Epstein Secrets

d contact with Snowden a year earlier, Unfortunately, that room was occupied, but I was given a nearby room that served my purpose. Snowden had told Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the Guardian reporters he met in Hong Kong, that he had hidden out at the Mira hotel since his arrival in Hong Kong because he fea

he later said, she was in charge of their “operational security.” When they finally settled at a table in the nearly empty restau- rant, she showed Greenwald e-mails she had received from Citizen Four. Greenwald, as he recounted, made “no connection” to the “long-forgotten emails” he had received from Snowden

nderers, contract killers, inside traders, anarchists, terrorists, and the intelligence services of many countries. Sue Halpern, writing about it in The New York Review of Books, @ noted, “My own forays to the dark Net include visits to sites offer- @ ing counterfeit drivers’ licenses, methamphetamine, a template for a US tw

st you try the lounge instead. I’ll offer to show you where it is, @ and at that point we’re good. You simply need to follow naturally.” According to Greenwald’s account, Snowden changed the plan to the upper lobby. “We were to go to the third floor,” Greenwald writes. “We were to wait on a couch near a ‘gia

ty for what would turn out to be the largest theft of top secret documents in the his- tory of U.S. intelligence. In the video, it will be recalled, Glenn Greenwald, who had bro- ken the NSA story in The Guardian, questioned Snowden. What was his motive? Greenwald asked. Why did he do it? Snowden replied that he

electronic key records, e-mails, room service bills, and the CCTV videos of his activities (some of which I published in my article about the case in The New York Review of Books). Nor is this access uncommon. According to Vance in 2016, his office issues thousands of such sub- poenas every year. Even though Apple made headlin

013 while he was still on the NSA payroll. He also carefully orches- trated the exposure of the PRISM surveillance programs, precisely specifying, as Greenwald writes in his book No Place to Hide, who was to release the “scoops” in which newspapers. He gave Gellman a seventy-two-hour ultimatum for exposing P

. 13, 2013. 138 “Something is not right”: Transcript of interview with Alexander, Australian Financial Review, May 8, 2014. 138 This discovery came: “Glenn Greenwald’s Partner Detained at Heathrow Airport for Nine Hours,” Guardian, Aug. 18, 2013. 139 downloading documents: Ledgett was interviewed in this timeline by

ess book for Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. He has writ- ten investigative pieces for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Atlan- tic, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 353 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019841 | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1