Epstein Secrets

TS SECRETS no known appointments there. Even so, Snowden carried to Hong Kong digital copies he had made of the top secret NSA documents. As General Michael Hayden, who served as the head of both the NSA and the CIA, told me, “It’s very mysterious why Snowden chose Hong Kong.” We can assume he had a compelling e

ct, Snowden had stolen a great deal more than documents relating to domestic surveillance. He had also stolen secret documents from the NSA, the CIA, the Department of Defense, and the British cipher service revealing the sources and methods they employed in their monitoring of adversaries, which was their job. By the time

ura: The description of Snowden’s life in Maryland comes entirely from Lindsay Mills’s Internet postings. See L's Journey. 34 The guest speaker was: Michael Hayden, interview with the author. 34 “They [the NSA] are intent”: Greenwald, Poitras, and MacAskill, “Edward Snowden.” 34 “none of whom took any action”

that he compromised contained many other secret sources and methods. The full extent of the damage Snowden did may never be fully known, even though the Department of Defense spent the better part of a year, and tens of thousands of investigative man-hours, trying to sort out just the compromised sources and methods per- t

ms to explain his ability to do all these things, is that he had help and had help from somebody who was very competent in these matters.” --General Michael Hayden, Former Director of the NSA and CIA Snowden describes himself a whistle-blower, and, according to the polls, the vast majority of the American publi

of foreign governments. This latter mandate included the governments of allies as well as enemies. The President, the other intelligence services and the Department of Defense deemed what was relevant for national security. Even though the NSA remained part of the Department of Defense, its job went far beyond providing mil