Epstein Secrets

Kong in 2013. He had written a well-researched report about Snowden’s arrival there. He proposed we meet at the Foreign Cor- @ respondents’ Club. @ Bradsher told me that he had known Albert Ho, who had been retained as Snowden’s lawyer, for more than a decade. He had inter- viewed him many times, because

h Snowden’s whereabouts during these “miss- ing” eleven days, which, among other things, could shed light on why he first came to Hong Kong, I called Keith Bradsher, a prizewin- ning journalist who had been the New York Times bureau chief in Hong Kong in 2013. He had written a well-researched report about Snowden

ing the Manning files on WikiLeaks.) In Berlin, Appelbaum went to extreme lengths to protect him- self from American surveillance. For example, when George Packer interviewed him for The New Yorker in 2014, he insisted on meet- | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 53 @ 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_0

y his whereabouts during these missing 11 days was a gap that needed to be filled in. It could shed light on why he came to Hong Kong. I next called Keith Bradsher, a prize-winning journalist who had been the New York Times bureau chief in Hong Kong in 2013, who had written a well-researched report about Snowden

g, a venue, I recalled, reminiscent of where John LeCarre had set the opening chapter of his spy novel The Honourable Schoolboy. When we spoke later, Bradsher told me that he knew Albert Ho, who had been retained as Snowden’s lawyer, for more than a decade, and interviewed him many times as he was a leader

leased the Manning files on Wikileaks. In Berlin, Appelbaum went to extreme lengths to protect himself from American surveillance. For example, when George Packer interviewed him for the New Yorker, in 2014, he insisted on meeting with Packer naked in a sauna so he could be sure Packer did not have a recording

ge with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks, Washington Post, June 9, 2013 10. “He proposed we meet...”—Author’s interview with Keith Bradsher. Bradsher wrote a number of excellent articles about Snowden and Ho. See Keith Bradsher, “Hasty Exit Started With Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout.” New York T

owden, in exchange with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks, Washington Post, June 9, 2013 10. “He proposed we meet...”—Author’s interview with Keith Bradsher. Bradsher wrote a number of excellent articles about Snowden and Ho. See Keith Bradsher, “Hasty Exit Started With Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout.”

r I The Great Divide 1. CitizenFour can be seen in its entirety on-line at https://thoughtmaybe.com/citizenfour/ 2. “Sitting on his unmade bed...”— George Packer, “The Holder of Secrets,” New Yorker, October 20, 2014 3. “This powerful narrative...” See Greenwald, op. cit. pp. 248-254. Snowden “Trapped: Interv