Epstein Secrets

[DECEMBER DRAFT--- 287 pages] THE SNOWDEN AFFAIR A Spy Story in Six Parts By Edward Jay Epstein HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020153 Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Ch

[TK] HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020156 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020157 Chronology 1: Snowden Thriller: From Honolulu to Moscow in 82 Days. April 8, 2013, Honolulu. Edward Snowden begins working as an infrastructure-analyst in training at the National Threat Operations Center for outside contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. June 5,

secution. To be sure, the view of those on the Snowden side of the divide is not grounded in legal definitions, but in a broader notion of morality. Snowden‘s supporters do not accept that the law should be applied in this fashion to Snowden. They argue that Snowden had a moral imperative to act, even if it

e to NSA surveillance. To get to her through an encrypted channel, Snowden chose a circuitous approach. On January 11, 2013, he wrote to Micah Lee in Berkeley, California. Unlike Greenwald and Poitras, Lee HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020231 80 resided in America. This U.S. residence meant, as Snowden knew, the NSA w

. • India, US To Negotiate Deal For Access To Satellite Data During Pompeo Visit. • Filing: Garrison Courtney Almost Won Legal Immunity. • Lawyer: Snowden Has Won Permanent Residency In Russia. • Treasury Department Sanctioning Iran's Ambassador To Iraq Over Qods Force Agenda. • Bosnian Prosecutors Ch

al career, pleaded guilty this summer to one count of wire fraud." Lawyer: Snowden Has Won Permanent Residency In Russia. The AP (10/22) reports, "Edward Snowden has been granted permanent residency in Russia, his lawyer said Thursday." The former NSA contractor "has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape

thousands of people in the Bay Area, saying the evidence failed to show Amer Alhaggagi was seriously planning or promoting terrorism." Alhaggagi, "a Berkeley High graduate, pleaded guilty in July 2018 to attempting to provide material support or resources to a foreign EFTA00135804 terrorist organizatio

. • India, US To Negotiate Deal For Access To Satellite Data During Pompeo Visit. • Filing: Garrison Courtney Almost Won Legal Immunity. • Lawyer: Snowden Has Won Permanent Residency In Russia. • Treasury Department Sanctioning Iran's Ambassador To Iraq Over Qods Force Agenda. EFTA00136939 • Bosnian

/article/international-news-government-surveillance-immigration-edward-snowden- national-security-Ilat9f75debbe9196345ae2d6395356e> (10/22) reports, "Edward Snowden has been granted permanent residency in Russia, his lawyer said Thursday." The former NSA contractor "has been living in Russia since 2013 to escap

thousands of people in the Bay Area, saying the evidence failed to show Amer Alhaggagi was seriously planning or promoting terrorism." Alhaggagi, "a Berkeley High graduate, pleaded guilty in July 2018 to attempting to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic S

. • India, US To Negotiate Deal For Access To Satellite Data During Pompeo Visit. • Filing: Garrison Courtney Almost Won Legal Immunity. • Lawyer: Snowden Has Won Permanent Residency In Russia. • Treasury Department Sanctioning Iran's Ambassador To Iraq Over Qods Force Agenda. • Bosnian Prosecutors Ch

al career, pleaded guilty this summer to one count of wire fraud." Lawyer: Snowden Has Won Permanent Residency In Russia. The AP (10/22) reports, "Edward Snowden has been granted permanent residency in Russia, his lawyer said Thursday." The former NSA contractor "has been living in Russia since 2013 to escap

thousands of people in the Bay Area, saying the evidence failed to show Amer Alhaggagi was seriously planning or promoting terrorism." Alhaggagi, "a Berkeley High graduate, pleaded guilty in July 2018 to attempting to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, the Islamic

earlier, and HealthCare.gov, a Web site that was undertested and overmatched, was a gift to them. There were other beribboned boxes under the tree: Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency; the failure to get anything passed on gun control or immigration reform; the unseemly waffling over

are most about are what's being reported on, and that we're not on any given day chasing after fifteen story lines." Then Obama insisted that what Snowden did was "not akin to Watergate or some scandal in which there were coverups involved." The leaks, he said, had "put people at risk" but revealed no

undocumented immigrant from South Korea named Ju Hong was in the crowd lined up behind the President. Toward the end of Obama's speech, Ju Hong, a Berkeley graduate, broke in, demanding that the President use his executive powers to stop deportations. Obama wheeled around. "If, in fact, I could solve a

1 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019479 | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_rt.zindd 2 @ 929N6 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019480 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft Edward Jay Epstein AR ALERED A. KNOPE NEW YORK | 2017 | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_rt.zindd 3 @ 929N6 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_O

| Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_rt.zindd 8 @ 929N6 5:51 Pa | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019486 Contents Prologue Snowden’s Trail: Hong Kong, 2014 000 part onE SNOWDEN’S ARC CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 Tinker 15 Secret Agent 22 Contractor 28 Thief 3

nerable to NSA surveillance. To get to her through an encrypted channel, Snowden chose a circuitous approach. On January 11, he wrote to Micah Lee in Berkeley, California. Given Lee’s residence in the United States, as Snowden knew, the NSA would be legally barred from monitoring his communications without

entation of more sophisticated secu- rity procedures, such as the polygraph examination and extensive background checks. In 1995, eleven years before Snowden joined it, the CIA’s inspector general completed a study of the KGB’s use of false defectors to mislead the U.S. government from the end of the Cold

sses of a nation’s potential adversaries. The most impor- tant of these in peacetime is communication intercepts. It was just such state secrets that Edward Snowden took from the NSA in the spring of 2013. Before that breach, America’s paramount advantage in this subterranean competition was its undisputed domina

ity about his contacts with her, but that injunction did not prevent her from telling at least five people about her source, including Micah Lee, the Berkeley-based technology operative for the Freedom of the Press Foundation; Jacob Appelbaum, the Tor proselytizer; Ben Wizner, the ACLU lawyer; Barton Gellma