Epstein Secrets

es (02/15, Thrush), Bloomberg (02/15, Farrell), Axios (02/15, Falconer), ABC News (02/15, Mallin, Scott, et al.), NBC News (02/15, Reilly, Grumbach, Fitzpatrick), USA Today (02/15, Garrison), Rolling Stone (02/15, Ramirez), The Daily Beast (02/15, Fiallo), The Guardian (02/15, Staff Writer), Washington Times

Tool After GOP Mutiny Threats Fox News (02/15, Elkind) reported that Speaker Mike Johnson had to postpone a House vote on renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) after a group of GOP lawmakers, led by members of the House Intelligence Committee, threatened to derail the legislation over concerns with a

Also see Julian Assange, intro- duction to Underground, by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2012). 51 Tor was a creation: Fitzpatrick, Privacy for Me and Not for Thee, pt. 6. 52 “the state is all-powerful”: Fitzpatrick, introduction to ibid. 53 “Meet the Most Dangerous Man”: Appel

mited damage. Snowden did vastly more damage by revealing the PRISM pro- gram, also called “702” because it was authorized in 2008 by Section 7o2 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Its effectiveness proceeded from the misplaced confidence that terrorist organizations in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan had in the encrypti

yption to obscure their messages. Their goal is free their movements from “of any interference from law-enforcement.” In this mind- set, according to Fitzpatrick, “They believe government intelligence agencies will stop at nothing to stop them from absolute encryption.” TOR software was a means to defeat the

the American public, the NSA had not acted on its own. It had obtained a warrant issued by a secret court established by Congress in 1978 as part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for each request for records. Congress empowered the FISA court to hear cases and authorize search warrants in secret in cases involving natio