Epstein Secrets

icy and legal and other actions that make our ability collectively, internation- ally, to find these terrorists much more challenging. —CIA DIRECTOR JOHN BRENNAN, in response to the Paris terrorist attack, November 2015 Ox THE EVENING of November 13, 2015, nine jihadist terror- ists acting on behalf of ISIS

orists much more challenging. —CIA DIRECTOR JOHN BRENNAN, in response to the Paris terrorist attack, Nove

trick, Privacy for Me and Not for Thee, pt. 6. 52 “the state is all-powerful”: Fitzpatrick, introduction to ibid. 53 “Meet the Most Dangerous Man”: Appelbaum, interview with Rolling Stone, “Meet the Most Dangerous Man in Cyberspace: The American Behind WikiLeaks,” Rolling Stone, Dec. 2, 2010. 53 In Berlin

orists much more challenging.” CIA Director John Brennan in response to the Paris attack, November 2015 I

olicy and legal and other actions that make our ability collectively, internationally, to find these terrorists much more challenging.” CIA Director John Brennan in response to the Paris attack, November 2015 In the evening of November 13, 2015, normal life in Paris was brought to a screeching halt by nine Ji

ing Stone interview with Jacob Appelbaum, “Meet the Most Dangerous Man in Cyberspace: The American Behind Wikileaks, Rolling Stone, December 2,2010 “Appelbaum acted to defeat-...”—George Packer, The Holder of Secrets, The New Yorker, October 20, 2014 “She identified herself in Forbes...’”—Runa A Sandvik, F

until June 10 that the CIA’s director, John Owen Brennan, and his deputy, Michael Morell, were briefed by

ncerning the NSA hacking of the cell phone of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. The story was published on October 23 on the Der Spiegel website. Appelbaum was the co- author of the story. Even though Snowden had by now been in Rus- sia for four months, he was cited in the story, along with unnamed “othe

ot until a week later that CIA Director John Owen Brennan and Deputy Director Michael Morell were briefed b

TOR movement was Jacob Appelbaum, a charismatic 28-year old who had grown up in northern California. Like Snowden, he had dropped out of high school. Appelbaum identified himself to his followers on the Internet as a “hacktivist” battling state surveillance. For him, as with many in the hacktavist culture, t