diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017240.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017240.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c3b14bc6105a9e08338452435beaa24bab7a37b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017240.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The only theory on which I thought she could possibly succeed was that Brooke's mother had no +right to surrender her daughter's privacy and that Brooke, now approaching adulthood, should +have control over her own image. Ultimately the court ruled, in a bizarre opinion, that Brooke had essentially waived her right to +privacy by allowing the photographs to be published earlier, and by pursuing a career in which she +has relied on her sexuality for her success. The court put it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017244.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017244.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..721e545f698d44ed56ddf5db8eefaa147e6717b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017244.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The First Amendment has undergone more change in the past fifty years than it had in the first +170 years of its existence. There are several areas, however, where the First Amendment remains in grave danger. Following the +publication by several Scandinavian newspapers of cartoons that depicted Mohammad, there were +threats of death and acts of violence. This led the Yale University Press to decide not to include +these cartoons in an academic book about the controversy. This act... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017246.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017246.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b3e2baae4e2e9cc0c081d8bfb61c09c7e0612b2e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017246.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Here is how [ find +author] +-, in his book + describes the origins of this lifelong collaborative effort. +[Justice Goldberg] called his law clerk Alan Dershowitz into his office and advanced the +decidedly immodest idea of using the Constitution to end the death penalty in America. "The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment," Goldberg told +Dershowitz. "What could be more cruel than the deliberate decision by the state to take a +human life?" +Alan Dershowitz immediately understood... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017247.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017247.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a71a5e73b6834962f36eebd190c2e5a75773588a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017247.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Just five years +earlier, Chief Justice Earl Warren had written in Trop v. Justice Goldberg asked me to talk to Justice Brennan and see +what his views were. Unless Justice Brennan agreed to join, the entire project would be scuttled, +since Justice Goldberg, the Court's rookie, did not want to "be out there alone," against the chief +justice and the rest of the Court. I had previously met Justice Brennan several times over the preceding few years, since his son, +Bill, was my classmate and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017248.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017248.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..091daaef98264c3de8cf4e8936009d236dc8638c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017248.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Justice Brennan had agreed to join a short dissent from the denial of certiorari in Rudolph v. In light of the trend both in the country and throughout the +world against punishing rape by death, does the imposition of +the death penalty by those States which retain it for rape violate +"evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of +[our] maturing society," or "standards of decency more or less +universally accepted"? +2. One extreme criticism appeared in the New... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017249.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017249.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6196c5475943a5c5dcc465e300070ef9a3da2afc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017249.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +This is what the Georgia Supreme Court said: +With all due respect to the dissenting Justices we would question the judicial right of any +American judge to construe the American Constitution contrary to its apparent meaning, +the American history of the clause, and its construction by American courts, simply +because the numerous nations and States have abandoned capital punishment for rape. First we believe the history of no nation will show the high values of woman's virtue and +purity that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017250.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017250.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6cef56589825046837b9e5971b4356bdc2c53270 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017250.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The strategy was simple in outline: The Supreme Court should not be allowed the luxury of +deciding the issue of capital punishment as an abstraction; instead, it must be confronted with the +concrete responsibility of determining the immediate fates of many hundreds of condemned +persons at the same time. In this way, the Court could not evade the issue, or lightly refuse to +decide it if the Court's refusal would result in the specter of mass executions of hundreds of +convicts.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017251.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017251.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..55b12d3a08c6e9ab4ccd288f0d23f778ba7f3624 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017251.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +This would not, unfortunately, be the High Court's last word on the subject. Chief Justice +Berger, in his dissenting opinion, provided the states with a roadmap as to how to draft death +penalty statutes that might pass constitutional muster with a majority of the justices. What ensued +was a constitutional ping pong match between proponents of capital punishment and abolitionists; +the proponents would draft new statutes, and the abolitionist lawyers would challenge them... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017252.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017252.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e585aba679758015b98d19a9839954b5b08a44f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017252.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 12: The death penalty for those who don't kill: Ricky and Raymond Tison +The story of the Tison case was the stuff of films and television dramas. Beyond the tragic facts of the case was the important legal issue they presented, since neither +Ricky nor his brother Raymond Tison actually killed anyone. Nor did they intend anyone to die +when they helped their father Gary and his cellmate Randy Greenawalt escape from prison. And for playing that role Ricky and +Raymond... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017253.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017253.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68fd82834ae328091448ed699aefb2e0dd0910a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017253.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The brothers had never had a "home father." They referred to Gary as their "prison father," since +he had spent most of his adult life behind bars, having been convicted of armed robbery and other +predatory crimes. On the way back to prison from a court appearance, Gary had overpowered the guard, killed him, +took his gun and escaped. Before he could escape, Gary had to get himself removed from the "escape risk" list and +maximum security-to establish a sense of trust in him by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017254.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017254.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d0cf6c72baa9fd7d8e9b4fdef1186b1b359deada --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017254.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +But the escapees were keeping +to back roads in the old white Lincoln supplied by their Uncle Joe, a marijuana dealer. At about the same time, a young marine named John Lyons was driving his family on a vacation. About an hour into their road trip, John saw a young man standing on the side of the road next to +a white Lincoln waving his arms for assistance. Gary stopped and the Lyonses were ordered out of the Lincoln while the men cleaned out +the Mazda, put their guns in it, and loaded the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017255.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017255.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..30b2b19995c6dc06bec193a528cc66b082fbd50e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017255.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The largest manhunt in Arizona history was under way, involving patrol cars, helicopters, search +dogs, roadblocks, and a sophisticated communications system. The Tisons were exhausted, and low on money. Gary decided that they had to make a run for the +Mexican border, risky as that was. At 2:58 in the morning of August 11, a van approached a police roadblock. They knew, but the Tison's didn't, that there was a second roadblock +on the other side of the pass. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017256.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017256.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9aff856e9159d647ee2e0f302130817898345b14 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017256.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The media presented the recurrent vision of the murdered toddler and expressed the view that "if +they hadn't gotten Gary Tison and Greenawalt out, none of this would have happened." The +press demanded the gas chamber. One editorial expressed chagrin that anyone had been captured +The two surviving brothers were tried and convicted of the murders, based on the account they +had given the authorities. Under the laws of felony murder and conspiracy, they were as guilty of +murdering the Lyons' family... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017257.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017257.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a108ea034d948525380700a92e0c29533b40ed1a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017257.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Before we filed our petition, I had received several phone calls from anti-capital punishment +lawyers imploring me not to file a petition for certiorari in the Tison case. "You may not have five any more." He urged me to leave well enough alone: +"We have Enmund. But if the Supremes take your case and reverse or limit Enmund, people will die because of you. You have to go by the numbers." +I understood his reference to "the numbers" as meaning two different things: First the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017258.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017258.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b769733a619a5a4f3a57f8f56ba33f5ebef17955 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017258.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +I began my argument with a simple statement that I thought would be beyond any dispute: +"The State of Arizona seeks to execute two young men who it acknowledges lacked the +specific intent to kill, and did not, in fact, kill." +I was immediately interrupted by Justice White, the author of the Enmund majority opinion on +which I was relying: +"Did you say the state concedes what?" +I repeated my point: +"The state concedes that there was no specific intent to kill, and that there was no... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017259.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017259.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..efde94e7ee0acaec60f343368d32a06885ce08fa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017259.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Scalia asked me what my position would be if one bank robber had a gun and the other one +doesn't and the one with the gun "throw[s] the gun to the trigger man, as the policeman's +approaching him, he says, 'I need a gun,' and I throw the gun to him...I don't care whether he +kills the policeman or not." +I had prepared for every likely question I might be asked by the justices, but the idea of a gun +being throw by one robber to another had never occurred to me. I quickly recalled the facts of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017260.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017260.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3cb3d6431f06ed61d84f75177d67bc82f92bd791 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017260.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +I was reminded of Chief Justice Berger's bear baiting hypothetical in the I Am Curious Yellow +case, but this time the stakes were much higher. I answered the Justice's question: +No. In Enmund the guns were provided. What Your Honor, Justice Scalia, is asking for, in a sense, is a return to the felony murder +rule where guns are provided. The dialogue continued: +Justice: +In Enmund, had he provided the gun? \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017261.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017261.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24b84b52a448cf0040fbb773f50399f131960a3c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017261.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +He was the one who planned the robbery. One of the codefendants, Greenawalt, directed what went on in the penitentiary. Their father directed what went on thereafter. There are findings by the Arizona Supreme Court that it was not necessary, that it was +spontaneous, it was not part of the original plan. This is just like Enmund +In Enmund there was spontaneity. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017262.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017262.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94d6d0b48bddf5e2e56dc2fa9820d15751eef322 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017262.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Now it was the +State of Arizona's time to argue. The Attorney General was hardly interrupted as he delivered his +argument. The Attorney General acknowledged that this "would be different," and that the brothers +"presence at the scene" is "essential," but he insisted that they were "present," even if not right +next to the car in which the shootings occurred. In light of the Attorney General's concessions, I decided +to point the Court to the record evidence that the brothers were not at the scene... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017263.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017263.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f2d09ef435d3f552d2527632dd21f51bc9cbda2b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017263.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The majority opinion began its analysis with the following acknowledgment: +Petitioners argue strenuously that they did not "intend to kill" as that concept has been +generally understood in the common law. As +petitioners point out, there is no evidence that either Ricky or Raymond Tison took any +act which he desired to, or was substantially certain would, cause death. ° +When I read these words, I thought that we had surely won. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who had dissented in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017264.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017264.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92cbda6a1d0dc6248fe689f39733ce8602d72992 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017264.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +She then went on to create a new category of crime that warranted execution even in the absence +of a specific intent to kill: +We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in +criminal activities known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental +state, a mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing +judgment when that conduct causes its natural, though also not inevitable, lethal result.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017265.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017265.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..10b8e96bba38be577c9921a091132c88b53c2d93 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017265.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Eventually, after a long and torturous road through the Arizona courts, the death penalties against +Ricky, and Raymond Tison were reversed. They would not be executed, despite the Supreme +Courts green light. Once again, as with the issue of obscenity, the Highest Court did not get the +last word. I +replied assuring him that I had checked, and that Jews and Christians go to the same heaven, so +that he didn't have to convert."1 +6 Another one of my clients, a far more... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017266.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017266.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..031dfeb4e311ede46aa2d4831e741048b81ce8ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017266.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 13: Using Science, Law, Logic and Experience to Disprove Murder +Introduction +In 18 + Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. taught us that the life of the law has not been logic—it has +been experience. The Bible +recounts the murder of Abel by Cain. That crime was solved by God questioning Cain: "Where is +your brother Abel?" Cain's evasive answer -"Am I my brother's keeper?" — convinced God, and +the reader, of Cain's guilt. Both the Bible and Shakespeare also recount cases in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017267.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017267.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0cd381e7b5e1bba07591efbd6d5dc4c8df975dba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017267.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +This chapter tells the story of some of the many murder and attempted murder cases I have +litigated over the past 50 years. In many of them, I use science not only as a shield to protect my +client, but also as a sword to prove misconduct on the part of the prosecution, police or +laboratory technicians. Some of the cases are well known. Most of my cases have been appeals from convictions. This perception was +solidified by the approach many judges, such as the well respected... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017268.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017268.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6cafdb804ce0d0060b9e4a56202162f52565b820 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017268.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +6 In one case a client who was acquitted of murder was subsequently convicted of an entirely different type of +crime. I did not represent him the second time. He was convicted. +181 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017268 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017269.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017269.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87f430615ad395b4a75f4b5da314bee222e42c6d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017269.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +OJ Simpson and Claus Von Bulow +My two most famous-infamous?— cases involved homicide: the OJ Simpson double murder +prosecution; and the Claus Von Bulow assault with intent to kill (or attempted murder) +prosecution. I have written books about both the Von Bulow and Simpson case, detailing how +science was used to challenge the prosecution's case. Among the reasons I took the case was that Simpson was +facing the death penalty, and I have a policy of generally accepting capital... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017270.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017270.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cad1a5ae00cbad980e8705c4b3bd469aebe3f719 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017270.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The jurors were convinced by this and other evidence that the police had dripped +the blood from vials onto the sock to make it appear that the sock Simpson was wearing during +the murders had been splattered with blood at the crime scene. They acquitted +Simpson of killings for which a subsequent civil jury (with different lawyers) found him financially +My expertise in the science of disproving murder had been at the center of my earlier famous case +involving Claus Von Bulow. Von Bulow's original... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017271.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017271.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..607b34ffef541156e244dcb6f96607130fdd18ef --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017271.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +"My father didn't kill my mother": the case of Dr. William Sybers +The call came from a young woman pleading with me to take her father's appeal. "It's just like the Von Bulow case," the +daughter insisted. She died +of natural causes." (No one seeking my help ever tells me their case is "just like" O.J. In these respects, it was like the Von Bulow and Simpson cases, but in the +Von Bulow case, the evidence, upon reexamination, pointed to innocence, and in the Simpson +case, a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017272.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017272.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e73b170175e32b396cb9b79a5e7a7eb89178b65e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017272.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The case +was now on "the front burner." It was also on the front pages of local newspapers. Boning to pressure from the media, the Governor of Florida appointed a lawyer named Harry +Shorstein-who was then the State Attorney in Jacksonville— to be a special prosecutor. With the single-minded +determination of an inspector Javert, Shorstein set out to get Dr. On February 18, 1997, Shorstein had Sybers indicted for capital murder. The indictment alleged +that he had murdered her with an "unknown... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017273.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017273.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7573dcf9c7887f717d77187c4c713762c28127f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017273.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +The jury, after only a few minutes of deliberation, unanimously convicted Dr. After +graduating from NYU law school, he served as an appeals lawyer in the New York Legal Aid +Society where he argued hundreds of criminal appeals. Then he worked in a large law firm and at +the American Jewish Congress before starting his own boutique appellate law firm. I work on many of my most difficult cases with the firm-Dershowitz, Eiger and Adelson. We began by reviewing the scientific evidence, as we had in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017274.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017274.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c00937e073f047294ef7cec198349efc08cc341 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017274.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +We later learned that Harry Shorstein-who argued that appeal-had information that should +have led him to know or at least suspect that the test results he had presented to the jury were at +best highly questionable and at worst flat out false. We filed a complaint with the appropriate authorities, since such conduct +on the part of the prosecutor raises grave ethical issues. Shorstein then filed a counter-complaint +alleging— quite absurdly-that the very act of filing a complaint against him... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017275.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017275.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8982cf23b15a179b270849c9e4f269978098512 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017275.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The only question is who committed it. (Remember the "one armed killer" in The +Fugitive!) +Many of my homicide cases have not been who-dunits, but rather, was anything criminal done at +all. That was the issue in the Von Bulow and Sybers cases. It was also the question presented when +Ted Binion, the owner of the famous Binion Casino in Las Vegas—the home of the World Series +of Poker-was found dead in his home on September 17, 1998. Binion's live-in fiancé, Sandra Murphy-a young, sometimes exotic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017276.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017276.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a993b29aa1814b61e8a7e85b37e63fce652aaf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017276.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The jury deliberated for 8 days and found the defendants guilty. Since the jury could have +convicted based on that theory alone, if we could undercut it, Murphy would have to be given a +new trial. One important pillar of the burking theory was a "bruise" on Binion's chest that had been +photographed. Baden hadn't examined Binion's body, he had to rely on the photograph +alone. He concluded that the bruisewhich appeared consistent with the shape and size of +Binion's shirt button—had been caused by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017277.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017277.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ec2eb2ba117e31be0c86491c48adfab6be8562a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017277.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The prosecution responded that the only reason he wasn't in court was because my client had +murdered him. Our argument, they claimed, paralleled the classic definition of "Chutzpah": the +young man who murders his parents and then demands mercy from the court on the ground that +he is an orphan. But the conclusions that Murphy had, in fact, murdered Binion, of course, +begged the question to be decided by the jury: did Murphy, in fact, murder him? Although hearsay statements—... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017278.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017278.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b27602be3a529dee09b382cd78ea79d6847c291 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017278.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The jury at the second trial, having heard our new scientific evidence, acquitted Murphy of +murder. They believed neither the burking nor the cocktail theory. Murphy now lives in California, +where she runs an art gallery. +even though there was little other evidence of Binion's state of mind before his death. But +if the statement was relevant to show Binion's state of mind at the time he made the +statement, the exception still does not allow the statement to be used as evidence... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017279.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017279.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1cc0830bdcab0a81fe23095e3c17ffd275e1a1d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017279.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Assisting Mercy Suicide +Another highly emotional case in which science was used to establish the immediate cause of +death involved the mercy killing by a doctor of his cancer-ridden wife. Although the media characterized Patricia Rosier's death as a "mercy killing," it is more aptly +described as a "mercy suicide," because she alone made the decision to end her life. Mercy killing— the taking of the life of another person who is suffering and usually no longer +sentient—is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017280.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017280.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b13b593dc9e1f9085c618a1767a98580897661a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017280.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +When the children learned of this, they pleaded with their +father not to take his life. No one tried to talk Patricia out of her decision to +commit suicide, for two reasons: first, she had made up her mind; second, it wasn't really suicide, +since her act would only hasten her imminent and painful demise by a few weeks. Patricia selected the day and time of her death and planned a formal farewell dinner for her family. After +dinner they watched the movie Harold and Maude, about an elderly woman... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017281.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017281.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e1fd101c9e49a3ecc60f7547b32ca0d10b9aa37 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017281.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Peter Rosier was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and +conspiracy to murder. The prosecution's theory was that the stepfather's ultimate act was merely +the final stage in a family conspiracy of which Peter was the architect and participant. Suddenly Peter Rosier found himself in jail, facing a possible death sentence in a state that has one +of the highest execution rates in the country. Right wing commentators, such as Patrick +Buchanan, compared what Peter did to what the Nazis had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017282.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017282.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7e2294ee7927702ef59cb03d0d5ca843064db885 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017282.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The Suppression of Science: The Case of Jeffrey MacDonald +A case in which science has not yet produced a victory-or, in my view, justice is the 40 year +old "whodunit" involving the murder of the family of Jeffrey MacDonald. I had followed the Jeffrey MacDonald case in the media from its grisly inception on February 17, +1970, when the wounded Green Beret doctor told authorities that his pregnant wife, Colette, and +his daughters, Kimberly, five, and Kristen, two, had been... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017283.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017283.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b927c89dd815d4b041b818f38582f9ee9e0c0133 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017283.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +By the time the victims' bodies were exhumed, a woman named Helena Stoeckley had told police +and others that she and three friends had been in the MacDonald house on the night of the +murders and that her friends had committed the crimes. Though Stoeckley's word alone may not +have been worth very much-she was known to be a drug addict— she provided some details, +which tended to corroborate her story and the story Jeffrey MacDonald had told the police. The prosecution could... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017284.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017284.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..240ba698f46798829d37e94b94347b04ed601697 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017284.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +For example, Helena Stockley testified to the jury that she could not remember where she had +been on the night of the murders. Since testimony about Stockley's prior ad-missions +would technically constitute "hearsay" - - that is, testimony by one witness about what another +witness had said outside the courtroom - - the judge ruled that the jury could hear about +Stoeckley's hearsay admissions only if [corroborating evidence showed] that they [were] +'trustworthy.'" +The judge who... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017285.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017285.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6339b009f92afb05279542e4ef1ff4549d0d22f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017285.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +These dramatic revelations finally came to light because of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald's search for +evidence of his own innocence, which he has protested since the beginning of his case. Over +many years, he and his lawyers filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking +access to the government documents on the case the documents that contained the facts that +were not revealed during the trial. It is a story that raises the following disturbing questions; +Why would the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017286.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017286.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8482873a32f3b84318b50d15be2008ce2910fa40 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017286.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The second problem is that current law makes it nearly impossible to reopen a closed case on a +second or third writ of habeus corpus. The "great writ" has been severely restricted by Congress, +and even compelling evidence of innocence does not guarantee a new trial. Such new evidence has now been found, and the Court of Appeals recently ordered the district +court to consider all the new "evidence as a whole." So the case is far from over. I continue to +confer on the case with... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017287.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017287.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..849ce7901114a3f8e0e59e7fab2c70068dcc9030 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017287.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The science of eliciting false confessions: the case of Jonathan Doody +Another murder case that never seems to end involves a man named Jonathan Doody, the son of a +Thai mother and an American soldier, who was accused of the mass murder of nine Buddhist +Monks and nuns in Arizona back in 1991. Originally, a motorcycle +gang was suspected of the crime. Doody, who was 1 at the time, was then arrested and subjected to a similarly pressured 12 hour +interrogation. The police began by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017288.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017288.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3ac8a01c977c5451fdc60e02d6fb9fd7be4d5b95 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017288.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Again the state sought review by the Supreme Court. This time their petition was +denied, and Doody's conviction was finally and definitively reversed. Bail has +been set at Smillion, which his, of course, impossible for the Doody family, which has no money, +to raise. If justice delayed is justice denied, then Jonathan Doody has surely been denied justice. The +thorough decisions of the United States Court of Appeals have all been in his favor, but he +remains in jail for a crime of which he is now... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017289.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017289.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..631751dbd43d80ca094f6422159419bbb8936259 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017289.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Make believe murder: the case of the falling helicopter +Another case that we won on the basis of science grew out of the making a major motion picture +directed by Steven Spielberg and John Landis. The film was The Twilight Zone, based on the +television series by that name. John Landis, already famous for directing Animal House, +and other mega-hits, +was directing a segment involving the Vietnam War. The star of that segment was the veteran +actor Vic Morrow. The scene at issue... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017290.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017290.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..924a430899f402779eebf6f03a3384067bd9dc33 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017290.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Attempted Murders: Killing a Corpse and the "Abraham Defense" +A case that involved both science and logic arose in the context of the attempted murder +prosecution of a young man who had shot a corpse, believing that it was still alive. The case +presented a series of perplexing scientific and logical riddles: When is a person who has been +mortally wounded actually dead? Can you kill a man who is already dead? On the first appeal, which I argued in Brooklyn, the court reversed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017291.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017291.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e178fdda25357628db4d78b0dc2732e20284d0c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017291.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Anatoly Sharansky: Death For Spying For the United States +Other potential death cases raised issues not of science, but of politics, diplomacy and economics. His name (at the time) was Anatoly Sharansky (now Natan Sharansky). Sharansky was a prominent and vocal defender of human rights, not only of his fellow Soviet +Jews but of all victims of Soviet oppression. He worked closely with Andrei Saklarov, the father +of the Soviet nuclear weapons program who had become the leading... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017292.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017292.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c243a6c541ddfde55358da01e8468e99db01157e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017292.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +If the world +got to know Anatoly as a human being, rather than merely as another prisoner of conscience, it +would become more costly, in terms of international reactions, to the Soviet Union if he were to +die in the Gulag. We enlisted his very beautiful, very +photogenic, but very shy wife (Natasha, now Avital) in our campaign. Ultimately, after 9 years of unremitting efforts, we were able to arrange a prisoner exchange that +resulted in the release of an East German spy, who I had been asked to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017293.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017293.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa9308a847ad872d449e4f212d23f365c7dd9097 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017293.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +My most ungrateful homicide client: Angela Davis +Clients whose cases I have helped to win generally respond in one of two ways: some express +great, sometimes excessive, gratitude. Others behave as if the case had never happened and you don't exist. During the year that I was a visiting scholar at the Center For Advanced Studies and Behavioral +Science at Stanford, I was asked to consult on several aspects of the Angela Davis murder case. Davis, who was one of the leaders of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017294.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017294.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8fe501c2f31d600859bb0a9188f3df1a9032daa4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017294.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +of Cuban dissidents, Chinese dissidents or other heroic people who stand up against what remains +of Communist oppression. Angela Davis remains the best proof that in America, as distinguished from the countries she so +admires, it is possible for a Black, Communist woman to receive a fair trial. The key, of course, is +for the trial to have the kind of high visibility and media attention hers received. There are still far +too many obscure defendants, of all races, who do not... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017295.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017295.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..148e8c21d4ba42c659aa2bdce8d396432f3eec0c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017295.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Hare Krishna Murder +The most bizarre murder case I ever litigated involved a Hare Krishna leader in West Virginia, +who was charged with a wide assortment of crimes, ranging from murder-to copyright +infringement! My clients real name was Keith Gordon Ham, but he called himself Kirtanananda Swami, or just +Swami, when he founded a Hare Krishna community in West Virginia, which he called New +Vrindaban. The events that precipitated the murder prosecution were described by the court... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017296.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017296.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d5aba271473f0cfa9c938d7be08fe79486081799 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017296.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +To a West Virginia jury back then, this could be massively prejudicial. Finally, they introduced: +"a videotape segment from the television program West 57th Street (a "news" exposé +program). The videotape showed a child of the New Vrindaban community stating that he +prayed "to" Swami, a statement generally offensive to the religious sensitivities of typical +jurors. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit consisting +of three elderly conservative judges in Charleston, South Carolina. But my... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017297.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017297.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8579ef4e1abb93bb9e550163bf3581e259c02c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017297.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The Case I still can't talk about: Chappaquiddick +There is one homicide case that I still can't say very much about, even though all the principles +are dead and the case is more than 40 years old. I was one of the lawyers involved in the +Chappaquiddick case the investigation of Senator Edward Kennedy for driving his car off a +bridge on the Island (or peninsula of) Chappaquiddick, resulting in the drowning death of Mary Jo +Kopechne. +1969 was an eventful summer. My family and I... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017298.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017298.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..17f9878696910a471121e9740cab2484ebfcd4d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017298.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Defending Soldiers +I have a policy of representing, without fee, soldiers who risk their lives for our liberties and are +charged with killings growing out of their military service. I have helped to defend several +soldiers, most prominently Colonel Michael Steele, the real life hero of the tragic events in +Mogadishu that gave rise to the film "Blackhawk Down." I have also helped to defend ordinary +enlisted men accused of unlawful killings of non-combatants. Several of Colonel... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017299.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017299.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..34f11056c75f1b2e15509654e43cb568f24780ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017299.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In 1999, I received a letter of thanks from the head of that shadowy +organization, which included the following: +"I remember the energy you showed when we came to you seeking both advice and +action. You threw yourself into the fray and showed every possible willingness to give us +both your time and renowned counsel. As you know, there is no greater "Mitzva" in Judaism than "Pidyon Shevuyim" —prisoner +release. And nevertheless, not every person would be prepared to be associated with "one +of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017300.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017300.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43c95023e08d886e8974edcdf06ded4e2ca76d63 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017300.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Unlike many current defense lawyers, I never served as a prosecutor +(though I advise my students who want to become defense attorneys to work in a good +prosecutor's office for a few years.) Also unlike some defense attorneys, I admire good +prosecutors, who do their jobs ethically and professionally. The case of John Connolly was an example of both. The prosecutor who asked for my help is the +State Attorney of Dade County Florida, which covers the City of Miami and several smaller cities.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017301.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017301.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01e8ce44ca83d1c6319d9de357e7bd42fd3cf4f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017301.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +successfully prosecuted for it by the State Attorney's Office. The problem was that several years +had passed between the murder and the prosecution and Connolly had a plausible statute of +limitations argument on appeal. I was asked by State Attorney Rundle to consult with her appellate lawyers and to prepare them +for what they expected would be a grueling oral argument. The "moot court," +as it turned out, was more grueling than the actual argument, and the prosecution won the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017302.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017302.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54a90c3f0525596496cbc1ee0820dfb097b224cf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017302.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Defending a man who admitted his guilt +The myth that guilty clients, even those who have committed murder will confide their guilt to +their trusted lawyer, is widespread in literature and reflected in legal rules that encourage a +relationship of trust between lawyer and client. In order to get some sense of +what actually happened, I ask them the following question: +"If your worst enemy, the person behind this horrible injustice, were to testify against you, +what lies would he... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017303.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017303.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a9c2cfdafe944cdbb125c0c9c1dc4107ee22db4a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017303.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In the end, I was able to capitalize on Siegel's status as an informer, the fact that he was first +discovered by the use of an unlawful wiretap, and the promises that were made to him in order to +secure his cooperation. We obtained a legal ruling from the United States Court of Appeals that +ordered the trial judge to set all the defendants free. The judge turned to them in anger and said, +"Do you know who isn't in court today? Iris Kones." As my thoughts turned to the innocent +victim of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017304.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017304.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c2cbe7b4d529ae33cf38585c30830ef02d766882 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017304.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The killing of John Lennon +Another death for which I have long felt some responsibility was the murder of John Lennon by +Mark Chapman in 1980. Lennon was in the United States on that fateful day because I helped +him avoid deportation back to England in 197 Had our legal team not been successful in +stopping the Nixon Administration's efforts to deport Lennon on trumped up allegations relating +to his use of marijuana in England, Lennon would have been deported and banned from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017305.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017305.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..388e2b68089aefc64153b8a2f53b91b3638442c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017305.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Dealing with the family of homicide victims— then experiencing it +Whenever I defend an accused killer, I'm asked how it feels to be up against the family of the +victim. In one case I was confronted +directly by the mother of the victim, who thrust a photograph of her murdered son in my face. My client was a woman who had admittedly shot and killed her husband. I argued the appeal in the Maryland Court of Appeals. "The man she murdered was my son," she politely continued, "and I... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017306.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017306.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..33a2463024a4897259b027aca0a3311579fa2afc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017306.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment. In July of 2011, my own family learned what it felt like to become the victim of a possible +homicide. My brother's beloved wife, Marilyn, was killed while riding her bicycle on a New York +City street. Marilyn was a brilliant lawyer who had just retired from being a judicial referee in the +New York Matrimonial Court. Because New York City, like many large urban areas, has security cameras on nearly every block, +my nephew (who is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017307.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017307.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..76baed2372bc9993bca872c7d740b9242562a7de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017307.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Defending the Former President of the Ukraine Against Murder Charges +In T.S. Eliot's famous play Murder In The Cathedral-which is loosely based on historical +events-King Henry Il is anxious to be rid of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Unwilling to bloody his own hands, the King hints of his wishes to several loyal knights by issuing +a rhetorical challenge: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" The knights, believing they +are following the King's command,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017308.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017308.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54bb6306c94b5a5cc152df80ccf4095b3901ed00 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017308.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +which begins: +"No monument stands over Babi Yar +A steep cliff only, like the rudist headstone +I am afraid." +Now there is a monument, but it is unworthy of that term, and it is not as if the city of Kiev +doesn't know how to build giant monuments, if it chooses to. In the center of Kiev stands a +monumental statue to Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who had conducted pogroms in the 17h Century that +had slaughtered tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews. To this day, Khmelnitsky's picture... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017309.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017309.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b87a617a0af761fc93dc7a79cc6dd15db7a2693d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017309.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +We also established that the recording device and the recording had been repeatedly removed +from the chain of custody, thereby enabling the tampering to be accomplished. Finally, we proved +that under Ukrainian law, the recordings had been made and handled unlawfully. The end result +was that the court ruled that the recordings could not be used against President Kuchma in any +criminal case and the prosecution was dropped +222 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT017309 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017310.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017310.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e4be9394d1fee9cfba0fb74e3a9c0e933450cbb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017310.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Murder Cases I Didn't Take +For every client whose case I agree to take, I must, regretfully, turn down many. I rarely turn down cases in which defendants face the +prospect of the death penalty by an American court, and when I do, I try to get another lawyer, +often a former student, to take the case. (The same is true for cases involving freedom of speech +or other First Amendment protections.) +I never turn down a homicide case because it is too hard or because I am too unlikely... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017311.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017311.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c7e469aa42a2855fafc36ffb07f4660c9883a73 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017311.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +These include +professional criminals who are in the business of doing illegal things and will almost certainly go +back to that business if I get them off: drug dealers, Mafioso, terrorists, gang leaders. These +professional criminals are entitled to counsel, but I do not want to become a "consiglieri" to a +crime family (remember Tom Hagen in the Godfather) or an advisor to those who are in the +business of committing crimes. Among the most interesting cases I declined have been accusations of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017312.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017312.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ccf5d68e2cda2b811d7f6d3f34421bf0db63020 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017312.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Eight days before Rabin was killed, Israel's Ambassador to the United States had asked me to +meet with Prime Minister Rabin, when he was scheduled to speak in Boston later that month. I +asked the Ambassador what the subject of the meeting would be, and he told me that the Prime +Minister was deeply concerned about the increasingly virulent level of rhetoric in Israel and the +fact that certain fringe religious and political figures were advocating violence against government +officials. Rabin was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017313.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017313.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d3e811664d7cb6ff3895a8c798bcf78579313869 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017313.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +lawyers, the other two to be selected by the Arab League. I doubted that the Arab League would +agree to have me participate in such a team, but he assured me that he would try to obtain their +consent. In G-d +we trust." In the end, I couldn't agree to what they wanted me to do, and the issue became moot +with the fall of the Gaddafi government and the assassination of Gaddafi. I was later asked +whether I would consider representing his son in the International Criminal Court,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017314.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017314.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..635b4c20c52f55d61beb9d324f3fc7bcf19d6dc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017314.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Conclusion: How homicide cases have changed over the past half century +There are two clearly discernable trends in regard to homicide cases—and they point in totally +opposite directions. Over the past several decades, an increasingly conservative Supreme Court, and a Congress that +couldn't care less about wrongly accused defendants, have shut the courtroom door to new +evidence, including new scientific evidence. The idea that a process resulting in the +conviction of an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017315.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017315.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73223fe8541d5ac446e21759423243d081b9ed6a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017315.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Scalia's anachronistic views are appointed to the court. 4 +This is not to suggest that plainly innocent people are being routinely executed in the United +States. There are other checks and balances, such as gubernatorial commutation. (Though in +some states they are rarely, if ever, granted.) Moreover, the courts, even the Supreme Court, +sometimes find other ways to free the obviously innocent in most cases. These include Helena Stoeckley and her boyfriend, who may have been... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017316.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017316.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1626b2fc9e1ffaeccf910dbe3e2bcb14db643ad2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017316.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +In the MacDonald case, justice delayed by the courts may actually result in justice being denied to +an innocent man. Nor is MacDonald alone in having the courthouse door shut on new scientific evidence that could +acquit the innocent and convict the guilty. It is even possible that several innocent people may +have been executed because the courts have refused to consider the scientific evidence that could +have proved that others committed the murders. One such case came to my... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017317.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017317.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8b38e89913b7ac555d436706cc9e58282dd4ea1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017317.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 14: The changing politics of rape: From "no" means "maybe," to "maybe" means "no." +No legal concept has undergone a more dramatic change over the course of my legal career than +the crime of rape. The testimony of the alleged victim had to be corroborated by external +evidence, unlike other crimes where the testimony of the victim is sufficient. The alleged victim +could be cross-examined about her entire sexual history, thus discouraging rape victims from +coming forward.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017318.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017318.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd096d6f3feb3f0789a5e8b73f330dc122fa22a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017318.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Even as recently as the early 20 Century, the influential legal commentator, John Wigmore, +proposed that women who accuse men of rape should be subjected to a psychiatric examination +because: +"Modern psychiatrists have amply studied the behavior of errant young girls and women +coming before the court in all sorts of cases. Their psychic complexes are multifarious, +distorted partly by inherent defects, partly by diseased derangements, partly by bad social +environment, partly by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017319.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017319.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..624e39f74c1fcfe6c5e0d399f5953499f1aa13b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017319.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +This led one of my colleagues to quip +that "some feminists regard rape as so heinous a crime that even innocence should not be +recognized as a defense." +Mostly the changes in the laws governing rape prosecutions were for the better: Many more +guilty rapists were successfully prosecuted and the number of rapes went down perceptibly." But +these radical changes were not cost free: more innocent defendants, or those against whom the +evidence was doubtful, were also convicted. When it comes to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017320.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017320.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb8fff1a35d795d4cbc34ca6f7ff0e7c234a4cbb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017320.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Was Mike Tyson the victim of the changing politics of rape? The first time I met Mike Tyson was the night before he was to be sentenced and sent to prison. Mike was deciding whether to accept Don King's recommendation that he hire me as his appellate +lawyer. He was in a hotel room in Indianapolis, Indiana, with his large entourage. Now, man to man, what do you think of me?" I looked him straight in the eye and +said: "If you're innocent, you're a real schmuck." He looked back... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017321.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017321.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a12180fb7b8760a05de6c926f60525ee3a4d8459 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017321.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I assembled a superb team, which included my brother Nathan, my son Jamin, who had just +completed a two year stint with the New York Legal Aid Society following his graduation from +Yale Law School and a clerkship with the Chief Judge of the Federal District Court in +Massachusetts. It also included my co-clerk for Justice Goldberg, who was a leading Indiana +lawyer. On the basis of our investigation and the new evidence we uncovered, I was convinced that Mike +Tyson did not intend to rape Desiree... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017322.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017322.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03bf113d4f880ac7c14fd4742f7458e5d7751df0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017322.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +As a waitress in Washington's hometown put it: +"America thought this girl was a blushing, virginal type." (Under the rape shield law, Tyson's +lawyer could not counter this portrayal. The prosecution thus used the rape shield law as a sword +to present a one-sidedly false picture of the alleged victim.) +The prosecutor also argued to the jurors a variation on the "dressed-for-sex" theory, telling them +that Washington went to meet Tyson wearing "little pink polka dot panties," rather... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017323.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017323.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8369c182006fc9c03919a14c3c36eb7c7e85a68f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017323.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +He arranged for the Washington family to take the courtroom pass away from their lawyer, +so that he could not attend the trial and feel ethically compelled to stand up and correct the +Washingtons' testimony when they falsely denied any contingency fee or written agreement with +him. (The prosecutor also had an ethical obligation to correct the false testimony given by his +witness. So the lawyer went to the Rhode Island Disciplinary Counsel — the attorney in charge of +enforcing the ethical rules... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017324.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017324.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..afa74544807c2406cd902415bb7b1622622c1a85 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017324.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Of course, the fact that they were necking and holding hands doesn't preclude the possibility that +Desiree may have said no when it came to intercourse. But the testimony of these +eyewitnesses shows three important facts: the first is that Washington was lying when she denied +necking with Tyson; the second is that Tyson was telling the truth when he testified that they were +necking; and third, that just moments before the hotel door closed behind them, Washington was +involved... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017325.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017325.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c813d1e8f2398112a71f83460fa6a2e989e5411e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017325.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +In light of Judge Gifford's attitudes and professional background in regard to rape, it might be +wondered how the prosecution got so lucky as to have her as the judge in the Tyson case. Using Indianapolis law and practice, the prosecutor was +able to pick the judge who will try a criminal case. Articles in The American Lawyer and the New York Law Journal-reached the +same conclusion, as did most of the lawyers and law professors with whom I conferred. Despite the strong issues... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017326.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017326.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9441c2f45e49a00b01261de3e4771cc291e1cf24 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017326.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Instead, she willingly came out of the bathroom, passed a door leading to the outside corridor and +went back to Tyson's bedroom, where they had sex on the bed. According to Washington's own testimony, Tyson asked her, during their sexual encounter, +whether she wanted to "get on top" and she responded "yeah," and proceeded to get on top-not +the usual position for a rape victim! Mike Tyson had every reason to believe that Desiree was just another groupie looking for sex +with a celebrity athlete.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017327.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017327.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac0d526d364168366a28f2fc40d504deec47f808 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017327.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Our investigation also uncovered that Desiree's father had a history of violence toward her. According to a news report, Desiree's mother had her father arrested and charged with assault +and battery against Desiree. "In her account," reported in the media, "Desiree alleged to the +police that her father 'hit me and pushed my head under the sink... I freed myself and reached for a knife to protect myself.'" A +sworn statement by the mother reportedly said that her husband "flew... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017328.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017328.