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Some secret methods that Snowden made public compromised
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019604.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… of interest to British intelligence. While the release of these foreign documents might have embarrassed allies of the United States, they exposed no violations of U.S. law by the NSA. It was a legitimate part of the NSA’s job to share information with its allies. This raises th...

String Puller | 61
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019549.txt Nov 13, 2012 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…2012, just eighteen days before Snowden contacted him, Greenwald had written a blog for The Guardian asserting that the United States was “a surveillance state run amok.” In it, echoing very closely what Snowden said at his CryptoParty, Greenwald wrote, “Any remnants of internet...

The conversation that Snowden began is necessary for another
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019788.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…of dissent. East Germany was not the only place in the Cold War era using surveillance to suppress dissent. Even in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI bugged the phones of civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr, to root out suspected su...

Eurasia Group: Investment
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026949.txt May 20, 2019 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…am back years or more.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo = “Pompeo wants the band back together. He doesn’t believe the United States can credibly induce the Iranians towards a more constructive posture by themselves, and accordingly wants a tougher, common front to force better...

rather than later so that the parties can move toward a mutually acceptable
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028658.txt Feb 13, 2013 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ashington view it as an insurance policy. Historically, however, regime change has not been a successful option for the United States, and internal attempts at toppling Iran's leadership have thus far been crushed by Stalinesque suppression, including the 2009 uprising. Despite s...

Ennahda, which captured 41 percent of the vote in the elections, promised
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027116.txt Feb 8, 2013 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… in 2011 electrified the world. But more than twice that many days of protest in Irag have gone almost unnoticed in the United States. Iraqi army troops killed five Sunni protesters in Fallujah on Jan. 25, after a month of anti-government protests in Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin...

would agree to make them part of a Palestinian state. The second principle was that
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011817.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… BARAK / 60 would agree to make them part of a Palestinian state. The second principle was that “Jerusalem will remain united.” It would not be cut into Jewish and Arab halves as had happened between 1948 and 1967. That, I knew, might prove tougher to carry through on. But even...

The National Interest
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024609.txt Aug 24, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…mediate tactical problems and longer-term strategic threats. Today, most analysts agree that the greatest danger to the United States is not from Iran, which does not yet have nuclear weapons, or even al-Qaeda, which has been seriously damaged, but rather from Pakistan’s nuclear...

Greenwald was an activist as well as a journalist. Like Poitras, he joined the board of directors
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020230.txt Nov 13, 2012 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ovember 13 2012, just 18 days before Snowden contacted him, Greenwald had written a blog in Guardian asserting that the United States was “a surveillance state run amok.” In it, echoing very closely what Snowden said at his Crypto party, Greenwald wrote that “any remnants of inte...

the activities of Russia and China. It was charged with monitoring
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019710.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…n intelligence service, the SVR, could put its limited resources to work on redressing the gap with its main enemy: the United States. Nevertheless, Putin had to reckon with the reality in 2013 that Russia could not compete with the NSA in the business of inter- cepting communic...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019260.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…poken in neighboring Finland. The latter group was declared a foreign agent in part because of a $10,000 grant from the United Nations.” The undesirables Once it was the CIA that dictatorships reflexively blamed when under pressure. More recently, the tar- get of attack is a gr...

Others suspect that Iran is waiting to see
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029730.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ed and there is no indication of this, yet. But in advance of the first round of [ran-P5+1 talks in Vienna in 2009, the United States and Iran did indeed engage in quiet, behind- the-scenes diplomacy. In fact, of course, any sanctions relief for Iran will occur slowly and step-b...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians
document IMAGES-005-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019270.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…is highly unpopular in European liberal circles, he has gained a following among conserva- tives in both Europe and the United States. At a 2015 congressional subcommittee hearing in Washington, one Republican legislator after another defended the Fidesz government, often in ways...