Epstein Secrets

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

"Yeah, but we have developed a great relationship," Obama said. "I wasn't a Lakers fan. I was a Philadelphia 76ers fan, because I loved Doctor J."— Julius Erving—"and then became a Jordan fan, because I moved to Chicago. But, in my mind, at least, what has made Magic heroic was not simply the joy of h

oward NSA surveillance. It there- fore seems entirely plausible that he found a co-worker willing to cooperate or, vice versa, a co-worker found him. Snowden might not have been aware of his new accomplice’s true motives or affili- ations, but without some co-worker’s providing him with entry to the sealed

ith author. | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 308 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019796 Notes to pages 23-25 | 309 23 The only person: “Edward Snowden’s Friend Mavanee Anderson Exclusive Interview,” Last Word, MSNBC, June 12, 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v= beQUMdolBWE. 25 “was trying to break into”:

s, John Micklethwait, Frederick Mocatta, Andrew Rosenberg, Curt Sawyer, Sean Wilentz, and Ezra Zilkha. I am especially grateful to Harold Edgar, the Julius Silver Profes- sor in Law, Science, and Technology at Columbia Law School; and to Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School,

atin "to breathe together," has been a salient part of the darker of recorded history ever since conspirators i+ wore Plotted together to assassinate Julius "C" word does not alwavs with journalists, who commonly employ it in conjunction with "theory" to describe paranoid distortions of reality. Even so,

bias can work in contradictorv flow of oxygen -Mr. Epstein most recent book is "The Annals of Unsolved Crimes." He is currently writing a book about Edward Snowden. http://www.wsj.com/articles/theyre-not-really-out-to-get-you-1450471512 Happy New Year Ed www.edwardjayepstein.com HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031461

mes." He is currently writing a book about Edward Snowden. http://www.wsj.com/articles/theyre-not-really-ou