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43ed0ac7c468a11eb703a62a274a26d3aac7cdb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017328.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Mike Tyson deserves a new +trial." +In light of the numerous errors made by Judge Gifford at the trial, this should have been the +easiest appeal I ever argued. As the legal expert who reported on the trial +and appeal for USA Today put it after watching the appellate argument: +"Ex-heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson had his best day in court Monday. As Tyson completed day 328 of his six-year prison term for rape, famed appellate lawyer +Alan Dershowitz vigorously attacked: Tyson's accuser,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017329.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017329.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8ea0919dc74309122d1a409fdc8ba2d265825bd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017329.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +And they had a trial judge determined to prevent a new +trial that would have embarrassed her and freed Tyson. The conviction was eventually affirmed +on a two to two tie vote by the Indiana Supreme Court, with the chief justice disqualifying himself +from participation in the decision on a phony pretext. He sent his wife to speak to me during a +Yale Law School event. She said, "your New York style won't work in Indiana." I asked who +she was, and when she identified herself as the wife of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017330.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017330.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..51ebb24f1ee11e5eaec3ecf7fc4664d050dd3e83 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017330.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Let me explain something: No means no. Here are some excerpts from the letters: +It's too bad that a punk like Tyson can afford to pay for the top legal representation...but +since you had the right to refuse to represent him, I fault you! If, through your +efforts, Mike Tyson is not held accountable for his behavior, then you do a disservice to +all women and we become victims of a pandemic legal system gone awry! He doesn't deserve the best—it's a shanda!! ("Shanda" is the Yiddish... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017331.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017331.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb1c8823e7fe1cc165d2ce7ceea036aae26dbac9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017331.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Unless they can, they will never be able to persuade the majority of Americans, including judges, +who favor the death penalty. Similarly, in the area of rape I present positions that students are reluctant to defend but which +many Americans believe. All in all, my classes on rape tend to be controversial and emotionally charged. The majority of +students seem to love the exchanges. But my "devil's advocate" views on rape are "politically incorrect." Indeed that is precisely why I +insist that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017332.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017332.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2afa9eadb1c42193cb0e70a337b07e7c139c5f06 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017332.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It takes no courage for me to +exercise my academic freedom, since I have tenure. But if I were an untenured assistant +professor, would I have the courage to risk the wrath of the P.C. cops? You bet they are, and it poses a real danger to +academic freedom and good education. One criminal law professor told me that he searches for +casebooks that don't cover rape: "If it's covered in the book and I skip it, I get criticized. This way I can blame it on the book." Talk about lack of courage! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017333.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017333.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cc85d8d6cdba3c1709c11f8cd6c97eb2da016dd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017333.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +A Dedham, Massachusetts, woman accused four men of rape. The +names of the falsely accused men were published in the press, but the false accuser's name was +withheld +St. In both cases the +women gave police detailed descriptions of their attackers and in both case the alleged assailants +were black +A seventeen-year-old girl from Washington State accused three twenty-year-old men of holding +her down and raping her. In a statement to police, the woman admitted, "When I +was leaving... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017334.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017334.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d7f7e8403628b610001c5f9c693b36cc76921f56 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017334.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The reality that rape is the most falsely reported of crimes must not blind us to the equally +important reality that rape is also the most underreported of crimes. Moreover, "acquaintance" or "date" rape is an area which differing perceptions may produce +inadvertently false testimony about actions that may well fall into the gray area between +aggressive seduction and criminal sexual assault. When it comes to sexual encounters, both men +and women often "remember" differently... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017335.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017335.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c2aa9e1d62c0b84015c9d5ae5456518421bfc9d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017335.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +"The alleged victim in this case says she was forced by DSK to give him oral sex. His +defense counsel have argued in the press, and in their briefs and in their opining statements +that the oral sex was entirely consensual. In deciding which version is true and which false, I want you to accept the fact that the +alleged victim has told many lies in the past and can't be completely trusted. In other +words, if there were no other evidence or arguments beyond the uncorroborated... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017336.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017336.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c53fc5ae495b66753c7c724b16b2b46caeeedd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017336.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +By any objective standard, the case against DSK was far stronger than the case against Mike +Tyson, since there was far more corroborative evidence in the former than in the latter. Moreover, Tyson's alleged victim was caught in a series of lies that directly related to her account +of the alleged rape and her motive for bringing the charge. Yet Tyson was convicted and the case against DSK was dropped. Male "Victims" Lie Too +Early in my career, I learned that men also lie, both as defendants and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017337.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017337.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a013db64d6fd590562d3ab68142e33a8d3989f32 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017337.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +My colleague insisted that the young man had a moral obligation to his fiancé and a legal +obligation to the police to be truthful. At first, the young man refused, but my colleague, after conferring with me, told him he really had +no choice, because she would be obligated to report his continuing crime of making a false +report— a crime that endangered the life and liberty of anyone fitting the made-up description of +the black man with the shark's tooth. (The young man didn't... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017338.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017338.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ed48670a663c0befd88a817ba4e30df375f805c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017338.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Rape by cocaine? Is it possible for a man to rape a woman even if he uses no force, she offers no resistance and +appears to consent? Under the law, her consent must be freely given and not +the product of drugs, alcohol or other factors that may negate voluntary consent. This is a serious problem not only when "date rape drugs" are slipped into an unsuspecting +woman's drink, but when men deliberately get their dates drunk in order to lower their resistance. In the former... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017339.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017339.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8f117a657207be235366e536372ab334ad0d4fda --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017339.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The accountant was prosecuted for rape. The case was essentially was essentially a "he +said"-she "suspected" contest, and there was some forensic evidence-the cocaine in her +urine—to corroborate her suspicions. But the value of the forensic evidence depended entirely on +whether she was telling truth about not having used cocaine prior to the alleged rape. We came up with the idea of testing her hair for traces of cocaine residue. Indeed, the location of the cocaine residue in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017340.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017340.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a80ba098b229f4f0d1967d255d5389f24efe89e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017340.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Too Young To Consent? Under the law, can a rape occur even when both parties consent and even when the alleged victim +is eager to engage in the sexual activity? This is so +because every state has a statutory age of consent, and anyone below that age (girl or boy) is +irrefutably deemed incapable of consenting even if she initiated the encounter and was sexually +experienced. The age of consent varies from state to state and from country to country. Under these "Romeo and Juliet"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017341.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017341.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..161ddf092bdca5c4d049427a445f59d8882610e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017341.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +We thought +the case was over, until we learned that the local police were not satisfied with this resolution and +were bringing the matter to the attention of the United States Attorney's Office, thus turning it +into a federal case. The federal statutes governing sexual contact with underage girls are draconian. Had my client +been convicted under them, he could have received a sentence of 25 years for each separate +massage. This could have resulted in life imprisonment. We probably could have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017345.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017345.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e53352bd838272cfb440b12954f3465502277577 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017345.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +The 99-pound rapist +The great violinist Itzhak Perlman called me one day and asked if I would look into a disturbing +case involving a young violinist he knew who attended college in the Boston area. The young +violinist-who was 5 feet tall and weighed 99 pounds, and whose only exercise was lifting a +bow—had been accused by a 5 foot 4, 140-pound lacrosse player of raping her. Itzhak did not +believe that the allegation could be true. The circumstances of the case certainly didn't... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017347.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017347.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dbd3d9541a9bf4c4f89be0526de9666bb0b2a044 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/17/house-oversight-017347.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4.2.12 +WC: 191694 +Chapter 15: The changing impact of the media on the law +Criminal trials involving life and death, such as the O.J. Simpson case, or rape, such as the Mike +Tyson cases, always generate massive media coverage, especially when famous people are in the +dock. Some civil trials, especially those with allegations of sexual misconduct, are also widely +covered. Based on these and other cases, I draw +conclusions about the nature of celebrity justice and the impact of the media on high... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018800.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018800.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..924903a34ea65de28c5955833413cf4312dc3709 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018800.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +The center is anchored +Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, originally Opened in 1999, the Grand Canal Shoppes by Las Vegas' first Barneys New York and +constructed in 1992 and expanded in phases +at the Venetian was fully leased after three +features many premier luxury brands +during 1997 and 2004, was the first major months. Fashioned after the Forum Shops, +including Jimmy Choo, Burberry, Van Cleef +specialty retail development on Las Vegas the property is heavily themed with a canal +& Arpels and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018802.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018802.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..234af94dd6780da5a506e59aa6f14b3fb8ed94dc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018802.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Retail Construction on Las Vegas Boulevard +The following table summarizes the retail construction on the Las Vegas Strip since 2000. PROPERTY +2000 Construction +Miracle Mile Shops (Desert Passage - +Rebranded +Showcase Mall Phase Il +2002 Construction +Fashion Show Mall Expansion Phase I +2003 Construction +Boulevard Collection +Mandalay Place +2004 Construction +Fashion Show Mall Expansion Phase I| +Hawaiian Marketplace +Forum Shops at Caesars Palace Phase III +2007 Construction +The Shoppes at Palazzo +Town... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018803.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018803.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1824aba66081a194745aca1e406927b9821b265e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018803.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +PROPERTY +2010 Construction +Cosmopolitan +2012 Construction +Harmon Corner +2014 Construction +The Linq +2015 Construction +Shops at TI +Grand Bazaar Shops +Under Construction and Planned +Alon +ResortWorld +Shops at Excalibur +Shops at Tropicana +ADDRESS / LOCATION +Las Vegas Blvd @ Flamingo Rd +TOTAL +3717 S Las Vegas Boulevard +TOTAL +Las Vegas Blvd @ Caesars Palace Dr. TOTAL +Las Vegas Blvd @ Spring Mountain Rd +Las Vegas BIvd @ Flamingo Rd +TOTAL +Las Vegas BIvd @ Riviera Blvd +Las Vegas BIvd @ Desert Inn Rd +Las... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018804.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018804.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0276f0ef9b1a4946c7bd4e552b07a1afebba3399 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018804.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Integra Realty Resources +Caribbean +Appraisal of Going Concern +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +Mixed Use Property +18A-1, 18-B1,18-B and 18-W Remainder Estate Smith Bay +East End Quarter, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands +Client Reference: 23559 +Prepared For: +Banco Popular de Puerto Rico +Effective Date of the Appraisal: +November 25, 2015 +Report Format: +Appraisal Report - Standard Format +IRR - Caribbean +File Number: 172-2015-0181 +irr. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018805.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018805.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd63867735bb4d44227533d5d5a89cd482951147 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018805.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +18A-1, 18-B1,18-B and 18-W Remainder Estate Smith Bay +East End Quarter, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands +HOUSEOVERSIGHT018805 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018806.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018806.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5601d4ad01a6ed6f5cd44910641d3d0a4e856ec --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018806.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Integra Realty Resources +Caribbean +6500 Red Hook Plaza Suite 201 +St. Soltero +Vice President +Banco Popular de Puerto Rico +PO Box 362708 +San Juan, PR 00936-2708 +SUBJECT: +Market Value Appraisal +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +18A-1, 18-B1,18-B and 18-W Remainder Estate Smith Bay +East End Quarter, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands +Client Reference: 23559 +IRR - Caribbean File No. 172-2015-0181 +Dear Mr. Soltero: +Integra Realty Resources - Caribbean is pleased to submit the accompanying appraisal of +the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018807.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018807.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d360914ed7d70bf196b05145f018bcdf3680b0e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018807.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Soltero +Banco Popular de Puerto Rico +December 15, 2015 +Page 2 +adhere to the Integra Realty Resources internal standards for an Appraisal Report - +Standard Format. This format summarizes the information analyzed, the appraisal methods +employed, and the reasoning that supports the analyses, opinions, and conclusions. The commercial space is 85% leased as of the effective appraisal date. The property also includes +3.2 acres of seabed under the marina dock structures which is leased to the property... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018808.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018808.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..652d77d8b00bc8040542b0f3f93d4c14587f5d91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018808.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Soltero +Banco Popular de Puerto Rico +December 15, 2015 +Page 3 +Extraordinary Assumptions and Hypothetical Conditions +The value conclusions are subject to the following extraordinary assumptions that may affect the assignment +results. An extraordinary assumption is uncertain information accepted as fact. If the assumption is found to +be false as of the effective date of the appraisal, we reserve the right to modify our value conclusions. +1. This land is owned by the Government of the Virgin... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018809.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018809.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c2d6070a26a6457f19be281138dc489891b601cd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018809.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Soltero +Banco Popular de Puerto Rico +December 15, 2015 +Page 4 +If you have any questions or comments, please contact the undersigned. Thank you for the +opportunity to be of service. Respectfully submitted, +Integra Realty Resources - Caribbean +MW these +Mark J. Weathers +Certified General Real Estate Appraiser +VI Certificate # 1-21738-1B +Telephone: 340-714-7325 +Email: mweathers@irr.com +JAR +James V. Andrews, MAI, CRE, FRICS, ASA, CVA +Certified General Real Estate Appraiser +VI Certificate #... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018810.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018810.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4fa9b6a16bf2dd51d9f0e69c2ab74636ca9b8990 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018810.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Table of Contents +Summary of Salient Facts and Conclusions +General Information +Identification of Subject +Sale History +Pending Transactions +Purpose of the Appraisal +Basis of Value +Definition of Property Rights Appraised +Definition of Going-Concern Premise +Intended Use and User +Applicable Requirements +Prior Services +Competency +Independence +RICS Valuer Registration +Currency +Scope of Work +Economic Analysis +Area Analysis +Surrounding Area Analysis +Marina Market Analysis +Property Analysis +Land... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018811.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018811.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..86d9a2a1813aabf3f3bef35bfde320ff738f09c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018811.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Summary of Salient Facts and Conclusions +1 +Summary of Salient Facts and Conclusions +Property Name +Address +Property Type +Owner of Record +Parcel ID +Legal Description +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +18A-1, 18-B1,18-B and 18-W Remainder Estate Smith Bay +East End Quarter, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands +Mixed Use - Marina +IGY-AYH ST. Thomas Holdings, LLC +1-07702-0135-00, 1-07702-0134-00, 1-07702-0133-00, and +1-07702-0198-00 +Parcel Nos. 18A-1 Remainder, 18B-1 Remainder, 18B +Remainder Estate and 18-W... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018812.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018812.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..660e71ab95e8fbcdcb7e97e8db0c6ef199299294 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018812.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Summary of Salient Facts and Conclusions +2 +Extraordinary Assumptions and Hypothetical Conditions +The value conclusions are subject to the following extraordinary assumptions that may affect the assignment +results. An extraordinary assumption is uncertain information accepted as fact. If the assumption is found to +be false as of the effective date of the appraisal, we reserve the right to modify our value conclusions. +1. This land is owned by the Government of the Virgin Islands and we have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018813.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018813.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..66e212b8247c4adb15872c1bd176a2f2f25f59ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018813.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +General Information +3 +General Information +Identification of Subject +The subject is an existing 250-slip marina with 5 commercial buildings containing a mixture of retail +and office space types. Property Identification +Property Name +Address +Parcel ID +Owner of Record +Legal Description +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +18A-1, 18-B1,18-B and 18-W Remainder Estate Smith Bay +East End Quarter, St. Thomas Holdings, LLC +Parcel Nos. 18A-1 Remainder, 18B-1 Remainder, 18B Remainder Estate and 18-W +Estate... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018814.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018814.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9cac104144ec5e989a672ec4d16a85542f38cfde --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018814.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +General Information +4 +Purpose of the Appraisal +The purpose of the appraisal is to develop an opinion of the market value of the leased fee (going +concern) interest in the property as of the effective date of the appraisal, November 25, 2015. The +date of the report is December 15, 2015. Basis of Value +Market value is defined as: +"The most probable price which a property should bring in a competitive and open market under all +conditions requisite to a fair sale, the buyer and seller each acting... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018815.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018815.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99051d10e401f19b17b1aad0d9a773a10401b16e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018815.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +General Information +5 +include the value of excess profit, where asset values are derived consistently with the going-concern +premise." +(Source: The Dictionary of Real Estate Appraisal, Fifth Edition, Appraisal Institute, Chicago, Illinois, +2010) +Intended Use and User +The intended use of the appraisal is for Commercial credit administration. The client and intended +user is Banco Popular de Puerto Rico. The appraisal is not intended for any other use or user. No party +or parties other than Banco... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018816.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018816.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cdaaa018fae8602368676134e98f3322a2ee8518 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018816.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +General Information +6 +Independence +We hereby confirm that we have no conflicts of interest or material involvement in the property which +is the subject of this valuation; and that we are acting as unbiased, independent, external valuers. RICS Valuer Registration +We confirm that we are in compliance with the RICS Valuer Registration program, which is mandatory +for RICS members in the Caribbean region. Currency +Unless otherwise stated, all financial figures in this report are expressed in United... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018817.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018817.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54bb01ee970ab9b31b1be14a2abd0ba1b0abf6b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018817.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +General Information +7 +• The age of the property makes estimates of accrued depreciation very subjective. +• This approach is not typically used by market participants, except for new properties. Research and Analysis +The type and extent of our research and analysis is detailed in individual sections of the report. Weathers conducted an interior and exterior inspection of the property on November 25, +2015. Andrews, MAI, CRE, FRICS, ASA, CVA, also conducted an interior and exterior +inspection on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018818.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018818.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..091d5cdb6ecf7113bde145602e6a88304c1e5c28 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018818.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Area Analysis +8 +Economic Analysis +Area Analysis +Location +The U.S. Virgin Islands are located in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, about 90 miles (140 +km) east of Puerto Rico and immediately west of the British Virgin Islands. BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS +BERMUDA J +FLORIDA +ANGUILLA +AT St. Thomas +NICARAGUA +BARBADOS +ARLIR +almoura +PANAMA +BONAIRE +TRINIDAD & +TOBAGO +COSTA +RICA +VENEZUEIA +The territory consists of four main islands: Saint Thomas, Saint John, Saint Croix, and Water Island, as +well as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018819.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018819.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..67eaac6371ad3bdb86fd99077537e5c6dd773598 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018819.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Area Analysis +9 +A mild tropical climate, scenic beauty, and status as a U.S. territory make Virgin Islands appealing for +vacationers from United States and Europe. St Thomas is home to the capital and the territory's largest city, +Charlotte Amalie, which has an estimated population of roughly 19,000 persons. Charlotte Amalie is also home to a major deepwater harbor that is along major shipping routes to the +Panama Canal, and it is just east of the Cyril E King International Airport - one of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018820.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018820.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a44c5753f85116981c3df758b48522e6fbceff1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018820.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Virgin Islands elects a delegate to Congress from its at-large +congressional district. At the territorial level, 15 senators-seven from the district of Saint Croix, seven from the district of +Saint Thomas and Saint John, and one senator at-large who must be a resident of Saint John-are +elected for two-year terms to the unicameral Virgin Islands Legislature. Population and Employment +In 2008, the residential population of the Virgin Islands peaked at an estimated 115,852 persons. Among the three... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018821.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018821.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db13bacb2400ada5bcc14a5e9082cb86ebb7db20 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018821.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Area Analysis +11 +Population and Employment +125,000 +115,000 +105,000 +95,000 +85,000 +75,000 +65,000 +55,000 +45,000 +35,000 +25,000 +16.0% +14.0% +12.0% +- 10.0% +8.0% +- 6.0% +4.0% +2.0% +0.0% +2007 +2008 +→ Population +2009 +2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 +Civilian employment —- Unemployment Rate +Industry +The territory relies heavily on tourism for economic stability. Additional industries include the +production and export of rum; and until early 2012, the production of refined petroleum products (the +Hovensa Refinery in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018822.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018822.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8b01f3841f0dd8f301391cddd75ee4c7d8113218 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018822.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Area Analysis +12 +Economic Indicators +$45,000 +$40,000 +$35,000 +$30,000 +$25,000 +$20,000 +$5,000 +- $4,500 +- $4,000 +- $3,500 +- $3,000 +- $2,500 ++ $2,000 +2007 +2008 +2009 +2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 +• GTP Per Capita +Per capita personal income ($) +Gross Territorial Product (GTP, Millions) +The closure of the Hovensa refinery, which was one of the territory's largest employers, also had a +significant impact on exports which were prevously dominated by petrolium products. Otherwise, the +territory predominently... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018823.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018823.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..354a83c7b6048a43b802c5cea744e2808f0f3855 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018823.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Area Analysis +13 +USVI Commerce +$20,000.0 +$18,000.0 +$16,000.0 +$14,000.0 +$12,000.0 +$10,000.0 +$8,000.0 +$6,000.0 +$4,000.0 +$2,000.0 +$0.0 +$6,000 +$5,000 +$4,000 +$3,000 +$2,000 +$1,000 +$0 +2007 +2008 +2009 +→ Total Exports (Millions $) +2010 +2011 +2012 +Total Imports (Millions $) +-- GTP (Millions $) +Over ninety percent of non-farm jobs are in the service providing industries, with the remaining jobs +being in goods producing industries. These three sectors account for 69 percent of all jobs. Professional and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018824.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018824.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aec17a13ee987c596948c16213a130f094c02468 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018824.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Area Analysis +14 +USVI Visitor Expenditures +Millions $ +$1,000.0 +$900.0 +$800.0 +$700.0 +$600.0 +$500.0 +$400.0 +$300.0 +$200.0 +4,000.0 +3,800.0 +3,600.0 +3,400.0 ₽ +3,200.0 +Isan +ou +3,000.0 € +2,800.0 +2,400.0 +2,200.0 +2,000.0 +2005 +2006 +2007 +- From Stopover Tourists (Mills) +2008 +2009 +2010 +2011 +2012 2013 +2014 +From Cruise Visitors (Mills) — Number of Total Visitors +It is apparent, however, that the amount of visitor expenditures from cruise ship passengers has not +increased linearly with arrivals since 2009;... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018825.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018825.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87e0daaefb9eea9961a3a36ac0f81dded0c63bc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018825.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Area Analysis +15 +USVI Cruise Ship Tourism +2,400,000 +2,200,000 +2,000,000 +1,800,000 +1,600,000 +1,400,000 +1,200,000 +1,000,000 +T +$800.0 +$700.0 +$600.0 +$500.0 +$400.0 +$300.0 +$200.0 +$100.0 +2005 +2006 +2007 +-Cruise Passenger Arrivals +2009 +2010 +2013 +Cruise Visitor Expenditures (Millions) +2014 +In terms of stopover tourists, the U.S. Virgin Islands ranks 7h in the list of the top tourism markets in +the Caribbean, with 2014 stay-over arrivals of about 730,000. The year 2014 indicated modest growth +in arrivals,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018826.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018826.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dee1c1a0163cdd427be940610e72b48e321b2ef5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018826.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Area Analysis +16 +Stay-Over Arrivals and GDP Per Capita +800,000 +780,000 +760,000 +740,000 +720,000 +700,000 +680,000 +660,000 +640,000 +620,000 +600,000 +2008 +2009 +2010 +2011 +2012 +2013 +2014 +- Stay-Over Arrivals 683,294 666,051 691,194 678,962 737,651 702,963 730,367 +GDP Per Capita +$41,864 $42,712 $43,656 $40,557 $35,123 $33,375 +$60,000 +$55,000 +$50,000 +$45,000 +$40,000 +$35,000 +$30,000 +$25,000 +Source: Virgin Islands Bureau of Economic Research, WorldBank, Integra Realty Resources +Hotel Performance +Data from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018827.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018827.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..245d5c1583608e8cd4e1c801dccf18492ef2dec9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018827.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Area Analysis +17 +Hotel Performance +$350.00 +$330.00 +$310.00 +$290.00 +$270.00 +$250.00 +$230.00 +$210.00 +$190.00 +$170.00 +$150.00 +74.0% +72.0% +70.0% +68.0% +66.0% +64.0% +62.0% +60.0% +ADR +RevPar +- Occupancy +Source: Smith Travel Research (STR Inc.) +2013 +$307.43 +$198.37 +64.5% +2014 +$308.98 +$209.53 +67.8% +According to STR, there are 453 rooms in the active pipeline, which would add 8.6% to the existing +room stock of 4,818 rooms. These projects include the 153-room, proposed Embassy Suites in the +mahogany Run... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018828.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018828.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3842836c3f9805e766a00dc3f4477758cbba03e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018828.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Area Analysis +18 +The current situation is that the recovering housing market and general economic conditions on the +US mainland is slowly having a positive impact in the US Virgin Islands' real estate market in terms of +overall average home prices as well as the number of homes sold. According to statistical data provided by the Multiple Listing Service, the value of real estate sales in +the St. Croix MLS grew by 54% in 2014 to nearly $200 million on 883 transactions; volume +seen since 2008 and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018829.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018829.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d33c8b5e17fddbac8861eee0d57b8ccf13a0360 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018829.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Area Analysis +19 +All real estate transactions also require a Government Transfer Tax (stamp tax), which can be paid by +the buyer or seller. +2% for property valued up to $350,000 +2.5% for property valued from $350,001 to $1,000,000 +3% for property valued from $1,000,001 to $5,000,000 +3.5% for property valued over $5,000,001 +Notable News and Developments +• On January 18, 2012, it was announced that the Hovensa refinery would be permanently shut +down. This has had a major impact causing an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018830.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018830.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..770627ad867e19b90b47a3d8ff6e9d0ff9cb0b1e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018830.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Area Analysis +20 +Grand Beach Resort into 262 timeshare oriented condominium units. The first phase on this +project was completed in September 2015 and is open, while the second phase is currently +under construction. +• The University of the Virgin Islands has announced plans to develop a medical school on St. Thomas, which will be operated in collaboration between the hospitals on St. Virgin Islands appear to be slower to recover than many areas of the +region, particularly in St. Croix, where... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018831.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018831.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4ccd137ab6c8a8b2299a7c67fb9f337bb364549 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018831.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +house-oversight-018831 + +|1. Area Analysis +21 +Area Map +Jost + Van +Dyke +Island +Hans +Lollik +St Thomas, +Crown Mountain +474 m (1555 ft) +Charlotte +Amalie +Water +Island +Tutu +Nädir: +Cruz Bay +Virgin Islands National +Park +sa St John +L bing +Eartistar Capgeptios 5IDe 20:5 Micrasolt Carpoetion @ 2015 HERE +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +HOUSEOVERSIGHT018831 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018832.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018832.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d1f7f40c0486c3204c2798ecd215254f41e5da6b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018832.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Surrounding Area Analysis +Surrounding Area Analysis +Location +The subject is located in the town of Red Hook in the East End area of the Island known as Estate +Smith Bay. Red Hook is one of the three primary business districts on the island. Access and Linkages +Primary access to the area is provided by Route 32 (Smith Bay Road), a major arterial that crosses the +east end of the island in a generally east-west direction. This is the primary route through the town of +Red Hook, one of the three... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018833.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018833.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e698c1353609cbedbf909a92804cbc948fc288fe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018833.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Surrounding Area Analysis +23 +building with a mixture of office and retail. In addition to the drawing power of these retail users, the Ivanna Eudora Kean High School is located +approximately 1,500 feet west of the subject property. The largest +recent development in this area has been East End Plaza, which was constructed in 2008. There is also a newly constructed, +small commercial strip center in close proximity to the subject called Crosswinds Center that opened +approximately two years ago.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018834.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018834.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26fb5952b59ff9a700d647954e0c961d456312d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018834.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Surrounding Area Analysis +Surrounding Area Map +Vessup LP +Lower Ridge Rd +1 bing : +322 +Rhymes L +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +24 +inter-Island Ferry +Urman Fredericks +Terminal-Red Hook +32 +„Vessup Bay +Mulle +Jessup. ln +Vessup Ln +Middle Rd +Yessup Dr +Bay Ra +ON tHE Ee 20n Microton Corporation e 2015HERE +fire +HOUSEOVERSIGHT018834 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018835.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018835.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99934682e847e28a5fcde07135fea75ac05e5950 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018835.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +Marina Market Analysis +Marinas are not at all homogenous, and the various combinations of business and physical +components result in significantly different results for the owners and operators. The two major types +of marinas are coastal (usually found in saltwater inland waterways that lead to an ocean port), and +freshwater (found on lakes). Saltwater marinas tend to attract larger vessels and require a completely +different level of maintenance. Typical marinas in both... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018836.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018836.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5ed3623485fd43a616f934dc6cee66bd53604c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018836.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +26 +Coastal marinas along the eastern seaboard were fairly successful until the recent recession, with +many documenting 100% occupancy or waiting lists. National Boating Trends +Because of the age, size, design, tenancy, quality, and location of the subject, it is likely to appeal to +investors primarily on a national or regional basis. While national factors may or may not be indicative +of the subject's market area, the national trends exhibited are generally indicative of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018837.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018837.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..66e8231ac84cdc9aa485f3e7cdd20d03c05a153e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018837.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +27 +marinas and boatyards continue to improve net profits, overall revenues, and occupancy rates, with +82% expecting stable or increasing occupancy rates. The table that follows details marina occupancy rates for 2014. Marina Occupancy Rates - 2014 +Ownership Type/ Size +Government Owner +Corporate Owner +Private Owner +Small (1 - 99 Slips) +Medium (100 - 249 slips) +Large (250 - 749 slips) +Very Large (Over 750 slips) +Overall +Less than 50% 50%-... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018838.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018838.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0111182b8115d495d48bd5d435b2847d020d25d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018838.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +28 +Product/Service Revenues - 2014 Over 2013 +Decreased +Service +Sailing/ Training School +Cabin/Campground/RV +Event Services/Venue +Tour Boat/Charter Fishing/Water Taxi +Water Toy Rental +Boat Rental +Boat Club +Pumpout +Used Boat Sales/Brokerage +New Boat Sales/Brokerage +Self-Service Repair +Haul-Out/Winterization Services +Boat Maintenance/Repair +Ship/Convenience Store +Commercial/Retail Lease Space +Restaurant +Fuel +Launch Ramp +Moorings +Dry Storage +Transient Slips +Leased... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018839.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018839.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae9bd78f3ac76d4e887c27004a4eb35fcbc8bd57 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018839.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +29 +The table that follows details whether or not marinas will post a gross profit for 2014, based on +marina size. Marina Gross Profit - Will Report a Gross Profit +No +Do Not Know +Yes +Marina Size +Small (1 - 99 Slips) +Medium (100 - 249 slips) +Large (250 - 749 slips) +Very Large (Over 750 slips) +% of Respondents +19.0% +16.0% +9.2% +11.0% +14.5% +17.0% +64.0% +14.0% +70.0% +14.5% +76.3% +11.0% +78.0% +14.5% +71.0% +The majority of small marinas (64%) reported that they would report a gross... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018840.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018840.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..00208f4ff9f176ad06d64366c8015c7bc3ff1f39 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018840.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +30 +marina sales have indicated that now is a good time to invest in a marina, despite the previous +recession and limited financing. Competitive Marinas +The most significant supply and demand indicators for the subject are rental and occupancy rates +experienced by directly competing properties. The operation of a pleasure craft marina provides +revenue sources which include a mix of various rental, sales and services for the pleasure craft +operators. We have then converted... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018841.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018841.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..00208f4ff9f176ad06d64366c8015c7bc3ff1f39 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018841.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +30 +marina sales have indicated that now is a good time to invest in a marina, despite the previous +recession and limited financing. Competitive Marinas +The most significant supply and demand indicators for the subject are rental and occupancy rates +experienced by directly competing properties. The operation of a pleasure craft marina provides +revenue sources which include a mix of various rental, sales and services for the pleasure craft +operators. We have then converted... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018842.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018842.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d0b42508ec05ddba74f66e620aa40edfb70cc09 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018842.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +31 +Competitive Marinas +The competitive marina rates are shown on the page that follows. Thomas +Marina +Sapphire Beach Resort and +Marina +6720 Estate Smith Bay +St. Thomas, VI +of Wet +Slips +67 +Compass Point Marina +41-6-1 & 41-7 Estate Frydenhoj +St. Annual +Wet Slip +Rental/LF Services/Amenities +$216.00 Marina is located in a beachfront resort +property. Some of +<30' +31'-40' +41'-50' +>50' +$18.30 +$16.61 +$16.89 +$17.67 +Yacht Haven Grande +Long Bay Rd, Charlotte Amalie +St. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018843.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018843.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4e471e8fe0d14ecda56a42fe52f85c935d25162 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018843.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +32 +Competitive Marinas - British Virgin Islands +of Wet +Marina +Slips +Soper's Hole Marina +45 +West End +Tortola, BVI +Length +<80' +>80' +Avg. Monthly +Wet Slip +Rental/LF +$38.02 +$57.03 +Nany Cay +Tortola, BVI +180 +35'-49 +50'-100 +<100' +T-Head +$43.95 +$51.86 +$78.32 +$71.78 +Virgin Gorda Yacht Harbor +St Thomas Bay +Virgin Gorda, BVI +120 +<55' +56'-79 +<80' +$34.98 +$76.04 +$83.65 +Avg. Annual +Wet Slip +Rental/LF Services/Amenities +$456.25 +Mixed-use marina property that contains +$684.38 +shops,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018844.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018844.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..061541ae8347a499daf87987b0a3cc1fd9355bfb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018844.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +Maps of Competitive Marinas +St. King Airport # +Charlotte +Amalie +Charlotte- +Amalie East,- +Marriott's: +Frenchman's Cove +0210 +i renchman'S Ree +her nina t +St Thomas +St Thomas-Redhook. Bay +St Thomas-Gruz Bay +Google +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +33 +Thatch Cay +Coral World Ocean Park +-Dreams Sugar +/Bay St +Druz Bay-Redhook: Boy +Cas +Cay-Mangro e +Lagoon +Marine. St Thornus-Redhook Bay +St Thomas-Cruz Bay +SUBJECT +St Jame +mane +St. Themas +Reserve and +East... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018845.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018845.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..754668f0241dd018269eddd6625008d7fd788029 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018845.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +34 +British Virgin Islands +Virgin Gorda +Jost Van Duke +-anish Town +hong ton +Parham Town +SUBJECT +Freshwater +Pond +Charlotte +-Amalies +al. Bay +Peter Island +Cruz Bai +Easy End +Estate Bovoni +Google +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +HOUSEOVERSIGHT018845 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018846.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018846.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..46748683e6143cafb24f60f16ed40c01e006f8fc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018846.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Marina Market Analysis +35 +Of the comparable marinas in St. Thomas, Yacht Haven Grande is the most superior in terms of +location, quality and amenities. Crown Bay Marina is slightly inferior to Yacht Haven Grande, but is still superior to the +subject in quality and amenities. Sapphire Beach Resort, Compass Point and Oasis Cove are all +considered to be inferior marinas to the subject based on location, quality and amenities offered. Nany Cay and Virgin +Gorda Yacht Harbor are slightly superior to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018847.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018847.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e1dd873acb845f7c69a1fdfc8628ce6c0b1b65b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018847.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Land Description and Analysis +36 +Property Analysis +Land Description and Analysis +Land Area Summary +Parcel ID +1-07702-0135-00 +1-07702-0134-00 +1-07702-0133-00 +1-07702-0198-00 +Total +Address +18A-1 Remainder Smith Bay +18B-1 Remainder Smith Bay +18B Remainder Smith Bay +18-W (filled land) +Source: Land survey by Brian Moseley dated 12/10/2010 +SF +9,583 +20,909 +61,855 +27,878 +120,226 +Acres +0.22 +0.48 +1.42 +0.64 +2.76 +Note that Parcel No 18-W was originally submerged seabed in Vessup Bay; however, this area was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018848.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018848.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47ac788c893c0e7bc775341b2ddbe468c8f0e4ec --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018848.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Land Description and Analysis +37 +Land Description +Land Area +Source of Land Area +Primary Street Frontage +Shape +Corner +Water Frontage +Topography +Drainage +Environmental Hazards +Ground Stability +Flood Area Panel Number +Date +Zone +Description +Insurance Required? Zoning; Other Regulations +Zoning Jurisdiction +Zoning Designation +Description +Legally Conforming? Permitted Uses +Minimum Lot Area +Minimum Street Frontage (Feet) +Minimum Lot Width (Feet) +Minimum Front Setback (Feet) +Minimum Side Yard... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018849.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018849.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a8f07341eff5ca6e3e5aec7f8c71d75309fd1b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018849.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Land Description and Analysis +38 +are not experts in the interpretation of zoning ordinances. The subject site has 765 linear feet of frontage along Smith Bay Road. In addition, the subject has 846 +linear feet of water frontage along Vessup Bay. Easements, Encroachments and Restrictions +Based upon a review of the deed and property survey, there do not appear to be any easements, +encroachments, or restrictions that would adversely affect value. The subject's location along Smith +Bay Road in the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018850.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018850.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae097136dabb57f62206d77ef107f4db18079161 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018850.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Land Description and Analysis +39 +Cadastral Map +Smith Bay Rd +Red Hook Intermodel Martine Facility +FENT +Quewilighway 38 +Ivana Eudora Kean H 5h, School +1Th Bay-Rd +132 +Note that the area outlined in yellow above only includes the (upland) land area of the subject +property and not seabed beneath the marina. IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +HOUSEOVERSIGHT018850 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018851.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018851.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d487ccc5d61d07f6af3a5b899810d77c172e9a6f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018851.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Land Description and Analysis +Flood Map +ZONE X +ZONE AE +(EL 8) +ZONE AE +(EL9) +SMITH BAY ROAD +ZONE VE +(EL 10) +Vexsup Bay. ZONE VE +(EL 12) +VESSUP DRIVE +JANE Y +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +40 +JOINS PANEL +-ZONE VE +(EL 9) +COASTAL BARRIER +IDENTIFIED 11/16/1990 +(SEE COASTAL BARRIER LEGEND) +20270 N +fire +HOUSEOVERSIGHT018851 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018852.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018852.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2b8774001e75c8bbaf040e6f10d13c8c32970f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018852.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Land Description and Analysis +Site Plan +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +41 +COREAN TIGHT BARAOR +irr. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018853.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018853.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f0250e2d78231837396f849e5a649159b6aab611 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018853.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Improvements Description and Analysis +42 +Improvements Description and Analysis +The subject is an existing 250-slip marina with 5 commercial buildings containing a mixture of retail +and office space types. The buildings contain 48,661 square feet of rentable area and were +constructed in multiple stages; with the majority of the construction completed in 1993. The +commercial space is 85% leased as of the effective appraisal date. The property also includes 3.2 acres of seabed under the marina... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018854.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018854.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0049c747eb59eff17a48715a95a4197e6cf10179 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018854.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Improvements Description and Analysis +43 +Construction Details +Foundation +Structural Frame +Corridor +Exterior Walls +Windows +Roof +Interior Finishes +Reinforced concrete footings +Steel frame +Exterior breezeways +Painted mansory on the lower levels, wood-siding on the upper levels +Fixed commercial glass with wooden hurricane shutters +Pitched with standing seam metal roof +The subject property contains a total GBA of 72,808 and a rentable area of +48,652. Floors +Walls +Ceilings +Combination of carpet,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018855.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018855.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..17931a1fb471552cb6c3836f66d155afa3fadd61 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018855.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Improvements Description and Analysis +44 +Improvements Analysis - Building Improvements +Quality and Condition +The quality and condition of the subject is considered to be superior to that of competing properties. The interior and exterior building improvements are considered to be of good quality and in good +condition based on our inspection. Functional Utility +The improvements appear to be adequately suited to their current use, and there do not appear to be +any significant items of functional... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018856.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018856.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d037cabb271ba3ebe6317c34da6e036258142333 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018856.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Improvements Description and Analysis +45 +Capital Expenditures +Item +Transformer +Exterior stairwell repairs +Total +Percent Applied +Net Total +Values expressed in United States Dollars +Year 1 +$10,000 +$30,000 +$40,000 +100% +$40,000 +ADA Compliance +Based on our inspection and information provided, we are not aware of any ADA issues. However, we +are not expert in ADA matters, and further study by an appropriately qualified professional would be +recommended to assess ADA compliance. Hazardous Substances +An... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018857.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018857.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0c7550b8f162c1bab0a0e104cdbb26091e8f2189 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018857.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Improvements Description and Analysis +46 +Overall, the quality, condition, and functional utility of the improvements are above average for their +age and location. The subject benefits from good access and visibility from both the waterfront and +the main thoroughfare of Smith Bay Road. In addition, the overall quality and condition of the subject +is above average for this market. Improvement Analysis - Marina +The marina currently contains 105 wet slips, although that number can vary somewhat... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018858.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018858.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d4af0c146cb70f6c8c451cec0fac0a0a0404397f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018858.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Improvements Description and Analysis +Front exterior of commercial building +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +@Moray Moronse +Side exterior of commercial building +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Rear exterior of commercial building from marina dock +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +47 +Front and side exterior of commercial building +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Rear and side exterior of commercial building +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Rear exterior... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018859.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018859.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6460d6953acea7cf6fa3fe72e9bfb1288d00f3d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018859.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Improvements Description and Analysis +48 +Interior of management office +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Bathrooms for marina tenants +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Interior of restaurant space +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Interior of general retail space +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Interior of general retail space +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Interior of general retail space +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +irr. IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +HOUSEOVERSIGHT018859 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018860.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018860.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a00ca8a7ac379a59c33175e94326cf79820efac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018860.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Improvements Description and Analysis +49 +Interior of restaurant space +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Interior of restaurant space +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Interior of vacant office space +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Interior of occupied office space +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +GP: +Interior of restaurant space +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Interior of restaurant space +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +irr. IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +HOUSEOVERSIGHT018860 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018861.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018861.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..375f306ffc031496a1a3754d6bef7df4555437cb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018861.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Improvements Description and Analysis +50 +Typical marina dock +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Marina dock looking back to main commercial building +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Fuel dock +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Close-up of dock surface +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Overview of marina dock +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +Street view of Smith Bay Road looking northeast +(Photo Taken on November 25, 2015) +irr. IGY American Yacht Harbor Marina +HOUSEOVERSIGHT018861 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018862.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018862.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4065db1f551a8830130c88af4a6e45c281347a97 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018862.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Prosecutor's home torched after cameras disabled Page 2 +Boards of Elections delay in counting votes violates V.I. Code Page 2 +ONE DOLLAR +www.virginislandsdailynews.com +ISSN 2159-3019 +TIMES +CHAN CANO +The Virgin Islands +09543 00802 +DAILY +Continuing +Excellence +Since 1930 +NEWS +A Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper +FRIDAY. Alvin +Williams Jr., +who +surrendered +to law +enforcement +officials +Thursday, +Alvin Williams Jr. and +did not run +for re-election +this year. Legislature. +arrested in federal +Daily News... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018863.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018863.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7467f842d8a6d2d61a8568667d2d322f976b1169 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018863.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +2 The Virgin Islands Daily News +'VIRGIN ISLANDS +Friday, November 9, 2012 +Prosecutor's home destroyed in suspected arson on St. Croix +By LOU MATTEI +Croix Fire Chief Angel Torres Sr. +home had been tampered with., +Roberson's home was located in an that he had not yet been fully briefed +Daily News Staff +and Attorney General Vincent +"Someone cut the wires," he said. +isolated area. He said he believed +Frazer. +on the fire, but he had a deputy on +"The wires was pulled out and the +Roberson shared the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018864.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018864.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f817672137d10ad003cc1209eae4e8bf59d987a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018864.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Friday, November 9, 2012 +VIRGIN ISLANDS +The Virgin Islands Daily News 3 +Sen. Alvin Williams Jr. charged with +bribery, mail fraud and wire fraud +The measure was line-item vetoed by deJongh in +July 2009. Alvin Williams Jr. was arrest- +ed by federal agents Thursday and charged with bribery, +Campaign funds and false reports +From January 2006 to December 2011, Williams +and a legislative staff member failed to deposit cer- +Alvin +Williams Jr., 34 +Democrat +Senator, St. Thomas-St. +ohn bistric +The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018865.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018865.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..afc8e349271d9df3970190d88ca82520e76b4e9d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018865.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +42 The Virgin Islands Daily News +Daily News Photo by TIM CHAPMAN +Ivanna Eudora Kean High School volleyball player Chantell Grant goes up +for a kill in the Lady Rays 3-1 home win over the Ss. Peter & Paul Lady +Jaguars on Thursday. NASIPL +Refrigerator +Dryer +Ranges +lookions +Gas Stove +Sain ecs Steel +ADD aNCES +Best Savings In Town! Furniture +Plus +340-777-1288 +Across from +Charlotte Amalie High School +other negatively, unfortunately," +Blyden said. SPORTS +Friday, November 9, 2012 +Boras: Dodgers 'bought... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018866.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018866.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..118b48203c5eafe86b71f1a99ca18221c593a3e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018866.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +• 6 The Virgin Islands Daily News +VIRGIN ISLANDS +' Friday, November 9, 2012 +Boat captain arrested in 2011 death of parasailor +By LOU MATTE! THOMAS - Boat captain +Kyle Coleman was arrested +Wednesday on a charge that he +caused the 2011 death of a parasail- +or through misconduct, negligence +and inattention to his duties, the +U.S. Coleman, the captain of the motor +boat Turtle, was conducting para- +sailing excursions just south of +Water Island on Nov. 15, 2011, +according to a press release from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018867.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018867.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8f8cb43c027580b3d8aec400b4504a8b5be9580 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018867.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Friday, November 9, 2012 + VIRGIN ISLANDS +Daily News File Photo +Amrican Legion members salute as the national anthem is played at a Veterans Day program in Frederiksted. Events honor servicemen and veterans +By ALDETH LEWIN +Daily News Staff +Monday is Veterans Day, but the +whole month of November is +Military Appreciation Month, and a +series of activities are planned to +honor and pay tribute to those who +fought for our country. Members of American Legion Post +102 will be "teachers for a day"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018868.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018868.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9ba31112f692a0d7bfe4086a75a6a947f95bc46e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018868.