Epstein Secrets

mander-of-the -us-cyber-command-general-keith-alexander-20140507-itzhw#ixzz3m6TkuRal. 127 “I don’t look at this”: Jeremy Herb and Justin Sink, “Sen. Feinstein Calls Snow- den’s NSA Leaks an ‘Act of Treason,’” Hill, June 6, 2013. 128 duck-rabbit cartoon: Jastrow, Fact and Fable in Psychology, 202-4. 128 “I

ot anybody”: Mark McClish, “The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald,” Statement Analysis, Jan. 3, 2013, http:/

tary/snowden-transcript. 46 bragged to James Risen: Risen, “Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia.” 47 this counterculture is “tormented”: Shils, Torment of Secrecy. 47 “|The elites] know everything”: Roy, “Edward Snowden Meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack.” 47 “What do you think”: Gellman,

J. The Great War of Our Time. New York: Twelve, 2015. Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh. Enigma: The Battle for the Code. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001. Shils, Edward. The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Security Policies. Chicago: Free Press, 1956. Turner, Stansfield. Secre

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s brilliantly dissects the fascination with secrecy among individuals who fear that government agencies will use covert machinations against them. In Shils’s concept, this counterculture is “tormented” by the govern- ment’s possession of knowledge unavailable to them. Members of this culture tend to beli

their pre-existing beliefs. For example, when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theater on Novem

with secrecy among individuals on all ends of the political spectrum who fear that government agencies will use covert machinations against them. In Shils’ concept, this anti- government counter-culture is “tormented” by the government’s possession of knowledge unavailable to them. Those who subscribe t