Epstein Secrets

tras’s film was called Stellarwind. It involved data mining domestic communications and financial transactions that had been authorized by President George W. Bush in 2001 after 9/11 as commander-in- chief under the war powers given to him following the attacks. It indeed led to a major exposé on domestic spying

tates.” In fact, as Snowden knew from the Inspector General report he had read, the NSA had terminated Stellarwind almost a decade earlier. President Bush ended it after top officials of the Justice @ Department insisted that he did not have the legal authority for the @ domestic part of Stellarwind. In

d terminated Stellarwind almost a decade earlier. President Bush ended it after top officials of the Justice @ Dep

ions that had been authorized by President George W. Bush in 2001 after 9/11 as commander-in- chief un

he former CIA station chief, told me in 2014. Snowden blamed his career-ending “derog” on an “e-mail spat” with a superior. From Moscow, he wrote to James Risen of the Times that his superior officer ordered him not “to rock the boat.” Further, he complained that the technical team at the CIA station in Genev

aggressive war against Iran. In the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq invasion a number of American analysts publicly advocated attacking Iran. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama regularly declared military action to be "on the table." Israeli leaders also called for attacking Iran. S aid Ariane Tabatabai of

has decided to build nuclear weapons." In the aftermath of Washington's 2003 Iraq invasion Tehran offered to negotiate, only to be spurned by the Bush administration. Negotiations began to move seriously after the 2013 election of Hassan Rouhani as Iran's president. The interim Joint Plan of Action

licly advocated attacking Iran. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama regularly declared militar

Iran's program "was stopped rather abruptly" that year. The IAEA and U.S. later found some activities that could be weapons-related, but, reported James Risen of the New York Times, the "information has not been significant enough for the spy agencies to alter their view that the weapons program has not be

ant to repeat the same mistake," said Greg Thielmann, a former State Department intelligence analyst who resigned to protest what he considered the Bush administration's politicization of the prewar Iraq intelligence. "The intelligence community as a whole has better practices now partly because of

new National Intelligence Estimate — the consensus of analysts at the government's 16 intelligence agencies — to the White House to brief President George W. Bush about the report's startling new findings. Officials at the White House, still stung from the criticism on Iraq, quickly realized that they would

es — to the White House to brief President George W. Bush about the report's startling new findings.

he Washington Post Why America should stop funding Egyptian regime Jackson Diehl Article 4. NYT Ghosts of Iraq Haunting C.I.A. in Tackling Iran James Risen Article 5. Los Angeles Times A nuclear Iran is too much to risk Alan J. Kuperman Article 6. The Wall Street Journal Obama and the Eisenhower S

ing by the New York Times in December 2005. After President Bush’s own Justice Department then held that such surv

btain "tangible things" such as "books, records, papers, documents, and other items." Under the interpretation of this section of the law by both the Bush and Obama administrations, the FISA court was enabled by Congress to issue warrants to telephone companies demanding that they turn over to the NSA t

-breakers. All six men were indicted, tried, convicted and received prison sentences. Sterling, a CIA officer who allegedly turned over a document to James Risen, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the New York Times, was sentenced to 42 months, for example. The most severe sentence was meted out to Private

hree American Presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Even more shocking, in tra

ernment networks. Following the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, the surveillance of the Internet also became an integral part of Bush’ administration’s war on terrorism. In October 2001, Congress expanded the NSA’s mandate by passing the USA Patriot Act. Section 215 of the act direc

. His first exchange with an American journalist after his arrival in Russia was not until October 1°7, 2013. It was conducted over the Internet with James Risen, a Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times reporter. Essentially Snowden supplied answers to a set of questions. In then, Snowden now asserted he took

ws about the 2016 presidential election and you'll quickly feel a sense of been-there, done-that. As a start, the two names most associated with it, Bush and Clinton, couldn't be more familiar, highlighting as they do the curiously dynastic quality of recent presidential contests. (If a Bush or Clint

gathering and spying. You name it and, in these years, it's been at least partly privatized. In support of this premise he suggest reading reporter James Risen's recent book, Pay Any Price, on how the global war on terror was fought in Washington, and you know that privatization has brought something else

btain “tangible things” such as “books, records, papers, documents, and other items.” Under the interpretation of this section of the law by both the Bush and the Obama administrations, the FISA court was enabled by Congress to issue warrants to telephone companies demanding that they turn over to the N

ith as lawbreakers. All six were indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to prison. Sterling, a CIA officer who allegedly turned over a document to James Risen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Times, was sentenced to forty-two months. The most severe sentence was meted out to Pri- vate Manning, who