Epstein Secrets

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”

have caused any harm is preemptively dis- missed as government propaganda. Snowden’s word also is taken over that of government officials because, as The Nation explained, Snowden speaks “truth to power.” Such a formulation of distrust allows those who accept it to dismiss all assertions of government officia

ne, he had no known appointments there. Even so, Snowden carried the digital copies he had made of the top-secret NSA documents to Hong Kong. General Michael Hayden, who served both as the head of the NSA and the CIA, told me. “It’s very mysterious why Snowden chose Hong Kong.” Whatever reason he had for flying t

g with the intention of staying in Russia, but that the U.S. government “trapped him” at Moscow’s Airport by revoking his passport. He told editor of The Nation magazine: “I’m in exile. My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled.” He added that the U.S. government “chose to keep me in

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

osed NSA surveillance: James Bamford writing for Wired magazine, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian and Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation. He also gave a televised interview to Brian Williams of NBC News in which he explained that since he had no access to the NSA documents in Russia, h