Epstein Secrets

ee countries that Snowden is known to have had contact with directly during his thirty-three-day stay in Hong Kong was Russia. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, revealed these contacts in a televised press briefing in September 2013. Putin did not provide the date of these contacts, but he pro- vided an intr

ree-day stay in Hong Kong was Russia. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, revealed these contacts in a televised press briefing in September 2013. Putin did not provide the date of these contacts, but he pro- vided an intriguing clue. Snowden was identified to him, according to Putin, not by name but

t a one-on-one summit between President Obama and President Putin. Not only would this summit be a diplomatic coup

y in Hong Kong was Russia. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, revealed these contacts in a televised pre

had supposedly wiped his computer clean in Hong Kong. It revealed that the NSA had targeted the telephones of three consecutive presidents of France—Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Francois Hollande. According to a former NSA official, this document, like the 2013 Merkel material, was not among the data on

ent Bashar Assad ignored serial American red lines. In response, Obama vowed to intervene before vowing not to — and finally outsourced influence to Vladimir Putin. That back step apparently fulfilled the president's preelection open-mic promise to Russia to be more flexible. The prestige of the United Nation

to — and finally outsourced influence to Vladimir Putin. That back step apparently fulfilled the preside

wing not to — and finally outsourced influence to Vladimir Putin. That back step apparently fulfilled the p

vastating conflict. The French view is persuasive. Then along came the Iran nuclear dossier, a subject on which successive French presidents — from Jacques Chirac through Nicolas Sarkozy to Hollande — have had a consistent view: The Islamic Republic wants a bomb; only a tough approach will stop it. Once again

ormer Director U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Vladimir Dlouhy, advisor, Goldman Sachs Peter C. Dobell,

it must have come from a mosque" Amid such splendor, much of which reflects the work of the French decorator Alberto Pin- to. who has worked for Jacques Chirac and the royal families of Jordan and Saudi Ara- bia, there is one particularly startling oddi- ty: a stuffed black poodle. standing atop the gran