Epstein Secrets

ly understand how they feel, but we aren't seeing any Congressional Hearings trying to fix this obvious injustice. This past Friday while President Obama was in Los Angeles attending a fund raiser and holding court with party faithful willing to pay $10,000 for lunch and a picture, several miles away

le are mostly liberal on a range of issues -- not surprising given the fact that 6o percent of voters aged 18-29 voted for Obama in 2012. President Barack Obama won 5 million more votes than Gov. Mitt Romney among voters under the age of 3o in the 2012 election. Despite Romney holding a 2 million-vote advant

x this obvious injustice. This past Friday while President Obama was in Los Angeles attending a fund raiser and ho

rs aged 18-29 voted for Obama in 2012. President Barack Obama won 5 million more votes than Gov. Mitt Rom

e the question has been asked. Principles are something dWerent: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away. George Packer (journalist) THIS WEEK's MUSIC Not knowing what I wanted to do with this week's music, I went on YouTube to get inspired and came across Joe Pass,

e of Snowden’s “carer” and Snowden’s whereabouts for those eleven crucial days. At this point, I got some much-needed help from an old friend on the Obama White House staff. Before I had left New York, I asked him if he could find someone at the consulate in Hong Kong who might brief me on the Snowden c

the president. “By ordering illegal eavesdropping, the president had committed crimes and should be held accountable for them,” Greenwald wrote. When Barack Obama became president in 2009, Greenwald also attacked him for breaking the law by “ordering illegal eavesdropping.” Because of his opposi- tion to Obama,

ity situation at the NSA in 2014 as a mem- ber of President Obama’s NSA Review Committee, found that the NSA in the

held accountable for them,” Greenwald wrote. When Barack Obama became president in 2009, Greenwald also at

ing the Manning files on WikiLeaks.) In Berlin, Appelbaum went to extreme lengths to protect him- self from American surveillance. For example, when George Packer interviewed him for The New Yorker in 2014, he insisted on meet- | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 53 @ 9/29/16 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_0

lly given the “authority” at the NSA to intercept President Obama’s private communications, which, according to an

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019604 The Great Divide | 117 Barack Obama’s presidency, there were six government emp

rance, even to the extent of meretriciously claiming in the video that he had been personally given the “authority” at the NSA to intercept President Obama’s private communications, which, according to an NSA spokeswoman, was not true. No NSA employee, and certainly no civilian contract worker, was given

e almost always prosecuted. During | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.z.indd 116 @ 9/29/16 5:51PM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019604 The Great Divide | 117 Barack Obama’s presidency, there were six government employees who, as a matter of personal conscience, shared classified informa- tion they obtained from the FBI,

te sheets and covers, white head- board, white bathrobe, white skin—Snowden seems like a figure in some obscure ritual, being readied for sacrifice,” George Packer wrote about the film in a widely read article in The New Yorker. This powerful narrative, as lucidly articulated by Poitras, Green- wald, and other

nd other Snowden supporters, described the NSA activities exposed by Snowden as part of a vast criminal conspiracy involving, among others, President Obama, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence and both Democrat and Republican members of the Congressional oversight committees. It further

e president. “By ordering illegal eavesdropping, the president had committed crimes and should be held accountable for them,” Greenwald wrote. | When Barack Obama became President in 2009, Greenwald also attacked him for breaking the law by “ordering illegal eavesdropping.” Because of his opposition to Presiden

vast criminal conspiracy involving, among others, President Obama, James Clapper, the Director of National Intellig

ld accountable for them,” Greenwald wrote. | When Barack Obama became President in 2009, Greenwald also at

leased the Manning files on Wikileaks. In Berlin, Appelbaum went to extreme lengths to protect himself from American surveillance. For example, when George Packer interviewed him for the New Yorker, in 2014, he insisted on meeting with Packer naked in a sauna so he could be sure Packer did not have a recording

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

r I The Great Divide 1. CitizenFour can be seen in its entirety on-line at https://thoughtmaybe.com/citizenfour/ 2. “Sitting on his unmade bed...”— George Packer, “The Holder of Secrets,” New Yorker, October 20, 2014 3. “This powerful narrative...” See Greenwald, op. cit. pp. 248-254. Snowden “Trapped: Interv