Epstein Secrets

n nations warn of the dangerous transformation that the West's standoff with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, which began with Russia's annexation of Crimea last year, has had on regional security. Provocative military maneuvers by Russian aircraft and ships have created alarm in European capitals. In r

orld, the leaders who struggled to save it and the ordinary families who got crushed. September 2008 launched an extraordinary chain of events: • General Motors, the world's largest company, went bust. • Washington Mutual became the world's largest bank failure. • Lehman Brothers became the world's larges

er of the century. —VLADIMIR PUTIN I THE FIRST INVASION of a European country since the end of the Cold War, Russian military forces moved into the Crimea and other parts of eastern Ukraine in February and March 2014. Unlike with previous Russian troop movements, such as those into Poland, Hungary, Czec

low probability of a security risk. In the private sector, there is usually an unambiguous external measure of failure. An automobile company such as General Motors can measure the per- formance of its executives by reckoning its change in net income. With secret intelligence work, the metrics for failure are far

r Snowden reached Moscow. For example, there were indications that the NSA had lost part of its capabilities to follow Russian troop movements in the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. U.S. intelligence officials even went so far as to suggest, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal that “ Russian plan

o quality control. In the private sector, there is usually an unambiguous external measure of failure. For example, for an automobile company such as General Motors can measure the performance of its executive by reckoning it change in net income. With secret intelligence work, the metrics for failure are far les