Epstein Secrets

damage assessment reports that 900,000 Pentagon docu- ments compromised by Snowden were not made public. That was only disclosed via a Vice magazine Freedom of Information request in June 2015. Many of the putative 1.3 million documents that the NSA says were copied and moved were duplicate copies. Others were outdated

nterview with Kucherena was a coup because, until then, he had not discussed Snowden in a television interview. About halfway through the interview, Shevardnadze brought up the highly sensitive subject of the disposition of the NSA docu- ments. If anyone was in a position to know about these documents, it was

t, for example, that said that 900,000 Pentagon documents were compromised by Snowden, was not made public. It was only disclosed via a Vice magazine Freedom of Information request in June 2015. What is known is the number of documents that Snowden gave to journalists in Hong Kong. As will be recalled, Poitras and Green

efense was what Snowden did with the second set afer his meetings with the journalists in Hong Kong. Did he take these documents with him to Russia? Shevardnadze, who makes it a point to drill her interviewees, pressed Kucherena as to whether Snowden still had these NSA files, or “material” in Russia. The dial

vernment intelligence executive familiar with the initial investigation. ”’Copied “over 900,000” military files...” —the document was obtained via a Freedom of Information request by VICE. See Jason Leopold, “Inside Washington's Quest to Bring Down Edward Snowden,” Vice, June 4, 2015 “NSA did not immediately share with

sitive for journalists. So I sought to find out from Kucherena which documents Snowden had taken to Russia. I went about it in a roundabout way. When Shevardnadze asked him about the secret material Snowden had might reveal in Russia, Kucherena pointedly called her attention to Snowden’s CIA service, suggesting