Epstein Secrets

AL MICHAEL MCCONNELL, former vice-chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton GroNeeN aged twenty-five, returned from

ndations for his work. He was threatened with a punitive investigation unless he agreed to quietly resign from the CIA. “It was not a stellar career” Drumheller, the former CIA station chief, told me in 2014. Snowden blamed his career-ending “derog” on an “e-mail spat” with a superior. From Moscow, he wrote

exaggerate the @ loss because his company, Booz Allen Hamilton, was partly respon- @ sible for the dama

Through the Cracks.” 26 explained the discrepancy: Former CIA officer who requested anonymity, inter- view with author. 26 “It was not a stellar”: Drumheller, interviews with author. 26 “e-mail spat”: Snowden was interviewed via the Internet by Risen, “Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia.” 26

nistrator at Dell SecureWorks to take job at Booz Allen as an analyst-in-training. His motive was not mon

m and from seizing him. Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA station chief, told me that Snowden was correct in his assessment of that Hong Kong advantage. Drumheller said that Hong Kong was “home court” for the Chinese intelligence services. It played a: dominant role” in running the police, airport passport contr