Epstein Secrets

rom an ACLU official to a Peabody Award- winning journalist to members of the intelligence community who knew that sort of thing actually does go on. Daniel Ellsberg said, “Maybe it was just because | wanted to believe it so badly.” One caller claimed that he could determine, by feeding the article into a compute

is funny.” --Lewis Black Many of the pieces in this collection originally appeared in The Realist, High Times, AVN, N.Y. Press, National Lampoon, The Nation, L.A. Times, Whole Earth Review, Huffington Post, Alternet, CounterPunch, and Truthdig. Several pieces have not been published before, but only for

m spies. In many cases, whistle-blowers have accomplices who help them carry out their mission. For example, in 1969, the cel- ebrated whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst at the Rand Corporation, had an accomplice, Anthony Russo, who had also worked at Rand. (Both were indicted by the government.) A

ght not be totally coincidental. Snowden blamed high officials in the U.S. government who pur- posely “trapped him” in Russia. He told the editor of The Nation, “I’m in exile. My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled” and “chose to keep me in Russia.” He repeated that assertion over

lower Bradley Birkenfeld: David Kocieniewski, “Whistle-Blower Awarded $104 Million by LR.S.,” New York Times, Sept. 11, 2012. @ 147. whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg: Martin Arnold, “Pentagon Papers Charges Are @ Dismissed,” New York Times, May 11, 1973. 147 FBI office in Media: Mark Mazzetti, “Burglars Who Took

have caused any harm is preemptively dis- missed as government propaganda. Snowden’s word also is taken over that of government officials because, as The Nation explained, Snowden speaks “truth to power.” Such a formulation of distrust allows those who accept it to dismiss all assertions of government officia

om spies. In many cases, whistle-blowers have accomplices that help them carry out their mission. For example, in 1969, the celebrated whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst at the RAND Corporation, had an accomplice, Anthony Russo, who also had worked at RAND. (Both were indicted by the government.) A

osed NSA surveillance: James Bamford writing for Wired magazine, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian and Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation. He also gave a televised interview to Brian Williams of NBC News in which he explained that since he had no access to the NSA documents in Russia, h