Commission regarding steps taken against terrorism during his tenure and the information he provided to his successor, Condoleezza Rice. At the time, Berger w

ton administration Berger served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Governor Clinton during the campaign, and as Assistant Transition Director for National Security of the 1992 Clinton-Gore Transition. During Clinton's first term of office (1993-1997), Berger served as deputy national security advisor, under An

attack in 2001, NSA data had been protected by “stove-piping” that separated NSA’ computers from networks used by other intelligence services. After the 9/11 Commission concluded that part of the reason why US intelligence agencies were unable to “connect the dots” in advance of the attack was because this “stove-pip

on’t know, and, implicitly, a way to protect themselves.” And there were many documents in the Snowden breach that met these criteria, according to a National Security official at the Obama White House. The breach had happened on the watch of General Alexander, who headed both the NSA and the US Cyber Command, in 2

led stove-piping that insulated highly- sensitive data from the NSA’s other computer networks. Here they were merely following the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to make their data more accessible to other agencies concerned with potential terrorist attacks. As a result, the inner sanctum of the NSA became mor

ia but it would add to Putin’s personal credibility in advance of the Olympic Games in Russia. In mid-June, after US intelligence reported to Obama’s National Security adviser that Snowden was in contact with Russian officials in Hong Kong, the State Department explicitly told Lavrov that allowing Snowden to defect

that it was providing financial services to al-Qaeda, despite plaintiffs’ allegations that United States government officials -- “William Weschler of the National Security Council and Richard Newcomb of the Office of Foreign Assets Control” -- warned Al Rajhi Bank in 1999 “that their financial systems were being manipula

13224. Id. The Golden Chain has been relied upon by the United States as an exhibit in multiple criminal cases. See supra at pp. 54-55 nn.85-86. And, the 9/11 Commission’s Final Report also relied upon the Golden Chain. See supra pp. 25-26 &n.8. These allegations, taken together, detail an extensive relationship betwee

91, 7867. ea JA3827-28, 3866-67, 4465-66. a 9/11 Commission Final Report, pp. 169-170. aa JA3785-86. eet JA3710-14, 3845, 3870-71, 4394-4402. ES 9/11 Commission Monograph on Terrorist Financing, available at www.9-11commission.gov/staff.../911_TerrFin_Monograph.pdf. a JA4394-95, 5982-83, 6212-13. WESTLAW HO