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +10 The Virgin Islands Daily News +The police blotter is the V.I. Territorial Emergency Management +Agency's list of incidents and the +time they were reported to the +St. Croix +Charged: Possession of +stolen property +Wednesday and charged with posses- +sion of stolen property. Weekes +Sr., owner of Weekes & Weekes +Bakery, quietly slipped away into the +arms of his Lord and Savior at home +with close family and friends by his +side. The second +Kydd, Brinya Kydd, Zion Weekes, +Britney Weekes, Shekinah... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018869.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018869.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8507de3ae876342d7268037666a977c13445ed4c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018869.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +24 The Virgin Islands Daily News +The Virgin Islands Daily News +Founded Aug. 1, 1930, by J. Antonio Jarvis and Ariel Melchior Sr. Published by Daily News Publishing Co. Lowe Davis, Executive Editor +Kevin Downey, Advertising Director +Ken E. Ryan, Production Director +Onneka Challenger, Circulation Director +Maurice Jadeson, Billing & Collections Manager +-EDITORIAL OBSERVER- +An invigorated second term +From The New York Times: +Early Wednesday moming, as sleep-deprived supporters rallied for a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018870.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018870.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b52079c27c9ad1055f1aa98fbcee0e3a8e4c6f04 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018870.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Friday, November 9, 2012 +OPINIONS +Happy days, even with the cliff +La Di Dah Di Dah ... +gist John Weaver worried about +We have been through a lot, people. Gail Collins +becoming "a shrinking regional party +But now the presidential race is settled +of middle-aged and older white men. People on both +fund manager with an eight-figure +On Fox News, Bill O'Reilly moaned +sides worked heroically, and, on +that "the white establishment is now +Tuesday, their candidates behaved well. +the minority." +This... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018871.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018871.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a1bcbd8a3aaa9aa96d6f57a77337841a99624eae --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018871.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Former local hoops player making it on TV Page 39 College hoops tip off in style tonight Page 41 +COG +COMPREHENSIVE +ORTHOPAEDIC GLOBAL +St. John: Please telephone 779-2663 +-Meet Staff, Treatments, Services: www.COGVl.com +Voted Best Orthopaedic Care 2012 in the USVI +The Virgin Islands Daily News +Sports +Friday, November 9, 2012 +Alexander Lenard, M.D. Beare Certified Orthopasdie Juryson +Felleershira Trerngel +Orthopaedic Surgeen +Reposttise in, Tressarnea, +Spire & Spiro SAerosis +Please visit the COG... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018872.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018872.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c1c762877e7654d0831eae2499b0b92df658e692 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018872.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION +FOI / PA +DELETED PAGE INFORMATION SHEET +FOI/PA# 1203982-1 +Total Deleted Page (s) = 152 +Page 43 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 44 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 45 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 46 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 47 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 48 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 49 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 50 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 51 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 52 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 53 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 54 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 55 ~ b6; b7C; +Page +56 +~66; b7C; +Page +57 +~ b6; b7C; +Page +58 +~ 66; b7C; +Page 59 ~ b6; b7C; +Page +60 +~ 66; b7C; +Page 61 ~ b6; b7C; +Page +62 +~b6;... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018873.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018873.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3aa89ffaf2722acfb9f1080537d7b4e4b75bc146 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018873.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Page 144 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 145 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 146 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 150 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 152 ~ b6; b7C; +Page 250 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 251 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 252 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing +Order: +Page 253 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 254 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 255 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 257 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 258 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 259 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 260 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018874.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018874.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..71b3f3ea0752d6e074efe4697994148ccac3b9d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018874.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Page 300 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 301 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 302 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing +Order; +Page 303 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing +Order; +Page 304 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 305 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 306 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 307 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 308 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 309 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 310 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 311 ~ OTHER - Court Sealing Order; +Page 312 ~ OTHER -... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018876.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018876.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2dcf7c27a5c268f04b5042b3e784e0077c62dc60 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018876.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +09/06/06 +19:21: 34 +Title and Character of Case: +FD-192 +EPSTEIN, JEFFREY +Date Property Acquired: Source from which Property Acquired: +DET. 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Signature: +Date/Time:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018892.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018892.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e3f068d5a406c9f49b9fab158990338e070d355b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018892.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +(Rev. 01-31-2003) +FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION +Precedence: ROUTINE +To: Miami +Date: 07/24/2006 +Attn: +SSA +From: Miami +Squad PB-2, PBCRA +Contact: SA +Approved By: +Drafted By: +Case ID #: 31E-MM +Title: +JEFFREY, EPSTEIN; +278-MM-(87475-28003; +WSTA - CHILD PROSTITUTION +OPENAREOPEN) +MINS: 31 ALPHA +ORIGIN IN DATE 2/24/0.6 +Synopsis: To request case be opened and assigned. OT A SA +Details: From March 2005 through February 2006, the Palm +Beach County Police Department conducted an investigation +involving... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018893.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018893.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac7edaa4164f4c9a5ad83882073feddd8d0b6cd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018893.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +To: +Miami +Re: +From: +Miami +31E-MM, 07/24/2006 +b6 +b7C +It is requested by SAL +captioned case be opened and assigned. +that the above +2 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT018893 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018894.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018894.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..79862e4e11175ee3ecf8fa1b078825e881f62ccd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018894.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +obable Cause Affidavit +Palm Beach Police Department +Agency ORI# FLO 500600 +Police Case#: 05-368 (1) +Defendant: +Jeffrey Epstein +Race/Sex: +White Male +DOB: +01-20-1953 +Charges: +Unlawful Sexual Activity with a Minor (4) counts +Lewd and Lascivious Molestation +From March 15, 2005, through February 2006, the Palm Beach Police Department conducted a sexual +battery investigation involving Jeffrey Epstein, +and +Sworn taped statements were +taken from five victims and seventeen witnesses concerning massages... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018895.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018895.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6499ccf98c04c9697aa9e2b5f9d06c3fbcf27da7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018895.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +›bable Cause Affidavit +Palm Beach Police Department +Agency ORI# FLO 500600 +• +conversation occurred between +and whereas +reportedly told +she should say she was eighteen. It was later confirmed by the L +father that| +on February 6, 2005. According toL +father, +drove a pick up truck. +that if Jeff asked her age, +picked his daughter up +described Epstein's house as a two-story pink house with a Cadillac Escalade parked in the +driveway. She recalled that Jeff's house was on a dead end street. The male... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018896.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018896.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5decf0b94c9256764a3b91adbd796d3b199ba3c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018896.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +obable Cause Affidavit +Palm Beach Police Department +Agency ORI# FLO 500600 +massageL +vaginal area. +stated there was no penetration as the vibrator was on top of her underwear. +recalled Epstein ejaculating because he had to use the towel to wipe himself as he got off the table. She went back downstairs where she met with +said she +was paid three hundred dollars in cash from Epstein. Before she left, Epstein asked to leave her phone +number. Based on the above, trash pulls were established at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018897.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018897.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15424388054c0438e1f7e5be93f2fe70346d2f3b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018897.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +obable Cause Affidavit +Palm Beach Police Department +Agency ORI# FLO 500600 +• +(Unknown last name) and Tony (Unknown last name) picked | +up and she was taken to +Epstein's house. Upon her arrival to the house she was introduced to Epstein in the kitchen of the house. She +was also introduced to a white female known to her as +She was led upstairs to the main bedroom known +to her as Jeff Epstein's bedroom. +arranged the massage table and covered the table with a sheet. During the massage, +stated "He... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018898.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018898.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9caca7b8dadf4f0bcd974df8132fc22502a688c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018898.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +obable Cause Affidavit +Palm Beach Police Department +Agency ORI# FLO 500600 +when he was going to travel to Palm Beach. +said when Epstein announces to his assistant, +that +he is traveling to Palm Beach, +would then contact +to arrange girls to "work" for Epstein. +stated that once her parents discovered that she was visiting Epstein, they disapproved of the encounters with him +and she stopped. +further stated that +still tries to call +'s house and leaves messages. Sgt Frick entered the room and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018899.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018899.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7c4c0b5fa6817d9ad4a4e03de601871a89702ce8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018899.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +obable Cause Affidavit +Palm Beach Police Department +Agency ORI# FLO 500600 +for Jeff. She was told she would have to provide a massage to Jeff. +stated upon her arrival to the house +she was brought to the kitchen area by +They met with the house chef who was already in the kitchen +area. +stated +would wait for her in the kitchen. L +was introduced to +, Jeff's +assistant, who brought her upstairs to the master bedroom. +prepared the room and massage table for a +massage. She advised sometime during the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018900.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018900.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8d96974842c35759d17a8b683addaa846cce085 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018900.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +obable Cause Affidavit +Palm Beach Police Department +Agency ORI# FLO 500600 +introduced to +and Epstein. She was taken upstairs to a bedroom by +who set the room up with a +massage bed and brought out the oils to use. Epstein then entered the room wearing a towel. Both +and Epstein had a verbal +disagreement, at which time she left without being paid. L +Tadvised that several weeks later she agreed to be taken a second time +by +Once they arrived at the residence, +sat in the kitchen and +took her +upstairs... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018901.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018901.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8cc20d41895b640388ad84144d753376f0c29967 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/18/house-oversight-018901.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +house-oversight-018901 + +obable Cause Affidavit +Palm Beach Police Department +Agency ORI# FLO 500600 +table, straddling Epstein to massage his back. While doing this her buttocks were touching Epsteins. +was instructed to return to the ground at which time Epstein turned to have his chest rubbed. Epstein removed a large white vibrator which +was next to the massage table and turned it on. +stated Epstein began rubbing the vibrator over her thong +underwear on her vaginal area. Shortly thereafter,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019407.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019407.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..53adbe344fcd80c088f8be0b783a11b247db2fb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019407.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Importance: +Jay Lefkowitz +3/8/2011 4:40:35 PM +Michael S. Sitrick| +Fw: +High +1; Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Privileged - Redacted +Original Message +From: +Jay Lefkowitz +Sent: 03/08/2011 10:39 AM CST +To: +"Wolfe, Alexandra" +Subject: Re: +Alexandra, +I have not been able to respond to your questions because Mr. Best, +Jay +---- Original Message +From: +"wolfe, +"ATexandra" +Sent: 03/07/2011 02:04 PM EST +To: Jay Lefkowitz +Subject: RE: +Dear Mr. Is he spending more time on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019409.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019409.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c619bc4dbb11be42c6240b7de40701791bd24bb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019409.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Importance: +Jay Lefkowitz +3/8/2011 4:41:04 PM +Michael S. Sitrick I +Fw: Alexandra Wolfe called from Newsweek +• 1; Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] +High +--- Original Message +—-——— +From: Kristin Andersen +Sent: 03/08/2011 11:09 +AM EST +To: Jay Lefkowitz +subject: Alexandra Wolfe called from Newsweek +Privileged - Redacted +-- Forwarded by Kristin Andersen/New +York/Kirkland-Ellis on 03/08/2011 11:05 AM +- - - - +"Wolfe, +Alexandra +To +"Jay Lefkowitz" +cc +subject +03/07/201 +1... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019410.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019410.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..acdbdd1f11d0ac8e15f2fa76e30edbc880da3c29 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019410.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +too lenient or too harsh and why? +-What is his side of the story and have people been +supportive? +-Is he continuing the charity initiatives he started +with Bill Clinton, etc? +-----original Message-- +From: Jay Lefkowitz [mailto: +Sent: Mon 3/7/2011 12:18 PM +To: Wolfe, Alexandra +Subject: +Dear Ms. Wolfe, +I understand you have some questions about my client +Jeffrey Epstein. Given that much of the press coverage +surrounding Mr. My number is +Thank you, +Jay + +The information contained +in this... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019411.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019411.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..29201088eb36a208e2bc6e03858e30e2b3a29e77 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019411.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +If you have received this +communication in error, please notify us immediately by +return e-mail or by e-mail to postmaster@kirkland.com, and +destroy this communication and all copies thereof, +including all attachments. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019412.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019412.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..44f4778e0c32d74e204618418d0f0e5fc1100dfc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019412.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Date: +Subject: +From: +To: +Monday, August 26 2013 02:46 PM +FW: Press Snapshot: Monday, August 26th, 2013 +Boris Nikolic < +Jeffrey Epstein ; +Attachments: image001.jpg; image002.jpg +See good article re balmer below. Still awaiting for call reply +Sent from my Windows Phone +From: John Pinette +Sent: 8/26/2013 4:17 PM +To: Bill Gates +Cc: DL-Press Snapshot +Subject: Press Snapshot: Monday, August 26th, 2013 +bgC3 Press Snapshot +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019412 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019413.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019413.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f355c85a36b9a5b6ef425fb2cbe15de492bed5b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019413.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Headline +Journalist +Outlet +Energy +Nuclear Operator Raises Alarm on Crisis +The New Nuclear Craze +Pipeline-Capacity Squeeze Reroutes Crude Oil +U.S. Electrical Grid on the Edge of Failure +Hiroko Tabuchi +Mark Bittman +Russell Gold +Jeff Tollefson +New York Times +New York Times +Wall Street Journal +Nature +Technology +Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden +Than Portrayed by the Company +Kara Swisher +All Things D +The Decline of E-Empires +Paul Krugman +New York Times +As Amazon Stretches, Seattle's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019414.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019414.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5622fb048f4a00cd9060fd161cf54a2e486ebc57 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019414.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Energy - Full text articles +Nuclear Operator Raises Alarm on Crisis +Hiroko Tabuchi - New York Times +The operator of Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear power plant sounded the alarm on the gravity of the deepening crisis of +containment at the coastal site on Friday, saying that there are more than 200,000 tons of radioactive water in makeshift +tanks vulnerable to leaks, with no reliable way to check on them or anywhere to transfer the water. The latest disclosures add to a long list of recent... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019415.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019415.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf3557b9832bf5285f1d58e83261c8c5cea49a86 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019415.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Experts have said they suspect that more contaminated water is seeping out from under the melted-down reactors into the +groundwater and the Pacific. "That prospect scares me," Michio Aoyama, a senior scientist in the Oceanography and Geochemistry Research +Department at the government-affiliated Meteorological Research Institute, said in an interview this month. "It's the ultimate, worst-case scenario," Professor Aoyama said. Back to top +The New Nuclear Craze +Mark Bittman - New York Times +There... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019416.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019416.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7858a4dc43cc7c21a5e015051186716fe7d666a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019416.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +And nuclear power's externalities could exceed those for any +other form of power generation except coal. It's likely that no new nuclear plants will be built before true renewables are able to take the +place of scary, highly damaging energy sources. Which brings us full circle: the new proponents of nuclear power say that since nuclear power is arguably preferable to coal, +maybe we should subsidize the building of new plants. These technologies remain relatively small - non- +hydro renewables... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019417.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019417.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..073e718bda2a5d8d83e94443782f040a33462130 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019417.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +On the Move +The amount of crude oil +transported by rail, road and +water skyrocketed in 2012. +400 million barrels +300- +200 +100 +08 109 +10 11. 12 +Source: Encegy Information Administratico +The Wall Street Jooral +U.S. oil production has reached its highest level in two decades, while imports have fallen dramatically. A system built to +import oil and deliver it to coastal refineries has become ill-equipped to handle rising production in Texas, North Dakota and +Canada's Alberta province. "All of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019418.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019418.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae861f2e43859ac9e09ba8be1c51e33762231881 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019418.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-019418 + +In July, the Texas transportation department decided to convert 83 miles of state road in six oil-boom counties from +pavement to gravel, to reduce repair costs and slow traffic. Trucks filled with Eagle Ford crude are also heading 100 miles west to a barge canal. The first barge of crude departed in +September 2011, heading south toward the Gulf of Mexico and refineries near Houston. Now the canal moves 1.6 million +barrels a month, says Jennifer Stastny, executive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019419.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019419.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1735212a0f066f55919762a6e4720174fb143f80 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019419.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-019419 + +published today in Nature Physics, is that spatial networks are necessarily dependent on any number of critical nodes +whose failure can lead to abrupt — and unpredictable — collapse 1. The electric grid, which operates as a series of networks that are defined by geography, is a prime example, says Havlin. "Whenever you have such dependencies in the system, failure in one place leads to failure in another place, which +cascades into collapse." +The warning comes ten years... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019420.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019420.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6d478b4f4fec393b403280a24027135ee44f986d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019420.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Instead, sources said Ballmer's timeline had been moved up drastically - first by him and then the nine-member board, +including his longtime partner and Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates — after all agreed that it was best if he left +sooner than later. Interestingly, Ballmer actually indicated that he had planned on staying in his letter about his impending departure, noting: +"My original thoughts on timing would have had my retirement happen in the middle of our transformation to a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019421.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019421.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac4b2bb2aecd1e52893bf42601fa3973065e4b52 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019421.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +house-oversight-019421 + +As I wrote in mid-July: "Microsoft had a bad fourth quarter, mostly because many people are not using PCs any more. Missed profit expectations, missed revenue, missed all over the ying-yang." +With the prospect that the next quarter could be weaker still and with numerous reports of late that there has been slowing of +adoption from its new flagship Windows 8 offering, Ballmer and the board finally aligned to move his departure date sooner. Most critical to that decision,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019422.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019422.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7fe2f644eab4a11df8f2a4d9b1f6a5e990eab42b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019422.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-019422 + +First, about network externalities: Consider the state of the computer industry circa 2000, when Microsoft's share price hit its +peak and the company seemed utterly dominant. Remember the T-shirts depicting Bill Gates as a Borg (part of the hive +mind from "Star Trek"), with the legend, "Resistance is futile. Remember when Microsoft was at +the center of concerns about antitrust enforcement? By all accounts, Apple computers were better than PCs +using Windows as their... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019423.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019423.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c1d0b8d9b75e9ba37c704ff70bde862399597245 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019423.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +State Budgets and Healthcare costs - Full text articles +How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater +Nina Bernstein - New York Times +It is one of the most common components of emergency medicine: an intravenous bag of sterile saltwater. Yet there is nothing either cheap or simple about its ultimate cost, as I learned when I tried to trace the commercial path of IV +bags from the factory to the veins of more than 100 patients struck by a May 2012 outbreak of food poisoning in upstate New +York.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019424.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019424.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aac8886e7a6c5ccf16b38a8ef6eda486c20d82da --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019424.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Few hospitals negotiate these deals themselves. The top three group-purchasing organizations now handle contracts for more than half of all institutional medical supplies +sold in the United States, including the IVs used in the food-poisoning case, which were bought and taken by truck to +regional warehouses by big distributors. Debbie Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Cardinal Health, one of the three +largest distributors, said she could not discuss costs or prices under "disclosure rules relative to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019425.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019425.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01db13845f09063fbbf63ff725af42a625984a9c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019425.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Tricia O'Malley, a spokeswoman for the hospital, would not disclose the price it pays per IV bag or break down the therapy +charge, which she called the hospital's "private pay rate," or the sticker price charged to people without insurance. She said +she could not explain why patients covered by Medicaid were billed at all. Eventually the head of the family, an electrician's helper who speaks little English, complained to HealthFirst, the Medicaid +H.M.O. At White Plains Hospital, a patient with... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019426.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019426.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6ce239cc2e0e486a5fbabba5761729de01358ab4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019426.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +house-oversight-019426 + +"Even though we're testing now, once you actually have the system up, you don't know what the bugs will be," said Amy +Fauver, spokeswoman for Cover Oregon, the state agency implementing the law there. "It's a complex system, and there's a lot of navigation that needs to happen," said Oscar Hidalgo, a spokesman for Covered +California. He said the agency will know by early September whether the system will be ready in time. Officials with the District of Columbia's Health... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019427.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019427.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..354a1663c2b8618bf018f7aa3d4fa97f4783afa5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019427.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +State Medicaid programs, which typically serve low-income individuals, are also undergoing testing with the federal data +hub. "It's a concern that we're testing this late," said Tom Betlach, who runs the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. Given the October 1st start date, I don't know +much of it will be an iterative process." +Back to top +80 House members: Shutdown better than Obamacare +Charles Babington - Associated Press +More than one-third of House Republicans urged their leader... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019428.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019428.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b82436a8afef9bdcea839e4b50001eebae184d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019428.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +No breaking news +Back to top +Philanthropy - Full text articles +Philanthropy: the givers club +Cordelia Jenkins - Livemint and the Wall Street Journal +On Friday, around 60 prospective philanthropists attended the "First Givers Club" summit in Delhi run by the online +philanthropic donation forum Givelndia. While the club has existed in Mumbai since 2010, said Dhaval Udani, Givelndia's +CEO, this was their first foray into the capital city. "With this club, we wanted to create a platform for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019429.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019429.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..578054db8d952a5a9f757e93dddac8b8cf8f56eb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019429.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +And it has started moving." +Anu Aga led Thermax Ltd from 1996-2004, after retirement she remains on the company's board of directors. The +chairperson of TFI (Teach For India) was nominated to Rajya Sabha in 2012. We who live in India, we become quite insensitive to seeing poor people, but he kept saying a substantial part +of our wealth has to go to charity." +"It started in a very small way, it's not as if I gave away crores and crores at once. "We have six schools, now this is done by the CSR... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019430.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019430.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f11f78a65c4dceff6dbf59292cde55f3f7b895d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019430.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +house-oversight-019430 + +The biggest network we use is the Givelndia network. I +don't think that scale up would be able to happen if we hadn't leveraged the GiveIndia team." +Back to top +Global Health and Development - Full text articles +Pat on the back or force for good: what purpose do development awards serve? Mark Tran - Guardian blog +Divyesh Thakkar has just returned from refugee camps in Ethiopia, where he was surprised to see portable solar lanterns +designed by his company still in use... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019431.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019431.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..827982b3751a3b701476da9d4f286971f4f7b96d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019431.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-019431 + +Calestous Juma, international development professor at the Kennedy school of government and a nominator, judge and +promoter of new types of prizes, sees awards as part of a complex ecology of financing innovation that includes many other +instruments. Yet it is driven by the instinct of empathy that makes us human," +said Juma, author of The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa. "Many organisations are launching them without thinking +carefully about what prizes... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019432.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019432.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..436dd9f829e1c8bdafbb692161177b0986d48bad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019432.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Of the 500 or so students who have graduated from the program, three quarters have gone +on to top-tier colleges, 30 percent of them to the Ivy League. Among LEDA's 2012 graduates alone, 19 gained admission to +Princeton, 11 to Georgetown and 6 to the University of Pennsylvania. Last week I took a walk around Red Hook, Brooklyn, with Joshua El-Bey, a LEDA graduate who was leaving in a few days +for his sophomore year at Yale. His family struggled as he grew up, moving often and ultimately landing... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019433.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019433.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4623fe91d5247e918aad6e1d8af56c77b3841451 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019433.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +"Datapalooza." Here's the reference: +"New college ratings will help students compare the value offered by different colleges," the fact sheet said. "The +Department of Education will enlist entrepreneurs and technology leaders with a 'Datapalooza' to catalyze new private- +sector tools, services, and apps to help students evaluate and select colleges. The effort will be complemented by earnings +information by college that will be released for the first time on [the] administration's College... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019434.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019434.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d61fded4e325ab673797d37a3bb3f3fa7b34f2f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019434.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The fact sheet +points to two proposals: one that requires money, and one that doesn't. A "First in the World" fund of $260 million, +presumably requiring congressional approval, would "test and evaluate innovative approaches to higher education that +yield dramatically better outcomes." Education officials liken this to a $650 million "Investing in Innovation" fund created +under the 2009 stimulus law that has been used as seed money for experiments in K-12 education. And the Education Department... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019435.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019435.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..219b547885ac6d6dca6d6e8717a0a57f0a6e21b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019435.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Opportunity +And I use the word clientele to make a final point: innovation in the MOOC world will not just come from educators, but from +any organization that sees the value of massive online and offline courseware. "Massive Online Offline Communities" seems +more like it. Back to top +Women and Children - Full text articles +Indian Police Arrest Suspects in Two Gang Rapes +Sean Mclain and Khushita Vasan - Wall Street Journal +Indian police Sunday were holding 10 men suspected of involvement in two... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019436.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019436.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..04ac5e7bd329efd3e3007d09bad9d4b510720958 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019436.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Pradhan, a police official in Jharkhand. "Then they took her to the bush and raped her one by one while others stood watch," he said. +ofed until Feday where ice superigating repos of highway robber discovered aphan of ay +then did she report the rape," Mr. Back to top +Is there any space in the development debate for African experts? Andrew Quinn - Guardian blog +At a 2012 TEDxChange conference in Berlin, African women's development fund CEO Theo Sowa turned the spotlight on +an uncomfortable... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019437.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019437.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..510664fb492f94fbe2f89b1e7229ad63cb2e094d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019437.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +For our first New Voices Fellowship meeting in Johannesburg in June, we set up a series of training sessions on how to +handle media interviews, how to behave on camera, and how to build an online presence. One fellow, +an expert on maternal health from Tanzania, found new confidence in the fact that alongside her medical degrees she has +personal experience as an African mother. At Aspen, we +will be recruiting our next class of New Voices fellows starting mid-September, and look forward to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019438.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019438.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a0abd2695c237c111e316901971bf29cc6c0c031 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019438.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +For Care and AJWS, the logical route is to work through local partners familiar with regional conditions and practices, and +based where the pressure points are. The UN high-level panel appointed by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, to look at development targets to replace the +millennium development goals when they expire in 2015, has urged the recognition of child marriage as a key indicator of +female empowerment. In another sign that child marriage is moving up the development agenda,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019439.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019439.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f3b2652d6a8a88360ffe8c0c7aec6d2528bed2fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019439.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +I guess be- +ing good friends with Peres and broker- +ing the accord that won Peres the Nobel +Peace Prize were not reasons enough +for Bill to celebrate. The Israeli branch +of the Jewish National Fund had agreed +Maureen +Dowd +to donate half a mil to the Clinton foun- +dation. Are we about to put the "For Rent" +sign back on the Lincoln Bedroom? And there's the sketchy in- +volvement of the Clintons' most prolific. +fund-raiser, Terry McAuliffe, and Hil- +lary's brother Tony Rodham in a ven- +ture,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019440.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019440.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..59f982b764c4f0193e429b8345c723f7c4c52854 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019440.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Deutsche Asset +& Wealth Management +Blanche Lark Christerson +Managing Director, Senior Wealth Planning Strategist +Tax Topics +2014-01 +01/29/14 +And the beat goes on... Last fall's 16-day government shutdown ended with legislation that President Obama signed in the wee +hours of October 17th +. Under that legislation, a bipartisan committee hammered out a budget agreement by +mid-December; Congress approved the agreement, and President Obama signed it into law. House and +Senate appropriations... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019441.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019441.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01c085fb5e09a237fac5af467736e27b22a09302 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019441.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +John Koskinen, the new IRS Commissioner, has many +challenges ahead of him, including restoring public confidence in the agency and boosting employee morale. National Taxpayer Advocate +Nina Olson has been the National Taxpayer Advocate since 2001. She heads up the Taxpayer Advocate +Service (TAS), which was created in 2000, and is an independent organization within the IRS. Olson +and the TAS are the taxpayer's "voice at the IRS." The TAS is designed to help taxpayers navigate issues +with the IRS... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019442.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019442.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b5a8f7275f5a59463ff353774df9eae365502bed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019442.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Olson suggests, Congress should change the way +it approaches the IRS's budget and fund the IRS at whatever level Congress believes will "maximize tax +compliance, particularly voluntary compliance, with due regard for protecting taxpayer rights and minimizing +taxpayer burden." +Changes afoot in New York? On January 21, 2014, New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) introduced his comprehensive Executive Budget +for New York's 2014-2015 fiscal year. The budget has a number of tax reform proposals,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019443.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019443.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1d3f59169f170e5536d2296f553be563548189d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019443.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +have no New York trustees, no property located in New York, and no New York-source income). Second, the bill would eliminate a "loophole" that allows so-called incomplete gift, non-grantor trusts +"INGs" or "DINGs," if the trusts are created in Delaware) to completely avoid New York income tax; it +would do so by making the trust a "grantor trust" for New York income tax purposes - meaning that the +creator of the trust would be taxable on the trust's income for New York purposes, even though... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019444.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019444.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f15edd74e0b2ced681c9d05ada223f99728b0989 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019444.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +BIOLOGISTS DIG DEEPER +Canada's new Biotron superlab contains miniature chunks of the natural world that +will help us predict the impact of climate change on living organisms +BY LINDSAY BORTHWICK +Annual per capita water consumption in the United +States: 660,430 gallons. In China: 184, +GROUP OF PLANT SCIENTISTS GATHERED IN VIENNA IN 2005 AT THE +International Botanical Congress. Hüner had begun work on his Biotron Institute for +Experimental Climate Change Research in 1999. In early 2008 it will... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019445.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019445.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1aded9a2bda90b8fc488783c9ee4347abcdbad26 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019445.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +The Biotron, +Hüner says, is "as close as you +can get to nature [in a lab]." +The Biotron will help integrate +biology into the scientific study of +global warming. The Biotron, scientifically +speaking, is in a different league. The superlaboratory is a +joint project of the University of +Western Ontario, the University +of Guelph, Ontario, and Agricul- +ture and Agri-Food Canada, a +federal agency. Temperature in the +Researchers will vie for access to +the Biotron much as physicists compete +to use the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019446.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019446.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc05236bff9e7fdcba3f440333c27b3d59fcc3f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019446.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Date: +Subject: +From: +To: +CC: +Dear Unik, +Friday, June 22 2012 11:08 PM +From Christina: Fwd: Project in Haiti: CEFOTAJ, SA +Jeffrey Epstein < jeffreyepsteinorg@gmail.com > +Jeffrey Epstein ; Cecile de Jongh 1 +>; +Attachments: DSC0418.JPG; DSC0419.JPG; DSC0424.JPG; Cefotaj Business Plan Final 5-18-11(1).docx +It was a pleasure to speak with you today. As mentioned, I am forwarding you this project in Haiti which looks very inspiring. Sincerely, +Christina +Media/PR +- Forwarded... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019447.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019447.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cec815288a9122f2e2bcdcdb7ba94e10bfeee082 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019447.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +If you require additional information, please feel free to contact us at +. We look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, +Marlene Edme +President +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019447 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019448.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019448.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8347d6ca14e7db5329cb107e20e2bc6860f4a5d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019448.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +IMAM +CEFOTAJ +centre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est Inc +CEFOTAJ Business +Proposal +Jacmel, Haiti +PO Box 666 Brentwood, NY 11717 • Phone (631) 273-4100 • Fax (631) 273-4111 • yair@cefotaj.org +www.cefotaj.org +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019448 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019449.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019449.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fb5b7c4e3c501e9231c8b648dd3ae7690d758994 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019449.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +2 +IMMMM +CEFOTAJ +entre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est In +Table of Contents +Executive Summary. Country Profile Background +General Geographical and Macroeconomic Situation. U.S. and Haiti Relationship +Haiti before the Earthquake in 2010. Haiti after the Earthquake in 2010. Appendix +3 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6 +7 +7 +..8 +8 +.9 +10 +11 +.12 +12 +16 +PO Box 666 Brentwood, NY 11717 +Phone (631) 273-4100 • Fax (631) 273-4111 • yair@cefotaj.org • www.cefotaj.org +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019449 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019450.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019450.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..69cb702c25e2a9f43be8575bb156caad805ab16b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019450.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +3 +CEFOTAJ +entre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est In +Executive Summary +For Haiti to become an economically independent nation from donors and foreign aid there needs +to be support for private industry to establish itself and flourish. At one point in its history, Haiti +was a market leader in the textile industry supplying quality products. Currently there is an +opportunity to provide sustainable employment for Haitians with the right training to develop an +industry to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019451.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019451.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a11a6722450292bb8862d7cfc4778cb07a0a8738 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019451.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +4 +IMMM +CEFOTAJ +entre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est In +Introduction +Background +Investment into another country or internalization is a very important and scrupulous decision that +a business has to make. As a rule, developing countries seek to attract investors in order to gain +FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) and acquire technology. These factors include the following: +• an area's business climate; education and training strengths; +• labor unionization; attitudes of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019452.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019452.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb4aa8b71525662d1d328c729e4dbcfef4076af3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019452.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +5 +IMAM +CEFOTAJ +entre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est In +Country Profile Background +General Geographical and Macroeconomic Situation +Haiti (Republic of Haiti) is located on the western part of the island of Hispaniola (Greater +Antillean archipelago in the Caribbean Sea). Haiti shares the island with the Dominican Republic. The geographical characteristics are follows: +• Area: total: 27,750 sq km; land - 27,560 sq km; water - 190 sq km; +• Area-comparative: slightly... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019453.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019453.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e8d8f1042cdbc4138f1da3b1b736b4f265843e47 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019453.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +6 +CEFOTAJ +centre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est Inc +U.S. and Haiti Relationship +Long-term relationships between the U.S. and Haiti have been developed. Port-au-Prince is less than 2 hours by air from Miami +(approximately 600 miles southeast of the coast of Florida). Moreover, there are flights to New +York and Fort Lauderdale. Moreover, The World Economic +Forum ranked Haiti last in its 2003 Global Competitiveness Report (Global Security, n.d.; CFI, +2010). That is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019454.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019454.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77db624eb808211affd0de5aa9513621a7721787 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019454.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +7 +CEFOTAJ +Centre De Formation Technique Pour +-'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est Inc +• The tax code includes a withholding tax provision that discriminates against foreign +investors (PRS Group 2002, PRS Group 2003, PRS Group, 2005, PRS Group, 2009; +USAID, 2006). Investment in the public health sector requires +authorization from the Ministry of Public Health and Population. Investment in agriculture is +subject to the Ministry of Agriculture's approval. Exploiting mineral and energy resources... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019455.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019455.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc548fd5279ee2302b6127aa9068736d8dfb1dde --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019455.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +8 +CEFOTAJ +entre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est In +Project Overview +Description +Haitian manufacturing has been well known in the world. As recently as the mid 1980's, Haiti was +known as the staple for baseball production. After labor unrests occurred, corporations moved +their operations out of Haiti to China and other countries. The Centre de Formation Technique pour L'Avancement des Jeunes du Sud-est (CEFOTAJ) was +created by members who trace their roots to the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019456.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019456.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..31097505c23deaa289b3317b16e8c1f3309bae78 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019456.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +9 +CEFOTAJ +centre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est Inc +• Mobilize the local population +• Workers technically trained for couture +• Promotion of couture in Haiti +• Establishment of a major element in the structure for bringing the assembly industry into the area +• Strengthening of institutional structures +SWOT Analysis +When considering market entrance strategy for the business, there were several opportunities and +threats that were considered before starting the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019457.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019457.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92c0daba05bc58a9fc420950b81705d2d10b5f08 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019457.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +10 +CEFOTAJ +centre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est Inc +Results +Research and Market (2010) research identified the global plan of South Korean company, Sae-A +Trading Company Limited, that has built an industrial park and garment making operation in Haiti +with the financial support of the World Bank's IFC financing arm and the U.S. Furthermore, A USAID funded Apparel Training +Center opened its doors in August 2010 to assist in the training of individuals to rebuild... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019458.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019458.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2bf7ef1b594323853b19a992a862b35c9b57c8eb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019458.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +11 +CEFOTAJ +centre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est Inc +After detailed evaluation of the overall situation in the country and methods of community +development, CEFOTAJ came to the following expected results indicated in the following sections: +Training Plan +This project's goal is to improve the living conditions of urban young people. This project consists particularly in training +them in handling of scissors, cutting of canvas, training in patterns, use of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019459.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019459.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..542d7614fc941e7f1598f1173811369676713392 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019459.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +12 +IMMMM +CEFOTAJ +Centre De Formation Technique Pour +-'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est Inc +• Level of education: primary school equivalency for the first two groups +• Completion of secondary-school equivalency for the third group +• Admission examination designed to evaluate the applicants' understanding of geometric and +mathematical concepts +• Age level: 18 to 35 +A certificate will be issued to students who pass the final examination after completing their +training. Execution... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019460.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019460.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d5e38860feeef4c8c362c5b28f1ded3a740c098b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019460.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +13 +CEFOTAJ +Lenancement destines See +Sud'Est Inc +The costs, which are listed in USD, are broken down as follows: +A. Administration +Secretary +Instructor +Security guard (morning/evening) +Technician for maintenance +Cleaning person +Program Director +Executive Director +Total +Amount +B. Current Expenses +Wired telephone +Electricity +Drinking water +Internet +Television +Total +c. Furniture +Pattern tables +Computer tables +Metal folding chairs +Office chair +Ordinary desk +Large filing cabinets +Small filing... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019461.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019461.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..adf0c2bc79a33e38fe3c4eaca016ed3ee7312e99 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019461.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +DIDACTIC MATERIAL +Whole computer +Calculator +Ruler 18" +Ruler 36" +Ruler 48" +Ruler 60" +Ruler 72" +Regular compass +Square large +Square small +Tape measure +Hip curve 24" +Hip curve 18" +Hip curve 12" +Iron + Table +Scissors 6" +Scissors 8" +Scissors 10" +Scissors 12" +Pattern scissors +White paper for patterns (rolls) +Green paper for patterns (rolls) +Cleaning scissors (small) +Cutter for Information cards +Pattern cutter +Pattern notcher +Total +MMMMM +CEFOTAJ +entre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019462.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019462.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5dde2136e07bb4ba148284526674e8afecea22e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019462.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +15 +MMMMM +CEFOTAJ +entre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est Inc +Other accessories +Regular sewing machine +Regular Merrow Machine +3 thread Merrow Machine +5 thread Merrow Machine +Double needle sewing machine +Button hole machine Reg +Elastic machine +Regular elastic machine +Hemming machine +Merrow Machine for delicate sewing +Special Buttonhole machine +Half body dress form size 4 +Half body dress form size 6 +Half body dress form size 8 +Sleeves for all shapes +Special attachment... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019463.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019463.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dbfec214bb4b0c53efac20845e21dbcba7d2518c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019463.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +16 +IMMM +CEFOTAJ +entre De Formation Technique Pou +'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est In +Appendix +Bracken, Amy (2010) Recycled trash to fuel Haiti. Business Opportunities with Haiti. Retrieved November 5, 2010, from +http://www.businessinhaiti.com/images/stories/pdffiles/HaitiataGlance.pdf?phpMy +CFI. (2010, Oct.) Private investment is key to Haiti reconstruction. Country Watch Retrieved November 4, 2010,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019464.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019464.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..388934beadb2fd7aa7c8cc568544c2fb199f8fb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019464.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +17 +IMMMM +CEFOTAJ +Centre De Formation Technique Pour +L'Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud'Est Inc. Marshall Plan for Haiti: Initial Project of the Global +Partnership for Development updated and revised version. Retrieved November 7, 2010, +from http://www.4cf.eu/pliki/MPh.pdf +Ozdenli, O. & Bennet, D. (2007). Retrieved November 8, +2010, from http://www.iamot.org/conference/index.php/ocs/4/paper/view/560/77 +PRS Group. (2002). Retrieved +November 8, 2010,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019465.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019465.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a97cf5d7c35e4f261b9e62681848e012d55c9b8a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019465.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Peggy Siegal [ +3/7/2013 2:03:11 PM +jeevacation@gmail.com +Fw: Oscar Diary +Importance: High +I am struggling thru this. Pe +--- Original Message ----- +From: Peggy Siegal +Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 08:51 AM +To: Peggy Siegal +Subject: Oscar Diary +It's Thursday morning on Wilshire Boulevard and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and sciences has just +opened it's doors for ticket pick-up for the 85th Oscar telecast. He announces +to the uniformed guard in a stage... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019466.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019466.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad02ec72c7ab9e6ea8a0e7a44d98e43a637f8cb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019466.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +We even applauded Bob putting his handprints in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese +Theater. Even Men prestent Chris Doda could not help Mark Boal, +Katherine Bigalow and Amy Pascal. Clearly the most +film in the race, this 27 year old theatrical mustcal seen by 60 million fans is now the talkolarizing +Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Amanda Segfried, Eddie Redmayne, Sasha Baron Cohen, Helena +Bonham Carter and Samanthe +Barks are making an historic one time live performance as part of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019467.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019467.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf4e2fb4b02e0f42a06009004b152378472605dc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019467.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +From: +Sent: +Darren Indyke +1/14/2015 11:43:26 PM +To: +Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Subject: +Bill Clinton pictured with Jeffrey Epstein's social fixer at Chelsea's wedding | Daily Mail Online +Attachments: +WebPage.pdf; Untitled attachment 272040.htm +Importance: +High +Privileged - Redacted +DARREN K. INDYKE, PLIC +575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor +New York, New York 10022 +Telephone: +Telecopier: +Mobile: +email: + +: + +The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019468.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019468.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..34ca069919920b861f4f01bd4d0e7f28a7bb833b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019468.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton pictured with Jeffrey Epstein's social fixer +at Chelsea's wedding AFTER severing links with disgraced pedophile +• Ghislaine Maxwell is accused in court papers of procuring girls for her former +boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein which she vehemently denies +• Bill Clinton had ties to Epstein, who flew the ex-president to Africa on his private jet +before the allegations were made +• Epstein was arrested in 2006 and was sentenced to 18 months in jail in 2008, serving +13 months +•... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019469.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019469.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bfa9a2a28252873260940e55b55e68480ce90ef6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019469.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Described as feeling like a 'family wedding', guests included former Secretary of State Madeleine +Albright, Terry McAuliffe, Governor of Virginia, and leading figure in the civil rights movement Vernon +Jordan. President Clinton had been so close to both to Epstein he had joined him on his private jet and stayed on +his private Caribbean island. Speaking to the Mail On Sunday in 2011, Virginia Roberts - who claims in court papers she was kept as +Epstein's 'sex slave' and forced to sleep with... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019470.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019470.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..67e7cabe4fab2c968067a2bd1ee191c2aca6cb2d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019470.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +hugs her as they attend a Manhattan bash on March 15, 2005 - the same day Palm Beach +police launched an investigation into his abuse of underage girls +'T'd have been about 17 at the time,' she said: 'I flew to the Caribbean with Jeffrey and then Ghislaine +Maxwell went to pick up Bill in a huge black helicopter that Jeffrey had bought her. +'She'd always wanted to fly and Jeffrey paid for her to take lessons, and I remember she was very excited +because she got her licence around the first year we... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019471.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019471.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..358f69360a8448e5a234b065205896fe11099e29 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019471.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-019471 + +As Virginia Roberts' astonishing claims have made headlines around the world, it was reported last week +that President Clinton's continuing friendship with Maxwell has caused a rift between him and his wife, +potential Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Close: Not only was Ghislaine Maxwell friends with Prince Andrew, but his ex-wife Sarah +Ferguson as well. The pair are pictured together at the opening of the Asprey Flagship +Store on 5th Avenue on December 8, 2003,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019472.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019472.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a1f748c39481226973bd5772dfe050195bf8ecaa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019472.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The picture shows just how close she and Epstein were with Prince +Andrew +The girl is said to have been taken there by 18-year-old student Haley Robson, who claims in a sworn +statement that she was recruited at the age of 17 to provide the billionaire with a $200 nude massage. Bizarrely, Maxwell was initially served with a subpoena in September 2009, as she was leaving the Clinton +Global Initiatives Conference in New York. Power people: Ghislaine Maxwell and newspaper billionaire Rupert Murdoch,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019473.