Epstein Secrets

not believe an investigative book should be written without the author visiting the crime scene and other pertinent ven- ues, I undertook research in Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, and Moscow. Where possible, I flew the same flights that Snowden did. I am grate- ful to Ena and Ines Talakic for their assistance

he NSA has watched about one thousand of these targets take “steps to remove themselves from our visibility.” According to the NSA’s deputy director, Richard Ledgett, in 2016, @ the vanishings included a group planning attacks in Europe and the @ United States. Admiral Rogers, the new NSA director, was asked abo

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

p.cit Sound track, “Keys to the Kingdom...”—Walter Pincus, “Snowden still holding ‘keys to the kingdom’,” Washington Post, December 18m 2013. Also, Richard Ledgett interview, :60 Minutes,” CBS, December 15, 2013 “Jack Dunlap and David Boone...” See Appendix A. “Of these “touched” documents...”—Author’s Intervi

working as an analyst-in-training for the consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton at the regional base of the National Security Agency (NSA) in Oahu, Hawaii. On May 20, only some six weeks after his job there began, he failed to show up for work, emailing his supervisor that he was at the hospital being t

im access to secret lists of computers that the NSA was tapping into around the world. He evidently succeeded. In a 2014 interview with Vanity Fair, Richard Ledgett,the NSA executive who headed the damage-assessment team, described one lengthy document taken by Mr. Snowden that, if it fell into the wrong hands, w