Epstein Secrets

s. CBS News (7/15, 3.68M) reports that, "in this episode of 'Intelligence Matters DECLASSIFIED: Spy Stories from the Officers Who Were There,' host Michael Morell interviews Martin Petersen, former senior CIA intelligence officer and Asia expert who spent over three decades at the agency." Petersen "recounts

-money payments made" to an adult film performer "who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump." The Washington Post (7/15, Jacobs, 14.2M) reports that Vance's office, "which is facing a looming statute of limitations should he decide to pursue a felony case, suggested it would not allow the new matters

owden breach. Despite the immense potential damage of the theft, it was not until June 10 that the CIA’s director, John Owen Brennan, and his deputy, Michael Morell, were briefed by the NSA. When Morell realized how much data Snowden had taken, he was astounded. “You might have thought of all the government enti

of his activities (some of which I published in my article about the case in The New York Review of Books). Nor is this access uncommon. According to Vance in 2016, his office issues thousands of such sub- poenas every year. Even though Apple made headlines by refusing to comply with a court order to hel

rk zone where there are just so many dan- gerous things going on.” The effects of Snowden’s intervention were soon realized by the CIA, according to Michael Morell, who had closely followed intel- ligence about terrorist groups in the Middle East ever since he had acted as the CIA’s briefer for the president on

erview -transcript. 121 Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Edward Jay Epstein, “What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn,” New York Review of Books, Dec. 22, 2011. Vance made his state- ment on the Charlie Rose show, Feb. 19, 2016. 121 Apple made headlines: Mike Isaac, “Apple Still Holds the Keys to Its Cloud Ser- vi