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019473.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c541665a7d432c2d195cf910662a62fc8ba3f073 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019473.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Share or comment on this article +Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019474.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019474.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5dd653560ec03d509bc466abf736512ef4c09b2e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019474.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +May 29, 2015 +US DHS CIS +Vermont Service Center +30 Houghton Street +St. Immigration Application +Dear Sir or Madam: +I am writing this letter on behalf of Ms. +connection with her O-1 Visa Application. +and in +My name is David Blaine and I am a magician. I have traveled internationally, performing +magic privately for President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary +Clinton, President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at +the Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates and Mayor... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019475.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019475.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d2d312ef4736f9e228daa2e700b9a324aa9a282 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019475.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I've been discussing with +how we can work together to raise +money for children and education. Therefore, I wholeheartedly support her +visa application. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions or +concerns. Best Regards, +David Blaine +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019475 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019476.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019476.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2071b33c25df8ad48006c9d60579d236150e0e54 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019476.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +davi laine +June 1, 2015 +US DHS CIS +Vermont Service Center +30 Houghton Street +St. Immigration Application +Dear Sir or Madam: +I am writing this letter on behalf of Ms. +a and in connection with her O-1 Visa +Application. My name is David Blaine and I am a magician. I have traveled internationally, performing magic privately for +President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President George W. Bush, Secretary of +Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019478.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019478.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2216f0833a49a6f218f63047deec4bb888832f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019478.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +ALSO +BY +EDWARD TAY EPSTEIN +The Annals of Unsolved Crime +Three Days in May: Sex, Surveillance, and DSK +The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies +The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood +Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer +Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA +The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion +Cartel +Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald +Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019481.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019481.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e0d56e87dabf0a3aa737d2d9d1adca930efa778 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019481.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +HOW AMERICA +LOST ITS SECRETS +Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft +Edward Jay Epstein +ALFRED A. KNOPE NEW YORK +| 2017 +I Epst 9780451494566 2P all rt indd 3 +9129/16 5:51 PM || +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019481 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019482.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019482.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03cbf94e205cb99ec518c86aa4caddfd018afecc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019482.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK +PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. Publications, Ltd +All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, +a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, +and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, +a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. +www.aaknopf.com +Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon +are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data [to come] +Jacket photograph by TK +Jacket... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019483.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019483.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f6a5895d07d5482a9466d1e77f6ab6bc40f042c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019483.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +This book is dedicated to the memory of a wise teacher, +James Q. Wilson (1931-2012) +Epst 9780451494566 2p all. r1 ind 5 +9/20/16 551 PM|/ +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019483 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019485.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019485.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cd765c6a5cb1a9a2ac65cc8b62dbc2ceba2fc269 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019485.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +There are certain persons who ... have a perfect right +to commit breaches of morality and crimes, and ... +the law is not for them. +—FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, Crime and Punishment +Epst 97804519456 2p all 1 Linda 7 +9120/16 5.51 PM|| +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019485 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019487.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019487.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e6a7128ce0baa0a7e4fec677affaa9a741c4b9d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019487.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Contents +• +Prologue +Snowden's Trail: Hong Kong, 2014 +PART +ONE SNOWDEN'S ARC +CHAPTER I Tinker 15 +CHAPTER 2 Secret Agent +CHAPTER 3 Contractor 28 +CHAPTER 4 Thief 38 +CHAPTER 5 Crossing the Rubicon +44 +CHAPTER 6 Hacktivist 49 +CHAPTER 7 String Puller 59 +CHAPTER 8 Raider of the Inner Sanctum +73 +CHAPTER 9 Escape Artist 80 +CHAPTER 1O Whistle-blower +88 +CHAPTER I1 Enter Assange 98 +CHAPTER 12 Fugitive +104 +PART IWO THE INTELLIGENCE CRISIS +CHAPTER 13 The Great Divide 113 +CHAPTER I4 The Crime Scene... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019488.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019488.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4da82c66fe4bf802aee69146d13b29c42f46fc9f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019488.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +• +x Contents +CHAPTER 15 Did Snowden Act Alone? 146 +CHAPTER 16 The Question of When 156 +CHAPTER 17 The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing +CHAPTER 18 The Unheeded Warning 185 +168 +PART THREE THE GAME OF NATIONS +CHAPTER 19 The Rise of the NSA 195 +CHAPTER 20 The NSA's Back Door 207 +CHAPTER 21 The Russians Are Coming 217 +CHAPTER 22 The Chinese Puzzle 231 +CHAPTER 23 A Single Point of Failure 238 +PART FOUR +MOSCOW CALLING +CHAPTER 24 Off to Moscow 247 +CHAPTER 25 Through the Looking Glass 254 +CHAPTER 26 The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019491.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019491.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..472846baa8221ebf277903ca32398a332522d982 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019491.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Prologue +Snowden's Trail: Hong Kong, 2014 +'HE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, or, as it is now commonly +I called, the NSA, was created on Octoher 24, 1952, in such a tight +cocoon of secrecy that even the presidential order creating it was +classified top secret. When journalists asked questions about this +new agency, Washington officials jokingly told them that the initials +NSA stood for "No Such Agency." The reason for this extraordinary +stealth is that the NSA is involved in a very sensitive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019492.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019492.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..027264e876808df3c670ee6ed41ae07f43a05b7c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019492.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Thousands of secret files bearing on com- +munications intelligence had been stolen from a heavily guarded +regional base in Oahu, Hawaii. The suspect was Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old civil- +ian analyst at that base, who had fled to Hong Kong before the +breach was discovered. According to a three-count criminal com- +plaint filed by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Vir- +ginia, Snowden had stolen government property and violated the +Espionage Act by the unauthorized and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019493.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019493.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ae2cb8869d8c5c94d74a19d9085d88d360bd8c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019493.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +• +Prologue | 5 +terms of the 1997 transfer of sovereignty from Great Britain, China +is responsible for Hong Kong's defense and foreign policy, includ- +ing intelligence services. He then proceeded to Russia, which has no +extradition treaty with the United States. Snowden's escape left in its wake an incredibly important unsolved +mystery: How had a young analyst in training at the NSA succeeded +in penetrating all the layers of NSA security to pull off the largest +theft of secret documents in the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019494.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019494.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..403b41e3c52f0b7253039b678300cd65aa7b2337 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019494.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Even so, Snowden carried to Hong +Kong digital copies he had made of the top secret NSA documents +As General Michael Hayden, who served as the head of both the +NSA and the CIA, told me, "It's very mysterious why Snowden +chose Hong Kong." We can assume he had a compelling enough rea- +son for him to take the risk that he would be arrested there by Hong +Kong police after U.S. authorities invoked the detention provision +of its extradition treaty. I arrived in Hong Kong on May 20, 2014-exactly one... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019495.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019495.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bf7cbc5aeadf685c0512038a96ebf9c4223c5ec2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019495.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +During this period, Snowden +also contacted Barton Gellman, on behalf of The Washington Post, +via e-mail. He was in contact with at least one +foreign mission during this period, according to what he wrote to +Gellman on May 24. In that e-mail, concerning when and how his +story was to be published by The Washington Post, Snowden asked +Gellman to include some text that would help Snowden with his +dealings with this mission. In an effort to establish Snowden's whereabouts during these "miss- +ing"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019496.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019496.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f1ec22bd8cde2451edd0f4a172ce907dd66d7a87 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019496.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +8 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +ings but Ho would not identify him beyond saying that he was a +"well-connected resident" of Hong Kong. I called Ho's law office in Hong Kong. Tibbo had worked closely with Ho on the Snowden case. I met Tibbo in the tearoom at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on +Hong Kong Island. After earning a degree in chemical engineering from McGill Univer- +sity and working in Asia as an engineer for a decade, he went to law +school in New Zealand and became a barrister in Hong Kong... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019497.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019497.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c8e5a7805e1c7bf90a1bfe48b0e19ed71e4faf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019497.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Prologue | 9 +of Information request with the Hong Kong Security Bureau ask- +ing for information about Snowden's movements in May. Thomas +Ng, the secretary for security, turned down the request, adding that +Hong Kong authorities do not keep records of hotel registrations. Before I had left New York, I asked +him if he could find someone at the consulate in Hong Kong who +might brief me on the Snowden case. He put me +in touch with a former employee of the Hong Kong consulate, who +he said was "fully... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019498.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019498.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fdd8db2085c4cc0185910ad99c544bce3adcc11b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019498.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +1O HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +Snowden's whereabouts are clouded—the period between the time +he left the Mira hotel on June 10 and the day he left Hong Kong for +Russia on June 23. In addition, the CIA +and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) had retained a handful of +"China watchers" under diplomatic cover in Hong Kong. It had +developed informal relations with the Hong Kong police that, along +with the NSA's electronic capabilities abroad, allowed it to track +Snowden's movements after he had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019499.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019499.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..489e81268a4391fc5cb7ab0bc59d1414d3999aac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019499.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +As for his next destination, I could find no evidence that Snowden +had made any arrangements during his monthlong stay in Hong +Kong to go to any Latin American country. Before he went public +on June 9, he could have easily gotten a visa in Hong Kong with his +still-valid passport to go to almost any country in the world, includ- +ing Cuba (for which a U.S. passport was not necessary), Bolivia, and +Ecuador. Even +as late as June 8, after meetings with Greenwald and Poitras, his +name had still not... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019500.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019500.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..07f2dfd289a5bd64e4a4c3af28a8810f76683c50 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019500.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +12 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +tery I was going to solve on this first trip to Hong Kong. After all, Snowden +was not, as he himself pointed out from Moscow, an "angel descend- +ing from the heavens." He had been working for the U.S. govern- +ment for the previous seven years. Nor did Snowden's breach begin with his handing over classified +documents to the Guardian reporters in Hong Kong in June 2013 or, +for that matter, in the eleven days prior to his meeting with journal- +ists. Even if he had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019501.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019501.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..67883e0e9ea051379b62cf7c1bcd4f404b32e61d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019501.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +PART ONE +SNOWDEN'S ARC +I woke this morning with a new name. Before me I saw +Gamers, Gamers shrouded in the glory of their true names. Step forth, and assume your name in the pantheon. It's +always been there, your avatar's true name. Wolfking Awesomefox. +—EDWARD SNOWDEN, Geneva, June 12, 2008 +Eat 9780151491586 2P al. 1 ind 13 +9/29/16 5:51 PM|| +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019501 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019503.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019503.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..58df244e2b07548597f7768fb9db9ca70cbdfa76 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019503.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +You get exposed to a little bit of evil, +a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty ... you can +come to justify it. +—EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 +DWARD TOSEPH SNOWDEN waS born on lune 21, 1083, in Eliza +beth City, North Carolina. His parents were Lon Snowden anc +Elizabeth "Wendy" Barrett. He was stationed at its main aviation base, where his father- +in-law, Edward Joseph Barrett, was an officer and rising star of the +Coast Guard. While Edward Snowden was still a child, his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019504.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019504.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5ac28a61c41a9594539544d807d0dfe35d4d2632 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019504.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Unlike his sister, Edward Snowden experienced a string of +failures in his education. In 1998, after only one year of classes, he +dropped out of Arundel High School; according to school records, +he stopped attending classes at the age of fifteen. He later attributed +his absence from school to a medical problem, mononucleosis, but +according to Robert Mosier, a spokesman for Anne Arundel County +public schools, there is no record of any illness. Brad Gunson, who +knew Snowden before he dropped out... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019505.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019505.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b17ca22d97559f12c9db67aea41ce5b3391934dc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019505.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +He wrote that he wore "cool" purple sun- +glasses, practiced martial arts, and was a fan of Japanese cuisine. He expressed a longing to go to Japan. Despite his claim of learning +Japanese, there is no record of his taking any courses in Japanese. In pursuit of an employ- +ment opportunity in Japan, he posted, "I'd love a cushy gov job over +there." Eventually, he gave up on the idea of relocating himself to +Japan because, as he explained in a post, he would have to put his cats +in quarantine for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019506.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019506.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e3b5e89a268721cfe0e1415f949f2467dd8cde91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019506.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +An army spokesman could not confirm that +Snowden injured his legs or that he was in fact dropped from the +program for medical reasons. Under his TrueHooHa alias, Snowden wrote that "they [the army] +held on to me until the doctors cleared me to be discharged, and then +after being cleared they held onto me for another month just for +shits and giggles." He attributed this treatment in the army, as he +would later attribute his problems in the CIA and the NSA, to the +inferior intelligence of his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019507.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019507.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..838d8718649be02e9863f3ae012929d49f0e398a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019507.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Tinker | 19 +own beefcake-style pictures, "So sexxxy it hurts" and "I like my girl- +ish figure that attracts girls." He approached a model agency called +Model Mayhem, which recommended a photographer. He had some +concern about that photographer because he, as Snowden wrote in +a post, "shoots mostly guys." Snowden said he was "a little worried +he might, you know, try to pull my pants off and choke me to death +with them, but he turned out to be legit and is a pretty damn good +model photographer."... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019508.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019508.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed5e488e6cf5cbca80d77f610867af949573f3ff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019508.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Snowden, as +we've seen, did not meet these standards. Snowden in no way +qualified in this way either. Snowden, however, did not +complete his military training at Fort Benning and received only an +administrative discharge. According to Tyler Drumheller, a former CIA station chief +in Europe, the only plausible way that Snowden, with no qualifica- +tions, was allowed to jump the queue was that "he had some pull." +In 2006, Snowden's grandfather, who had attained the rank of +rear admiral, was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019509.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019509.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d7f62a2df06cb38be6d4ce61e6fb3ad86b04e4f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019509.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In this capacity, he supervised the joint +CIA-FBI interrogation of the prisoners in the Guantánamo base in +Cuba, which involved him in the rendition program for terrorists. The CIA, however, has not disclosed any +information about who, if anyone, recommended Snowden. Later Snowden pointed out from Moscow that in 2006 the fed- +eral government employed his entire family. His father was serving +in the Coast Guard; his mother was an administrative clerk for the +federal court in Maryland; his sister... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019510.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019510.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db95516fd950bc6124c11306e7fee34ad551ec8c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019510.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +CHAPTER 2 +Secret Agent +Sure, a whistleblower could use these [NSA computer vulner- +abilities], but so could a spy. +-EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 +'HE SUDDEN TRANSFORMATION of Snowden in 2006 from a +I night watchman on a university campus to an employce for +the CIA provided him with a powerful new identity and one much +closer to the avatars he adopted for his fantasy games. It was bur- +nished so deeply in his self-image that he cited it eight years later, +in exaggerated fashion, in Moscow. When... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019511.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019511.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c61675a101cf5b65391f85e2a3f705a960a96ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019511.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +After completing his training, +he was dispatched to the CIA station in Geneva. He was +stationed there, according to Swiss registry records, under his own +name from March 2007 to February 2009. He was identified as a U.S +State Department employee in Geneva because Switzerland does +not allow any intelligence officers to operate in its country. Offi- +cially, he was attached to the permanent U.S. mission to the United +Nations, which employed hundreds of U.S. government functionar- +ies in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019512.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019512.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7bb84ca5a7637692a15bbbc89267cb4f24590a29 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019512.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +He described in his posts +racing motorcycles in Italy and traveling around Germany with an +Estonian rock star (whom he did not further identify). He also con- +tinued his avatar life in Internet gaming; the alias he chose for that +was Wolfking Awesomefox. He blamed the U.S. finan- +cial system, posting on Ars Technica that Ben Bernanke, the Federal +Reserve chairman, was a "cockbag." He also bet against any further +rise in the stock market index, asking a user with whom he was chat- +ting on the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019513.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019513.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc4885d5c8aca0204061b140b24fac9e0d93091f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019513.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +By consulting personnel +records, one would further discover that he did not actually work for +the State Department. Because it was no secret that the U.S. mission +in Geneva housed the CIA station for all of Switzerland, any out- +sider would think it probable that this brittle gambler who played +the options market worked for the CIA +Even though it cannot be precluded that Snowden was spotted +in Geneva by another intelligence service, there is no evidence, at +least that I know of, to suggest that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019514.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019514.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1be4bd01dfc6f1f5590d8d70b3b556f0752c2e9d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019514.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +26 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +ever, according to a reply by a CIA public affairs officer to the Times, +Snowden had not been fired or accused of attempting to "break into +classified computer files to which he did not have authorized access." +A former CIA officer who had also been at the U.S. mission +in Geneva explained the discrepancy to me. He said that the spin +the CIA put on the story was "necessary containment." After the +Snowden breach occurred in June 2013, the CIA had a problem... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019515.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019515.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d369f329ac616a684ae230086fe79f8808d98497 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019515.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +• +Secret Agent | 27 +later say that the NSA experts who examined the documents that he +had stolen were "totally incapable." +In any case, in February 2009, Snowden not only had a career- +damaging "derog" in his file but faced an internal investigation of +his suspicious computer activities. According to Drumheller, such an +internal investigation would not be undertaken lightly or because of +an "e-mail spat." He said that such an investigation was "a big deal" +involving the CIA Office of Security... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019718.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019718.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..88a8783844c00e29e6f73101b379c5de0431bfce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019718.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +230 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +and software on the Internet, all of which fell under the rubric of +"freedom of the Internet." They also vocally objected to the NSA's +using built-in back doors in its software to read their encrypted +messages. Such people were not difficult to find on the Internet. The donors to Ron Paul's libertarian election campaign (including +Snowden) were a matter of public record +Even if there was no shortage of hacktivists who believed the sur- +veillance of the Internet... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019719.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019719.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8be0992b65b7823398fb969247054d769682c6de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019719.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +• +The Russians Are Coming | 231 +was a place to begin. Office of Personnel Management and +USIS and the websites of the companies supplying the NSA with +independent contractors had made the background checks on Ameri- +can intelligence workers available to the Chinese, and presumably +other adversary intelligence service hackers, since 2011. This would include core participants +in the Tor Project, WikiLeaks, Noisebridge, CryptoParties, the Free- +dom of the Press Foundation, and the Electronic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019720.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019720.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1389b08aaf081b4ae9e694dce9e93c42e4a0763a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019720.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +• +232 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +tell it to that can't." In the same vein, Poitras could hardly rely on +these five confidants not to tell her secrets (and Snowden's) to others. Hours after he was told, Greenwald told his lover, David Miranda, +about the source in great detail. Gellman, for his part, raised the matter +with a former high official at the Justice Department. It will be recalled that +he had also advertised his Tor-sponsored CryptoParty activities over +the Internet and supplied... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019721.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019721.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..564d1e926d9dfcdb6e1c633951165cdd61c00d8f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019721.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The Russians Are Coming | 233 +it targets Tor software. To +this end, it reportedly attempted to map out computers that served +as major Tor exit nodes (such as the one Snowden operated in 2012 +near an NSA regional base in Hawaii). The Silk Road founder, Ross Ulbricht, discovered to his distress that +his Tor software did not make his computer server in Iceland invis- +ible. According to a former top official in the Justice Department, the +NSA was able to locate it by cracking the Tor software... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019722.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019722.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9ce7b9dbcb1da3e374d0569f7e65f5c22e15ed30 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019722.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +CHAPTER +22 +The Chinese Puzzle +The first [false assumption] is that China is an enemy of the +United States. It's not. +-EDWARD SNOWDEN, Hong Kong, 2013 +N AUGUST II, 2014, in the Atlantic Ocean, an event took place +of enormous concern to U.S. intelligence. A Chinese Jin-class +submarine launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. Some forty-four hundred miles away, in +China's test range in the Xinjiang desert, each of the twelve simu- +lated nuclear warheads hit its target within a twelve-inch... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019723.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019723.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b8e41ed655d1431a7ade004db01ac5c2638491b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019723.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The Chinese Puzzle | 235 +independently targeted warheads. Unlike the United States, China did not achieve this remarkable +capability to launch independently targeted miniaturized nuclear +weapons and stealth them by investing hundreds of billions of dol- +lars in developing them. The theft was so massive that in 1998 +the House of Representatives set up a special bipartisan investiga- +tive unit called the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and +Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019724.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019724.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..71b56d58a9541711037e98ef1d052501924b214b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019724.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Few traces have been uncovered of any conventional espionage net- +works in the United States, and no major Chinese spy has ever been +arrested. Part of the reason that Chinese espionage has proved so elu- +sive to the eyes of Western counterintelligence is that, unlike Russia, +it did not ordinarily rely on intelligence officers in its embassies to +recruit penetration agents to steal secrets. It did not even have an +embassy in the United States during most of the Cold War. By 2007, Paul... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019725.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019725.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..91d525b7989dc6ed78f2876c3ce858131f475406 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019725.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The Chinese Puzzle | 237 +at the Office of Personnel Management traced back to 2009. In addition, it reaped over fourteen +million background checks of intelligence workers done by the Fed- +eral Investigative Services. If +China's intelligence services consolidated the fruits of these hack- +ing attacks, it would have a searchable database of almost everyone +working in the American defense and intelligence complex. General Hayden said of the massive theft of intelligence person- +nel records, "Those... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019726.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019726.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..20e488217cd1d9a364aceb57eec4910475129291 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019726.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +238 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +sian KGB and SVR reported that Chinese intelligence received from +Russia a continuous stream of communications intelligence about +the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first cen- +turies. Putin asserted in speeches in 2014 that Russia and China +continued to share a key strategic objective: countering the United +States domination of international relations, or what Putin terms +"a unipolar world order." China's president, Xi Jinping, expressed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019727.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019727.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ff16de8bcae78a2433cfcbc78410dfac36eea15a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019727.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +The Chinese Puzzle | 239 +tains there its largest intelligence base outside mainland China. A +large contingent of its officers are stationed officially in the Prince +of Wales skyscraper in central Hong Kong and unofficially main- +tain informers in Hong Kong's police, governing authority, airport +administration, and other levers of power. State +Department had instructed all its personnel in Hong Kong to avoid +using their iPhones, Androids, BlackBerry phones, and other smart +phones when traveling... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019728.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019728.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c16035bcce2a642adf2243f0be10d569dbf37b96 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019728.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +240 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +In fact, he advertised that he had such secrets in his interview with +the South China Morning Post. Whatever he might have assumed +about the inability of the CIA to stop him in Hong Kong, he could +not assume that Chinese intelligence services would relegate them- +selves to a purely passive role when secret NSA documents were in +a hotel room in Hong Kong. Snowden might have esteemed himself +to be an independent actor playing Prometheus on a global stage +provided... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019729.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019729.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f93a4260dfae4eddc7e39c1769b28baae76536ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019729.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +CHAPTER 23 +A Single Point of Failure +A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it +fails, will stop the entire system from working. +—Wikipedia +• +SeEN see then A ho is the sole repository of +single point of failure." While still shielding his own identity in May +2013, he wrote to Gellman that U.S. intelligence "will most certainly +kill you if they think you are the single point of failure that could +stop this disclosure and make them the sole owner of this informa- +tion."... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019730.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019730.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d582321f027857c711fb0b2469f8ecb1a99cf82 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019730.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +• +242 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +any interview that he ever gave in Moscow under Russian protec- +tion, but he had similar access to NSA operations against Russia in +his job at the NSA's Threat Operations Center. In +this case, the person who had it in his power to expose the NSA's +critical sources and methods would no doubt be considered fair game +by America's adversaries, including the Chinese and Russian cyber +services. "Snowden thinks he is +smart," Morell said, after reviewing the case on a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019731.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019731.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c8f49fbcfed3d598667be0ae4216f242f3cd6fc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019731.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +A Single Point of Failure | 243 +have been in a very different position. The story would have broken +before Poitras or Greenwald even knew about Snowden's presence +in Hong Kong, and his identity would be secret except for whatever +foreign mission he had contacted. Time was running out if he was to break the story and leave Hong +Kong before the NSA realized he was missing. Airline records +would show that he had flown to Hong Kong. That Snowden remained in Hong Kong suggests that +his reason for... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019732.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019732.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..edf10ebee6ac1c529c813d73ae45af184be0b6b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019732.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Although he bravely told +The Guardian "there was no risk" that the information he carried +had been compromised by other parties in Hong Kong, that claim +was, at best, wishful thinking on his part. Greenwald then went on +TV in Hong Kong, revealing to every interested intelligence service +that a defector from the NSA was in Hong Kong providing secret +documents. Snowden fogged over his travel plans to the media by telling +reporters that he intended to remain in Hong Kong and fight extra- +dition,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019733.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019733.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5813a04e13274502963779fa28ae60bb9f9eda03 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019733.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +A Single Point of Failure | 245 +during his next fifteen days in Hong Kong would not likely escape +China's scrutiny. The United States had the ability to also follow Snowden's move- +ments via the cell phones of his lawyers and other confederates +after he surfaced. What the +United States lacked was any practical means to capture a high- +profile intelligence defector in a city that was part of China. By this +time, U.S. intelligence had established that Chinese and Hong Kong +security services were... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019734.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019734.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d7a89225a88b2456e1a12156824ca95242492a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019734.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +246 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +used in Hawaii to guide or assist Snowden, they would be put back +into sleeper mode. Snowden might believe that +the power of the information he held was so great that if disclosed +by him, all the NSA's sources would immediately go dark in Russia +and China, but Russia might not wish to provide such clarity to its +adversaries. Not only +were NSA secrets taken, but secret files from the CIA, the British +GCHQ, and America's cyber military commands had been... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019735.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019735.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24a1b6d65b813ea9033c6268d5807897a02fcae5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019735.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +A Single Point of Failure | 247 +the U.S. exercise, including deliberately "trapping" him in Moscow, +was to "demonize" him. "There was no question that I was going +to be subject to a demonization campaign." Snowden said in Mos- +cow, "They [Greenwald and Poitras] actually recorded me on camera +saying this before I revealed my identity." Snowden asserted this +"demonization" was to divert attention from the government's own +crimes. By providing Snowden with this platform to rail against... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019737.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019737.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d7f62664d0588d91111a9f37f0bd6477765c514 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019737.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +PART FOUR +MOSCOW CALLING +Deception is a state of mind—and the mind of the state. +—JAMES JESUS ANGLETON +Epst 978045149456 2p all. all.r1 indd 249 +913016 813AM | | +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019737 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019739.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019739.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d9cd935998b86176bbb0d45cb139560b4450043c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019739.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +CHAPTER 24 +Off to Moscow +They talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's +great. +-EDWARD SNOWDEN, MoScow, 2015 +EFORE FLYING TO Moscow, I arranged to have dinner with +boliver Stone at an Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side of +New York. I had greatly respected Stone's ability as a film director +after watching him work on Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, a film +in which I had a cameo role. I had also debated Stone about the his- +torical accuracy of his 1991 movie JFK at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019740.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019740.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..17551bda3f495a40ca59cd1392ea2e997f0495ac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019740.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +• +252 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +These documents also revealed that Stone had paid Anatoly Kucher- +ena, Snowden's legal representative in Moscow, S1 million, sup- +posedly for the rights to his novel, Time of the Octopus. Even by +Hollywood standards, Si million was an extraordinary sum to pay +for a yet-to-be-published work of Russian fiction, and it was espe- +cially striking because Stone was making a fact-based movie using +the actual names of the characters, and he had already bought... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019741.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019741.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..65b74d1fe1a72f421fec623b71bf091b012d6a37 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019741.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +I had no idea that Snowden was aware of my +book. (I had not tried to contact him.) I told Stone that I considered +Snowden an extraordinary man who had changed history and was +intentionally vague in my description of my book's contents. Stone +seemed to be reassured, so I asked him about the possibility of my +seeing Snowden in Moscow. He said that I "might want to speak +to Anatoly [Kucherena]." Kucherena, it seemed to me, was clearly +Snowden's gatekeeper. Most of these were +with the journalists... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019742.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019742.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e20664fdf39813f08af30170af11fa85b1164b34 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019742.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +So I sent Kucherena, via Zamir, ten +questions that I wanted to ask Snowden. I next obtained a multi-entry Russian visa from the Russian con- +sulate in New York and booked myself a room in the Hotel National. My night flight from New York to Moscow took just less than +eight hours and landed at Terminal D of Sheremetyevo Interna- +tional Airport at 7:40 a.m. on October 29, 2015. Sheremetyevo Two, where all international flights land, was built +in the waning days of the Cold War for international... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019743.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019743.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..738775185944f9fbfecaab78c099c5a6fff48cd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019743.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Off to Moscow | 255 +to Terminal E. "If they +Ithe U.S. government] really wanted to capture me, they would've +allowed me to travel to Latin America, because the CIA can oper- +ate with impunity down there," he explained in the previously cited +interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation, in +2014. He had already discussed the likelihood of his being captured +in Ecuador with Assange before his departure for Moscow. He later +told Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019744.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019744.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98c9ee116cc140a914df7f6d4ad7ccd53b66bb83 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019744.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +256 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +Because the Aeroflot flight to Cuba was the only means of get- +ting directly from Moscow to Latin America, Russian reporters, +encouraged by WikiLeaks posts, continued taking the daily eleven- +hour flight to Cuba until August 1. The charade only ended when +Kucherena said in a press conference at the airport that Snowden +would be taking up residency at an undisclosed location in Moscow +and walked out of the airport with Snowden. Sarah Harrison, Snowden's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019745.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019745.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..923a1f9915794abbea933fe2424575020f98d7d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019745.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Off to Moscow | 257 +they aggressively questioned all the restaurant employees, security +guards, and airport personnel they could find. They also bought +business-class tickets on flights just to gain access to VIP lounges in +the transit zones. Despite this intensive search, none of them found +a single person who had seen Snowden, although his image was con- +stantly shown on airport TV screens. Egor Piskunov, a reporter for +RT television, even rented a room in the V-Express Capsule Hotel +and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019746.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019746.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b69e109703d1c792c02f5e66fa6eae48367fefa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019746.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +CHAPTER 25 +Through the Looking Glass +There's definitely a deep state. Trust me, I've been there. +-EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 +Wait warne to hear back frie Kucherenad officene +arranged to meet with Victor Cherkashin, who had been one +of the most successful KGB spy handlers in the Cold War. I was particularly interested in his recruitment of three +top American intelligence officers: Aldrich Ames of the CIA, Robert +Hanssen of the FBI, and Ronald Pelton of the NSA. So I invited Cherkashin to lunch... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019747.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019747.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f9c74af548738bef445e421d5cecf76e7074758 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019747.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Through the Looking Glass | 259 +I began by asking him about one of the more celebrated cases he +had handled for the KGB, that of Ames, who had acted as a Russian +mole in the CIA between April 1985 and January 1994. In those nine +years, he rose, or was maneuvered by the KGB, into a top position +in the CIA's highly sensitive Counterintelligence Center Analysis +Group, which allowed him to deliver hundreds of top secrets to the +KGB. In return, according to Cherkashin, Ames received between +$20,000... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019748.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019748.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..af4d46be35f8a56322d08ef08cbf4c858d5cfa3e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019748.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +260 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +Congress by exaggerating the Soviet threat." Cherkashin evaluated +Ames as a man who felt not only slighted by his superiors but "help- +less to do anything about it" within the bureaucracy of the CIA. "The money we gave, even if he could spend only a small portion +of it, gave him a sense of worth." He explained that the KGB had +an entire team of psychologists in Moscow that worked on further +exploiting Ames's resentment against his superiors. "You find someone... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019749.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019749.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..13b275836b29fd1615aa03e0d6fd7eefe8ee8854 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019749.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Through the Looking Glass | 261 +puter disks containing hundreds of secret documents revealing the +sources and methods of American intelligence. According to Cher- +kashin, it was the largest haul of top secret documents ever obtained +by the KGB (although it was only a small fraction of the number of +top secret NSA, Department of Defense, and CIA documents taken +by Snowden in 2013). Cherkashin told me the price paid by Moscow +was a great bargain because it helped compromise "the NSA's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019750.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019750.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b2fdd097a4a6be285d1228aa502f64b4ddca9772 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019750.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +"But in my day, we needed +some reason to believe the gift was genuine." +"Would you need to vet the person delivering it?" +"With Hanssen we did not have that opportunity," he said. "If +we believed the documents were genuine, we would of course grab +them." +The final recruitment I asked Cherkashin about was that of Ronald +Pelton, the civilian employee of the NSA who had retired in 1979. Pelton had left the NSA without taking any classified documents +with him. On January 14, 1980, he walked... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019751.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019751.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8bea1789099128f57d112b0b4998bc53a2bf7dd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019751.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Through the Looking Glass | 263 +Pelton debriefings. In them, Pelton managed to +recall Project A, a joint NSA-CIA-navy operation in which subma- +rines surreptitiously tapped into Soviet undersea cables in the Sea +of Okhotsk, which connected to the Soviet Pacific Fleet's mainland +headquarters at Vladivostok. "As long as the NSA didn't know the tap was compromised by +Pelton, we could use the cable to send the NSA the information we +wanted it to intercept." He said that while actual NSA... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019752.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019752.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..83cacd5d8c8edfdea4f4a32ca0447c859337d8f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019752.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +264 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +ton, D.C., to Austria so that its specialists could debrief him on the +secrets he held in his head, it would have an even greater interest in +exfiltrating Snowden from Hong Kong to get, aside from his docu- +ments, whatever secrets he held in his head. If Russian intelligence +were willing to opportunistically accept the delivery of U.S. secrets +from an unknown espionage source that it neither recruited nor +controlled, such as Hanssen, it would obviously have... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019753.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019753.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8b268699afb3536902203c8c365173da98c5c625 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019753.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +CHAPTER 26 +The Handler +As for [Snowden's] communication with the outside world, yes, I +am his main contact. +—ANATOLY KUCHERENA, MoScOW, 2013 +• +N NOVEMBER 1, I still had not been able to make contact with +Anatoly Kucherena, and my flight back to New York was in five +days. My fixer, Zamir, had been trying to arrange an appointment +for three weeks, but he had only received one callback from Kucher- +ena's assistant, Valentina Kvirvova. She wanted to know how I knew +Oliver Stone. I also learned from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019754.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019754.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..006bc51d5c7d1c48eebb33b7d674ec289bc4e160 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019754.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +266 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +Alexander Livinenko, I had interviewed Andrei Lugovoy. A former +KGB officer assigned to protecting the Kremlin's top members in the +1990s, Lugovoy later opened his own security company. In 2005, he +became a business associate of Livinenko's in gathering informa- +tion and made regular trips to London to meet with him. Because +he had tea with Litvinenko at the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel +in London on November 1, 2006, the day Litvinenko was poisoned, +he... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019755.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019755.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..615ad43975c58fa2bacdef4c1f2d6edaed9bc67f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019755.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +The Handler | 267 +When I arrived at Kucherena's office, I was with my translator +Zamir. (Kucherena did not speak English.) I arrived ten minutes +early, and a receptionist showed me into a well-lit square room +with an elegant table in the center. Another door opened, and a tall, graceful woman came into the +room and introduced herself as Valentina. When I asked how many were answered, she shrugged and +said, "Not many." +At that moment, Kucherena entered with a jaunty step, a cherubic +face, and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019756.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019756.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3eed82f4d23e9daea75912aa0ecd4e2e52848cd8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019756.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +268 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +"I was impressed by how few takes he needed to shoot my scene," +he answered +"How did you come to be Snowden's lawyer?" I asked. "Snowden picked me from a roster of fifteen lawyers with which +he had been provided." +Because Snowden did not speak or read Russian, I asked Kucher- +ena about how Snowden had come to pick him from the roster. Kucherena went to Sheremetyevo International Airport to meet +his new client on the morning of Friday, July 12, 2013. At that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019757.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019757.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b5e4a5e52ec9c9900ee2244b2111cfc8d4746e17 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019757.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +The Handler | 269 +if not unprecedented for an American intelligence worker to seek +asylum in Russia. These invitees included some of Putin's close associates, pro- +government activists, and representatives of both Amnesty Inter- +national and Human Rights Watch. "It was totally bizarre," said +Tanya Lokshina, the deputy director of Human Rights Watch, who +attended. Snowden read from a prepared statement accusing the U.S. gov- +ernment of violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, +saying... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019758.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019758.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b74fbf6774e2a13225f7925d6f9e060cab7dc7ee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019758.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +So I wanted to find out +from Kucherena which documents Snowden had taken to Russia. When Shevardnadze asked him +about the secret material Snowden might reveal in Russia, Kucher- +ena pointedly called her attention to Snowden's CIA service, suggest- +ing that he might possess CIA files. By retaining them, Frost made himself +a prime target of the CIA +So I asked, "Is Joshua Frost fact or fiction?" +"I can't tell you that," he said. "It's my +first novel." +When I asked if he could arrange for me to see... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019759.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019759.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f84d49d7d31bed8954fe61bc92287ca77d219293 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019759.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Snowden might have told the BBC he had brought +cash to allay suspicions about who was financing his stay in Moscow. Snowden, as far as I knew, didn't +need a legal defense, because he was not charged with a crime in +Russia and the United States had no extradition treaty with Russia. He con- +firmed the accuracy of his September 2013 assertion that Snowden +had brought secret material to Russia, material he had not given to +journalists in Hong Kong. After what I had learned from Cherkashin +about... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019761.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019761.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f2c07283d4e1e13e0c8344d2affb48eeb914bb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019761.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +PART FIVE +CONCLUSIONS: +WALKING THE CAT BACK +In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able +to reason backward +—SHERLOCK HOLMES, A Study in Scarlet +Il Eps 87805148682 al n. nd 273. +9130/16 8:13AM|| +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019761 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019763.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019763.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..76b0dcee72e621b33997e28e89c08e23da012913 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019763.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +CHAPTER 27 +Snowden's Choices +It is the choices we make that show who we truly are. +—J. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone +• +USSIAN AUTHORITIES had the opportunity to thoroughl +K debrief Snowden as to his motive for stealing state secrets, +whereas U.S. authorities did not. Snowden has shown, if nothing +else, that he was adaptable to changing circumstances. We do know, though, that Snowden made +four extraordinary choices during the nine-month period in 2013. If, +as is said, actions... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019764.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019764.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d763f7f62b9c420627d4fef6bf1bbed2d3e4243 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019764.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +276 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +The First Decision +The initial move that Snowden made in preparation for the Level 3 +breach was switching jobs on March 15. Snowden chose to leave his +job as a system administrator at Dell to take one at Booz Allen as an +analyst in training. At the time he made this choice, he +had already set up an encrypted channel with Laura Poitras for the +purpose of sending her secret material. Indeed, while still at Dell, he had told Poitras he had a copy +of Presidential... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019765.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019765.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6c7988a0f1b466d3dfce083f0d388c9926b60d1b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019765.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Snowden's Choices | 277 +have sent Poitras documents anonymously over his own Tor soft- +ware and server. When he chose to move to Booz Allen, the risk of exposure +greatly increased because of its auditing system. As he later told Greenwald and Poitras, he knew that +stealing documents at the Booz Allen job meant that he would either +go to prison or escape from America. As part of that plan, +soon after he started work at the Booz Allen-managed facility, he +submitted a request for a medical leave... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019766.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019766.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f6fa28bd2b6a7ee3779cae0b39aa5aa47dcb355 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019766.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +He used his new +position and widened access at Booz Allen to go after secret docu- +ments from the intelligence services of Britain, Australia, New +Zealand, and Israel. He told an interviewer that by moving to his +new Booz Allen job as an infrastructure analyst, he gained the abil- +ity to pry secrets out of the allies of the NSA. It +exposed a legally authorized British operation to collect electronic +data on terrorist matters in Pakistan by tapping into Cisco rout- +ers used by telecom companies... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019767.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019767.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e34132296c5862d6a7b7a029f2cfa1dddeb7f229 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019767.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Snowden's Choices | 279 +secretive National Threat Operations Center's chief business was, as +its name suggests, countering direct threats from China, Russia, and +other adversary states and that to deal with these threats, the NSA +had used sophisticated methods to hack into the computers of adver- +saries. The NSA was even able to remotely gain entry to adversary +computers that were not hooked into a network. "It's no secret that +we hack China very aggressively," Snowden later said from Moscow.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019768.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019768.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b7201f4b925c0224091316a34e73f4f1bad0a30d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019768.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Yet, instead, he flew to Hong +Kong, which had an extradition agreement that had been enforced +throughout the past decade with Hong Kong courts ordering the +arrest of almost every fugitive charged by U.S. authorities. He could +expect that when the United States filed a criminal complaint, Hong +Kong authorities would seize him and the alleged stolen property of +the U.S. government in his possession. Even if he were released on +bail and successfully defeated extradition in a Hong Kong court,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019769.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019769.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d12e595b2263d3351467cb01e0f75007bf135a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019769.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +If he merely wanted to +be a whistle-blower, he could have, as Bradley Manning did, anony- +mously sent the documents to journalists as "Citizen Four." In fact, +in late May 2013, that was exactly what he did. He anonymously +sent Gellman the PRISM scoop, which the Post published on June 6. He also sent Greenwald and Poitras documents while he was still +the anonymous Citizen Four. Even +after he had revealed his true identity to Poitras and Greenwald on +June 3, the Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019770.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019770.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54ed11fbf6d590a08d2b25abe37bc47ca304f551 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019770.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +The Fourth Decision +The final choice he made was to board a nonstop flight to Moscow +on June 23. Once the U.S. criminal complaint was unsealed on June +21, he needed to leave Hong Kong; his continued presence would +have been a complication for the Chinese president, Xi, scheduled +soon to meet President Obama. His only route out of Hong Kong +went through two adversaries of the United States: China and Rus- +sia. According +to one U.S. diplomat cited by The New York Times, China might have +already... