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Barack Obama

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Mentions of Barack Obama in the public Epstein records, with citations.

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Where Barack Obama appears

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has developed a well-organized system for stratifying its data so that obtaining critical secrets would require a rogue employee to burrow into its heavily protected inner sanctum. As part of this system, the NSA divides its data into diffe...
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ve known from his anonymous emails that, aside from the whistle-blowing documents he promised them, he was in the process of stealing a large number of documents from the NSA’s National Threat Operations Center that concerned the NSA’s sour...
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onboard the project, Poitras revealed to Greenwald that Citizen 4 would deliver an entire trove of secret documents to them in six to eight weeks. According to this timetable, the Greenwald’s scoop, and the “shock” Citizen 4 promised, would...
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sed with the “sincerity” of the anonymous correspondent. When Poitras showed Greenwald Citizen 4’s mission statement in which he said his motive was to end the US “surveillance state.” Greenwald was further impressed with the source. After...
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and, since Greenwald lived in Brazil, she still had not found an opportunity for a face-to-face meeting with him. That opportunity arose in mid-April 2013. Greenwald had flown to New York to give the lead speech at an event in Yonkers, N.Y....
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ichard Nixon in the Watergate scandal. Poitras, as the go-between for Snowden, immediately contacted Gellman. She already knew him from meetings they both attended at NYU’s Center on Law and Security. After telling him she was involved in a...
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uccessfully attempted to reach out to Greenwald before he had contacted her.) His continued interest in Greenwald was understandable. Aside from Greenwald’s opposition to what he called the “Surveillance State,” he was a gateway to the Guar...
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surveillance, he could not be sure that other agencies, such as the Russian and Chinese intelligence services, were not be monitoring his communications with Poitras. It was, however, a chance Snowden evidently was willing to take. Snowden,...
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20,” he wrote her. It was an 18-page directive that Obama had signed four months earlier in October 2012. Snowden was offering to reveal to her the up-to-date evidence of a surveillance state in America presided over by the President himsel...
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not have done so without violating his sworn oath and, for that matter, US anti-espionage statutes. Binney made it clear to her and other journalists that he was not a law breaker. But her new source, Snowden, was willing to do what Binney...
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ces searching for disgruntled intelligence workers had no such constraints. CHAPTER NINE The String-Puller “It wasn’t that they put it on me as an individual — that I’m uniquely qualified [or] an angel descending from the heavens — as that...
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a distance ata Chicago Bears Football Game." Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama and Richard Daley during a rally in Chicago, April 16, 2007. (Photo Reuters ) To understand the next 4 years, you have to understand the world according to Chicago ....
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