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

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

s, child pornographers, money launderers, contract killers, inside traders, anarchists, terrorists, and the intelligence services of many countries. Sue Halpern, writing about it in The New York Review of Books, @ noted, “My own forays to the dark Net include visits to sites offer- @ ing counterfeit drivers’

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

s, child pornographers, money launderers, contract killers, inside traders, anarchists, terrorists, and the intelligence services of many countries. Sue Halpern writing about it in the New York Review of books noted: “My own forays to the dark Net include visits to sites offering counterfeit drivers’ licenses

Oct. 8, 2015. 51 Silk Road, which acted: Holman W. Jenkins Jr, “The Anti-hero of Silk Road,” Wall St

| | Notes to pages 49-59 | 311 CHAPTER 6 Hacktivist 49 the group Anonymous: Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, 1-8. 50 “My own forays”: Sue Halpern, “In the Depths of the Net,” New York Review of Books, Oct. 8, 2015. 51 Silk Road, which acted: Holman W. Jenkins Jr, “The Anti-hero of Silk Road,”