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019771.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019771.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..89637b7fd1f9ef43cb3149514806e89c866676e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019771.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Snowden's Choices | 283 +actions here, including his contacts with Russian officials in Hong +Kong, speak louder than his words. Just as he believed the Chinese intelligence service could protect +him in Hong Kong from a physical attack by agents of the United +States, he could assume that the FSB could protect him from them +in Moscow. During +his service in the CIA, he had taken a monthlong training course at +the CIA's "farm" at Fort Peary, in which counterintelligence offi- +cers taught about the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019772.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019772.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..63bc321550c3b27e9e5676accc339407cc27df0e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019772.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +284 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +Moscow, he could enjoy a safe life, free from the threats of a CIA +rendition team dropping from the sky or extradition proceedings. He +was now under the protection of Putin's Russia. The press had a field +day with the domestic surveillance documents that he gave them. As +far as Snowden was concerned, as he told Gellman on December 21, +2013, in Moscow, "The mission's already accomplished." +Epst 97804514958 2P al. 1. nd 284 + +9130/16 8:13 AM| +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019772 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019773.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019773.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1abe28be7335517a116698a8618c0b6b1f48d77d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019773.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +CHAPTER 28 +The Espionage Source +The government's investigation failed. [It] didn't know what was +taken. +-EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2014 +[he oscow, had learned that Russian intelligences services us. +to describe moles, +volunteers, and anyone else who delivers another state's secrets +to it. It is also a job description that fit +Edward Snowden in June 2013. Unless one is willing to believe that the Putin regime acted out of +purely altruistic motives in exfiltrating this American intelligence +worker... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019774.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019774.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d088b1600c72b71fb1a49ca2e5b89ec2974acf3a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019774.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"If I were providing infor- +mation that I know, that's in my head, to some foreign government, +the US intelligence community would ... see sources go dark that +were previously productive," he told the editor of The Guardian in +Moscow. In short, he advertised possessing priceless data that the Rus- +sian intelligence services had been seeking, with little success, for +the past six decades. In fact, this golden opportunity was not missed in Hong Kong. Even if the Russian intelligence service had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019775.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019775.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fd0613a6d7cbe5baebe080f545b7e8c325022022 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019775.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The Espionage Source | 287 +held incommunicado in Vienna for two weeks during his debrief- +ing. It would be inconceivable for an intelligence service to bring +a potential espionage source such as Snowden to Russia and allow +him to catch the next plane to Latin America. Unlike in the case of Pelton, Snowden, according to Ana- +toly Kucherena, had secret material in his possession. Even if Rus- +sian intelligence had already acquired copies of the electronic files +prior to Snowden's arrival in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019776.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019776.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78b01e3fe2420955f9a65338be7e42626fb6ae0e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019776.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Hence it is likely that +the story that Snowden had thoroughly destroyed all the stolen +data in the month prior to departing for Russia, as well as the story +that he had turned down all requests to be questioned by the FSB +and other Russian intelligence officials, was part of the legend con- +structed for him. Even so, in view of the +importance of such communications intelligence to Russia, it would +be the height of naïveté for U.S. or British intelligence to accept such +claims as anything more... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019777.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019777.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f0e182cb930e9ff4d4d053962f1e5b1dba7af291 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019777.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The Espionage Source | 289 +allow him to copy, transfer, and steal the electronic files. By accepting the sole blame in the video that Poitras +made about him in Hong Kong, Snowden shielded anyone else from +suspicion, which was, as he told Poitras, his purpose. To be sure, there remains that other glaring gap in the chain of +events that led Snowden to Moscow: his whereabouts and activi- +ties during his first eleven days in Hong Kong. Mike Rogers, the +chairman of the House Select Committee on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019778.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019778.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..275d7b639d149dd2d9ea3a5dd4d61cc7315d30ef --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019778.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +290 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +tions intelligence secrets to a foreign power with an agenda that is +hardly aligned with his country's interests. A defector is defined in +the Cambridge English Dictionary as "a person who leaves his or her +own country or group to join an opposing one." Snowden's actions +fit that description. In the end, it is Snowden's actions, not his words, +that matter. Epst 978045149456 2p all 1 ind 290 +9130/18 818AM|| +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019778 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019779.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019779.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1590cfe5b66d446f09514e974d53947316899071 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019779.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +CHAPTER 29 +The "War on Terror" After Snowden +Because of a number of unauthorized disclosures and a lot of +hand-wringing over the government's role in the effort to try to +uncover these terrorists, there have been some policy and legal +and other actions that make our ability collectively, internation- +ally, to find these terrorists much more challenging +—CIA DIRECTOR JOHN BRENNAN, +in response to the Paris terrorist attack, November 2015 +N THE EVENING of November 13, 2015, nine jihadist... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019780.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019780.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f50f33205a26cbbc09145e245f00a99da5578add --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019780.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +292 HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +November, they made online bookings for quarters in Paris for the +nine attackers. Even though Abaaoud was well-known to Western +intelligence services, none of the communications surrounding the +preparations for the attack came to the attention of the NSA or its +allied services in Europe. Indeed, in the sequence of the Paris events, as in other terror +events, the challenge is not just bringing culprits to justice. Yet, in June 2013, the NSA found that envelope... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019781.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019781.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..320168290557bb3837891dc7a0926d30e952378a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019781.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +The "War on Terror" After Snowden | 293 +the call but not the name of the caller. So +although the NSA could cite a handful of early successes that "215" +yielded, Snowden's exposure of it did only limited damage +Snowden did vastly more damage by revealing the PRISM pro- +gram, also called "7o2" because it was authorized in 2008 by Section +702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Its effectiveness +proceeded from the misplaced confidence that terrorist organizations +in Iraq, Syria,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019782.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019782.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd547fc135355a666c88556e169bc8ca375726ad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019782.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +General Hayden, who was NSA director during +the three years following the g/i1 attack, wrote that these surveil- +lance powers, among other things, "uncovered illicit financing net- +works, detected suspect travel, discovered ties to aviation schools, +linked transportation employees to associates of terrorists, drew +connections to the illicit purchases of arms, tied U.S. persons to Kha- +lid Sheikh Mohammed, and discovered a suspect terrorist on the +no-fly list who was already in the United... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019783.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019783.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d9751f902d43351daf0ba082b7a77612c3ebad2c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019783.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The "War on Terror" After Snowden | 295 +secretly briefed on in 2009. Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Sen- +ate Select Committee, pointed out with privileged knowledge that it +saved "subway cars stuffed to the gunwales with people"; Represen- +tative Mike Rogers also spoke with privileged knowledge when he +said on June 9, 2013, referring to the 702 program, "I can tell you in +the Zazi case in New York, it's exactly the program that was used." +The third NSA program of interest to terrorists that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019784.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019784.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6e1cace4ab135835b0c257e216c130a748ed37ff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019784.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +296 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +These precise tips for evading U.S. and British surveillance were +not accidentally leaked. Snowden supplied them in written answers +to interrogatives sent to him by Poitras and Appelbaum in May +2013 while he was still on the NSA payroll. He also carefully orches- +trated the exposure of the PRISM surveillance programs, precisely +specifying, as Greenwald writes in his book No Place to Hide, who +was to release the "scoops" in which newspapers. Whatever he... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019785.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019785.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..344410c7540275a77afeb9faaccf43458314bb56 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019785.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The "War on Terror" After Snowden | 297 +or phone lines more freely if Snowden had not divulged the NSA's +surveillance of them, but there can be little doubt that his breach +of the secrecy envelope had serious consequences for U.S., French, +and British intelligence. For example, François Molins, the former +head prosecutor of Paris, pointed out that after the Paris attacks the +French investigation had run into an obstacle: end-to-end encryp- +tion. "We can't penetrate into certain conversations,"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019786.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019786.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b25318e4299037c95e481a6d3e0b8839b231ecb1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019786.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Without the advance warning that the NSA's surveillance of the pre- +encrypted Internet had provided in the past, could the CIA now con- +tend with such unconventional threats? Before the Snowden breach, the FBI, the CIA, and the DIA, which +were the NSA's partners in the PRISM program, had compiled a +watch list of highly active foreign terrorist targets for the NSA's +PRISM program. Until +June 6, 2013, many of these targets had frequently used Internet +services, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Xbox... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019787.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019787.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a12a0551e53c566860e9121f1bb15a20117dc08b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019787.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Epilogue +The Snowden Effect +Governments can reduce our dignity to something like that of +tagged animals. +-EDWARD SNOWDEN, Moscow, 2016 +'HE ENORMOUS EFFECT that Snowden has had on America can +T be divided into three categories: the good, the bad, and the ugly. There is no denying +that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to +U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the +public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance +leviathan.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019788.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019788.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..259bb9a967382b1f2e9afcb2a6963162cbbcabfe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019788.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +300 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS +The conversation that Snowden began is necessary for another +reason. The government can subpoena +as part of an investigation, as we know, our personal data, including +our Internet searches, social media postings, electronic communica- +tions, and credit card records. Did an Orwellian government intercept +private conversations of American citizens? Should Apple, Google, +and other Internet giants use a doomsday system of encryption to +prevent court-ordered... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019789.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019789.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7306b96e0aaa3e67f5c505b8a647f56d2dfac006 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019789.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Epilogue | 301 +issue is not surveillance itself; it is the proper way such surveillance +is conducted +The NSA surveillance of telephone records that Snowden exposed +was different in its intent from the surveillance of the Cold War. Many of these individuals residing in Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan had +been identified by the FBI and the CIA as active bomb makers, assas- +sins, and weapon specialists. This was not domestic surveillance, but +when any of these suspects telephoned a phone number in the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019790.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019790.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a050df3f2ce1fa8136670f676b42903c35dc8b9e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019790.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +This innova- +tion had provided President Obama and his national security team +an edge of which our adversaries were unaware from 2008 to 2013. However, Snowden deliberately nullified this advantage in 2013 by +revealing this technology (which was published in The New York +Times and other newspapers). The full extent of the damage Snowden did may never be fully +known, even though the Department of Defense spent the better +part of a year, and tens of thousands of investigative man-hours, +trying to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019791.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019791.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f11b8e7dd1fb2803b8f9e1cf38727a8bd3db0aac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019791.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Epilogue | 303 +• +The ugly part of the equation is the rampant growth of the pub- +lic's distrust of the institutions of government in America. In defending Snowden, it questions +the truthfulness of any government official or member of Congress +who discloses information contradicting Snowden's claims or show- +ing that there was some benefit to the multibillion-dollar intelli- +gence system that he compromised. Even Senator Dianne Feinstein, +who herself fought the secrecy of the CIA for years, was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019792.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019792.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aebe9df45b6fce1e799bfdb6906e5c89078cb701 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019792.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +As a result, a legitimate debate on what should constitute our +domestic liberties—and potential limits to those when facing sig- +nificant security concerns—has largely obfuscated in this mind-set +the reality of Snowden's weakening, durably and structurally, the +critical ability of the United States and its allies to address their +mounting external security challenges. In this culture of distrust, +whatever contradicts the innocent whistle-blower narrative can be +preemptively dismissed because... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019793.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019793.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e88ad8726fae927fa95e816049958cd3c68d8ffb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019793.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I am particularly indebted in this regard to Tobias Brown, +Rachelle Bergstein, Richard Bernstein, Sidney Blumenthal, David +Braunschvig, Ash Carter, Susana Duncan, Joe Finder, Ben Gerson, +Andrew Hacker, William Haseltine, Eli Jacobs, Bruce Kovner, Robert +Loomis, Gary Lucas, 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... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019794.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019794.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a8d3cce99bdaec2b2fc6aeba4d0d076c8221800 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019794.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +• +306 | Acknowledgments +Because I do not believe an investigative book should be written +without the author visiting the crime scene and other pertinent ven- +ues, I undertook research in Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong, and Moscow. I am grate- +ful to Ena and Ines Talakic for their assistance on these research trips. I thank Alexander Bitter in Hawaii, Joyce Xu +in Hong Kong, Ko Shoiya in Japan, and Zamir Gotta, Natalie Filkina, +and Svetlana Chervonnaya in Russia for their help in arranging... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019795.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019795.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..710878c7ad7f8c5daeb3a268757fbe7cf66d788f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019795.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Notes +• +PROLOGUE Snowden's Trail: Hong Kong, 2014 +3 "No Such Agency": The best description of the birth of the NSA can be found in +Bamford, Puzzle Palace, 1-4. +4 the NSA learned: General Keith Alexander, interview with author. +4 twelve-minute video: This video can be seen at http://www.theguardian.com +/world/video/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview +-video. All of the dozens of videos Snowden made after this initial one can be +viewed in chronological order at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019796.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019796.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..459ccfa3dacc3204c8de42176f1c5d56ab498146 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019796.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +CHAPTER I Tinker +15 "It's like the boiling frog" : Bamford, "Edward Snowden." +15 Lon Snowden, like his father: The best reporting on Snowden's childhood was +done by Suzanne Andrews. See Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, "Snowden +Saga." +16 Brad Gunson, who knew Snowden: Carol D. Leonnig, Jenna Johnson, and Marc +Fisher, "Who Is Edward Snowden?," Washington Post, June 15, 2013. +16 Snowden stayed home: Kinsey, interview with author. +16 Posting under the alias: Mullin, "NSA Leaker Ed Snowden's Life on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019797.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019797.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c8adbafdc13ed8824540817cea62cce7214ee0ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019797.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +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" : Schmitt, "C.I.A. Warning on Snowden in 'og Said to +Slip Through the Cracks." +26 explained the discrepancy: Former CIA officer who requested anonymity, inter- +view with author. +26 "It was not a stellar": Drumheller, interviews with author. +26 "e-mail spat": Snowden was interviewed via... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019798.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019798.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c60e4a21239133cfd296f3845dd52f5ac8cba604 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019798.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Rusbridger and MacAskill, "I, Spy." +39 "Law is a lot like medicine": David Weigel, "Edward Snowden and Ron Paul +Kick Off Libertarian Student Conference," Bloomberg News, Feb. 13, 2015. For Ron Paul's position on "secret government," see http://www.presstv.ir +/Detail/2015/06/02/413952/US-Ron-Paul-CIA-NSA-secret-government. +39 "The [American] government": Arundhati Roy, "Edward Snowden Meets +Arundhati Roy and John Cusack," Guardian, Nov. 28, 2015. +40 "fear and a false image": Bamford, "Edward... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019799.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019799.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8fcb4ef20ed14810da8cb97443dad7531400128f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019799.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Notes to pages 49-59 | 311 +CHAPTER 6 Hacktivist +49 the group Anonymous: Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, 1-8. +50 "My own forays": Sue Halpern, "In the Depths of the Net," New York Review of +Books, Oct. 8, 2015. +51 Silk Road, which acted: Holman W. Also, Justice Department official who requested +anonymity, interview with author. +51 "Tor's importance" : Hastings, "Julian Assange." Also see Julian Assange, intro- +duction to Underground, by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019800.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019800.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e944d0bd63ca8719bad5ecbb89bb9a989cdec2d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019800.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +312 Notes to pages 59-70 +59 Greenwald had not always: Mark Memmott, "He Broke the NSA Leaks Story, +but Just Who Is Glenn Greenwald?," NPR, June 11, 2013. For his part owner- +ship of the H] website, see Dareh Gregorian, "Glenn Greenwald, Journalist Who +Broke Edward Snowden Story, Was Once Lawyer Sued over Porn Business," +Daily News, June 26, 2013. On Ron +Paul, see ibid., 24. +60 Freedom of the Press Foundation: Michael Calderone, "Freedom of the Press +Foundation Launches to Support WikiLeaks,"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019801.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019801.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7145e58cc2ab21b0d5a97ec61016fa9853b74038 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019801.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Notes to pages 71-80 | 313 +71 When they finally settled: The descriptions of the initial two meetings between +Greenwald and Poitras in April 2013 are provided in Greenwald's 2014 book, No +Place to Hide, pp. 10-15. CHAPTER 8 Raider of the Inner Sanctum +73 "They think there's a smoking gun": Bamford, "Edward Snowden." +74 system for stratifying its data: Michael McConnell, interview with King, "Ex- +NSA Chief Details Snowden's Hiring at Agency, Booz Allen." +74 Snowden applied to Booz Allen: Booz... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019802.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019802.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..45dfe88839ff06164d02b599d85b11160e1ec4d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019802.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +314 | Notes to pages 80-96 +80 At this point: Former DIA officer who requested anonymity, interview with +author. +80 He had visited Hong Kong: Lindsay Mills's blog. +8o According to Albert Ho: Bradsher, "Hasty Exit Started with Pizza Inside a Hong +Kong Hideout." Also, Keith Bradsher, interview with author. +81 for the next ten days: Former DIA officer who requested anonymity, interview +with author. "That whole period": Rusbridger and MacAskill, "I, Spy." +81 He e-mailed Gellman: Gellman, "Code Name... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019803.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019803.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea1ecbb9f72488123f154626add4008762d8f841 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019803.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Notes to pages 98-109 | 315 +96 "I was being tailed" : Corbett, "How a Snowdenista Kept the NSA Leaker Hidden +in a Moscow Airport." +CHAPTER II Enter Assange +98 "Thanks to Russia": Julian Assange, "How 'The Guardian' Milked Edward +Snowden's Story," Newsweek, April 20, 2015. +98 Julian Assange had made: David Leigh and Luke Harding, "Julian Assange: The +Teen Hacker Who Became Insurgent in Information War," Guardian, Jan. 30, +99 Sarah Harrison: Sarah Ellison, "The Man Who Came to Dinner," Vanity... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019804.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019804.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1603aa227b99d5cdf8f0ace94197fa26110a6eb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019804.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +316 | Notes to pages 113-121 +109 first live interview in Moscow: Snowden met with James Bamford, the author +of the 1982 book The Puzzle Palace, in Moscow in June 2014. Bamford, "Edward +Snowden." +CHAPTER 13 The Great Divide +113 "That moral decision" : Edward Snowden, statement, http://wikileaks/statement +- from-Edward-Snowden. +114 "Sitting on his unmade bed": Packer, "Holder of Secrets." +114 This powerful narrative: See Greenwald, No Place to Hide, 248-54; Snowden, +interview with Williams.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019805.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019805.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bf0bc35aa9c8bd1212305849d4083fcc1cbac116 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019805.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Notes to pages 121-129 | 317 +119 his son Senator Rand Paul: See Katie Glueck, "Rand Paul Backs Snowden, Bashes +Clapper," Politico, Jan. 5, 2014. +119 "We actually buy cell phones" : Snowden quoted in "New The Guardian Inter- +view with Edward Snowden," Guardian, July 17, 2014, https://www.theguardian +.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-interview +-transcript. +121 Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Edward Jay Epstein, "What Really Happened to +Strauss-Kahn," New York Review of Books,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019806.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019806.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f4b0d22bf3e2a66d899fd5fb0e8c55e2ce0adfce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019806.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +See Edward Jay Epstein, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Har- +vey Oswald (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978), 64-104. +129 Clapper answered that: The transcript was published by The Washington Post, +Jan. 29, 2014. For Clapper's earlier closed-door testimony, see Steven Aftergood, +"The Clapper 'Lie' and the Senate Intelligence Committee," FAS, Jan. 6, 2014 +130 On his application to Booz Allen: Hosenball, "NSA Contractor Hired Snowden +Despite Concerns About Resume Discrepancies!" +130 in contacting Laura... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019807.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019807.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d966bb7208b6c11e0e2ede91067afb6b70c31eed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019807.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +The State Department Opera- +tions Center alert said "Snowden's U.S. passport was revoked on June 22, 2013," +after the Justice Department unsealed the charges that had been filed in the U.S +District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on June 14, 2013. Officials Scrambled to Nab Snowden." +142 Putin admitted: Interview, Channel One, http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president +/news/19143. +143 +"Vladimir Putin had personally approved": Jennifer Martinez, "Report: Snow- +den's US Passport Revoked,"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019808.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019808.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f1960e6761a3240ac5c0420235cb99e0770dda17 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019808.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +320 | Notes to pages 159-171 +157 A counterespionage review: Member of the PFIAB who requested anonymity, +interview with author. +157 "in that they both used": Kevin Gosztola, "NSA Inspector General Speaks on +Snowden for First Time," Shadow Proof, Feb. 25, 2014. +157 KGB major Anatoliy Golitsyn: Bagley, Spy Wars, 6-11. +158 Wang Lijun: Steven Lee Myers and Mark Landler, "Frenzied Hours for U.S. on +Fate of a China Insider," New York Times, April 17, 2012. +159 "I think Snowden is" : Vincent Kessler,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019809.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019809.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d0e6417dcb9d7859fea4ef15267118b9f217962e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019809.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Notes to pages 171-184 | 321 +169 "touched" documents: Former NSA official who requested anonymity, interview +with author. +169 more than half the documents: Staff member of the Senate Intelligence Commit- +tee who requested anonymity, interview with author. +170 Snowden also disputed: Bamford, "Edward Snowden." +170 via a Vice magazine: Leopold, "Inside Washington's Quest to Bring Down Edward +Snowden." +171 previously cited road map: Burrough, Ellison, and Andrews, "Snowden Saga." +171 The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019810.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019810.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..60633d57ac65ba7b548e040713823d357c56476b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019810.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Also, former Russian intelligence officer who +requested anonymity, interview with author. +183 +"If Snowden didn't give" : Former NSA official who requested anonymity, inter- +view with author. +183 German federal prosecutor: Theodore Schleifer, "Germany Drops Probe into U.S. Scurries to Shore Up Spying on Russia," Wall Street Journal, +March 24, 2014. +184 Britain also discovered: Tom Harper, Richard Kerbaj, and Tim Shipman, "British +Spies Betrayed to Russians and Chinese," Sunday Times (London),... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019811.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019811.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..043e8567aabb350453ea5ba5a9d94beb354c097c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019811.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Army: National Security Agency, Pearl Harbor Review: The +Black Chamber, NSA, 2009, https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologicheritage +/centercryptologichistory/pearlharborreview/blackchamber.shtml. +196 "Its far-seeking eyes" : Kahn, Codebreakers, 358. +198 The NSA also organized: Woodward, Veil, 471-75. +198 In 1980, President Ronald Reagan: David R. Shedd, "How Obama Unilaterally +Chilled Surveillance," Wall Street Journal, Nov. 30, 2015. +198 "We are approaching": Turner, Secrecy and Democracy,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019812.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019812.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1541e6d008c241160041a77adaa46ed347ed41c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019812.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +324 | Notes to pages 214-231 +212 "it stays secret": De, "Former NSA Lawyer on 'Harm' of Edward Snowden's +Revelations." +212 North Korea in 1968: John Prados and Jack Cheevers, "USS Pueblo: LB] Con- +sidered Nuclear Weapons," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book +No. 453, Jan. 23, 2014. +212 Booz Allen Hamilton: Booz Allen Hamilton issued a history of its evolution in +2004. "Helping Clients Envision the Future," PDF file, 2004,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019813.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019813.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4215a107a4706db1f5183c4b5b06561f4fb886b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019813.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Notes to pages 232-252 | 325 +228 127-page Standard Form 86: David Larter and Andrew Tilghman, "Mili- +tary Clearance OPM Data Breach 'Absolute Calamity,'" Navy Times, June 18, +229 Under Putin: Nicole Perroth, "Online Security Experts Link More Breaches to +Russian Government," New York Times, Oct. 28, 2014. +229 "It is next to impossible": Schneier quoted in Jenkins, "Anti-hero of Silk Road." +230 The Silk Road founder: Jenkins, "Anti-hero of Silk Road." Also, former Justice +Department official who... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019814.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019814.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cde806918dae25382e7bbece115ffd2bb2723bab --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019814.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +326 | Notes to pages 252-280 +CHAPTER 24 Off to Moscow +247 "They talk about Russia" : Bamford and De Chant, "Edward Snowden on Cyber +Warfare." +247 Before flying to Moscow: Stone, interview with author. +248 $1 million: Mike Fleming Jr., "Oliver Stone Buys Edward Snowden Russian +Lawyer's 'Novel' About Asylum-Seeking Whistleblower," Deadline, June 10, +"I have been trying" : Bamford, "Edward Snowden." +"There is only one door": Gotta, e-mail exchange with author. +250 "A special operation" : Gridasov,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019815.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019815.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..da9863cdf8850fdaf872932bee761e9f7a1fdc39 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019815.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Notes to pages 281-293 | 327 +Snowden," Dispatches, July 13, 2015, https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/07/12 +/dispatches-meeting-edward-snowden. +265 +"I will be submitting": "Statement by Edward Snowden," July 12, 2013, https:// +WikiLeaks.org/Statement-by-Edward-Snowden-to.html. +265 "When I accepted the case": Kucherena, interview with author. +265 Kucherena had personally approved: Shevardnadze, interview with author. CHAPTER 27 Snowden's Choices +272 Presidential Policy Directive 20: Greenwald, No... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019816.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019816.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..21fbf9ed440fd17f37ce16935c1c91a67af226de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019816.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +NSA Internet Spying Foiled Plot +to Attack New York Subways: Sources," Reuters, June 7, 2013. +290 provided the "critical lead": Marshall Erwin, "Connecting the Dots," U.S. Senate +Committee on the Judiciary, Jan. 13, 2014,0 +290 "I can tell you": Rogers quoted in Ed Pilkington and Nicholas Watt, "NSA Sur- +veillance Played Little Role in Foiling Terror Plots, Experts Say," Guardian, June +12, 2013. +290 The third NSA program: Glenn Greenwald, "Keyscore: NSA Tool Collects +'Nearly Everything a User... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019817.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019817.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..baabfb2c15706fbc21d08bc091114d0f7cd30c68 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019817.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Selected Bibliography +SELECTED BOOKS +Andrew, Christopher. Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games. New Haven, Conn.: +Yale University Press, 2008. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anony- +mous. Privacy for Me and Not for Thee: The Movement for Invincible +Personal Encryption, Radical State Transparency, and the Snowden Hack. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019818.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019818.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5f80cbe1a1b16f121be9b7d4bc00c211b2c59a41 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019818.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +330 | Selected Bibliography +Woodward, Bob. "Edward Snowden Interview: The NSA and Its Willing Helpers." +Spiegel Online, July 8, 2013. Is Easy Prey for Hackers." Wall Street Jour- +nal, June 22, 2015• +Bamford, James. "Edward Snowden: The Untold Story." Wired, Aug. 2014. "Hasty Exit Started with Pizza Inside a Hong Kong Hideout." New York +Times, June 24, 2013. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019819.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019819.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eef840a643c708766963f876624fed74d914442e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019819.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"Inside Washington's Quest to Bring Down Edward Snowden." Vice, +June 4, 2015. Officials Scrambled to Nab Snowden." Washington Post, June 14, +Mullin, Joe. "NSA Leaker Ed Snowden's Life on Ars Technica." Ars Technica, June 13, +Packer, George. "Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia." New York Times, Oct. Warning on Snowden in '09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks." +New York Times, Oct. 10, 2013. +vanden Heuvel, Katrina, and Stephen F. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019839.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019839.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a9c99feb5c1837bcb654262ef2b24cabbe46b8b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019839.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +ILLUSTRATION CREDITS +Edward Snowden on video shown in Hong Kong: AP Photo/Kin Cheung +NSA base on Oahu: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic +Barton Gellman: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite +Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras in Hong Kong: AP Photo/John Minchillo +Mira hotel: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic +Keith Alexander: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite +Vladimir Putin: AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev +Julian Assange: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire +Russian airline Aeroflot: Courtesy Ena and Ines Talakic +Michael Hayden: Rex... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019841.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019841.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac7ae373a7318658c5446f62946b0cb46f12e790 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019841.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +A NOTE +ABOUT THE AUTHOR +• +Edward Jay Epstein graduated from Cornell University and +received a Ph.D. from Harvard. His undergraduate thesis on the +search for political truth became a best-selling book, Inquest: The +Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. His doctoral +dissertation on television news was excerpted in The New Yorker +and published as News from Nowhere. He won the +prestigious Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton Global Busi- +ness Book Award for both best biography and best... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019843.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019843.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..674fe5f1b50433375c9777729a13e9d6f68c1e5c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019843.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +A NOTE ON THE TYPE +The text of this book was set in a typeface called Aldus, designed by +the celebrated typographer Hermann Zapf in 1952-53. Based on +the classical proportion of the popular Palatino type family, Aldus +was originally adapted for Linotype composition as a slightly +lighter version that would read better in smaller sizes. Hermann Zapf was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1918. He +has created many other well known typefaces including Comenius, +Hunt Roman, Marconi, Melior,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019845.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019845.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..66117cd2e91311e16a4b171e4f6e15d6f1ad2a17 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019845.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Importance: +Kathy Ruemmler I +3/13/2017 2:45:19 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +When It Comes to Wall Street, Preet Bharara Is No Hero - ProPublica +High +https://www.propublica.org/article/when-it-comes-to-wall-street-preet-bharara-is-no-hero +When It Comes to Wall Street, Preet Bharara Is No +Hero +The prominent U.S. attorney fired by Donald Trump this weekend has +been justly acclaimed for his pursuit of political corruption. But his +treatment of the Wall Street... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019846.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019846.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b65eb196adff893d9a3ad1c5aeaea61d4771839 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019846.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Before Morgenthau, the Department of Justice focused on two-bit corporate misdeeds— +Ponzi schemes and boiler room operations. He was +elected New York County District Attorney in 1974, the first of seven consecutive terms for +that office. There are parallels between Morgenthau, and Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for the +Southern District who was fired by President Trump this weekend. Bharara prosecuted two of +the infamous "three men in a room" who ran New York state: Sheldon Silver,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019847.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019847.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b61a0d3f5f3c3abc7f0b0bb65b803ca987aa048 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019847.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +As Sheelah Kolhatkar +demonstrates in her propulsive and riveting "Black Edge," when it came to bringing his +biggest whale to justice, Steve Cohen of SAC Capital, the Southern District blinked. Present and former prosecutors say Bharara did not give much emphasis to investigations +arising from the financial meltdown, an approach shared by his boss, Attorney General Eric +Holder. Bharara missed an opportunity by not bringing any significant criminal charges against +individuals in the wake of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019848.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019848.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a5cb54f8fac3ecc611eb3f145609413103ee38a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019848.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In addition, Bharara's office ceded post- +financial crisis investigations into foreign exchange and global interest rate manipulation to +prosecutors working from the Justice Department's headquarters. Like Morgenthau, Bharara was a prominent figure in the New York landscape, given to +well-orchestrated press conferences and memorable sound bites. Like Morgenthau, he did +not leave office quietly, even thought the president has a longstanding right to name his own +U.S. attorneys. And like... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019849.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019849.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0884e95c9d0b569ba6cd5cbf69fe30c347f385b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019849.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +SERIOUS MOONLIGHT +Behind the scenes at the 2017 Academy Awards with filmdom's first lady of Oscar +cheerleading (my close friends know I was captain of the twirlers in high school) +By Peggy Siegal +UPDATED: Tuesday at 6pm +Was this year different from all other years at the Oscars? After two years of #OscarsSoWhite, they responded by nominating a record +six African American actors, four African American producers and one African American +director, Barry Jenkins, the fourth ever nominated in that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019850.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019850.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b19bdbe160a2259c0cc3ff95216cd1ac80a08ad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019850.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +By the time Marc and I met again at the end of the +three prong red carpet, "La La Land" publicist and West Coast campaign queen Lisa Taback +was furious I'd told the shaken producer his film might lose. It did win a spectacular six Oscars before +Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway walked to center stage for the best picture finale. Despite my faux pas, and my work on most of the year's top films, including "Moonlight," +"Manchester by the Sea" and "Hidden Figures," Oscar night I was in the "La La"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019851.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019851.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db1e24278a9116699dab2ec89861f5f652bba63f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019851.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I checked into Jeff Klein's Sunset Tower Hotel still exhausted from last weekend's oh-so-grand +birthday extravaganza thrown by fun loving billionaire Stephen Schwarzman in Palm +Beach—and headed straight to Charles Finch's photo exhibition, "The Art of Behind the +Scenes," to see rare candid on-set photos of Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Grace Kelly and +Ava Gardner. Spotted: Jean Pigozzi, +Brett Ratner and Paul Haggis. Back at The Sunset Tower Bar, diminutive maitre d' Dmitri Dimitrov slid up... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019852.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019852.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..66b1b730dce53775d947c0c5b2355b94e37519b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019852.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +NBCUniversal's Ron Meyer, Gus Van Sant, Emily Ratajkowski, Dasha Zhukova, artists Alex +Israel, Harmony Korine and Dan Colen, rocker Robbie Robertson and Page Six's lan Mohr dig +into orange chicken on sticks. This means you have made the cut to attend Larry's after party at his house. +lan and I head to Paul Haggis' intimate Artist for Peace and Justice benefit dinner for 65 at the +LA club No Name where a great time set guests back $2,500 for Haiti. We arrive just in time to +hear Jeff Bridges... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019853.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019853.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9187ece2763d77a333fb25ebda84a30d5bfb23a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019853.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I +like to go home at night and let someone else worry about tomorrow's location." +Friday ends at the CAA party, a tough ticket now handed out by Maha Dahkil and Michael +Kives. Spotted: Meryl Streep (yes, she had a busy day too), Leonardo DiCaprio, +Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Orlando Bloom, Jerry Bruckheimer, J.J. Abrams, Ron +Howard, Naomi Watts, Mick Jagger, Lady Gaga, Barry Jenkins, John Mayer, Arnold +Schwarzenegger, Kate Hudson, Jon Hamm and Jeff Bezos. As brilliant as the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019854.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019854.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e52821dc3e0c2ab85ffcaedec67a590c71207497 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019854.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I +sit next to Amazon's Roy Price and Oliver Stone, who sits next to Michael Keaton. I bring over +Pharrell Williams to meet Oliver Stone, director of "Snowden" and "JFK." The conversation +segwayed from Hillary Clinton to Oliver's new documentary on Putin. She +says, "Tell Mick my father says 'hello."" Lily is the daughter of Phil Collins and starred in +Warren Beatty's "Rules Don't Apply". Spotted: Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Christian Louboutin, Kristen Stewart, Ruth Negga and +"Arrival" director... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019855.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019855.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..69845345f2374300d94e820e6cc1a481f1be75d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019855.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Once +inside we lose each other in the darkness and pulsating Caribbean music. I get home at +5:00am, pack my three huge suitcases and rush off to the private airport in Van Nuys, still +wondering how I could have missed "Moonlight"'s triumph. I must have been in La La-land. The following weekend I arrive in the Dominican Republic at Casa de Campo at the home +of sugar baron Pepe Fanjul and his wife Emilia. He says, "First, "La La Land" for fun, then "Moonlight" because it won, then "The +Founder"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019856.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019856.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0bf9449093c2137e286f243721a6aaf2887c63a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019856.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +SadisGoldbergup +Edited by Yelena Maltser • ymaltser@sglawyers.com +MARCH 2017 +S&G INVESTMENT +MANAGER Alert +SUPREME COURT REJECTS NEWMAN +REQUIREMENT OF "PECUNIARY OR +SIMILARLY VALUABLE" PERSONAL BENEFIT +FOR INSIDER TRADING LIABILITY FOR +TIPPING FAMILY AND FRIENDS +BY SAMUEL J. Supreme Court gave the government a +major victory in Salman v. Newman, in which +Salman will almost certainly embolden the SEC and federal +prosecutors to bring more insider trading cases, because it is +much easier for the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019857.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019857.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d09f861b72a24f6ca970f3edc9b70080a7a1f0f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019857.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Supreme Court Rejects Newman Requirement of "Pecuniary or Similarly Valuable" Personal +Benefit for Insider Trading Liability for Tipping Family and Friends (continued from page 1) +as a personal benefit necessary to be held liable +for insider trading? In Salman, an investment banker at Citigroup +tipped his brother about certain pending health- +care mergers involving Citigroup clients. Salman was convicted at +trial, and his conviction was upheld by the Court +of Appeals for the Ninth... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019858.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019858.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c32d65cafe7578b39dfdd4340f6cdff31ebbd3c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019858.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Supreme Court Rejects Newman Requirement of "Pecuniary or Similarly Valuable" Personal +Benefit for Insider Trading Liability for Tipping Family and Friends (continued from page 2) +The Supreme Court affirmed Salman's conviction, +holding that a gift of inside information to family or +friends is sufficient to prove a "personal benefit" +for insider trading tipping liability. The Court rea- +soned that such a gift can be inferred to "provide +the equivalent of a cash gift." Specifically, the +Court... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019859.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019859.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..08798bd37918272f5f14af4093622d5ebbc664f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019859.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +The New York Attorney General (the "AG") recently +announced that it settled investigations with two +companies over their use of non-compete provi- +sions in employment agreements for low-level +employees. Policing non-compete provisions is a +new regulatory frontier for the AG and it is flex- +ing its regulatory muscle pursuant to § 63 (12) of +New York's Executive Law, which provides the AG +with authority to enjoin businesses from utilizing +"unconscionable contractual provisions."' +The AG... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019860.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019860.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..66097df5c38888feb613061f1227d6b7d8c18081 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019860.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +GEFFNER AND YEHUDA BRAUNSTEIN +Reprinted with permission of Hedgeweek +With the Trump administration in the White House, +regulatory uncertainty permeates the financial +services industry. While many on Wall Street are +very excited by the Trump presidency, others are +approaching this new era with trepidation. Presi- +dent Trump is unpredictable in many ways, and the +industry eagerly awaits his actions hoping that the +financial markets do not respond negatively and +create chaos in the global... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019861.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019861.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ee3e32706c3f05b74ea82da00075e59000c86d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019861.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +COMPLIANCE DEADLINES - Second Quarter 2017 +There are many regulatory filings and compliance forms that investment managers need to complete throughout the year. DATE +April 1 +April 10 +April 15 +April 30 +May 15 +May 30 +May 31 +ACTIVITY +ERISA Schedule C of Form 5500 Disclosure. Adviser may be +required to report certain information to its ERISA plan clients +and investors for their use in completing Department of Labor +Form 5500. Form PF for Large Liquidity Fund Advisers. Deadline by which all... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019862.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019862.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..894eb810111c8b728498f256e9a1957a8cdacbfa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019862.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +VIOLA +The Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") +released their Exam Priorities for 2017. Protecting Retail Investors: +• Electronic Investment Advice +• Wrap Fee Program +• Exchange-Traded Funds +• Never-Before Examined Investment Advisers +• Recidivist Firms and Their Employees +• Multi-Branch Advisers +• Share Class Selection +2. Focusing on Senior Investors and +Retirement Investments: +• ReTIRE - Retirement-Targeted Industry +Reviews and Examinations +• Public Pension Advisers +• Senior... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019863.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019863.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f55d5ccfdd3454df845bca2b6743b860fbe94297 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019863.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Upcoming Events +Weston Hill Global Private +Wealth Forum +April 25, 2017 +Roosevelt Hotel +45 E 45th Street, New York City +13D Monitor Active-Passive Investor +Summit +April 21, 2017 +The Plaza Hotel, New York City +NCS Regulatory Compliance +Conference +June 21 - 23, 2017 +Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa +Manalapan, FL +Sadis & Goldberg's 10th Annual +Alternative Investment Management +Seminar +November 8, 2017 +The New York Athletic Club +180 Central Park South, New York City +Ron S. Geffner, Partner and head of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019864.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019864.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0671376fd85e32791656669254e4479eb9d59bcd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019864.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +SERIOUS MOONLIGHT +Behind the scenes at the 2017 Academy Awards with filmdom's first lady of Oscar cheerleading +(my close friends know I was captain of the twirlers in high school) +By Peggy Siegal +Was this year different from all other years at the Oscars? After two years of #OscarsSoWhite, they responded by nominating a record six +African American actors, four African American producers and one African American director, +Barry Jenkins, the fourth ever nominated in that category. Three films... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019865.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019865.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92d0bc88afaff93b695d6f9ab2451ed0cf1fa369 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019865.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +It did win a spectacular six Oscars before +Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway walked to center stage for the best picture finale. Despite my +faux pas, and my work on most of the year's top films, including "Moonlight," "Manchester by the +Sea" and "Hidden Figures," Oscar night I was in the "La La" camp due to my long friendship with +it's director Damien Chazelle. So we three bejeweled broads were hugging tightly, when Faye broke Warren's pregnant pause +and screamed "La La Land". No Joke." Platt,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019866.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019866.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bd4854a5bc5ea3972d60ff10e676733a0120fefa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019866.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +his 70th Birthday in Palm Beach—and headed straight to Charles Finch's photo exhibition, +"The +Art of Behind the Scenes," to see rare candid on-set photos of Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, +Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. Spotted: Jean Pigozzi, Brett +Ratner and Paul Haggis. Back at The Sunset Tower Bar, diminutive maitre d' Dmitri Dimitrov slid up to me, cupped his +hands in prayer and whispered, "Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are in the corner booth with +Warner Bros. I joked that the Oscar... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019867.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019867.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0cfa2cb7bf0c309280dc696381bc0f3b968e4c7b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019867.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +This means you have made the cut to attend Larry's after party at his house. +lan and I head to Paul Haggis' intimate Artist for Peace and Justice benefit dinner for 65 at the +LA club No Name where a great time set guests back $2,500 for Haiti. We arrive just in time to +hear Jeff Bridges sing a song from "Crazy Heart", Jack Black recall "School of Rock" and Rita +Wilson sing ABBA's "Dancing Queen". I end up at A24's party at the Sunset Tower for their films "20th Century Woman" and +"Moonlight".... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019868.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019868.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92fd307025a46d87cdf9e55c72669261573fe66e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019868.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Friday ends at the CAA party, a tough ticket now handed out by Maha Dahkil and Michael +Kives. Spotted: Meryl Streep (yes, she had a busy day too), Leonardo DiCaprio, +Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Orlando Bloom, Jerry Bruckheimer, J.J. Abrams, Ron +Howard, Naomi Watts, Mick Jagger, Lady Gaga, Barry Jenkins, John Mayer, Arnold +Schwarzenegger, Kate Hudson, Jon Hamm and Jeff Bezos. As brilliant as the conversation was, four guys from Australia, Denmark, Germany +and Sweden depressingly knew... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019869.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019869.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..945bf86bf74c4cd9a594d3290b3e7baafbad26fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019869.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Pharrell Williams to meet Oliver Stone, director of "Snowden" and "JFK." The conversation +segwayed from Hillary Clinton to Oliver's new documentary on Putin. Lily Collins comes over and asks to be introduced to Mick Jagger at the table next to us. She +says, "Tell Mick my father says 'hello.'" Lily is the daughter of Phil Collins and starred in Warren +Beatty's "Rules Don't Apply". Spotted: Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Christian Louboutin, Kristen Stewart, Ruth Negga and +"Arrival" director Denis... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019870.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019870.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73c6bbbf056aa4024a62b9e7b515dfcd9bbd682e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019870.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +wondering how I could have missed "Moonlight""'s triumph. I must have been in La La-land. +xOXO, +Peggy +P.S. The following weekend I arrive in the Dominican Republic at Casa de Campo at the home +of sugar baron Pepe Fanjul and his wife Emilia. Juan Carlos, the past king of Spain, wants to +watch a few movies with me. He says, "First, "La La Land" for fun, then "Moonlight" because it won, then "The +Founder" for American ingenuity." +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019870 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019871.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019871.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..714647609b9d7c8834818a975c6ec49fe15aaa7d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019871.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Date: Monday, January 8 2018 07:47 PM +Subject: Fwd: radical breakthrough +From: jeffrey E. < jeevacation@gmail.com> +To: +jeffrey epstein ; +kashoggi, bunker hunt. george mitchell. wayne owens. prince andrew. princess mette. princes sophie, +princess alexandra princess melusine. . bill richardson. bill clinton. hamad bun jasem. donalad trup. gov +mapp. governoe young. governoe king. . woody allen. morgain fairchild. mike ovitz.. marvin davis, herb +segal. jimmy cyane, jes... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019872.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019872.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..913aa6a29b65960ac0c8e31242eac472c99abf7f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019872.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +25. belief, survival. meachinsim for some. • placebo. +. 26. taste? food? kissing? +27 . mortaltiy tables. why. points on the distribution. wittegenstein. . . +money. agreements. debt. pwer. value wealth. cost. +27 dreaming all day long +28 only 6 senses? +29. micro bioome anti biotics. recall smell. ? psyche. memory etc. +30 / eye transmission +31. numbers, not good for many things +32. luck what is it mortality tables +33 signal processing.. noise. excription +gromov deepak. church. martin.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019873.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019873.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a524b0f3fed6e0b40909f6f5cec6135a1c0fe37c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019873.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Attachments: +Importance: +1/8/2018 9:25:13 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +wd: Fire and Fury - Michael Wolff.pd +ire and Fury - Michael Wolff.pd +High +—-~- Forwarded message -- +From: +Date: Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 2:27 PM +Subject: Fwd: Fire and Fury - Michael Wolff.pdf +To: +girls, a very nice book about trump. just published. we are the first ones to read! i mean they do not sell it yet. +- Forwarded message --.. From: David Willis +Date: Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 8:31 AM +Subject:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019875.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019875.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..095e05c5d28adfcadb2451869ab99f80052919d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019875.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +ALSO BY MICHAEL WOLFF +Television Is the New Television: +The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age +The Man Who Owns the News: +Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch +Autumn of the Moguls: +My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed +Up Big Media +Burn Rate: +How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet +Where We Stand +White Kids +HOUSEOVERSIGHT019875 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019877.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019877.