Epstein Secrets

Character and Achievement. The book was excerpted in The New Yorker magazine in January 2011 and received mixed reviews upon its full publication, by Random House, in March of that year. The book has been a commercial success, reaching the #3 spot on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list for non-fiction in Ap

rn August 11, 1961) is a political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times. He worked as an editorial writer and film reviewer for the Washington Times; a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal; a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception; a contributing editor at

Drumheller, interview with author. 153 As Snowden acknowledges: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” 154 “absence of evidence”: Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Random House, 1980), 49. 154 “The greatest trick”: Cherkashin, interview with author. The quotation from The Usual Suspects was adopted by the movie from Charle

s a nervous period”: Ibid. 242 “I’m not going to”: Dave Boyer, “Obama on Snowden: ‘I’m Not Going to Be Scrambling Jets to Get a 29-Year-Old Hacker’” Washington Times, June 27, 2013. 243 “huge strategic setback”: Harper, Kerbaj, and Shipman, “British Spies Betrayed to Russians and Chinese.” 243 Adding insult to i

nterview with Tyler Drumheller. 13. “As Snowden acknowledged, he...”-- Bamford, Wired, op.cit. 14. “Absence of evidence is...” —Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Random House, New York) 1980. P. 49 15. “We have many notable cases...” For the cases of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, see Appendix A 16. “The greatest trick

on had pointed out...’ Angleton. “The situation suddenly changed...”-- Bill Gertz, “Counterspies hunt Russian mole inside National Security Agency,” Washington Times, December 1, 2010. Also, author’s interview with Bill Gertz. “A counter-espionage probe...”—Author’s interview with former NSA executive who request