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Libertarian who wore a Ron Paul T-shirt, as a website where “people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that led back to them.” (Ulbricht received a life sentence for running this criminal enterprise in May 2015.) Tor software was also employed by Private Bradley Manning (now Chelsea M
t led back to them.” (Ulbricht received a life sentence for running this criminal enterprise in May 2015.) Tor software was also employed by Private Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning) to transfer some fifty thousand diplomatic cables and military reports from his laptop to Assange’s WikiLeaks website. Eventual
ver in Iceland invis- ible. According to a former top official in the Justice Department, the NSA was able to locate it by cracking the Tor software (Ulbricht is currently serving a life sentence for his activities). Unlike adversary @ services, however, the NSA needs a warrant to investigate U.S. citi- @
_OVERSIGHT_019768 Snowden’s Choices | 281 need for him to expose himself in this way. If he merely wanted to be a whistle-blower, he could have, as Bradley Manning did, anony- mously sent the documents to journalists as “Citizen Four.” In fact, in late May 2013, that was exactly what he did. He anonymously sent
rian who wore a Ron Paul t-shirt, “to create a website where people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail whatsoever that led back to them.” (Ulbricht received a life prison sentence for running this criminal enterprise in May 2015.) To eradicate the Internet trail, Silk Road employed TOR software.
y 2015.) To eradicate the Internet trail, Silk Road employed TOR software. TOR was also employed to steal and transfer classified secrets by Private Bradley Manning (now called Chelsea Manning.) He used TOR software to transfer some 50,000 diplomatic cables and military reports from his laptop to Julian Assange’s
rver in Iceland invisible. According to a former top official in the Justice Department, the NSA was able to locate it by cracking the TOR software, (Ulbricht is currently serving a life prison sentence for his Silk Road activities.). Unlike adversary services, however, the NSA needs a warrant to investigat
e, he co-founded Wikileaks, a website in which secret documents could anonymously be sent and posted. The site received little public attention until Bradley Manning sent it several hundred thousand lowly-classified U.S. military and State Department documents in April 2010. With these stolen documents, Wikileaks
Entities connected to both Ulbricht and Bradley Manning

Jeffrey Epstein
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United States
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Department of Justice
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George Mitchell
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Prince Andrew
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Cynthia Nixon
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Julie K. Brown
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Woody Allen
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Virginia Giuffre
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George W. Bush
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Barack Obama
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John F. Kennedy
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Marc Rich
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Ross Ulbricht
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Oliver Stone
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Bradley Edwards
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WikiLeaks
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Mitch McConnell
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Harvey Weinstein
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Stephen Hawking
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