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c0b3b1a0f898d08ff021f58a8f1d15acc465c549 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019877.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +LITTLE, BROWN +First published in the United States in 2018 by Henry Holt and Company +First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Little, Brown +Copyright © 2018 by Michael Wolff +The moral right of the author has been asserted. Designed by Meryl Sussman Levavi +All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, +without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019879.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019879.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f5994faaaf4ce249b68ed12ecb5655588de1104 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019879.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +CONTENTS +AUTHOR'S NOTE +PROLOGUE: AILES AND BANNON +1. REPEAL AND REPLACE +13. ABROAD AND AT HOME +18. MCMASTER AND SCARAMUCCI +21. BANNON AND SCARAMUCCI +HOUSE +OVERSIGHT019879 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019881.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019881.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a61465f94b783777429d339746057e1a6dc68c39 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019881.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +With the inauguration of Donald +Trump on January 20, 2017, the United States entered the eye of the most extraordinary +political storm since at least Watergate. As the day approached, I set out to tell this story in +as contemporaneous a fashion as possible, and to try to see life in the Trump White House +through the eyes of the people closest to it. But events barreled on without +natural pause for more than two hundred days, the curtain coming down on the first act of +Trump's presidency only... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019882.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019882.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73d98a6b2e1275e6958aa645d906f292995bab7d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019882.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +no one to say "Go away." Hence I became more a constant interloper than an invited guest +-something quite close to an actual fly on the wall-having accepted no rules nor having +made any promises about what I might or might not write. Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict +with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. Those conflicts, and that +looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019883.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019883.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2bc591c6f144d3024010b44433605009c1a06828 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019883.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Bannon had promised to come to this small dinner arranged by mutual friends in a +Greenwich Village town house to see Roger Ailes, the former head of Fox News and the +most significant figure in right-wing media and Bannon's sometime mentor. The next day, +January 4, 2017—little more than two weeks before the inauguration of his friend Donald +Trump as the forty-fifth president Ailes would be heading to Palm Beach, into a forced, +but he hoped temporary, retirement. The seventy-six- +year-old Ailes,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019884.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019884.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..46713a9c4ddab60b5086379f683a4fe177bb90c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019884.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Now, however reluctantly, Ailes understood that, at least for the moment, he was +passing the right-wing torch to Bannon. Ailes's Fox News, with its S1.5 billion in annual profits, had dominated Republican +politics for two decades. Now Bannon's Breitbart News, with its mere $1.5 million in +annual profits, was claiming that role. For thirty years, Ailes—until recently the single +most powerful person in conservative politics had humored and tolerated Donald Trump, +but in the end Bannon and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019885.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019885.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bdc53c602c545f3fabcb1fcc4dd3c32091882a6f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019885.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +After Trump's victory, Ailes seemed to balance regret that he had not seized the chance +to run his friend's campaign with incredulity that Trump's offer had turned out to be the +ultimate opportunity. Trump's rise to power, Ailes understood, was the improbable +triumph of many things that Ailes and Fox News represented. Ailes, who was a member of the close circle of friends and advisers Trump frequently +called, found himself hoping he would get more time with the new president once he and +Beth... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019886.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019886.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..daea5bef1823352e84c5c34958b2851e42b17287 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019886.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"Bolton's mustache is a problem," snorted Bannon. You know Bolton is an acquired taste." +"Well, rumors were that he got in trouble because he got in a fight in a hotel one night +and chased some woman." +"If I told Trump that, he might have the job." + +Bannon was curiously able to embrace Trump while at the same time suggesting he did +not take him entirely seriously. He had first met Trump, the on-again off-again presidential +candidate, in 2010; at a meeting in Trump Tower, Bannon had proposed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019887.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019887.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f81d10789b66b43939db5402c0672e7f8a6a1efa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019887.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +With a sideways look, Ailes continued to stare him down, as though waiting for +Bannon to show more of his cards. It's his program." Pivoting from Trump +himself, Bannon plunged on with the Trump agenda. Sheldon"-Sheldon Adelson, the casino +billionaire, far-right Israel defender, and Trump supporter-"is all in. We know where +we're heading on this." +"Does Donald know?" asked a skeptical Ailes. Bannon smiled as though almost with a wink— and continued: +"Let Jordan take the West Bank, let Egypt take... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019888.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019888.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bec1c4cc50a1de13c298c16ee8961bb3ed244b01 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019888.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"Too much, too little doesn't necessarily change things." + +"What has he gotten himself into with the Russians?" pressed Ailes. "Mostly," said Bannon, "he went to Russia and he thought he was going to meet Putin. So he's kept trying." +"He's Donald," said Ailes. "It's a magnificent thing," said Bannon, who had taken to regarding Trump as +something like a natural wonder, beyond explanation. Again, as though setting the issue of Trump aside merely a large and peculiar +presence to both be thankful... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019889.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019889.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2f462f9423612b511a5d231d45908e8cd21edce8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019889.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +I just worry about who's jerking whose chain." +The older right-wing media wizard and the younger (though not by all that much) +continued on to the other guests' satisfaction until twelve-thirty, the older trying to see +through to the new national enigma that was Trump although Ailes would say that in +fact Trump's behavior was ever predictable and the younger seemingly determined not +to spoil his own moment of destiny. "Donald Trump has got it. He's Trump, but he's got it. Trump is Trump,"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019890.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019890.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1b90e7d3abe05ea0b80ef747f348cca7e2a424f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019890.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +1 +ELECTION DAY +n the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway-Donald Trump's +O campaign manager and a central, indeed starring, personality of Trumpworld +settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up until the last weeks of the race, the +Trump campaign headquarters had remained a listless place. Donald Trump would lose the election +—of this she was sure-but he would quite possibly hold the defeat to under 6 points. As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019891.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019891.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb4358e7cf59463a374e1aab717fab598b75b20f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019891.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Conway, who had never been involved +in a national campaign, and who, before Trump, ran a small-time, down-ballot polling +firm, understood full well that, post-campaign, she would now be one of the leading +conservative voices on cable news. In fact, one of the Trump campaign polisters, John McLaughlin, had begun to suggest +within the past week or so that some key state numbers, heretofore dismal, might actually +be changing to Trump's advantage. But neither Conway nor Trump himself nor his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019892.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019892.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..52f809616bb27180709548dfbb77791ffbde1ade --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019892.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Donald Trump and his tiny band of campaign warriors were ready to lose with fire and +fury. And you +probably can't win unless you believe that you will win except in the Trump campaign. The leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was and how +everybody involved in it was a loser. Wish Corey was back." Trump quickly soured on his +second campaign manager, Paul Manafort, as well +By August, trailing Clinton by 12 to 17 points and facing a daily firestorm of +eviscerating press,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019893.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019893.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..12f41ef31640ec0c8edc33fcbcaacc7a74c87da5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019893.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"If we can say victory is more than likely." +In the end, the best Trump would do is loan the campaign $10 million, provided he got +it back as soon as they could raise other money. (Steve Mnuchin, then the campaign's +finance chairman, came to collect the loan with the wire instructions ready to go, so +Trump couldn't conveniently forget to send the money.) +There was in fact no real campaign because there was no real organization, or at best +only a uniquely dysfunctional one. Roger Stone, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019894.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019894.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1dde187efe461b175e2a995cce2a595338f4333c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019894.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Donald Trump's marriage was perplexing to almost everybody around him-or it was, +anyway, for those without private jets and many homes. He and Melania spent relatively +little time together. They could go days at a time without contact, even when they were +both in Trump Tower. An absentee father for his first four children, Trump was even +more absent for his fifth, Barron, his son with Melania. Now on his third marriage, he told +friends he thought he had finally perfected the art: live and let... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019895.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019895.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5be94515df899a101d7c1631638866389ae6c309 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019895.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +done early in her modeling career-a leak that everybody other than Melania assumed +could be traced back to Trump himself. Trump responded in his fashion-We'll sue!-and set her up with lawyers who +successfully did just that. It would all be over in November. The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel +Brooks's The Producers. In that classic, Brooks's larcenous and dopey heroes, Max +Bialystock and Leo Bloom, set out to sell more than 100 percent of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019896.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019896.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1faa8dd9932d085006f2ea15b24ef5134ef9acab --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019896.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Early in the campaign, in a Producers-worthy scene, Sam Nunberg was +sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate: "I got as far as the Fourth Amendment +before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head." +Almost everybody on the Trump team came with the kind of messy conflicts bound to +bite a president or his staff. Mike Flynn, Trump's future National Security Advisor, who +became Trump's opening act at campaign rallies and whom Trump loved to hear... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019897.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019897.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3ce32458c5b6cd6750d8380d4f66eeec8ebf7849 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019897.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +What's more, Trump refused to spend any time considering, however hypothetically, +transition matters, saying it was "bad luck"-but really meaning it was a waste of time. Trump would be the most famous man in the world a martyr to crooked Hillary +Clinton. His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared would have transformed themselves from +relatively obscure rich kids into international celebrities and brand ambassadors. Steve Bannon would become the de facto head of the Tea Party movement. Reince... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019898.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019898.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f2a1ed1bd05b17e40cdcd3158a95634038eba5ae --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019898.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +2 +TRUMP TOWER +n the Saturday after the election, Donald Trump received a small group of well- +O wishers in his triplex apartment in Trump Tower. Rupert Murdoch, heretofore doubtlessly certain Trump was a charlatan and a fool, said +he and his new wife, Jerry Hall, would pay a call on the president-elect. You'll want to stay to see Rupert. (Or, one of the guests interpreted, you'll want to stay to +see Trump with Rupert.) +Murdoch, who, with his then wife, Wendi, had often socialized with Jared and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019899.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019899.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b890862bf248af54c8138d935c062a2c571073a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019899.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-019899 + + +Murdoch was hardly the only billionaire who had been dismissive of Trump. In the years +before the election, Carl Icahn, whose friendship Trump often cited, and who Trump had +suggested he'd appoint to high office, openly ridiculed his fellow billionaire (whom he +said was not remotely a billionaire). Few people who knew Trump had illusions about him. But now he was the president-elect. So did everyone in the Trump orbit. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019900.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019900.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92836d8505dcaee9e69f4f51a94ab2c9f4ea97e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019900.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +take Trump's offer too seriously. But Thiel, who gave a speech supporting Trump at the +Republican Convention in Cleveland, reported back that, even having been forewarned, he +absolutely was certain of Trump's sincerity when he said they'd be friends for life only +never to basically hear from him again or have his calls returned. Other aspects of the Trump character +were more +problematic. "Is Trump a good person, an intelligent person, a capable person?" asked Sam +Nunberg, Trump's longtime... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019901.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019901.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b438d4cd0c8f389550d13365b47ef6de3f7f72d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019901.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Trump's understanding of his own essential nature was even more precise. Once, +coming back on his plane with a billionaire friend who had brought along a foreign model, +Trump, trying to move in on his friend's date, urged a stop in Atlantic City. His friend assured the model that there was nothing to +recommend Atlantic City. "They're people just like me," said Trump, "only they're poor." +He looked for a license not to conform, not to be respectable. A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019902.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019902.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6c137bc4d50ab3438ac5ccdcddf5e7a4bb992b1b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019902.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Shortly after the election, his friend Ailes told him, with some urgency, "You've got to +get right on Russia." Even exiled from Fox News, Ailes still maintained a fabled +intelligence network. "You need to take this seriously, Donald." +"Jared has this," said a happy Trump. "It's all worked out." + +Trump Tower, next door to Tiffany and now headquarters of a populist revolution, +suddenly seemed like an alien spaceship the Death Star-on Fifth Avenue. The Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019903.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019903.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..07c4cdc7ca37a7b1e9a0a9d4da9006b9d922c43f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019903.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The otherworldly sense of Trump Tower helped obscure the fact that few in the thin +ranks of Trump's inner circle, with their overnight responsibility for assembling a +government, had almost any relevant experience. For most of the last eighteen months on the road, it had +been, at its core, a three-person enterprise: his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski +(until he was forced out a month before the Republican National Convention); his +spokesperson-bodyperson-intern, the campaign's first hire,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019904.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019904.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eaad7e2cf7cc03d9172f157906a5c7f1175bee03 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019904.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"If you can make it in New York, you can't necessarily make it in Washington." + +The nature of the role of the modern chief of staff is a focus of much White House +scholarship. Haldeman +and Alexander Haig; Gerald Ford's Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney; Jimmy Carter's +Hamilton Jordan; Ronald Reagan's James Baker; George H. Bush's return of James +Baker; Bill Clinton's Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles, and John Podesta; George W. Bush's +Andrew Card; and Barack Obama's Rahm Emanuel and Bill Daley. His... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019905.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019905.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..69b7b373467ef1c8cd36f48c86cc7dddf582606c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019905.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +He watched with amusement Trump's eccentric presidential campaign and brokered the +deal to have Paul Manafort replace Corey Lewandowski after Lewandowski fell out of +favor with Kushner. Then, as confounded as everyone else by the campaign's continuing +successes, Barrack introduced the future president in warm and personal terms at the +Republican National Convention in July (at odds with its otherwise dark and belligerent +tone). It was Trump's perfect fantasy that his friend Tom—an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019906.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019906.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..781eebf855aa5823e6c4f001f71aa01a45e23d6b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019906.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The Trumps, all of them +except for his wife, who, mystifyingly, was staying in New York—were moving in, all +of them set to assume responsibilities similar to their status in the Trump Organization, +without anyone apparently counseling against it. This is family, he said -"It's a leettle, leettle tricky." His +staffers understood not only the inherent conflicts and difficult legal issues in having +Trump's son-in-law run the White House, but that it would become, even more than it +already was,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019907.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019907.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ffc494569f34a8eaad375ce1c9a5651ab407b48 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019907.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +But when he was the federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Christie had sent Jared's father, +Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. Charlie Kushner, pursued by the feds for an income tax +cheat, set up a scheme with a prostitute to blackmail his brother-in-law, who was planning +to testify against him. Various accounts, mostly offered by Christie himself, make Jared the vengeful hatchet +man in Christie's aborted Trump administration career. In the revised +death-of-Chris-Christie story, it is not the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019908.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019908.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73d7c6a1420053a3b112436b17ff56ab2115e29f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019908.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +And somehow, his own key lieutenant, Alexandra Preate, a +conservative fundraiser and PR woman, was as disorganized as he was. After three +marriages, Bannon lived his bachelor's life on Capitol Hill in a row house known as the +Breitbart Embassy that doubled as the Breitbart office the life of a messy party. No sane +person would hire Steven Bannon for a job that included making the trains run on time. For the Hill, he was the only reasonable chief among the contenders, and he quickly +became the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019909.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019909.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dff8c5a23d2e2b0ebc499b2dcf3f7fc81b32a681 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019909.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +So you have to have one point to make and you have to pepper it in +whenever you can." +The Priebus appointment as chief of staff, announced in mid-November, also put +Bannon on a coequal level. Tom Barrack could easily circumvent Priebus and +continue to speak directly to Trump. And Steve Bannon, reporting directly to Trump, remained the +undisputed voice of Trumpism in the White House. Jim Baker, chief of staff for both Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush and almost +everybody's model for managing the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019910.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019910.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0c5c102975604dcd06a0380bea66c1c2a069f679 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019910.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Bannon described Trump as a simple machine. The On switch was full of flattery, the +Off switch full of calumny. This was the nature of Trump's particular salesmanship. In +some sense, he wanted nothing so much as to be courted +Amazon's Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, which had become one of the +many Trump media bêtes noires in the media world, nevertheless took pains to reach out +not only to the presidentelect but to his daughter Ivanka. During the campaign, Trump said +Amazon was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019911.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019911.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..462fe74650bd2efedf8736e37411166bf4184618 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019911.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"Donald," said Murdoch, "for eight years these guys had Obama in their pocket. They don't need your help." +"Take this H-1B visa issue. But Trump seemed unconcerned, assuring +Murdoch, "We'll figure it out." +"What a fucking idiot," said Murdoch, shrugging, as he got off the phone. Ten days before Donald Trump's inauguration as the forty-fifth president, a group of +young Trump staffers-the men in regulation Trump suits and ties, the women in the +Trump-favored look of high boots, short skirts, and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019912.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019912.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99a9695d685145b30e3069134e09e5ea022892cc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019912.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +connected to Russian intelligence, Steele assembled a damaging report now dubbed the +"dossier"-suggesting that Donald Trump was being blackmailed by the Putin +government. In September, Steele briefed reporters from the New York Times, the +Washington Post, Yahoo! News, the New Yorker, and CNN. The theory, +suddenly presented as just this side of a likelihood, was that the Russians had suborned +Donald Trump during a trip to Moscow with a crude blackmail scheme involving +prostitutes and videotaped... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019913.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019913.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8fc0973a0d8c70d923fe5181b57cd6c9906150e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019913.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +A smattering of the issues before him: +"Veterans with a little cancer can't see a doctor until they are terminal...." +Then the incredulity: +"I was in Russia years ago with the Ms. Universe contest did very very well—1 tell +everyone be careful, because you don't want to see yourself on television cameras all +over the place. And again, not just Russia, all over. Believe me." +Then the denial: +"I have no deals in Russia, I have no deal that could happen in Russia because we've +stayed away, and I... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019914.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019914.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..903fdc779596d8ae86cbddf4915ee1767f5e7df4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019914.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +By +I the time of Donald Trump's inauguration he had become the designated intermediary +between his father-in-law and the establishment, such as it was more moderate +Republicans, corporate interests, the New York rich. Having a line to Kushner seemed to +offer an alarmed elite a handle on a volatile situation. Several of his father-in-law's circle of confidants also confided in Kushner-often +confiding their worries about their friend, the presidentelect. "Don't let him piss off the press, don't... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019915.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019915.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..abb0b126000a7bf810553cf40c4fc17c210de736 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019915.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +One of Kushner's now-frequent wise-men callers was Henry Kissinger. Names were put to this: John Brennan, the CIA director; James Clapper, the director of +national intelligence; Susan Rice, the outgoing National Security Advisor; and Ben +Rhodes, Rice's deputy and an Obama favorite. Movie scenarios were painted: a cabal of intelligence community myrmidons, privy to +all sorts of damning evidence of Trump's recklessness and dubious dealings, would, with a +strategic schedule of wounding,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019916.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019916.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94e844058c0f8d5770da62bda3b3f1c88ee6bf65 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019916.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Tom Barrack, +the would-be showman—in addition to Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, he had +bought Miramax Pictures from Disney with the actor Rob Lowe may have declined the +chief of staff job, but, as part of his shadow involvement with his friend's White House, he +stepped up to raise the money for the inaugural and to create an event that-seemingly +quite at odds with the new president's character, and with Steve Bannon's wish for a no- +frills populist inauguration-he promised would have a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019917.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019917.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..43f71ff87d5764687f231bc1bd8efbdd35abc3f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019917.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +This had become +the public Trump-truculent Trump. But Bannon had three messages or themes he kept trying to reinforce with his +boss: his presidency was going to be different as different as any since Andrew +Jackson's (he was supplying the less-than-well-read president-elect with Jackson-related +books and quotes); they knew who their enemies were and shouldn't fall into the trap of +trying to make them their friends, because they wouldn't be; and so, from day one, they +should consider themselves... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019918.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019918.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8589063f174ded4a59368fb18e414ab8b65bf8c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019918.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Among Trump's first moves as president was to have a series of inspirational +photographs in the West Wing replaced with images of big crowd scenes at his inaugural +ceremony. Bannon had come to rationalize Trump's reality distortions. For Bannon, Obama was the north star of aloofness. "Politics," said Bannon with an +authority that belayed the fact that until the previous August he had never worked in +politics, "is a more immediate game than he ever played it." Trump was, for Bannon, a +modern-day... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019919.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019919.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b4622944bb62d9288e67d281c4eaa2a9dd78664a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019919.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In this reality lived the media, +which, with its conclusion of a misbegotten and bastard presidency, believed it could +diminish him and wound him (and wind him up) and rob him of all credibility by +relentlessly pointing out how literally wrong he was. The media, adopting a "shocked, shocked" morality, could not fathom how being +factually wrong was not an absolute ending in itself. Defying them, or ignoring +them, or subverting them, made you a liar— intending to deceive, bearing false witness.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019920.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019920.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0477eadbbad0576698734f4b64eade60bca33499 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019920.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +To boot, the +president blamed Spicer for not making the million phantom souls seem real. It was the first presidential instance of what the campaign regulars had learned over +many months: on the most basic level, Trump just did not, as Spicer later put it, give a +fuck. The next day Kellyanne Conway, her aggressive posture during the campaign turning +more and more to petulance and self-pity, asserted the new president's right to claim +"alternative facts." As it happened, Conway meant to say... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019921.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019921.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e17d7a409653d73ab305b58b753cc4e121b29015 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019921.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Which was all somehow by way of praise for the new, soon-to-be-confirmed CIA +director, Mike Pompeo, who had attended West Point and who Trump had brought with +him to stand in the crowd and who now found himself as bewildered as everyone else. Of course I feel young—I feel like I was 30 ... 35 ... +39 .... When I was young we were always winning things in this +country. We'd win with trade, we'd win with wars at a certain age I remembering +hearing from one of my instructors, the United States has... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019922.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019922.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a1b892e1e1b2b7599b166465f7046a008709f377 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019922.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +It +poured but we have something amazing because honestly it looked like a million, +million and a half people, whatever it was it was, but it went all the way back to the +Washington Monument and by mistake I get this network and it showed an empty field +and it said we drew two hundred fifty thousand people. In the Oval Office there's a +beautiful statue of Dr. Martin Luther King and I also happen to like Churchill-Winston +Churchill-I think most of us like Churchill, doesn't come from our country... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019923.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019923.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..da0c91070f90554a97cbeb7d7f86e5efd325c06f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019923.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +4 +BANNON +I teve Bannon was the first trump senior stafter in the White House after Trump was +sworn in. On the inauguration march, he had grabbed the newly appointed deputy +chief of staff, Katie Walsh, Reince Priebus's deputy at the RNC, and together they had +peeled off to inspect the now vacant West Wing. Bannon claimed the nondescript office across from the much grander chief of staff's suite, +and he immediately requisitioned the white boards on which he intended to chart the first +hundred... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019924.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019924.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d47635210b45d2a397043d5521021165f976ecc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019924.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +house-oversight-019924 + + +In the early days of the transition, Bannon had encouraged the Trump team to read David +Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest. (One of the few people who seem actually to +have taken him up on this reading assignment was Jared Kushner.) "A very moving +experience reading this book. Halberstam's book, published in 1972, is a Tolstoyan effort to understand how great +figures of the academic, intellectual, and military world who had served during the +Kennedy and Johnson... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019925.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019925.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..37769c50eca07ebb1bc05f267d24816b9d4b9ed2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019925.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-019925 + + +But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it-and defiled it. Which was, in a curious reversal of the book's premise, just what +created Steve Bannon's opportunity. When an unlikely candidate wins and as outsiders +become ever more the quadrennial flavor of the month, the more likely an unlikely +candidate is to get elected ever more peculiar people fill the White House. Still, few have been more unlikely than Steve Bannon. Chief Strategist-his title in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019926.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019926.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3292ee5a3d35888ef0fc2e94e8e6893424965646 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019926.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Corzine, the former Goldman chief and future United States senator and governor of New +Jersey, climbing the Goldman ranks when Bannon was at the firm, was unaware of +Bannon. When Bannon was appointed head of the Trump campaign and became an +overnight press sensation or question mark—his credentials suddenly included a +convoluted story about how Bannon & Co. had acquired a stake in the megahit show +Seinfeld and hence its twenty-year run of residual profits. Mike Murphy, the Republican media... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019927.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019927.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6e28018a212ef5ed3783ec0a60a7f02a4bd5b665 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019927.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Not so long ago, Bannon might have been a recognizably modern figure, something of +a romantic antihero, an ex-military and up-from-the-working-class guy, striving, through +multiple marriages and various careers, to make it, but never finding much comfort in the +establishment world, wanting to be part of it and wanting to blow it up at the same time +a character for Richard Ford, or John Updike, or Harry Crews. The American man story is a right-wing +story. Bannon found his models in political... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019928.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019928.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92e6b186051091fee02dc891d7ba96f984ab5e02 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019928.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +small-government, home-schooling, antiliberal, gold-standard, pro-death-penalty, anti- +Muslim, pro-Christian, monetarist, anti-civil-rights political movement in the United +States. Bob Mercer is an ultimate quant, an engineer who designs investment algorithms and +became a co-CEO of one of the most successful hedge funds, Renaissance Technologies. With his daughter, Rebekah, Mercer set up what is in effect a private Tea Party movement, +self-funding whatever Tea Party or alt-right project took... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019929.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019929.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..785def36a3127d48578fed954fb9710e917fe90f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019929.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +However much a marginal, invisible, small-time hustler Bannon had been-something +of an Elmore Leonard character—he was suddenly transformed inside Trump Tower, an +office he entered on August 15, and for practical purposes, did not exit, save for a few +hours a night (and not every night) in his temporary midtown Manhattan accommodations, +until January 17, when the transition team moved to Washington. Of the dominant figures +in the transition, neither Kushner, Priebus, nor Conway, and certainly... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019930.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019930.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc57d314e781c209ec091ef8acf80278863e58f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019930.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Bannon's strategic view of government was shock and awe. In his head, Bannon carried a set of decisive actions that would not just mark the new +administration's opening days, but make it clear that nothing ever again would be the +same. You can't rule by +decree in the United States, except you really can. The irony here was that it was the +Obama administration, with a recalcitrant Republican Congress, that had pushed the EO +envelope. During the transition, Bannon and Stephen Miller, a former... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019931.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019931.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ec7a0802d0e3739f1558622fd4b7236d583757a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019931.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In some of his earliest political outings, even before Obama's election in 2008, +Trump talked with bewilderment and resentment about strict quotas on European +immigration and the deluge from "Asia and other places." (This deluge, as liberals would +be quick to fact-check, was, even as it had grown, still quite a modest stream.) His +obsessive focus on Obama's birth certificate was in part about the scourge of non- +European foreignness a certain race-baiting. It showed a map of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019932.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019932.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b20b73acac12888d3d004569d492b332d4270d58 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019932.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +He wanted to force liberals to +acknowledge that even liberal governments, even the Obama government, were engaged +in the real politics of slowing immigration ever hampered by the liberal refusal to +acknowledge this effort. The EO would be drafted to remorselessly express the administration's (or Bannon's) +pitiless view. The problem was, Bannon really didn't know how to do this change rules +and laws. This limitation, Bannon understood, might easily be used to thwart them. Just doing things... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019933.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019933.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bad520192210c728d0e530668844622c83e39f27 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019933.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +By the time he arrived in the White House, Bannon had his back-of-the-envelope +executive order on immigration and his travel ban, a sweeping, Trumpian exclusion of +most Muslims from the United States, only begrudgingly whittled down, in part at +Priebus's urging, to what would shortly be perceived as merely draconian. Bypassing lawyers, regulators, and +the agencies and personnel responsible for enforcing it, President Trump-with Bannon's +low, intense voice behind him, offering a rush of complex... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019934.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019934.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5895abc929fe33c28bd2f507385d40f65f814ac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019934.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +5 +JARVANKA +n the Sunday after the immigration order was issued, Joe Scarborough and his cohost +O on the MSNBC show Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, came for lunch at the White +House. Scarborough is a former Republican congressman from Pensacola, Florida, and +Bizezinski is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a high-ranking aide in the Johnson +White House and Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor. Morning Joe had gone on the +air in 2007 and developed a following among New York political and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019935.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019935.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b7f949746b19641fd1434791c2357bbe92ab540 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019935.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +On their arrival at the White House, the ninth day of his presidency, Trump proudly +showed them into the Oval Office and was momentarily deflated when Brzezinski said she +had been there many times before with her father, beginning at age nine. Trump showed +them some of the memorabilia and, eagerly, his new portrait of Andrew Jackson-the +president whom Steve Bannon had made the totem figure of the new administration. Steel and that +you had the union guys come into the Oval Office." Trump had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019936.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019936.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5bf9d20bcfdb81f989643e6ecc43a5d65c1b7dce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019936.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Trump, changing the topic, said to Scarborough and Brzezinski, "So what about you +guys? What's going on?" He was referencing their not-so-secret secret relationship. Scarborough and Brzezinski said it was all still complicated, and not public, officially, +but it was good and everything was getting resolved +"You guys should just get married," prodded Trump. I'm an Internet Unitarian minister," Kushner, otherwise an Orthodox +Jew, said suddenly. At +Mar-a-Lago!" + +Almost everybody advised Jared not... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019937.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019937.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..54610556527ebcf71b880050e1187c7d6dc048bb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019937.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +She and Jared, or Jared, but by inference +she, too, were in effect the real chief of staff or certainly as much a chief of staff as +Priebus or Bannon, all of them reporting directly to the president. Or, even more to the +organizational point, Jared and Ivanka had a wholly independent standing inside the West +Wing. Even as Priebus and Bannon tried, however diplomatically, to +remind the couple of staff procedures and propriety, they would in turn remind the West +Wing leadership of their... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019938.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019938.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..82c31dd49000018f61fdd774d3b7d4f1806bbb9c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019938.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +If he wanted something, his focus might be sharp and attention +lavish, but if someone wanted something from him, he tended to become irritable and +quickly lost interest. Trump, knowing little, might, Trumpers tried +to believe, give a kooky new hope to the system. Jared Kushner in quite a short period of time rather less than a year-had crossed +over from the standard Democratic view in which he was raised, to an acolyte of +Trumpism, bewildering many friends and, as well, his own brother, whose... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019939.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019939.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..614b86b7c1644dcbea0ba5aeef8b2aca9d1ec103 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019939.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +invariably greeted each other with a kiss and that the adult Jared called his father Daddy. Neither Donald nor Jared, no matter their domineering fathers, went into the world +with humility. Both out-of-towners who were eager +to prove themselves or lay rightful claim in Manhattan (Kushner from New Jersey, Trump +from Queens), they were largely seen as overweening, smug, and arrogant. "Some people who are very privileged are +aware of it and put it away; Kushner not only seemed in every gesture and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019940.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019940.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3561dcf5a38fd2c1f0ef4e8053ad0e68042e824f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019940.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +relation), who had started Spy magazine, a New York imitation of the British satirical +publication Private Eye. Spy was part of a set of 1980s publications- Manhattan, Inc., a +relaunched Vanity Fair, and New York obsessed with the new rich and what seemed to +be a transformational moment in New York. Graydon +Carter became the editor of the New York Observer in 1991 and not only refocused the +weekly on big-money culture, but essentially made it a tip-sheet for the media writing +about media... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019941.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019941.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bcb4278e416870ffbf288ff17cb06a160fcdbe88 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019941.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +In 2006, after Kaplan had edited the paper for fifteen years, Arthur Carter sold the +Observer-which had never made a profit— to the then twenty-five-year-old Kushner, an +unknown real estate heir interested in gaining stature and notoriety in the city. For Kushner, owning the paper soon paid off, because, with infinite ironies not +necessarily apparent to him, it allowed him into the social circle where he met Donald +Trump's daughter, Ivanka, whom he married in 2009. But the paper did not,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019942.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019942.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d5b6ea37af1dfb3788796c9705aff6f1f70ad594 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019942.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Kushner, no matter how close to Trump, was yet a +member of the Trump entourage, with no more ultimate control of his father-in-law than +anybody else now in the business of trying to control Trump. Still, the difficulty of controlling him had been part of Kushner's self-justification or +rationalization for stepping beyond his family role and taking a senior White House job: to +exercise restraint on his father-in-law and evena considerable stretch for the +inexperienced young man—to help lend him... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019943.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019943.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..11c7aa8d6c656eb889ae319fca2af00438e23fc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019943.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +On Friday, February 3, at breakfast at the Four Seasons hotel in Georgetown, an epicenter +of the swamp, Ivanka Trump, flustered, came down the stairs and entered the dining room, +talking loudly on her cell phone: "Things are so messed up and I don't know how to fix +it...." +The week had been overwhelmed by continuing fallout from the immigration order- +the administration was in court and headed to a brutal ruling against it and more +embarrassing leaks of two theoretically make-nice phone calls,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019944.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019944.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..96b84bd7feacd271d675c273f6dfcbb8c43384d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019944.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +him over the portrayal.) Ivanka, speaking with something like a Valley Girl accent-which +would transform in the years ahead into something like a Disney princess voice seems +no more ambitious or even employed than anyone else, but she is notably less angry with +her parents. The +color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men the +longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump's orange-blond hair +color. She was the real mini-Trump... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019945.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019945.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e609ee94b3534fcd3f07cace9140b6e5898b5964 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019945.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +She and Kushner then united as a power couple, consciously recasting themselves as +figures of ultimate attainment, ambition, and satisfaction in the new global world and as +representatives of a new eco-philanthropic-art sensibility. For Ivanka, this included her +friendship with Wendi Murdoch and with Dasha Zhukova, the then wife of the Russian +oligarch Roman Abramovich, a fixture in the international art world, and, just a few +months before the election, attending a Deepak Chopra seminar on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019946.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019946.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2486e9c1b7bc75156b88d20b47aaa4f6af78b14b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019946.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +2007 and became a partner in 2010, running its philanthropic outreach +1, the Goldman +Sachs Foundation. The table of women lobbyists and communications professionals in the Four Seasons +that morning was certainly as interested in Powell, and her presence in the new +administration, as they were in the president's daughter. If Ivanka Trump was a figure +more of novelty than of seriousness, the fact that she had helped bring Powell into the +White House and was now publicly conferring with her added... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019947.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019947.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f75758c8087a19e6f7e43b65deceab0abe7f0a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019947.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +6 +At HQME +ithin the first weeks of his presidency a theory emerged among Irump's friend. Most +presidents arrived in the White House from more or less ordinary political life, and could +not help but be awed and reminded of their transformed circumstances by their sudden +elevation to a mansion with palacelike servants and security, a plane at constant readiness, +and downstairs a retinue of courtiers and advisers. But this would not have been that +different from Trump's former life in Trump Tower,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019948.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019948.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b9378d7a1f30147db09aacd7b444bf0ff174777f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019948.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Kellyanne Conway, whose family had remained in New Jersey, and who had +anticipated that she could commute home when the president went back to New York, was +surprised that New York and Trump Tower were suddenly stricken from his schedule. Conway thought that the president, in addition to being aware of the hostility in New +York, was making a conscious effort to be "part of this great house." (But, acknowledging +the difficulties inherent in his change of circumstances and of adapting to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019949.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019949.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1787e11e4623fe16c67353fc6c2e0001b0548998 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019949.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Trump would shortly become a Gorsuch fan. The one unlikely, peculiar, and nonstarter choice that he kept returning to was Rudy +Giuliani. Not only was Giuliani a longtime New York friend, but when +few Republicans were offering Trump their support, and almost none with a national +reputation, Giuliani was there for him-and in combative, fiery, and relentless fashion. This was particularly true during the hard days following Billy Bush: when virtually +everybody, including the candidate himself,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019950.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019950.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e26034bb81db94a9fe74126e2d5884fe197ae36c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019950.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +house-oversight-019950 + + +On February 3, the White House hosted a carefully orchestrated meeting of one of the +newly organized business councils, the president's Strategic and Policy Forum. It was a +group of highly placed CEOs and weighty business types brought together by Blackstone +chief Stephen Schwarzman. The planning for the event-with a precise agenda, +choreographed seating and introductions, and fancy handouts was more due to +Schwarzman than to the White House. Kellyanne Conway, often... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019951.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019951.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ada30a03559b052eb84b3e4209771f7a350005f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019951.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The +Trump White House stood less for government and the push-pull of competing interests +and developing policies, and more, in a brand-savvy world, as a fixed and unpopular +cultural symbol. Disney CEO Bob Iger simply found that he +was otherwise occupied on the occasion of the forum's first meeting. But most of the people on the council— other than Elon Musk, the investor, inventor, +and founder of Tesla (who would later resign)-were not from media or tech companies, +with their liberal bent, but... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019952.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019952.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac5cffffd749d695591dd67bf37378db7d3bdecd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019952.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Saturday +Night Live presidential skits are funny in part because they play on our belief that in +reality, presidents are quite contained and buttoned-down figures, and their families, +trotting not far behind, colorless and obedient. The joke on Nixon was that he was pitiably +uptight even at the height of Watergate, drinking heavily, he remained in his coat and tie, +kneeling in prayer. Gerald Ford merely tripped coming off Air Force One, providing great +hilarity in this break from formal... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019953.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019953.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d07bb311a2cb394b886fc161e8b896d2d8d88d47 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019953.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Haberman and Glenn Thrush, would become part of Trump's constant refrain about the +media being out to get him. Thrush would even become a fixture in Saturday Night Live +sketches that mocked the president, his children, his press secretary Sean Spicer, and his +advisers Bannon and Conway. Hence he rebutted this picture of him as a half- +demented or seriously addled midnight stalker in the White House by insisting that he +didn't own a bathrobe. The New York Times Washington bureau, itself quite... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019954.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019954.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..378df3733644ef5ac455b64348b603c1e21f5441 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019954.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Zucker, who as the head of NBC had commissioned The +Apprentice, had been "made by Trump," Trump said of himself in the third person. And +Trump had "personally" gotten Zucker his job at CNN. "Yes, yes, I did," said Trump. He'd gone to a dinner, he didn't remember when, where he had sat next to "a gentleman +named Kent"-undoubtedly Phil Kent, a former CEO of Turner Broadcasting, the Time +Warner division that oversaw CNN-"and he had a list of four names." Three of them +Trump had never heard of, but... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019955.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019955.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..04d3f1c48b533ace21cd4f5640d8b2249b784727 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019955.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +7 +RUSSIA +• ven before there was reason to suspect Sally Yates, they suspected her. The transition +L report said Trump wouldn't like the fifty-six-year-old Atlanta-born University of +Georgia career Justice Department lawyer slated to step up to acting attorney general. There was something about a particular kind of Obama person. And about a certain kind of woman who +would immediately rub Trump the wrong way Obama women being a good tip-off, +Hillary women another. The newly confirmed National... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019956.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019956.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..037d00c55e10077d423fe689819eb861d4beb179 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019956.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Yates now told the White House that Flynn's conversation with Kislyak had actually +been captured as part of an "incidental collection" of authorized wiretaps. That is, a +wiretap had presumably been authorized on the Russian ambassador by the secret Foreign +Intelligence Surveillance Court and, incidentally, picked up Flynn. In short order, McGahn, Priebus, and Bannon, each with prior doubts about Flynn's +reliability and judgment"a fuck-up," according to Bannon conferred about the Yates +message.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019957.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019957.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3296719ac5f8542bf3a04817af86a7c447d23dda --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019957.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +For his part, the president did not use, though he might have, the word "Kafkaesque." +He regarded the Russia story as senseless and inexplicable and having no basis in reality. They had survived scandal during the campaign-the Billy Bush weekend-which +virtually no one in Trump's inner circle had thought they could survive, only to be hit by +the Russia scandal. If there was any single piece of proof not just of media bias but of the intention of the +media to do anything it could to undermine... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019958.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019958.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f130e824dcadcab2ea1c251ea2c60873c1222179 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019958.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +If the media, self-righteously, saw it as the Holy Grail and silver bullet of Trump +destruction, and the Trump White House saw it, with quite some self-pity, as a desperate +effort to concoct a scandal, there was also a range of smart money in the middle. The congressional Democrats had everything to gain by insisting, Benghazi-like, that +where there was smoke (even if they were desperately working the bellows) there was fire, +and by using investigations as a forum to promote their minority... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019959.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019959.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..341c6ac42346626fd5208bef122b6457f4a6d309 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019959.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +For Trump students which, over his thirty years of courting +attention, many in the media had become the New York real estate deals were dirty, the +Atlantic City ventures were dirty, the Trump airline was dirty, Mar-a-Lago, the golf +courses, and the hotels all dirty. Assembling a detailed road map for a scandal that did not yet exist, Foer, without +anything resembling smoking guns or even real evidence, pulled together in July virtually +all of the circumstantial and thematic threads and many of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019960.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019960.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..27aa8dd77b5af9f82cad9def6f7fb3d7dd1b3c4a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019960.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +were two contradictory theories here: he had hidden these dealings because he didn't want +to admit their paucity, or he had hidden them to mask their disreputableness.) Because +Trump is less than creditworthy, Foer was among many who concluded that Trump needed +to turn to other sources more or less dirty money, or money with other sorts of strings +attached. (One way the process can work is, roughly speaking, as follows: an oligarch +makes an investment in a more or less legitimate third-party... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019961.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019961.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4fb22387e06f4b7aefece168db3940474c87555 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019961.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Theory 3: The Holy Grail proposition was that Trump and the Russians— perhaps even +Putin himself— had gotten together to hack the Democratic National Committee. Theory 4: But then there was the those-that-know-him-best theory, some version of +which most Trumpers would come to embrace. But Putin +couldn't have cared less, and in the end Trump found himself at the promised gala dinner +seated on one side next to a guy who looked like he had never used a utensil and on the +other side Jabba the Hutt... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019962.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019962.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d1110128208e4157f785205ab110def118d17601 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019962.