Epstein Secrets

stic private investigator" Bo Dietl, former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik, "white EFTA00137000 shoe attorney" Bobby Costello, and "whistleblower" Bradley Birkenfeld are among "a makeshift team of investigators, cynical political operatives, and loyal Trump boosters who have latched on to the Hunter Biden saga a

tate Department could be in for more money and more clout over the next four years as it claws back power lost in recent decades to the Pentagon and National Security Council." The Times says Biden aides say a Biden Administration "would swiftly reverse President Trump's trademark transactional foreign policy, including

ding to "bombastic private investigator" Bo Dietl, former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik, "white shoe attorney" Bobby Costello, and "whistleblower" Bradley Birkenfeld are among "a makeshift team of investigators, cynical political operatives, and loyal Trump boosters who have latched on to the Hunter Biden saga as

ate Department could be in for more money and more clout over the next four years as it claws back power lost in recent decades to the Pentagon and National Security Council." The Times says Biden aides say a Biden Administration "would swiftly reverse President Trump's trademark transactional foreign policy, including

work. Indeed, under federal laws, whistle-blowers can qualify for multimillion-dollar bounties for exposing financial malfeasance. The whistle-blower Bradley Birkenfeld, for example, after he himself was paroled from prison in 2012, received an award of $104 million for providing data that exposed illicit tax shelter

is not known to take no for an answer in issues involving espionage. Even if Snowden refused to furnish his key encryption, accord- ing to a former National Security Council staffer, the Russian cyber service in 2013 had the means, the time, and the incentive to break the encryption. It is unlikely it would have had to go

“When you look at the totality”: Hayden, interview with author. Also, “Hayden Interview,” Meet the Press, NBC-TV, Dec. 15, 2013. 146 whistle-blower Bradley Birkenfeld: David Kocieniewski, “Whistle-Blower Awarded $104 Million by LR.S.,” New York Times, Sept. 11, 2012. @ 147. whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg: Martin

ties”: Chris Strohm and Gopal Ratnam, “NSA Leader Seeks Openness on Secret Surveillance Orders,” Bloomberg News, June 13, 2013. Also, staff member of National Security Council who requested anonymity, interview with author. CHAPTER 18 The Unheeded Warning 185 “The NSA—the world’s”: Morell, Great War of Our Time, 287. 185