Epstein Secrets

s sword. “Ulti- mately, I’m accountable.” Because President Obama did not want the head of the NSA resigning in the

nder tendered his resignation on June 30, 2013. “I’m the director,” he said, falling on his sword. “Ulti- mately, I’m accountable.” Because President Obama did not want the head of the NSA resigning in the midst of the Snowden crisis, he asked him to stay on for another six months. He then appointed Roge

SECRETS Alexander Litvinenko, I had interviewed Andrei Lugovoy. A former KGB officer assigned to protecting the Kremlin’s top members in the 1990s, Lugovoy later opened his own security company. In 2005, he became a business associate of Litvinenko’s in gathering informa- tion and made regular trips to L

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

61 When I had been investigating: Edward Jay Epstein, The Annals of Unsolved Crime (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2013), 209-40. 262 “I don’t know him”: Lugovoy, interview with author. 264 It was rare: The vast majority of the fifteen American defectors to the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including Joel Bar

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

terviewed a number of people in Moscow, including Andrei Lugovoy. A former KGB officer assigned to protecting the Kremlin’s top members in the 1990s, Lugovoy later opened his own security company. In 2005, he became a business associate of Litvinenko’s in gathering information, and made regular trips to Lo