Epstein Secrets

lls for IT jobs from outside contractors. So it had no need for employing a twenty-two-year-old dropout who did not meet its requisites. According to Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA station chief in Europe, the only plausible way that Snowden, with no qualifica- tions, was allowed to jump the queue was that “he had

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

e America and go public, he could serve as a near-perfect umbrella. “Snowden may have carried out of the NSA many more documents than he knew about,” Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA station chief, said. It @ could also account for the disparity between the claims of Snowden @ and the NSA damage assessment as to t

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

d Andrews, “Snowden Saga.” CHAPTER 3 Contractor 28 “Much of what I saw”: Greenwald, Poitras, and MacAskill, “Edward Snowden.” 30 This “free pass”: Tyler Drumheller, interview with author. 30 “So the guy with whom the CIA”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 284. 30 His initial job for Dell: Burrough, Ellison, and

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