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +endorsement indicated your status in the White House and that Trump's level of flattery +was a convincing indication that you had an unbreakable bond with him and that you +were, in his eyes, and in his White House, something close to omnipotent. Trump, with his +love of generals, had even for a moment wanted to make Michael Flynn his vice president. Intoxicated by Trump's flattery during the campaign, Flynn a lower-tier general and +quite a flaky one at that had become something of a Trump dancing... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019963.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019963.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d6cf62af0757401a0ddd58a68ce15ee4ec03c43a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019963.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +and anti-CIA crony, and the coauthor of Flynn's book, whose daughter now worked for +Flynn advised Flynn that he ought not to accept fees from Russia or the larger +"consulting" assignments from Turkey. At the same time, in what some thought a direct result of the president's rage over the +Russia insinuations particularly the insinuation about the golden shower-the president +seemed to bond even more strongly with Flynn, assuring his National Security Advisor +over and over again that he had his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019964.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019964.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c9df7daf8d98f725586bf9943808fe95132a5d3c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019964.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Flynn declared that he had had no such conversations, absolutely no conversation, he +confirmed again, and the interview, attended by senior National Security Council official +and spokesman Michael Anton, ended soon thereafter. But later that day, De Young called Anton and asked if she could use Flynn's denial on +the record. Anton said he saw no problem after all, the White House wanted Flynn's +denial to be clear and notified Flynn. The spokesman said Flynn 'indicated that while he had no... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019965.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019965.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4ee97cbec0658da851b2d66c1ccf6f2dd2a90960 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019965.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +On Monday morning, Kellyanne Conway appeared on MSNBC and offered a firm +defense of the National Security Advisor. "Yes," she said, "General Flynn does enjoy the +full confidence of the president." And while this seemed to many an indication that +Conway was out of the loop, it was more accurately an indication that she had been +talking directly to the president. A White House meeting that morning failed to convince Trump to fire Flynn. He was +concerned about what it would look like to lose his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019966.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019966.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..19e9ade39dbfaf78165f84532e7b97eee9491cc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019966.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +8 +ORG CHART +The White House, realized former naval officer Steve Bannon after a few weeks, was +really a military base, a government-issue office with a mansion's façade and a few +ceremonial rooms sitting on top of a secure installation under military command. That was +the way in Trump Tower, just as it was now the way in the Trump White House. But as soon as Trump arrived, he moved in a collection of battle +flags to frame him sitting at his desk, and the Oval immediately became the scene of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019967.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019967.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db9aa56508e339d6e161d9ff56589bb6f20108c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019967.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +It also fed one theory of why hiring in the West Wing and throughout the +executive branch was so slow-filling out the vast bureaucracy was out of his view and +thus he couldn't care less. Likewise, visitors with appointments were befuddled by the +West Wing's own lack of staff: after being greeted with a smart military salute by the dress +marine at the West Wing door, they discovered that the West Wing often lacked a political- +appointee receptionist, leaving guests to find their own way through... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019968.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019968.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bee2f395285535e21a3fb0592414c887126be0f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019968.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"Who else would do this +job?" +Among the three men with effectively equal rank in the West Wing-Priebus and +Bannon and Kushner only a shared contempt kept them from ganging up on one another. In the early days of Trump's presidency, the situation seemed clear to everybody: three +men were fighting to run the White House, to be the real chief of staff and power behind +the Trump throne. Walsh, the White House deputy chief of staff, represented, at least to herself, a certain +Republican ideal:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019969.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019969.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..faaf32069957451a5369f3095c6fb40a800ccf95 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019969.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +organizations are not run, for better or worse, by MBAs, but by young people +distinguished only by their earnestness and public sector idealism and ambition. (It is an +anomaly of Republican politics that young people motivated to work in the public sector +find themselves working to limit the public sector.) Careers advance by how well you +learn on the job and how well you get along with the rest of the swamp and play its game. In 2008, Walsh became the McCain campaign's midwest regional finance... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019970.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019970.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b1a2bf337734ebfc2e45bc02cec3721515f64c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019970.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In most White Houses, policy and action flow down, with staff trying to implement +what the president wants or, at the very least, what the chief of staff says the president +wants. In the Trump White House, policy making, from the very first instance of Bannon's +immigration EO, flowed up. It was, said +Walsh, "like trying to figure out what a child wants." +But making suggestions was deeply complicated. Here was, arguably, the central issue +of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019971.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019971.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e13f1f0738c657524c337aa8c884d0a2b00a5334 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019971.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In the early days of the White House, this was the fundamental hypothesis of the +senior staff, shared by Walsh and everyone else: Trump must know what he was doing, his +intuition must be profound. His staff marveled at +his willingness to keep moving, getting back on the plane and getting off the plane and +getting back on, and doing rally after rally, with a pride in doing more events than +anybody else double Hillary's!-and ever ridiculing his opponent's slow pace. "This man never takes a break... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019972.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019972.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1dd5bb4c830cef96fe91b2829049aa95aa01e95b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019972.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +This devolved into a further rationalization, or Trump truth: "The president was very +clear on what he wanted to deliver to the American public," said Walsh. Hence, there was another rationalization: Trump was +"inspirational not operational." +Kushner, understanding that Bannon's white board represented Bannon's agenda more +than the president's agenda, got to wondering how much of this source text was being +edited by Bannon. Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina congressman now head of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019973.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019973.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..80705b5363303e9b148455f7bfb137a3723e655e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019973.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +bunch of tariffs that will completely decimate how we trade, and Jared wants to deal with +human trafficking and protecting Planned Parenthood." And Priebus wanted Donald +Trump to be another kind of Republican altogether. As Walsh saw it, Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared +Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was +running the Paul Ryan White House. In the Bannon world and in the Kushner world, +Trumpism represented politics with no... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019974.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019974.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb956f9540abfb6058518db469ef08019904b146 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019974.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Kushner had neither Bannon's policy imagination nor Priebus's institutional ties. He had cultivated a wide range of New York and international money +people, Trump acquaintances and cronies, and, often, people whom Trump would have +wished to like him better than they did. In this, Kushner became the representative in the +White House of the liberal status quo. He was something like what used to be called a +Rockefeller Republican and now might more properly be a Goldman Sachs Democrat. He +and,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019975.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019975.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bda3a1233530a7dadb9741a29930c3a7d54747e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019975.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +And then Jared says, Why did +you do that. And I say, 'Because we had a meeting three days ago with you and Reince +and Steve where you agreed to do this.' And he says, 'But that didn't mean I wanted it on +the schedule. That's not why I had that conversation.' It almost doesn't matter what +anyone says: Jared will agree, and then it will get sabotaged, and then Jared goes to the +president and says, See, that was Reince's idea or Steve's idea." +Bannon concentrated on a succession of EOs that would... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019976.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019976.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f9c983551f6b2918169205718b9dc40f3f44344e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019976.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Bannon and Kushner studiously avoided press exposure; two of the most +powerful people in government were, for the most part, entirely silent, eschewing almost +all interviews and even the traditional political conversations on Sunday morning +television. Early on, before getting down to attacking each +other, Bannon and Kushner were united in their separate offensives against Priebus. Kushner's preferred outlet was Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's Morning Joe, one +of the president's certain... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019977.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019977.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..815222c7bd9054ca74ed5ec95cd939dc20818f0c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019977.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Jared and Ivanka should never have come +to Washington. Hence news about the inner workings of the White House went into +free circulation. Except it was not so much the inner workings of the White House— +although it would often be reported as such but the perambulations of the president's +mind, which changed direction almost as fast as he could express himself. Yet there were +constant tropes in his own narrative: Bannon was about to be cast out, Priebus too, and +Kushner needed his protection... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019978.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019978.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..751816f6cbf2bc2921afe6bc6b898da506468bae --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019978.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +president of the United States, Donald J. Pence cast himself as blandly uninteresting, sometimes barely seeming to exist in the +shadow of Donald Trump. Little leaked out of the Pence side of the White House. "Pence," said Walsh, "is not dumb." +Actually, well short of intelligent was exactly how others in the West Wing saw him. The Priebus side, where Walsh firmly sat, saw Pence as one of the few senior West +Wing figures who treated Priebus as though he was truly the chief of staff. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019979.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019979.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..812dcaafcfd75a11fe692723ced5713d3c58826a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019979.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +9 +CPAC +n February 23, a 75-degree day in Washington, the president woke up complaining +O about an overheated White House. The excited focus in the West Wing was organizing a series of car pools +out to the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual gathering of conservative +movement activists, which had outgrown the accommodations of Washington hotels and +moved to the Gaylord Resort on Maryland's National Harbor waterfront. For several years Breitbart had +staged a nearby competitive... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019980.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019980.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4c2dda49c157736d6292a6417166dca7068d6d7e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019980.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In nearby Alexandria, Virginia, Richard Spencer, the president of the National Policy +Institute, which is sometimes described as a "white supremacist think tank," who had, +peskily for the White House, adopted the Trump presidency as a personal victory, was +organizing his trip to CPAC, which would be as much a victory march for him as it was +for the Trump team. Spencer—who, in 2016, he had declared, "Let's party like it's 1933," +as in the year Hitler came to power— provoked an outcry with his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019981.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019981.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f05dd8b58b220893b9411b7ec9941e866a03fc34 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019981.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +personality headliner was slated to be the alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos, a gay British +right-wing provocateur attached to Breitbart News. Indeed, there was a +subtle suggestion that CPAC had chosen Yiannopoulos precisely to hoist Bannon and the +White House on the implicit connection to him-Yiannopoulos had been something of a +Bannon protégé. Still, the White House presence at CPAC— which included, along with the president, +Bannon, Conway, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and the oddball... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019982.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019982.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..700cc9d1d292a2888078d26d064bc1a90beb1f74 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019982.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"This is private property and CPAC wants you off the +property." +Relieved of his credentials, Spencer was ushered to the CPAC perimeter of the hotel, +where, his pride not all that wounded, he turned, in the comfort of the atrium lounge area, +to social media and to texting and emailing reporters on his contact list. The point Spencer was making was that his presence here was not really so disruptive +or ironic as Bannon's, or, for that matter, Trump's. He might be ejected, but in a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019983.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019983.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fccacb3e6c9f470fea57d673a1578312e244b73c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019983.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +He was a country music star—he was +Johnny Cash. He seized Priebus's hand in a power handshake, then relaxed in his chair as +Priebus came too eagerly forward in his. Bannon, taking his turn, went wryly for the +dig: "I want to thank you for finally inviting me to CPAC." +"We decided to say that everybody is a part of our conservative family," said Matt +Schlapp, resigned. Ahem..." +"It's all good," replied Priebus tightly. Let me ask both of you, what's the biggest misconception about what's +going... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019984.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019984.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26d61e444a55d99c78a31bec3680a8e855796759 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019984.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +did the transition, and if you remember, the campaign was the most chaotic, in the media's +description, most chaotic, most disorganized, most unprofessional, had no earthly idea +what they were doing, and then you saw 'em all crying and weeping that night on +November 8." +Back in the White House, Jared Kushner, watching the proceedings casually and then +more attentively, suddenly felt a rising anger. Kushner was certain he was being taunted +When Schlapp asked the two men to enumerate the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019985.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019985.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..707d45f29fa5fe91819751885c6e4c3f7ab6d870 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019985.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +And I'm going to deliver on this.'" +And then the final, agreed-upon-beforehand question: "Can this Trump movement be +combined with what's happening at CPAC and other conservative movements for fifty +years? Can this be brought together ... and is this going to save the country?" +"Well, we have to stick together as a team," said Priebus. "It's gonna take all of us +working together to make it happen." +As Bannon started into his answer, he spoke slowly, looking out at his captive and +riveted... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019986.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019986.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..129f00d274b9066148cb86e52dd0716795a9c6b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019986.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +mouthing "Thank you," crimson tie dipping over his belt. This would be Trump's fifth CPAC address. As much as Steve Bannon liked to see +himself as the author of Donald Trump, he also seemed to find it proof of some added +legitimacy and somehow amazing in itself- that since 2011 Trump had basically come +to CPAC with the same message. The country +was a "mess"— a word that had stood the Trump test of time. "My first major speech was at CPAC," the president began. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019987.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019987.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e8bb24933e3e1d6ea791b36ef695663da3809dfa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019987.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"There is one allegiance that unites us all, to America, America.... We all salute with +pride the same American flag ... and we are all equal, equal in the eyes of Almighty +God... We're equal ….. and I want to thank, by the way, the evangelical community, the +Christian community, communities of faith, rabbis and priests and pastors, ministers, +because the support for me, as you know, was a record, not only numbers of people but +percentages of those numbers who voted for Trump ... an amazing... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019988.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019988.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ee02ec38fcea9f4ff2f3ead9ab46f5ec33f7ec1c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019988.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +He was a post- +right-wing provocateur but with none of the dinner party waspishness or bite of Ann +Coulter or Milo Yiannopoulos. He was a real one +a genuine racist with a good education, in his case UVA, the University of Chicago, and +Duke. It was Bannon who effectively gave Spencer flight by pronouncing Breitbart to be "the +platform for the alt-right"-the movement Spencer claimed to have founded, or at least +owned the domain name for. "I don't think Bannon or Trump are identitarians or... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019989.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019989.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..150c006883fde8a13f411c158a4fcddf09c02e10 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019989.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +10 +GQLDMAN +The Jarvanka side of the White House increasingly felt that rumors leaked by Bannon +I and his allies were undermining them. This was a +complicated and frustrating business and quite hard to communicate to his father-in-law +-because one of Bannon's accusations against Kushner, the administration's point person +on the Middle East, was that he was not nearly tough enough in his defense of Israel. After the election, the Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson with sly jocularity... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019990.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019990.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..610dbf6658c7d3947cd9e238686e50d1e07b99b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019990.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +adopted a sort of 1950s Jewish uncle (tough-guy variety) delivery, with assorted +Yiddishisms-Hillary Clinton, he declared, had been "shlonged" in the 2008 primary- +helping to give an inarticulate man an unexpected expressiveness. Now his daughter, a de +facto First Lady, was, through her conversion, the first Jew in the White House. The Trump campaign and the White House were constantly supplying off-note +messages about Jews, from their equivocal regard for David Duke to their apparent desire +to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019991.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019991.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8092c6f58015e7fd3958ff3256de54bc5e644a74 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019991.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +On Israel, Bannon had partnered with Sheldon Adelson, titan of Las Vegas, big-check +right-wing contributor, and, in the president's mind, quite the toughest tough-guy Jew (that +is, the richest). The +president, to Bannon's great satisfaction, kept telling his son-in-law, as he strategized on +Israel, to check with Sheldon and, hence, Bannon. Bannon's effort to grab the stronger-on-Israel label was deeply confounding to +Kushner, who had been raised as an Orthodox Jew. His closest lieutenants in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019992.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019992.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6cb7266307d4d930fc73f0989a7dbbe7b3ce0027 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019992.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"Getting +Gary to take a position on something is like nailing butterflies to the wall," commented +Katie Walsh. In this new configuration, +Bannon would be marginalized and Cohn, who was dismissive of Priebus, would be the +chief of staff in waiting. Within weeks of Cohn's arrival on the transition team, Bannon nixed Cohn's plan to +expand the National Economic Council by as many as thirty people. (Kushner, not to be +denied, nixed Bannon's plan to have David Bossie build and lead his staff.) Bannon... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019993.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019993.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bae44317afb75f6c0547a44e276f53f2855aa7fa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019993.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Bannon regarded Kushner and Cohn (and +Ivanka) as occupying an alternative reality that had little bearing on the real Trump +revolution. In the Trump White House, observed Henry Kissinger, "it is a war between the Jews +and the non-Jews. For Dina Powell, the other Goldman hire in the West Wing, the main consideration when +Ivanka pitched her on coming to work at the White House was the downside assessment of +being associated with a Trump presidency. It was a function of both her ambition and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019994.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019994.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72fe43149e69fc243303716f4b4f99010e323308 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019994.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In Ivanka and Jared's view, Conway was a cussed, +antagonistic, self-dramatizing cable head, and Powell, they hoped, would be a deliberate, +circumspect, adult guest on the Sunday morning shows. By late February, after the first helter-skelter month in the West Wing, the campaign by +Jared and Ivanka to undermine Bannon seemed to be working. The couple had created a +feedback loop, which included Scarborough and Murdoch, that reinforced the president's +deep annoyance with and frustration about... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019995.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019995.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9956b133ff30dc4ff238bb0f25a134df0f31e50a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019995.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The inaugural, largely written by Bannon and Stephen Miller, had shocked Jared and +Ivanka. But a particular peculiarity of the Trump White House, compounding its +messaging problems, was its lack of a speech-writing team. There was the literate and +highly verbal Bannon, who did not really do any actual writing himself; there was Stephen +Miller, who did little more than produce bullet points. Here was an upbeat Trump, a salesman Trump, a nothing-to-be-afraid-of Trump, a +happy-warrior Trump.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019996.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019996.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6b3550751b14f12ed86d7c79b727bf32c1d97925 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019996.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +But for print he depended on Hope Hicks. Hicks, who had been his junior +aide for most of the campaign and his spokesperson (although, as he would point out, he +was really his own spokesperson), had been, many thought, pushed to the sidelines in the +West Wing by the Bannonites, the Goldman wing, and the Priebus-RNC professionals. Baffling to almost +everyone, Hicks remained his closest and most trusted aide, with, perhaps, the single most +important job in this White House: interpreting the media... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019997.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019997.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8a7054f5f032b7f782e804ab8c58a3d6da4839ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019997.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Facing Sessions at the January 10 hearing, Al Franken, the former comedian and +Democratic senator from Minnesota, appeared to be casting blindly for an elusive fish in +his efforts to find a question. Stopping and starting, slogging through his sentence +construction, Franken, who had been handed a question based on the just-revealed Steele +dossier, got to this end: +These documents also allegedly say, quote, "There was a continuing exchange of +information during the campaign between Trump's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019998.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019998.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f0f990762b588e3d266346c6bb91b9a21f429d0d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019998.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +And: +Separately, American intelligence agencies had intercepted communications of +Russian officials, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump +associates. Trump has denied that his campaign had any contact with Russian officials, and +at one point he openly suggested that American spy agencies had cooked up +intelligence suggesting that the Russian government had tried to meddle in the +presidential election. And then the real point: +At the Obama White House, Mr. What... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019999.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019999.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..80b4455b569f9c46789c87027b86914c1b29afcf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/19/house-oversight-019999.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Remnick, the editor of the New +Yorker, had, since the Trump election, propounded an absolutist view that Trump's +election imperiled Democratic norms. This 13,500-word story-handily connecting the dots of Russia's geopolitical +mortification, Putin's ambition, the country's cyber talents, Trump's own nascent +authoritarianism, and the U.S. intelligence community's suspicions about Putin and Russia +codified a new narrative as coherent and as apocalyptic as the one about the old cold +war. One of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020000.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020000.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d521a8328a7be1a9d48aa81c79ab07cbd3d103ef --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020000.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The news of the attorney general's recusal exploded like an IED in the White House. Sessions was Trump's protection against an overly aggressive Russian investigation. He railed to friends: Why would Sessions not +want to protect him? The president had a +private source, one of his frequent callers, who, he believed, was keeping him abreast of +what was going on in the Justice Department-and, the president noted, doing a much +better job of it than Sessions himself. The source, a longtime friend... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020001.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d69d49ff4f29e6b08ce48271ea64f751990e0ae4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020001.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Blair, now with philanthropic, +private diplomatic, and varied business interests in the Middle East, was particularly intent +on helping shepherd some of Jared's Middle East initiatives. In February, Blair visited Kushner in the White House. On this trip, the now freelance diplomat, perhaps seeking to prove his usefulness to this +new White House, mentioned a juicy rumor: the possibility that the British had had the +Trump campaign staff under surveillance, monitoring its telephone calls and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020002.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020002.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..46e04eb72b1d04c408298d6a5de63036ae59cc03 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020002.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Lyndon Johnson ended up one of the first modern politicians to have found himself on +the wrong end of both mortal and moral politics.) +But now, after little more than seven weeks in office, Trump saw his own predicament +as unique and overwhelming. Like no other president before (though he did make some +allowances for Bill Clinton), his enemies were out to get him. This was, for his senior staff, a +reliable topic of conversation with him: the possible martyrdom of Donald Trump. In the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020003.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020003.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9312433b046ae32d2e5dc71ea22cc6bb4e6fae4a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020003.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +According to CNN, "Two former senior U.S. officials quickly dismissed Trump's +accusations out of hand. 'Just nonsense,' said one former senior U.S. intelligence official." +Inside the White House, the "just nonsense" quote was thought to be from Ben Rhodes, +offered in cat-that-swallowed-the-canary fashion. Ryan, for his part, told Priebus he had no idea what Baier was talking about and that he +was just BSing through the interview. But if tapping Trump's phones wasn't literally true, there was a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020004.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020004.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..34bdc1c5bbaa2a2f8072d77b2853e8a45000986f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020004.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +12 +REPEAL AND REPLACE +few days after the election, Steve Bannon told the president-electin what Katie +A Walsh would characterize with a raised eyebrow as more "Breitbart shenanigans" - +that they had the votes to replace Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House with Mark Meadows, +the head of the Tea Party-inspired Freedom Caucus and an early Trump supporter. +(Meadows's wife had a particular place of regard in the Trump camp for continuing a +campaign swing across the Bible Belt over Billy Bush... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020005.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020005.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..508034ad523c8082383367e23d1ccc5914dfa78b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020005.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +maturity but sagaciousness, the Tea Party-Bannon-Breitbart wing mounted an ad hominem +campaign pushing an image of Ryan as uncommitted to the cause, an inept strategist and +incompetent leader. He was the Tea Party-Bannon-Breitbart punch line: the ultimate empty +suit, a hee-haw sort of joke and an embarrassment. Trump's distaste for Ryan was significantly less structural. He had no views about +Ryan's political abilities, and had paid no real attention to Ryan's actual positions. But Ryan's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020006.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020006.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1cdd066389afc595b61887f180da5e18239d43a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020006.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +whatever he wanted." +It didn't exactly surprise Bannon when Trump flipped; Bannon understood how easy it +was to bullshit a bullshitter. Bannon also recognized that the Ryan rapprochement spoke to +Trump's new appreciation of where he found himself. It was not just that Ryan had been +willing to bow to Trump, but that Trump was willing to bow to his own fears about how +little he actually knew about being president. If Ryan could be counted on to handle +Congress, thought the president, well, phew,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020007.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020007.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72ad0405cf868f5be9dd6ab8934d3ad61949cc16 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020007.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +It was Bannon who held the line, insisting, sternly, that Obamacare was a litmus +Republican issue, and that, holding a majority in Congress, they could not face Republican +voters without having made good on the by now Republican catechism of repeal. But Bannon, seeing health care as a weak +link in Bannonism-Trumpism's appeal to the workingman, was careful to take a back seat +in the debate. Later, he hardly even made an effort to rationalize how he'd washed his +hands of the mess, saying just, "I... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020008.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020008.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..09903f1047e64a5715810b1a9e8450f047240196 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020008.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +As for Trump himself, here was a man who was simply trying +to get out from under something he didn't especially care about. Ryan and Priebus's salesmanship promised to get the president out from under other +issues as well. The reform the Speaker would push through Congress would fund the tax cuts +Trump had guaranteed, which, in turn, would make all that Trump-promised infrastructure +investment possible. On this basis this domino theory that was meant to triumphantly carry the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020009.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020009.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..177f6b8ceb0a074887ec3784fe2bf72c9a91d6ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020009.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In fact, Ryan had tried to act like McCormick or O'Neill, offering absolute assurances +of his hold on the legislation. It was, he told the president during his several daily calls, a +"done deal." Trump's trust in Ryan rose still higher, and it seemed to become in his own +mind proof that he had achieved a kind of mastery over the Hill. The White House, having had to sweat +hardly at all, was about to get a big victory, bragged Kushner, embracing the expected win +over his dislike of the bill.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020010.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020010.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..31893dc928f01912e24f1d6308b6f2502b5963d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020010.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Comey had been a +difficult puzzle for Trump: Comey had declined to have the FBI pursue charges against +Clinton for her email dodge. Then, in October, Comey had single-handedly boosted +Trump's fortunes with the letter reopening the Clinton email investigation. In their personal interactions, Trump had found Comey to be a stiff-he had no banter, +no game. When pressed, by Bannon and others, to fire Comey +as one of his early acts an idea opposed by Kushner, and thus another bullet on Bannon's +list... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020011.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020011.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ddfe79d9e7ae09dda1cc553e1d21980934897f92 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020011.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +chairman Devin Nunes in a farcical effort to discredit Comey and support the wiretap +theory. Bannon, taking a public hands-off with respect to both health care and Comey, began +to advise reporters that the important story wasn't health care but Russia. By mid-March, Gary Cohn had been drafted into the effort to salvage the faltering health +care bill. On Friday, March 24, the morning of the theoretical House vote for the Republican +health care bill, Politico's Playbook characterized the chances... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020012.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020012.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..467e0e52a07ee62be95391c9935faa4232f05d3a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020012.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Freedom Caucus. (Ryan's people believed that Bannon was secretly urging Meadows to +hold out, though earlier in the week Bannon had harshly ordered the Freedom Caucus to +vote for the bill-"a silly Bannon show," according to Walsh.) At three-thirty, Ryan called +the president to say he was short fifteen to twenty votes and needed to pull the vote. Bannon, backed by Mulvaney, who had become the White House's Hill operative, +continued to urge an immediate vote. Faced with this singular opportunity... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020013.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020013.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..71925222ab594c5a965b8a77358a4a53087e07d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020013.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +13 +BANNON AGONISTES +He 0. fein like a prisoner, he had told Kalic Walsh when she came to lell him she +By ten weeks in, Steve Bannon's mastery of the Trump agenda, or at least of Trump +himself, appeared to have crumbled. His current misery was both Catholic in nature the +self-flagellation of a man who believed he lived on a higher moral plane than all others— +and fundamentally misanthropic. Most especially, he was miserable because of Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always +great even when they... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020014.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020014.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5718d4ddd2def996313cd1a5b10f9abee90751b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020014.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +meant to defend and restore: trade agreements, or trade wars, that supported American +manufacturing; immigration policies that protected American workers (and, hence, +American culture, or at least America's identity from 1955 to 1965); and an international +isolation that would conserve American resources and choke off the ruling class's Davos +sensibility (and also save working-class military lives). This was, in the view of almost +everyone but Donald Trump and the alt-right, a crazy bit of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020015.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020015.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e64dcfb8a4defa0875ed9ac7b0eb73530e202baa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020015.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Both he and Kushner, the two most important +figures in the White House after the president, seemed professionally mute. Still, Bannon +seemed to be everywhere, and the president was convinced-rightly—that it was the result +of Bannon's private press operation. More often than self-mockery could sustain, Bannon +referred to himself as "President Bannon." A bitter Kellyanne Conway, regularly dissed +for her own spotlight grabbing, confirmed the president's observation that Bannon stepped +into as many... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020016.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020016.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa3f480be8f6a10505813d393c46b158d9727b44 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020016.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +David Bossie thought Bannon +"looked like he would die." +"I now understand what it is like to be in the court of the Tudors," reflected Bannon. When" —by spring +in the White House "I got cold, when I went through my Valley of Death, I saw him one +day in the lobby and he looks down, avoiding my eyes with a kind of mumbled 'Hey, +Steve. And I say, 'What are you doing here, let's get you inside,' and he says, 'No, no, +I'm fine, I'm waiting for Dina Powell. " +Having attained the unimaginable bringing... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020017.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020017.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..82a8a26a542ca36d080abe2c0506f80b6f687cc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020017.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Now, having found themselves— by odds that were perfect-storm outlandish-in +power, they were not going to give it up because Steve Bannon had hurt feelings and +wasn't getting enough sleep. Toward the end of March, the Mercers organized a set of emergency meetings. But though he refused to admit that the Mercers' decision to back +him and their imposition of Bannon on the campaign in August was, likely, the event +without which he would not now be in the White House, he did understand that if... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020018.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020018.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cdd42bb66c4f4cd38bb8fe1973a225b9ea79dd72 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020018.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +If Bannon were to go, it also might cause the ultimate split in the already fractured +Republican Party. Now the alarming +theory was that as Kushner tried to transform his father-in-law into the kind of latter-day +Rockefeller that Trump, however implausibly, had on occasion dreamed of becoming +(Rockefeller Center being an inspiration for his own real estate branding), Bannon could +run off with some meaningful part of that 35 percent. The Breitbart organization remained under the control of +the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020019.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020019.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..64991f40b382010eef114b5b9e08ad01508aa87a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020019.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +But its real import was that it gave Kushner his own internal White House staff, a team +of people working not just on Kushner-supported projects all largely antithetical to +Bannon projects but, more broadly, as Kushner explained to one staffer, "on expanding +my footprint." Kushner even got his own "comms person," a dedicated spokesperson and +Kushner promoter. It was a bureaucratic build-out meant not only to enhance Kushner but +to diminish Steve Bannon. Two days after the announcement about... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020020.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020020.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3335a835f92057505f3f8734ca9ea6b85653c35c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020020.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +13783 removed a prior directive to consider climate change a precursor to coming +debates on the country's position regarding the Paris Climate Accord +On April 3, Kushner unexpectedly turned up in Iraq, accompanying Gen. Joseph +Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to the White House press office, +Kushner was "traveling on behalf of the president to express the president's support and +commitment to the government of Iraq and U.S. personnel currently engaged in the +campaign."... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020021.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020021.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef9f24fc964fea3c395fafb33fb3b61c6c084ce3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020021.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +14 +SITUATION ROOM +rust before seven o'clock on the morning of luesday, April 4, the seventy-fourth day oi +the Trump presidency, Syrian government forces attacked the rebel-held town of Khar +Sheikhoun with chemical weapons. It was the first time a +major outside event had intruded into the Trump presidency. Much of the alarm about Donald Trump came from the widespread +conviction that he could not be counted on to be cool or deliberate in the face of a storm. In part this +might have been because... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020022.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020022.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fe584a6940ac16e9a97696374aff62cb6a26d429 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020022.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Suddenly, the question of how the president might respond to the attack in Khan +Sheikhoun was a litmus test for normality and those who hoped to represent it in Trump's +White House. Here was the kind of dramatic juxtaposition that might make for a vivid and +efficient piece of theater: people working in the Trump White House who were trying to +behave normally. Acting normal, embodying normality doing things the way a striving, achieving, +rational person would do them—was how Dina Powell saw her... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020023.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020023.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..31e2de19d98bd72ea2aab51df0b10c1af4523601 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020023.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +McMaster seemed to +wear a constant grimace and have perpetual steam rising from his bald head. ("What's +wrong with him?" the president often asked.) +There was, of course, a higher rationale: the White House needed normal, sane, logical, +adult professionals. They were less Trump supporters than an antidote to Trump. "If it all starts going south more south than it is already going — I have no doubt that +Joe Hagin would himself take personal responsibility, and do what needed to be done," +said a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020024.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020024.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf0f49218e07f5922892cad9e25c756969e0a5c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020024.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +tech company-Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, after all, had a background in corporate +philanthropy and in the Obama administration. Cohn, on his part, already a +centamillionaire, was thinking about the World Bank or the Fed. Inexpressive and even botlike in public but, among friends, discursive and strategic, +Ivanka had become both more defensive about her father and more alarmed by where his +White House was heading. She and her husband blamed this on Bannon and his let- +Trump-be-Trump philosophy... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020025.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020025.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b067bff9305ef8ea6509993f741190512d6be219 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020025.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The information he did not get was formal information. The president +was very pleased with the compliments he got for appointing generals who commanded +the respect that Mattis and Kelly and McMaster were accorded (pay no attention to +Michael Flynn). One of the things that endeared Flynn to the president was +that Flynn, quite the conspiracist and drama queen, had a vivid storytelling sense. By the time of the Syrian attack on Khan Sheikhoun, McMaster had been Trump's +National Security Advisor... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020026.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020026.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5e3e51b8d495f270baa003c632b7786bab4b8e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020026.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"He looks like a beer salesman," Trump said, announcing that he would hire McMaster +but didn't want to have another meeting with him +Shortly after his appointment, McMaster appeared on Morning Joe. Trump saw the +show and noted admiringly, "The guy sure gets good press." +The president decided he had made a good hire. By midmorning on April 4, a full briefing had been assembled at the White House for the +president about the chemical attacks. Along with his daughter and Powell, most members +of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020027.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020027.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e166a625505a367d1245b7c480ca62d6744a100 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020027.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +By the afternoon, the national security team was experiencing a sense of rising panic: +the president, in their view, didn't seem to be quite registering the situation. His hyperrationalist approach obviously appealed to the not-always- +rational president. A chemical attack didn't change the circumstances on the ground, +Bannon argued; besides, there had been far worse attacks with far more casualties than +this one. The president was not a debater-well, not in any Socratic sense. "Do nothing" had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020028.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020028.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eba22f048aea4acc580715409a464ef7ab0008a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020028.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +To both +Kushner and McMaster it seemed obvious that the president was more annoyed about +having to think about the attack than by the attack itself. Finally, Ivanka told Dina they needed to show the president a different kind of +presentation. He liked "impact." +But in one sense, the military, the intelligence community, and the White House's +national security team remained behind the times. As it happened, the attack on Khan Sheikhoun had produced a wealth of +visual evidence. Late that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020029.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020029.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..812463b41cbc279f4fc2d54e134ae5145fe76fe7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020029.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +With the meeting over and the decision made, Trump, in a buoyant mood, came back to +chat with reporters traveling with him on Air Force One. An hour later, Air Force One landed and the +president was hustled to Mar-a-Lago. The Chinese president and his wife arrived for dinner shortly after five o'clock and +were greeted by a military guard on the Mar-a-Lago driveway. With Ivanka supervising +arrangements, virtually the entire White House senior staff attended +During a dinner of Dover sole,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020030.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020030.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a131ea56b52c4f7e4c0bccc4c84b954099c4bb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020030.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +15 +MEDIA +n April 19, Bill O'Reilly, the Fox anchor and the biggest star in cable news, was +O pushed out by the Murdoch family over charges of sexual harassment. Fox achieved its ultimate political influence with the election of +Donald Trump, yet now the future of the network seemed held in a peculiar Murdoch +family limbo between conservative father and liberal sons. A few hours after the O'Reilly announcement, Ailes, from his new oceanfront home in +Palm Beach-precluded by his separation... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020031.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020031.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..37b063341f0490aa6baea767b04de1e6f2949c56 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020031.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +smaller but more dedicated electoral base just as, in cable television terms, a smaller +hardcore base was more valuable than a bigger, less committed one; (2) this meant an +inverse dedication by an equally small circle of passionate enemies; (3) hence, there +would be blood +If Bannon was as finished as he appeared in the White House, this was his opportunity, +too. Indeed, the problem with Bannon's $1.5 million a year Internetcentric Breitbart News +was that it couldn't be monetized or scaled up... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020032.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020032.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e186f0a99e1cd12e2f8c4f8819a2be48e39a3170 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020032.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The more your supporters loved you, the more your +antagonists hated you. That's how it was supposed to work. And that's how it was +working. But Trump himself was desperately wounded by his treatment in the mainstream +media. Mainstream media's self-righteousness and contempt for Trump helped provide a +tsunami of clicks for right-wing media. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020033.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020033.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f9c53158a8bfcf55cf6911bd71f466416db4132 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020033.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The central problem was that the president was neither inclined to make fun of himself, +nor particularly funny himself-at least not, in Conway's description, "in that kind of +humorous way." +George W. Bush had famously resisted the Correspondents' Dinner and suffered +greatly at it, but he had prepped extensively, and every year he pulled out an acceptable +performance. Both women, clearly seeing the Correspondents' Dinner as an intractable problem, kept +characterizing the event as "unfair,"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020034.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020034.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..281d596099a7ceec9d3a6e7754a39add98dd002f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020034.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Women, according to Trump, were simply more loyal and trustworthy +than men. Women, by their nature, or Trump's version of their nature, were +more likely to focus their purpose on a man. It wasn't happenstance or just casting balance that his Apprentice sidekick was a +woman, nor that his daughter Ivanka had become one of his closest confidants. Kellyanne Conway first met Donald Trump at a meeting of the condo board for the Trump +International Hotel, which was directly across the street from the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020035.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020035.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5d909929ce863b27fa22952628de1f863a0a2d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020035.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In a real sense, however, her advantage was not meeting Trump but being taken up by +the Mercers. They recruited Conway in 2015 to work on the Cruz campaign, when Trump +was still far from the conservative ideal, and then, in August 2016, inserted her into the +Trump campaign. It was a trope she would +repeat in interview after interview Conway was a catalog of learned lines a message +repeated as much for Trump as for others. But Bannon shortly replaced her in that role and +she was left in what... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020036.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020036.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c36155e6faab3a72a0bf5273f80a88450683daf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020036.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +When referring to her, they were particularly partial to using the +shorthand "nails," a reference to her Cruella de Vil-length manicure treatments. By mid-February she was already the subject of leaks many coming from Jared and +Ivanka about how she had been sidelined. But she also had a +teary scene with Trump in the Oval Office, offering to resign if the president had lost faith +in her. This she +blamed on the media, a scourge that further united her in self-pity with Donald Trump. She first... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020037.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020037.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f73884cbfdf06e90738659b2ef405ef7da35f065 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020037.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Shortly after Lewandowski, with whom Hicks had an on-and-off romantic relationship, +was fired in June 2016 for clashing with Trump family members, Hicks sat in Trump +Tower with Trump and his sons, worrying about Lewandowski's treatment in the press and +wondering aloud how she might help him. Trump, who otherwise seemed to treat Hicks in +a protective and even paternal way, looked up and said, "Why? As new layers began to form around Trump, first as nominee and then as president- +elect, Hicks... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020038.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020038.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f79484a5d27fb75867bb89f19fdfcf8d54c60620 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020038.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +As the debate went on, Priebus pushed for one of his deputies at the Republican +National Committee, Sean Spicer, a well-liked forty-five-year-old Washington political +professional with a string of posts on the Hill in the George W. Spicer, hesitant to take the job, kept anxiously posing the question to colleagues +in the Washington swamp: "If I do this, will I ever be able to work again?" +There were conflicting answers. During the transition, many members of Trump's team came to agree with... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020039.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020039.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..599fd746b3a64730e68b3854aa11bff5f2290575 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020039.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Beyond +acknowledging that Trump was a boy from Queens yet in awe of the Times, nobody in the +West Wing could explain why he and Hicks would so often turn to Haberman for what +would so reliably be a mocking and hurtful portrayal. There was some feeling that Trump +was returning to scenes of past success: the Times might be against him, but Haberman +had worked at the New York Post for many years. But however intent he remained on getting good ink in the Times, the president saw +Haberman as "mean... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020040.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020040.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4c7338eb6f92455a08a96394f75b45d5ffc2d905 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020040.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +media president, had one of the most dysfunctional communication operations in modern +White House history. Mike Dubke, a Republican PR operative who was hired as White +House communications director, was, by all estimations, from the first day on his way out +the door. The White House Correspondents' Dinner rose, as much as any other challenge for the +new president and his team, as a test of his abilities. He recalled his 2015 Saturday Night Live appearance which, in his view, was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020041.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020041.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2895cc9329e2da155f2e9e38f2d2015a325c96f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020041.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +gardening tools, where the president closely inspected a line of colorful wheelbarrows. The next event, where the speech would be delivered, was at a rodeo arena in the Farm +Show Complex and Expo Center. And that was the point of this little trip. It had been designed both to remind the rest of +the country that the president was not just another phony baloney in a tux like those at the +White House Correspondents' Dinner (this somehow presupposed that the president's base +cared about or was even... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020042.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020042.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d869f3bfb3a0eba5ab4c214825bfdf0dad411d5a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020042.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +16 +COMEY +"It's impossible to make him understand you can't stop these investigations," said Roger +Ailes in early May, a frustrated voice in the Trump kitchen cabinet. In their own careers, they had had enough issues with the +Justice Department to prompt them to develop DOJ relationships and sources, and now +they were always up on DOJ gossip. Both Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani each a self-styled expert on the DOJ and the +FBI, and ever assuring Trump of their inside sources encouraged him to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020043.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020043.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62448ca6fdac14840c84808f9b86b6ab3153cfe9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020043.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +"The kids"-Jared and Ivanka exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI +and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into finances. "Ivanka is +terrified," said a satisfied Bannon. Trump turned to suggesting to his billionaire chorus that he fire FBI director Comey. Still, in Trump's poison-the- +well fashion, the should-l-fire-so-and-so question, and any consideration of it by any of +the billionaires, was translated into agreement, as in: Carl Icahn thinks I should... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020044.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020044.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e459ae7cfa5335ea66568712a4de64a3c72a0ce3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020044.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"Comey was a rat," repeated Trump. John Dean, John Dean, he repeated. "Do you know what John Dean did to +Nixon?" +Trump, who saw history through personalities people he might have liked or disliked +-was a John Dean freak. He went bananas when a now gray and much aged Dean +appeared on talk shows to compare the Trump-Russia investigation to Watergate. And there +were rats all around. +(Later, it was Bannon who had to take the president aside and tell him that John Dean +had been the White House... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020045.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020045.