Epstein Secrets

rs can often retrieve e-mails and docu- ments and can turn on the cameras and microphones of personal computers, tablets, and smart phones. By 2007, Paul Strassmann, a top U.S. defense expert on cyber espionage, reported that China had inserted “zombie” programs in some 700,000 computers in the United States, whi

ca, because the CIA can oper- ate with impunity down there,” he explained in the previously cited interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation, in 2014. He had already discussed the likelihood of his being captured in Ecuador with Assange before his departure for Moscow. He later told Alan R

st enterprise in China: Nir Kshetri, The Rapidly Transforming Chinese High- Technology Industry and Market (London: Chandos, 2008), 92. 233 By 2007, Paul Strassmann: “China Has .75M ‘Zombie Computers’ in U.S.,” UPI, Sept. 17, 2007. 234 cyber attack had harvested: David E. Sanger and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Hack

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

Chinese controllers can retrieve emails, documents and turn on the cameras and microphones of personal computers, tablets and smart phones. By 2007, Paul Strassmann, a top US defense expert on cyber-espionage, reported that China had inserted “zombie” programs in some 700,000 computers in the US which could be us

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