Epstein Secrets

instrument by which the United States both protected its own secret communications and stole the secrets of foreign nations. The NSA, however, has an Achilles’s heel: It is dependent on civilian computer technicians who do not neces- sarily share its values to operate its complex system. Because of this dep

It was a total vanishing act.” | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r.indd 257 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019745 CHAPTER 25 Through the Looking Glass There’s definitely a deep state. Trust me, I’ve been there. —EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 Wa WAITING to hear back from Kucherena’s office, I arran

instrument by which the United States both protected its own secret communications and stole the secrets of foreign nations. The NSA, however, has an Achilles’ heel: it is dependent on civilian computer technicians who do not necessarily share its values to operate its complex system. Because of this depend

cked into the capsule hotel for 4 hours told me, “It was a total vanishing act.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020349 198 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Through the Looking Glass “There’s definitely a deep state. Trust me, I’ve been there” —Edward Snowden in Moscow While waiting to hear back from Kucherena’s office, I arrange

ere the pre-Socratics who liked nothing better than to confound common sense. A brilliantly vexing example was Zeno the Eleatic and his argument that Achilles can never catch up to the tortoise; Achilles must first reach the line where the tortoise was last, and the tortoise has since moved on. Logic can pl

ch do nothing but accept deposits and make loans, not the still more dangerous commercial/investment hybrids which rose and fell after repeal of the Glass-Steagle Act. The danger is leverage. Depositors must be attracted at some cost, say checking services. Borrowers must be attracted at a rate coverin