Epstein Secrets

l-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 he was a leader of a political move-

1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 Tinker 15 Secret Agent 22 Contractor 28 Thief 38 Crossing the Rubicon 44 Hacktivist 49 String Puller 59 Raider of the Inner Sanctum 73 Escape Artist 80 CHAPTER 10 Whistle-blower 88 CHAPTER 11 Enter Assange 98 CHAP

-96 At this point: Former DIA officer who requested anonymity, interview with author. He had visited Hong Kong: Lindsay Mills’s blog. According to Albert Ho: Bradsher, “Hasty Exit Started with Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout.” Also, Keith Bradsher, interview with author. for the next ten days: Former DI

A executive who requested anonymity, interview with author. 43 subsequently joking to a reporter: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” CHAPTER 5 Crossing the Rubicon “What I came to feel”: Snowden quoted in Rusbridger and MacAskill, “I, Spy.” “was moving copies of that data”: Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, “Snowd

scent 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 of a political movement in Hong

The Intelligence Crisis The Great Divide The Crime Scene Investigation PART TWO Snowden’s Arc Tinker Secret Agent Contractor Thief Crossing the Rubicon Hacktavist String-Puller HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020154 Chapter Ten Raider of the Inner Sanctum Chapter Eleven Escape Artist Chapter Twelve Whistle Blower

uthor’s interview with former DIA officer who requested anonymity. 3. “He had visited Hong Kong. ...”—Lindsay Mills’ blog, op.cit. 4. “According to Albert Ho...”-- Keith Bradsher, “Hasty Exit Started With Pizza inside a Hong Kong Hideout.” New York Times, June 24, 2013. Also, author’s interview with Keith

or’s interview with source B 11.”’Subsequently joking to a reporter,” Bamford Wired. op.cit HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020392 241 CHAPTER SEVEN Crossing the Rubicon 1. “What I came to feel...” —Snowden quoted in “I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile,’Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian, July 18, 2014. ht