Epstein Secrets

ated into reports (which had a distinctive blue stripe to signify their impor- tance) that had been provided to Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Even more shocking, in tracing the path of this disinformation, the inspector general found that the “senior CIA @ officers responsible for these r

9780451494566_2p_all_r.indd 215 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019703 216 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS tions to private companies, but the Clinton administration in 1996 had privatized background checks for government employees requiring security clearances. The idea, backed by Vice President Al

arrant to investigate U.S. citi- @ zens who use Tor. The NSA is hardly immune from an attack on its own computers. As the former CIA deputy director Morell wrote in his 2015 book, The Great War of Our Time, many financial institutions have “better cyber security than the NSA.” The Internet certainly help

her actors. “For our enemies, having it [the black budget] is like having the playbook of the opposing NFL team,” said the former CIA deputy director Morell in 2015. “I guarantee you that the SVR, the Russian foreign intelligence service, would have paid millions of dollars for such a document.” If unlike

e he, like any other person accused of a felony, would face the charges against him. Nor was it plausible that President Obama and Secretary Of State Clinton would conspire to trap a perpetrator carrying incredibly valuable national security secrets in Russia. The counterintelligence investigation had lit

run the CIA!” (He was referring to Leon Panetta, President Clinton’s former chief of staff.) Snowden attributed the

ity, wrote that Snowden’s action went beyond taking the handful of documents, such as the FISA order, “that addressed the privacy issue.” Instead, as Morell put it, “he backed up a virtual tractor trailer and emptied a warehouse full of documents—the vast majority of which he could not possibly have read

of which he would likely understand—T[and] and he delivered the documents to a variety of news organizations and God knows who else.” _—_As a result, Morell concluded “Snowden’s disclosures will go down in history as the greatest compromise of classified information ever.” General Keith Alexander, the he

rich and famous, including Donald Trump and Bill Clinton," has "denied accusations made in multiple lawsu

n NBC Nightly NewsVi (7/2, story 3, 2:30, Holt, 6.2M) that Maxwell, "a socialite who hobnobbed with the rich and famous, including Donald Trump and Bill Clinton," has "denied accusations made in multiple lawsuits that she helped orchestrate a sex ring of underage girls for Epstein and his friends." Reuters

oward Moscow have done little to quell concerns that Trump may be advancing Russian interests and is consistently shying away from rebuking Putin." Morell, Vickers Examine How "Normal" Administration Would Have Responded To Russian Bounty Intelligence. In a Washington Post (7/3, 14.2M) op-ed, former CI

posting on Ars Technica on January 10, 2009, “Obama just appointed a fucking POLITICIAN to run the CIA!” (He was referring to Leon Panetta, President Clinton’s former chief of staff.) Snowden attributed the origins of his antipathy to US. intelligence to his 2007-9 experiences in the CIA. He later told @

run the CIA!” (He was referring to Leon Panetta, President Clinton’s former chief of staff.) Snowden attributed the

e also continued to invite activists to his CryptoParties, and he openly advertised them on the Internet until 2013. The CIA’s former deputy director Morell, who reviewed the security situation at the NSA in 2014 as a mem- ber of President Obama’s NSA Review Committee, found that the NSA in the post-Cold

spent almost six months negotiating with Hillary Clinton’s State Department a one-on-one summit between Pr

War. But the Snowden breach exposing military sources was an order of magnitude greater than any past breach. The CIA’s assessment was no less grim. Morell, the deputy director of the CIA in 2013, wrote that Snowden’s action went beyond taking the handful of documents, such as the FISA order, “that addre

A briefer that it was urgent for the CIA to be brought in on the case. After all, the CIA had employed Snowden only four years earlier. Specifically, Morell said, the CIA needed to find out three things: Had CIA docu- ments been part of Snowden’s haul? How long had Snowden been stealing documents? Had Sno

ch had a distinctive blue stripe to signify their importance, had been provided to the three American Presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Even more shocking, in tracing the path of this disinformation, the Inspector General found that the "senior CIA officers responsible for these repo

spent almost six months negotiating with Hillary Clinton’s State Department a one-on-one summit between Pr

lations.” (He was correct that Snowden had stolen a larger number of CIA documents that he had not turned over to journalists, as CIA deputy director Morell confirmed.) Whatever this material might reveal, the FSB was presumably aware of its existence. After all, Kucherena was on the FSB’s public oversig

er 2016 communications from FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok to FBI Director James Comey's Chief of Staff James Rybicki hinted at the existence of the Clinton-Obama messages that were relevant to the issues raised by her private server." Conspiracy Theorist Loses Case Against Robert Mueller. Courthouse Ne

ted there 'were several incorrect factual statements in a government affidavit but not enough to negate probable cause." Former Deputy CIA Director Morell Says US Partners Or Allies Could Interfere In Our Elections. The Washington Examiner (10/31, Yilek, 448K) reports Michael Morell 'speculated that Am

ussians, unless the move was approved by the FSB, the Russian =ecurity service. A second disclosure operation, this one involving =upporters of the Clinton campaign, was more layered. The proximate =ntermediary was Fusion GPS, a research firm used by the law firm Baker =ostetler, and the secondary "cut-

a former acting CIA director, casts light on the sourcing of the =irt in the Steele dossier. "I had two questions when I first =ead [the dossier]," Morell said in an NBC interview. "One=was, how did Chris [Steele] talk to these sources? I have subsequently =earned that he used intermediaries. I asked m

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uire has sent a message to the IC workforce on the whistleblower, but I sure hope so because the whistleblower deserves his full-throated support." Morell added, '1 wanted to write my own note to the IC workforce and, indeed, to the American people. On Monday, a former US Attorney equated the whistle

f Donald Trump Jr., a thinly veiled intermediary, Natalya Veselnitskaya, offered the Trump campaign documents that putatively would show that Hillary Clinton had received illegal donations from Russian financiers; in the event, no such documents were proffered. But it is a reasonable assumption that Veseln

, a former acting CIA director, casts light on the sourcing of the dirt in the Steele dossier. “I had two questions when I first read [the dossier],” Morell said in an NBC interview. “One was, how did Chris [Steele] talk to these sources? I have subsequently learned that he used intermediaries. I asked my