Epstein Secrets

mes from Freeport, Ill., one of the cities of the Lincoln- Douglas debates. His father sold batteries. Dan

y night did not plot a course to "make America great again." It tipped the balance against greatness by making what the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, referred to as "the last best hope of earth" into an ever more heavily militarized state that will not care for its own. This is not an accidental

mage 1 With its economy failing, more than 200,000 Zika virus cases and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff facing an impeachment, against all odds, Rio de Janeiro pulled off last year's Olympics, keeping crime at bay and fending off dire forecasts of corruption, environmental degradation, and cost overruns. Bu

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on; Jacob Appelbaum, the Tor proselytizer; Ben Wizner, the ACLU lawyer; Barton Gellman; and Glenn Greenwald. “It is not me that can’t keep a secret,” Abraham Lincoln joked. “It’s the people I | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 231 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019719 232 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS

to Bamford, it took nearly nine months to arrange the meeting. “I have been try- ing to set up an interview with him [Snowden]—traveling to Ber- lin, Rio de Janeiro twice, and New York multiple times to talk with the handful of his confidants who can arrange a meeting,” Bamford @ recounted in Wired. After my din

“It is not me that can’t keep a secret, “Abraham Lincoln joked. “It’s the people I tell it that can’t.” In

on; Jacob Appelbaum, the TOR proselytizer; Ben Wizner, the ACLU lawyer; Barton Gellman; and Glenn Greenwald. “It is not me that can’t keep a secret, “Abraham Lincoln joked. “It’s the people I tell it that can’t.” In the same vein, Poitras could hardly rely on these five confidants not to tell her (and Snowden’s) t

t his copy of the documents were corrupted, Poitras made a copy of the thumb drive that Snowden gave her in Hong Kong and sent it to her Greenwald in Rio de Janeiro by a courier. That courier was intercepted by British authorities at Heathrow Airport. When examined, the Poitras-Greenwald thumb drive contained som

as due to an accounting error, and revoked $1.2mi1 of the tax lien. On May 8, 2010, she received an honorary Doctor of Arts from Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois. Warwick lived in Brazil, a country she first visited in the early 1960s until 2005, according to an interview with JazzWax, when she mov

tes, when her mother and sister became ill. She became so entranced by Brazil, that she studied Portuguese and commenced to divide her time between Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. In April 2010, in an interview on talk-show Programa do Jo, she said Brazil was the place where she intended to spend the rest of her