Epstein Secrets

DENTS & OTHERS-- The Parts Left Out of the Kennedy Book— A Sneak Preview of Richard Nixon’ s Memoir— Why I Leaked the Anita Hill Affidavit— President Clinton’ s Private Confession— The Autobiography of Monica Lewinsky— Sarah Palin’ s Reality Sitcom— SUBCULTURES -- And Whose Little Monkey Are You?— The Mim

s Memoir— Why I Leaked the Anita Hill Affidavit— President Clinton’ s Private Confession— The Autobiography of Monic

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

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

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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

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

g with the intention of staying in Russia, but that the U.S. government “trapped him” at Moscow’s Airport by revoking his passport. He told editor of The Nation magazine: “I’m in exile. My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled.” He added that the U.S. government “chose to keep me in

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

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

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

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