Epstein Secrets

E_OVERSIGHT_019789 302 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS even though they had been isolated from any network. This innova- tion had provided President Obama and his national security team an edge of which our adversaries were unaware from 2008 to 2013. However, Snowden deliberately nullified this advantag

from any network. This innova- tion had provided President Obama and his national security team an edge of which o

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

while still at Dell, it will be recalled, he had he had told Poitras he had a copy of Presidential Policy Directive 20, a document in which President Obama authorized the NSA to tap into fiber cables crossing the United States. Snowden described it to her as “a kind of martial law for cyber operations, c

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

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

om Hong Kong, WikiLeaks (an organization that the Obama administration asserted to be a tool of Russian i