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 Others were outdated

r exchange between him and Mills (who was in Honolulu). That day Mills informed Snowden that two government investiga- tors had come to their home in Hawaii, asking her about Snowden’s whereabouts. When he had failed to show up for work on June 3 it | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 91 @ 9/29/16 5:

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

ted as a hero for defying the US government. He had not sacrificed himself, he had transformed himself. He had risen from being a lowly technician in Hawaii whose talents went largely unrecognized, to the status of an international media star in Moscow. In his new messianic role, he could make Internet ap

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

workers, such as Ames, it is plausible that it spotted Snowden through his Internet rants against U.S. surveillance. Even if it had missed Snowden in Hawaii, a disgruntled ex-civilian employee at the NSA would have received its full attention after he contacted Russian officials in Hong Kong. While the ta