Epstein Secrets

FBI is investigating the vandalization of the Mount Vernon Missionary Baptist in Missouri. The church suffered bullet damage. Continuing Coverage: Hawaii Man Pleads Guilty To Kidnapping, Drug Conspiracy. Honolulu Civil Beat (HI) (11/30) reports Jonah Ortiz "has pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping an

nd increase Federal Trade Commission enforcement activity." Additionally, the "legal issues involved include U.S. surveillance under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" and other directives. The next administration "opens the door to potential reconsideration of, or modifications to," some of these, "which could p

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

mited damage. Snowden did vastly more damage by revealing the PRISM pro- gram, also called “702” because it was authorized in 2008 by Section 7o2 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Its effectiveness proceeded from the misplaced confidence that terrorist organizations in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan had in the encrypti

e number of its most secret files had been stolen. The suspect was Edward Snowden, a 29 year old civilian analyst at the NSA’s regional base in Oahu, Hawaii, who had fled to Hong Kong. The stolen documents revealed, among other things, the secret tools and capabilities that the NSA employed to do its job.

the American public, the NSA had not acted on its own. It had obtained a warrant issued by a secret court established by Congress in 1978 as part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for each request for records. Congress empowered the FISA court to hear cases and authorize search warrants in secret in cases involving natio