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..27d2d81fb0fe2f83f69af50b785b85196109f9fe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020045.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +investigation; the assertion (from Kushner) that the FBI itself had turned against Comey; +and, the president's key obsession, the fact that Comey wouldn't publicly acknowledge +that the president wasn't under investigation- that would form the Trump family's case +for firing Comey. That is, everything but the fact that Comey's FBI was investigating the +president. The Kushner side, for its part, bitterly fought back against any characterization of +Kushner as the prime mover or mastermind, in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020046.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020046.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6e2288e119bde65c41bc5923c0f47ffda0441aa6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020046.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Since her firing on January 30, Yates had remained suspiciously quiet. The president believed she was merely lying in wait. In +phone calls to friends, he worried about her "plan" and "strategy," and he continued to +press his after-dinner sources for what they thought she and Ben Rhodes, Trump's favorite +Obama plotter, had "up their sleeves." +For each of his enemies and, actually, for each of his friends— the issue for him came +down, in many ways, to their personal press plan. There was no... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020047.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020047.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..208d808baef23422c4f049376292e94640e333d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020047.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +As it happened, the Justice Department-Attorney General Sessions and Deputy +Attorney General Rod Rosenstein-were, independent of the president's own course, +preparing their case against Comey. They would take the Bedminster line and blame +Comey for errors of his handling of the Clinton email mess a problematic charge, +because if that was truly the issue, why wasn't Comey dismissed on that basis as soon as +the Trump administration took office? But in fact, quite regardless of the Sessions... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020253.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020253.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e6519b4477c2222c6b4c85876574bfe0e6083d6b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020253.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Instead, Mac Askill wrote Janine +Gibson in New York "The Guinness is good." It was a pre-arranged code by which Mac Askill +certified Snowden's credibility for the Guardian. Before the story could be +published, however, the Guardian policy required relevant American government officials be +allowed to respond. Gibson made the requisite, if pro forma, call to the White House National +Security spokesman, Caitlin Hayden, who arranged a conference call with FBI Deputy Director +Sean Joyce, NSA Deputy... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020254.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020254.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..908425b14126fe4daf5770870b2a7b6e731d8cb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020254.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +As for American surveillance, he declared "I don't want to live in a +society that does those sorts of things." +He had succeeded in defining himself for the public. The Guardian story accompanying the +video carried the headline, "EDWARD SNOWDEN: THE WHISTLE BLOWER BEHIND THE +NSA SURVEILLANCE REVELATIONS." Snowden's identity as a whistle-blower was now +established in the media. He provided Poitras and Greenwald with thumb drives on which he had loaded the +documents he wanted them to use. Robert... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020255.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020255.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..28e71e10e183385f74bd464a4af3812b31d32375 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020255.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +103 +The journalist chosen was Lana Lam, a young Australian reporter working for the South China +Morning Post. Tibbo had suggested Lam to Snowden. He +brought her to Poitras' suite at the Sheraton in Kowloon (about eight blocks down Nathan Road +from the Mira.) First, Lam had to agree to the conditions of the interview, which included +submitting the story to Poitras for Snowden's approval. To expose what he called America's "hypocrisy" in accusing China of cyber- +espionage, he supplied her NSA... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020256.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020256.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e78f32aabec0cd3df54078558c4abcc5b38ff73 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020256.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +104 +journalists in each country to make their own assessment, independent of my bias, as to +whether or not the knowledge of U.S. network operations against their people should be +published." So as late as June 14h, Snowden was still reading and assessing the files he had +stolen from the NSA four weeks earlier. That was likely since by this June 14th all the intelligence services in Hong Kong knew that she +was in contact with Snowden. "The risks became very great," she said in describing her... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020257.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020257.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e46d5f132211a32e1cb7612a11c53e72fe6ba9f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020257.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +105 +CHAPTER THIRTEEN +Enter Assange +"Thanks to Russia (and thanks to WikiLeaks), Snowden remains free." - Julian Assange +Born on July 3, 1971 in Queensland, Australia, Julian Assange had made a brilliant career of +trafficking in state, military and corporate secrets. While still a teen-ager, using the alias +"Mendax" (the untruthful one), he had hacked into the computers of the Pentagon, the U.S. Navy, +NASA, Citibank, Lockheed-Martin and Australia's Overseas Telecommunications Commission. The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020258.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020258.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4798accaa6fe4cf3b35a37457214314a0469656 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020258.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +106 +according to Assange, Snowden claimed that one reason he decided to take the secret NSA +documents was the brutal treatment of Bradley Manning after he was arrested in 2010 by the US +government. If Manning's +mistreatment was Snowden's motive, it was a sharp departure from the position that Snowden +had taken in his postings on the Ars Technica site in January 2009. He complained in a post on +Ars Technica about the detrimental consequences to U.S. intelligence of leakers revealing +"classified... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020259.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020259.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..45dbca8e9fb04f8c7467aa80f8c96cf94650afc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020259.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +A +precaution she took that June was not to meet Snowden face-to-face out of concern about the +surveillance of American intelligence in Hong Kong. Instead, for her first 13 days in Hong Kong, +she worked behind the scenes, through intermediaries. According +to Assange, she booked decoy flights for Snowden to Beijing, China and New Delhi, India. She +also used Snowden's credit card numbers to pay for the flight to India, She knew that since the +card was blocked, there was a high probability that it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020260.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020260.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..179f7da41bc50d40477cf4395735e9de120ffc08 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020260.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +108 +in no uncertain terms that Snowden had to be out of Hong Kong by the end of the week, or June +23гd +On June 19, Snowden had a meeting with Tibbo, the barrister who would handle the court +case, and Mann and Ho, the Hong Kong solicitors who had been retained for him. It took place +in a small apartment where, according to Ho, they ate pizza while they discussed Snowden's +options. Tibbo had a strategy for Snowden. It required that Snowden remain in Hong Kong, allow +himself to be arrested, seek... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020261.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020261.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d25efae8977fe195b86369caf76e7321787cc8ca --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020261.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +109 +clear in a lengthily interview with Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian. He told him that +it never had been part of his plan to use Hong Kong to escape the legal consequences of his act. "The purpose of my mission [to Hong Kong] was to get the information to journalists." If so, he +had been merely using Tibbo, Mann and Ho to provide him with temporary cover while, following +the instructions of Assange, Harrison laid down the smokescreen for his escape to Moscow. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020262.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020262.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9318dac43ad7beac2fa0fcd0ce7c15201e2152af --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020262.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +110 +CHAPTER FOURTEEN +Fugitive +"If I end up in chains in Guantanamo, I can live with that." +—Edward Snowden, Hong Kong +During his interview with Poitras and Greenwald, Snowden said stoically "If I am arrested, I +am arrested." His fatalistic words notwithstanding, Snowden had made plans to seek a haven +from American justice well before his meeting with journalists in Hong Kong. As early as May +24, 2013, Snowden had suggested to Gellman that he was making arrangements with a foreign +government. To... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020263.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020263.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..463d501cb858efecc2e1591b8d08e44fd740a86d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020263.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The three exceptions were China, North Korea (via +China) and Russia. The only one of these three countries, or any other country, that Snowden is known to have +dealt with directly during his 33 day stay in Hong Kong, was Russia. Snowden was identified to +him, according to Putin, not by name but merely as an "agent of special services." Putin's +description suggests the meeting had taken place before Snowden became a household name on +June 9, 2013. When Lana Lam asked Snowden on June 12, 2013... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020264.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020264.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..06de5eb4ce907d7b72afc53fbb1f9127edd82d4e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020264.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +112 +he was the most famous visitor in Hong Kong, his passage through passport control may have +reflected the acquiescence of the Hong Kong authorities to the reported request of China to be rid +of Snowden by June 23rd. All we know for certain is that Hong Kong airport police did not stop +Snowden. He was allowed on the Aeroflot flight at Hong Kong International Airport. These boarding requirements were waived so that Snowden was able +to board the flight to Moscow. Snowden only met Harrison in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020265.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020265.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad5245c2216f9d0577663ce01f079e2a0d8955e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020265.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +113 +Snowden himself came to realize that those assisting him, including Assange and Harrison, +were taking serious risks. "Anyone in a three-mile radius [of me] is going to get hammered," he +later explained to a reported from Vogue. (After finally leaving Snowden in Moscow on +November 3, 2013, Harrison moved to Berlin, where she set up an organization to provide, as she +termed it, "an underground railroad" for other fugitives who have provided documents exposing +government secrets.) +Snowden... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020266.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020266.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f3c4d08ecabc6860ca5ef9706bb805e1a90a648e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020266.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +114 +sent to the cloud. Once secret documents are taken, they are compromised. How Snowden +succeeded in this coup cannot simply be pieced together from his statements and interviews. The +story also requires a visit to the wilderness of mirrors called counterintelligence. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020267.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020267.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..50529e3991afe32198c2e5e13e1c82874b306040 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020267.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +115 +PART THREE +THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE CONUNDRUM +"Scenarios deal with two worlds: the world of facts and the world of perceptions. They explore for facts but they +aim at perceptions inside the heads of decision makers. Their purpose is to gather and transform information of +strategic significance into fresh perceptions" +—Pierre Wack, Harvard Business Review, 1985 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020267 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020270.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020270.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bc7d789edbe402afb1ab180145cf71ba06df9b4e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020270.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +118 +CHAPTER FIFTEEN +Did Snowden Act Alone? "When you look at the totality of Snowden's actions certainly one hypothesis that jumps out at you, that seems to +explain his ability to do all these things, is that he had help and had help from somebody who was very competent +in these matters." +--General Michael Hayden, Former Director of the NSA and CIA +Snowden describes himself a whistle-blower, and, according to the polls, the vast majority of +the American public, accept this definition of him.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020271.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020271.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..286357c9db6c2f26c4bbf48f5d1352511592099d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020271.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Consider, for example Philip Agee. Agee left the CIA in 1969 for what he +described "reasons of conscience." Specifically, he said he objected to the CIA's covert support +of Latin America dictators. After contacting the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, he defected to +Cuba, where he leaked information that exposed CIA operations. Although Agee insisted he was +a whistle-blower, and he adamantly denied offering any secrets to the Soviet Union, the KGB +viewed him as a conventional spy. According to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020272.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020272.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e3f1627bad9cf0d05435756f74b91fabb932c79f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020272.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +One of the most vexing problems that had to be explained by these scenarios is how Snowden +got the passwords to up to 24 of these vaults. He could not have obtained these passwords +during his previous employment at Dell because Dell technicians did not have access to the Level +3 documents stored in these compartments. Nor, as was discussed earlier, was he given access to +them when he transferred to Booz Allen because he had not completed the requisite training. Snowden had also, it will be... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020273.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020273.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e988a28cb8b6e6ad1b08bf476aa459576829bbb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020273.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +121 +possible that Snowden smuggled in a key logger in his backpack, it could not be operated +wirelessly inside the Center because, like all other NSA facilities, the computers had been +insulated to lock-out wireless transmission. This precaution was taken to guard against an EMP, +or Electro-Magnetic Pulse, attack by an enemy. If so, the only way Snowden could intercept key +strokes was to attach a cable from his key logger to each of his fellow workers' computers. Making the task even more... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020274.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020274.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..be405ef17232d76fa1b9e1f27846954fc494bc54 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020274.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +122 +The witting-accomplice scenario better fits with the principle in logic called Occam's razor that +suggests that in choosing between alternative explanations, the one that requires the fewest +assumptions should be given priority. Such an accomplice could also help +explain how Snowden was able to get the job at the Center in the first place; how he knew in +advance that he could find there the "lists" of the NSA sources in foreign countries, and how he +knew that there were no security traps at... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020275.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020275.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a97284783253bc9f67f6ec13f67ab39a4e2f25e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020275.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +It could also account for +the disparity between the claims of Snowden and the NSA damage assessment as to the number +of the documents that were compromised. As farfetched as this mole scenario may seem to the outside world, less than three years before +the Snowden breach, the NSA had received a warning from a CIA mole, which will be discussed +in greater detail in Chapter 21, that the Russian Intelligence service might have recruited a KGB +mole at the Fort Meade headquarters of the NSA. No mole... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020276.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020276.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f17848b8f32caca2b7774e17c4cd5f6a29e455bb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020276.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +124 +In view of such past successes of the Russian intelligence services, it cannot be precluded that +there was another person in the NSA working with Snowden who used an enthusiastic as cover to +prevent any light from falling on his own surreptitious spying. While it may seem extremely +unlikely that Snowden had such assistance, the alternative scenario, that Snowden broke into the +sealed compartments and made off with the documents without any assistance, seems equally +unlikely. Even if Snowden... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020277.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020277.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b124751b45f0d9d97ca89db621f252e061fd594 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020277.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +125 +CHAPTER SIXTEEN +The Question of When? Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security" +—Snowden in Moscow +In his 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John LeCarre helped establish the concept in the +public imagination of a mole burrowing unto a rival intelligence service. Aided and guided by his controllers in Moscow, +he systematically stole British intelligence secrets. The career of KGB mole Heinz Felfe, who was advanced through the ranks of +German intelligence by an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020278.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020278.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b7d785723c3fd41ba63b539344f060350fc0b18f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020278.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +He was a "walk-in," who never entered +the Soviet embassy or met with KGB or SVR case officers. Instead, he set his espionage in +motion by passing an anonymous letter to Victor Cherkashin, the KGB spy handler working +undercover at the Soviet Embassy in Washington D.C. From the start of his work for the KGB, +Hanssen laid down his own rules. According to Cherkashin, it was the largest haul of top +secrets documents ever obtained by the KGB (although it was only a small fraction of the number +of top... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020279.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020279.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac435e38b39dadc464525cf9f07aa687c3ec4c76 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020279.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Others are rejected as political liabilities, as happened to Wang Lijun, a well- +connected police chief in China. In February 2012, Wang, walked into at the US consulate in +Chengdu asking from asylum. Whatever Snowden's prior +relations may have been with Russia, it could prudently assumed that after he fled to Moscow, in light of +the intelligence value of the stolen documents, he would wind up in the hands of the Russian security +services. "Within weeks of the [Snowden] leaks, +communications... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020280.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020280.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6c8eee5f5cd6885db11bb9b453417972aedb8b75 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020280.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +It could also account for why the documents he +copied that pertained to NSA operations in Russia were not among those he gave to Poitras, +Greenwald and other journalists. Since Russia has an active intelligence sharing treaty with China +since 1996, it could further explain why his first stop was Hong Kong, a part of China. It was a +safe venue for debriefing Snowden, as well as establishing his credentials among journalists as a +whistle-blower, before a decision was made to allow him to proceed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020281.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020281.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b356a5786ac33fd278e43342dc122001c4a8ffd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020281.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +129 +that the Russian intelligence service managed to bring him under its sway during his 33 days in +Hong Kong. The Russian intelligence service even might have been aware of Snowden, and his anti-NSA +activities, before his arrival on May 20, 2013. Snowden, as discussed earlier, was anything but +discrete in his contacts with strangers in the anti-surveillance movement, including such well +known activists as Runa Sandvik (who he supplied his true name and address via email), Micah +Lee, Jacob... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020282.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020282.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..437b2178314c8d0acca4b1710a5d558969c87808 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020282.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +130 +It is also possible in this Hong Kong scenario that Russian or Chinese intelligence did not +become aware of Snowden until after he went public on June 9th 2013 by having the Guardian +release his video. Its Deputy Director, Michael Morell suggested in his book +that Snowden may not himself have fully realized "when and how he would be used." +What can be safely assumed is that the decision made by Putin's intelligence service to allow +Snowden to proceed to Russia proceeded from something other... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020283.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020283.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fb367cd6053c7c3540b3a85c3cacbf789f582d24 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020283.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +As the Russian officials in Hong Kong might well have informed him, Russia +had no extradition treaty with the US, It was also one of the few places in the world that he could +reach from Hong Kong without flying through airspace in which he might be intercepted by a US +ally. Moreover, Putin himself had approved his exfiltration, which meant that, even without a +valid passport or visa, Snowden could take the direct Aeroflot flight to Moscow. The Russians could have used this leverage in the Hong... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020284.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020284.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e8bab5ff3a5df06eb322c3cd01bf7ffdc5e11eae --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020284.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +They are the only ones who don't realize it." While he +might have sincerely persuaded himself that he was somehow helping US communications +intelligence in a self-appointed role, those familiar with the activities of the Russian security +services find it inconceivable that he could escape their control in Russia. At the very minimum, +a former US intelligence worker who stole American state secrets, such as Snowden, would be +under the FSB's scrutiny. Andrei Soldatov, the co-author of the 2010... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020285.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020285.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f7f31a6492f20b1e9a72ed169bf6ea3b368e7807 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020285.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +133 +entirely in the hands of Putin's Russia. He would also have to be fully candid with the Russian +authorities about what was of great value to Putin: the secret documents he had acquired. Two days later, Snowden made his first public appearance in Russia. It had been, like +previous press conferences with US defectors to Russia, carefully managed, First, Snowden +arrived by limousine at the international transit lounge of Sheremetyevo airport. As Snowden spoke no Russian, a Russian translator... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020286.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020286.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f757ad58d6f6dedab47cb06427c021e6bfa87bd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020286.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +134 +CHAPTER SEVENTEEN +The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing +"There's a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents." +--Edward Snowden in Moscow +The critical missing piece in Snowden enigma is the whereabouts of the NSA documents. Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA +constituted " the instruction manual for how the NSA is built" and they "would allow somebody +who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020287.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020287.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2f1f549c39abc140ac6c3dd784c62c829514c78f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020287.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +135 +1.7 million had been selected in two dozen NSA computers during Snowden's brief tenure at +Booz Allen in 2013. This total included documents from the Department of Defense, NSA and +CIA. The selection of these documents by Snowden could hardly be considered an +accident since Snowden had used pre-programmed spiders to find and index these documents. In +addition he had stated that he took the job at Booz Allen to get access to data that had been +copied. On top of this haul, Snowden had copied... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020288.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020288.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..90fa8c512d582e5b7bc47d55d2235b38c03e3faa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020288.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The 35-page Defense Intelligence Agency's damage assessment, for example, that said +that 900,000 Pentagon documents were compromised by Snowden, was not made public. It was +only disclosed via a Vice magazine Freedom of Information request in June 2015. What is known is the number of documents that Snowden gave to journalists in Hong +Kong. As will be recalled, Poitras and Greenwald were "writing partners." When Greenwald +discovered that his copy of the documents were corrupted, Poitras made a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020289.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020289.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a23735d9a5f35aeda014ad2474f4c2eba3711fd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020289.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +137 +An answer came three months later from his Moscow lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena. The interviewer Sophie Shevardnadze, who had a show on RT Television, called "Sophie & Co," +was well-admired journalist in her own right. She is also the grand-daughter of Edward +Shevardnadze, a former foreign minister and Politburo member of the Soviet Union and, after the +Soviet Union broke up, the first president of Georgia. Even though she had interviewed many top +political figures in Russia, obtaining an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020290.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020290.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cbec97ab4b42c2e0702f3bd05675745ac2e8cad7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020290.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +138 +After establishing some part of Snowden's "material" was still in his possession, Shevardnadze +asked the next logical question: "Why did Russia get involved in this whole thing if it got nothing out of?" +In response, Kucherena elliptically hinted that the unreleased material contained CIA secret files. "Snowden spent quite a few years working for the CIA." He said. "We haven't fully realized yet +the importance of his revelations." (He was correct that Snowden had stolen a larger number... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020291.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020291.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a05299317f1078ed324adbe20412018685fdc349 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020291.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +139 +according to a former National Security Council staffer, the Russian cyber service in 2013 had the +means, the time and the incentive to break the encryption. Kucherena's answer to the question of access also may help to explain Putin's decision to allow +Snowden to come to Moscow. His foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, had spent almost six months negotiating with Hillary +Clinton's State Department a one-on-one summit between President Obama and President Putin. Not only would this summit be a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020292.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020292.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8d50de5cce4f3a751d4e9799876dc22e88fd4427 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020292.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +140 +When I later asked Kucherena in Moscow why Snowden changed his story in direct +contradiction of what Kucherena had stated, he said "Wizner." He was referring to Ben Wizner, +a top-drawer ACLU lawyer based in Washington D.C. Prior to the Snowden leak, he had been consulted frequently by +Poitras on government surveillance issues (and appeared in Poitras' 2010 documentary "The +Oath.") He had also been engaged in a law suit aimed at exposing the NSA's subpoenas for +Verizon records. He had first... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020293.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020293.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d478abf3d0a9075858181bf4803785df819ca9cc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020293.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Changing the narrative would also help enhance his public image as a whistle- +blower, +Whatever the reasoning that led to it, Snowden's new narrative was that he had destroyed all +the documents he had in his possession before coming to Moscow and had no access to any NSA +documents, not even those that he had distributed to journalists. In +December 2013, he met with Barton Gellman of the Washington Post. To advance his narrative, +Snowden turned on his laptop to Gellman and, as if proving his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020294.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020294.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c528ae4fae203622779fd8c0bd2ae8d0701fc94 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020294.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The New York Times +reported from Hong Kong that two sources, both of whom worked for major government +intelligence agencies, "said they believed that the Chinese government had managed to drain the +contents of the four laptops that Mr. Snowden said he brought to Hong Kong." That China had +the capability to obtain Snowden's data was also the view of former CIA Deputy Director Morell. He said: "Both the Chinese and the Russians would have used everything in their tool kit-from +human approaches to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020295.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020295.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73298ff9a14a06488ec9e03698accda0f1a0dc03 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020295.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Adding to the intrigue, Poitras was apparently caught by surprise when the Merkel story broke in +Der Spiegel. Snowden explained to her that Merkel was listed by her true name +(and not by a codename) in the NSA document because the German chancellor was a NSA +"target not an asset." Presumably, Poitras would have already known that distinction if she had +the document referred to in Der Spiegel. If the Merkel document was not among the data given +to Poitras in Hong Kong, how did it get to the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020296.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020296.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7c6c1055eae43be11e79bba90043a335773a27e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020296.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The post-Hong Kong documents did not stop with the Merkel one. In June 2015, for example, the Wikileaks +website released another putative Snowden document two years after he had supposedly wiped +his computer clean in Hong Kong. It revealed that the NSA had targeted the telephones of the +three consecutive presidents of France-- Jacque Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, +all of whom were allies of the United States. The released on the Wikileaks site came at an embarrassing time... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020297.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020297.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e146383a24f720548f4fa76bc16f0c4fc8d4413a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020297.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The alternative is that this material was released at the behest of +the Russian intelligence service. The mystery of the post Hong Kong documents also intrigued members in the US intelligence +community with whom I discussed it. When I asked a former intelligence executive about the +ultimate source for the Merkel story, he responded: "If Snowden didn't give journalists this +document in Hong Kong, we can assume an intermediary fed it to Appelbaum to publish in Der +Spiegel?" According to him, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020298.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020298.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fff427b01ed42f733e51988f328a95ab2c58c731 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020298.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +If only as an act of faith in Snowden's +personal integrity, they continued to believe his avowal to Senator Humphrey that he had acted +to protect U.S. secrets by shielding them from adversary intelligence services after he took them +abroad. They also continued to take him at his word when he said he had destroyed all the NSA +documents before going to Russia. The NSA, CIA and +Department of Defense therefore had little choice but to assume the worst had happened: Russia +and China had obtained... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020299.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020299.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a67b207dfb32f5b1c939c93a1a887d72ef9d7767 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020299.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +147 +CHAPTER EIGHTEEN +The Unheeded Warning +"The NSA—the world's most capable signals intelligence organization, an agency immensely skilled in stealing +digital data—had had its pockets thoroughly picked." +• --CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell +In April 2010, the CIA received a stark reminder of the ongoing nature of Russian +espionage. This surreptitious source was Alexander Poteyev, a 54-year old colonel in the +SVR, which was the successor agency to the First Chief Directorate of the KGB. While... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020300.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020300.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1d05fdfdf219178ccaf3a5eaec135b3f679d99ef --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020300.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +To build this American network of sleeper agents took the better part of a decade. In 2005, +this SVR's "American" section in Moscow had begun methodically installing "sleeper agents" in +the US. The CIA learned of this sleeper program through Poteyev soon after it began. When I was writing my book on international deception, Angleton +had pointed out to me that "the business of intelligence services is understanding precisely the +relationship of their opposition to them." His view, though his... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020301.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020301.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aaa8c8dfc0399d73b0f50bc9c8af72ac9c9991ff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020301.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +149 +intelligence official who later became involved in the case, the assignment involved preparing +these agents to service a potential source in the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. If true, it +suggested that Russian intelligence either had found or was working on a means of penetrating +the NSA. It reportedly +initiated a counter-espionage probe at the NSA's Fort Meade headquarters on receiving the tip. According to a +subsequent note in the NSA's secret budget report to Congress, it would require "a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020302.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020302.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ff2ec99548983706e8b7f1812845c29d129e77fc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020302.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It now knew that the SVR had installed plumbing in America that one or more +agents in this network had been activated to handle a possible recruit in the NSA. The NSA's own security investigation turned up no evidence of a leak at Fort Meade in 2010. For +example, CIA counterintelligence had learned from a KGB defector in the early 1960s that +Russian intelligence had penetrated the cipher room at the US Embassy in Moscow and, because +of this operation, the KGB was able to decipher crucial... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020303.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020303.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2b72fafe63f2b5d430aade93196b00bfc72787cc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020303.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +All advantage goes to the attacker," +Michael Hayden said in an interview in 2015 with the publisher of the Wall Street Journal. "but that strategy only works if +we can keep secret sensitive sources." +Central to this offensive strategy was the NSA's National Threat Operations Center in Oahu, +Hawaii. It employed threat analysts to surreptitiously monitor the secret activities of potential +enemies, mainly China, Russia and North Korea. This strategy worked so far as the NSA guarded itself but it... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020304.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020304.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a14815369e5e4c8804fb68daada2df084314c9f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020304.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +152 +If Snowden could cause such massive damage, so could other civilian trainees at the NSA. Someone in the chain of command had to take responsibility, General Alexander tendered his +resignation on June 30th, 2013. " As President Obama did not want the head of the NSA resigning in the midst of the +Snowden crisis, he asked him to stay on for another six months. He then appointed Admiral +Michael Rogers to be his replacement. Meanwhile, it had become undeniable clear to the Review +Committee... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020305.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020305.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..940247a948bf303a3d7922b454a4c5033a4c2863 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020305.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +153 +PART FOUR +THE GAME OF NATIONS +"I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper." +--David Lynch on his 1986 film Blue Velvet +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020305 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020306.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020306.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6614a486c63833e72e6df4beadf69a7625825fcd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020306.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +154 +CHAPTER NINETEEN +The Rise of the NSA +"There are many things we do in intelligence that, if revealed, would have the potential for all kinds of blowback," -- +National Intelligence" - James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence +In the Game of Nations, which is played at a level that often is not visible to public scrutiny, +the great prize is state secrets that reveal the hidden weaknesses of a nation's potential +adversaries. It was just +such state secrets that Edward Snowden took from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020307.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020307.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47fde255a4a16f64d699d24663945b99b81b77f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020307.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +155 +Western Union, which has the telegraph monopoly in America, to provide the Black Chamber +with all the telegrams coming into the United States. "Its far-seeking eyes penetrate the secret +conference chambers at Washington, Tokyo, London, Paris, Geneva, Rome," Yardley wrote +about the Black Chamber. "Its sensitive ears catch the faintest whispering in the foreign capitals of +the world." But in 1929, at the instructions of President Herbert Hoover, Secretary of State +Henry Stimson closed the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020308.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020308.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5697c88b77cd594e82926af0eee22969ee6f5f62 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020308.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In 1971, for example, the NSA had +sent a specially-equipped submarine into Russia's Sea of Okhotsk in Asia to tap through Arctic +ice. In Executive Order 12333, he told the NSA to use "all means, consistent +with applicable Federal law and (this Executive) order, and with full consideration of the rights of +United States persons, shall be used to obtain reliable intelligence information to protect the +United States and its interests." It did restrict any foreign country, either an adversary or an... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020309.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020309.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..251f22d7cce84be900db2a5804ddc594f8cce2f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020309.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +157 +Of course, the liaison between the NSA and its allies was a two way street. With the +exception of the Five-Eye allies, it gathered data that was deemed of importance by the President +and Defense Department in friendly countries. These operations had been approved by every +American President, and funded by every American Congress, since 1941. The 911 conspiracy, +for example, was hatched in Hamburg, Germany and financed in Dubai and Saudi Arabia. And it is true we use computers to sort... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020310.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020310.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..887cccac09f379f3c2d443f9e592495a14a13610 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020310.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +158 +By the first decade of the 21" century, the NSA's surreptitious efforts to render the Internet +transparent to US intelligence had earned it a new set of enemies. They were the previously- +mentioned hacktavists who were attempting to shield the activities of Internet users from the +intrusions of government surveillance. Brian Hale, the spokesman for the +Director of National Intelligence, disclosed that the US routinely intercepted the cyber signatures +of parties suspected of hacking into US... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020311.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020311.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..413bb8b8b6e612dc02d5ada0cc74b842d2ca6eba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020311.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +According to Rajesh De, just assembling +these reports involved thousands of hours of manpower. In addition, the President's Oversight +Board required that NSA's Office of the General Counsel and Inspector General supply it every +90 days with a list of every single error made by every NSA employee anywhere in the world +deviating from procedures, including even minor typing errors. Yet, this +regulation could not undo surveillance programs such as the one Snowden revealed of Verizon +turning over... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020312.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020312.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..84a59637bbc641c3bd2ba41564061bc37bc6cb50 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020312.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +160 +National Intelligence justified the secret intelligence budget by saying in an open session of +Congress, "We are bolstering our support for clandestine SIGINT [signal intelligence] +capabilities to collect against high priority targets, including foreign leadership targets," and to +develop "groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit +Internet traffic." It was no secret, even before Snowden, that the NSA was engaged with +monitoring the Internet.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020313.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020313.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e3570dd1bde4cb92a128a3f7b6eb1e4670d30535 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020313.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +A former top intelligence official told me "The queen on our chessboard had been +taken." +To be sure, even after the loss of its "queen," the game was not lost. In June 2014, the +new NSA director Admiral Michael Rogers had to confront flagging morale that, according to +former director Michael Hayden, was near-paralyzing the intelligence service. Admiral Rogers +recognized that as a direct result of the Snowden breach "the nation has lost capabilities against +adversaries right now who are... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020314.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020314.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..21771f850b45a39c1148681d4851950c7d52cd6d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020314.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +162 +CHAPTER TWENTY +The NSA's Back Door +"You have private for-profit companies doing inherently governmental work like targeted espionage, surveillance, +compromising foreign systems. And there's very little oversight, there's very little review." +- Edward Snowden, explaining his access to the NSA in Moscow, 2014 +Prior to Snowden's theft of NSA documents, the single most shattering blow to the confidence +of the US intelligence community was the exposure of Aldrich Ames as a long-serving... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020315.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020315.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..81287b3caaee0fbd9d4414569039cc8c759036f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020315.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +163 +The NSA's system administrators were, as the threat officer pointed out, very different from +the traditional military employees at the NSA. They were usually civilians, who effectively served +as repair-men for complex computer systems at the NSA. Moreover, many of them had not been +directly hired by the NSA. This outsourcing had deep roots tracing back to the Second World War Ed Booz, the +founder of Booz Allen Hamilton, obtained contracts to help manage ship construction from the +US Navy.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020316.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020316.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..52ef315d3e60fb1ac6d458112c43ff033d3e08e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020316.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +164 +espionage work for another 8 years. (Whitworth, who was arrested by the FBI in 1985, was +convicted of espionage and sentenced to 365 years in prison.) +The Internet provided an almost ideal environment for false flags since its users commonly +adopt aliases, screen names, and other avatars. As the threat officer pointed out in his report, the KGB had used +false flags in the late 1980s to surreptitiously recruit members of the "German Hanover Hackers," +a community of anarchistic hackers who... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020317.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020317.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2abb43a6858fbe590cb44610b13884c94aa483ca --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020317.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Unlike intelligence services, their fate depended on turning profits. Since the value of their +contracts was largely limited by competitive bidding, their business plans were predicated on their +ability to minimize the costs of fulfilling these contracts. For example, for +an automobile company such as General Motors can measure the performance of its executive by +reckoning it change in net income. This curious aspect of secret work was part of the advice given to White House lawyer +in the Obama... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020318.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020318.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..335ea6297056b3968a4178e247b5cfcbdfa9451a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020318.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +It added in these five years, by one Wall +Street analyst's calculation, some 8,000 new external workers. Their main qualification was their prior secrecy +clearances (which saved Booz Allen the expense of vetting them and also the loss income while +waiting many months for a clearance.) Snowden therefore was highly-desirable from an +economic point of view for Booz Allen. In +keeping with the Booz Allen business plan, such a recruit would provide another cog in its profit +machine. The idea backed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020319.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020319.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bbcaf05f386769564b4c9106d2b7d92c8b600bc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020319.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +One employee said in an +email cited in the government's complaint "Flushed everything like a dead goldfish." As a result, +some of information specialists entering the NSA through the back door of outside contractors +were not fully vetted. (On August 20, 2015 USIS agreed to forfeit $30 million in fees to settle +the law suit.) +USIS was also opened to sophisticated hacking attacks by outsiders. For example, in August +2014, the Department of Homeland Security's counterintelligence unit discovered... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020320.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020320.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d31e4aa2f62708c0b0a856060709c42bbddc301 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020320.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +It +even featured a revolving door through which Booz Allen, for example, hired retiring executives +from the intelligence services, such as ex-NSA director Michael McConnell, R. James Woolsey, a +former director of CIA, and Lieutenant General James Clapper (ret), who later served as Director +of National Intelligence. The cozy relationship between the private firms and the NSA notwithstanding, the NSA +leadership was unaware that outsourcing could create a security problem. As far back as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020321.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020321.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b593bf954d67fc7b91b6ee26177a3e64e5a252d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020321.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +169 +Nor did the NSA alter its reliance on private contractors. The Snowden breach +notwithstanding, the back door to the NSA remained wide opened because by the time of +Snowden outsourcing to private companies had become an all but irreplaceable part of the +intelligence system in America. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020322.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020322.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1b826639fecd68f69b961a443a91d74c313dc9bf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020322.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +170 +CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE +The Russians Are Coming +"The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century." - Vladimir Putin +In 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 of 2014. Unlike with previous Russian troop movements, such as those into Poland, Hungary, +Czechoslovakia and Eastern Germany during the Cold War, the week-long... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020323.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020323.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fcfba0d62a09e76cdc24ce54ade4000ea902d2ab --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020323.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Not only did Russia run a nationwide system of Internet-filtering in 2013, but it +requires their telecommunication companies furnish to it worldwide data. The NSA also had to deal with many peripheral issues other than the activities of Russia and +China. It was charged with monitoring everything from nuclear proliferation in Iran, Pakistan, +and North Korea, to potential jihadist threats everywhere in the world. The Russian intelligence +service, on the other hand, could put its limited resources... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020324.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020324.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..08511f8e1330348ed03766012014ad23d73d1b3d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020324.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +172 +undoubtedly have preferred Martin and Mitchell to remain in place as moles, since their information was +dated as of the moment they left NSA." +The next NSA defector was Victor Norris Hamilton. He arrived in Moscow in 1962 and, like Mitchell and Martin, he claimed the status of a +whistle-blower. Writing in the Russian +newspaper Izvestia, Hamilton revealed the extent of US spying on its allies in the Middle East. Martin changed his name to +Vladimir Sokolodsky, married a Russian woman, and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020325.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020325.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e15908e9f05c796917597a72f7ecd0a720e52589 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020325.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Ronald Pelton, an NSA analyst, was recruited after he retired from the NSA. After he +was betrayed by a KGB double agent in 1985, was sentenced to life imprisonment, Finally, there +was David Sheldon Boone, a NSA code clerk, who between 1988 and 1992, provided the KGB +with NSA documents in return for $60,000. Boone, sentenced to 24 years in prison, was the last +known KGB recruitment of the Cold War. During the Cold War, Russian Intelligence Service officers operated mainly under the cover of +the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020326.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020326.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d56457ded205944bcc42c585ebb150fa7f66bf68 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020326.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +174 +When it comes to recruiting moles in a larger universe, intelligence services operate much like +highly-specialized corporate "headhunters," as James Jesus Angleton described the process to me +during the Cold War era. Both "head hunt" by searching through a database of +possible candidates for possible recruits to fill specific positions. This disguise is called in +the parlance of the trade a "false flag." By using such a false flag, the SVR did not need to find +candidate who were sympathy to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020327.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020327.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a399503bd1ab84698fd8480121a18b2d205d8471 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020327.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +175 +intelligence reports confirming its operations from many other sources, including Russian officials, +diplomats, and military officers who claimed to have defected from the Soviet government in +Moscow. Once the Trust had been established in the minds of the Western intelligence services, it +offered them as well as exile groups the services of its network of collaborators. Within a year, exile groups in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Helsinki were using the +"Trust" to deliver arms and supplies to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020328.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020328.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..61c6a93c2be8f34a9e5a6a889396e9fcba9e12b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020328.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +176 +Penetrating the NSA and getting access to files from its stove-piped computers was a far +more difficult challenge for the SVR. Approaching CIA officers, such as Nicholson, was relatively +easy because it was part of the CIA officer's job to meet with their adversaries. They had not +reason, other than a sinister one, to meet with a member of the Russian intelligence service. Furthermore, unlike CIA officers who, like Nicholson, are often posted in neutral countries where +they can be... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020329.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020329.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ad0de4b5c724b4dd5fa1055c369d2be98b5e254a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020329.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +He also said that efforts of the Russian +Intelligence Services to use false flag recruitments provided the KGB with "a learning +experience." The KGB had learned that hacking by itself could not breech the NSA's protective +stove-piping. He predicted that its next logical move would be to "target insider computer +personnel." These false flag recruitment would aim at, in his view, system administrators, +computer engineers and cyber service workers who were either already inside the NSA or who +had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020330.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020330.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8e982fe34a7c07338f06b870c7ec58a2d524284b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020330.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +178 +time when he was stealing NSA secrets in February 2013, went to great lengths to impress on +Poitras the need for operational security 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 Gellman; and Glenn Greenwald. "It is not +me that can't keep a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020331.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020331.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..351150ef61971d8f5d0f42d11a3a1e38234310d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020331.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +It could even borrow their Internet identities. The Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht discovered to his distress that his TOR software +did not make his computer server in Iceland invisible. According to a former top official in the +Justice Department, the NSA was able to locate it by cracking the TOR software, (Ulbricht is +currently serving a life prison sentence for his Silk Road activities.). CIA deputy director +Morell, who served on the committee evaluating the NSA's vulnerability in the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020332.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020332.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..17cfdf281fd23db568b740e6f674d94fa1a8b1ab --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020332.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +180 +CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO +The Chinese Puzzle +"The first [false assumption] is that China is an enemy of the United States. It's not." +Edward Snowden in Hong Kong +On August 11, 2014, in the Atlantic Ocean, an even took place of enormous concern to U.S. +intelligence. A Chinese Jin Class Submarine launched an Intercontinental ballistic missile. Some 4400 miles away, in China's test range in the Xinjiang desert, each of the 12 simulated +nuclear warheads then hit their targets within a 12 inch radius.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020333.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020333.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..04e94e03219f49a4a22da0e66e35add5e2a4b547 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020333.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +China shared (or exchanged) the fruits of its espionage on +nuclear warhead design with North Korea, Pakistan, Iran and Russia. Despite its formidable intelligence coups in the US, the Chinese intelligence service managed to +remain among the most elusive of America's intelligence adversaries. Its espionage organizations +are hidden behind layers of bureaucracy in the Ministry of State Security, Chinese Communist +party structures, and the second, third and fourth department of the General Staff of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020334.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020334.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..587cdb1a03434e3d9fbec61583816333db2ea947 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020334.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +If the Chinese intelligence services +consolidated the fruits of these hacking attacks it would have a searchable database of almost +everyone working in the American defense and intelligence complex. General Hayden said of the massive +theft of intelligence personnel records: "those records are a legitimate foreign intelligence target." +He added, "If I, as director of the NSA or CIA would have had the opportunity to grab the +equivalent in the Chinese system, I would not have thought twice." If... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020335.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020335.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3989af3ad23a621f55a5cd4cd45d5e3010f9b35e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020335.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +183 +Snowden's trip to Hong Kong in May 2013 made the Chinese intelligence service, willy-nilly, +a potential player in game. The Chinese intelligence service accordingly +runs much of the local intelligence apparatus in Hong Kong. Its officers are stationed +officially in the Prince of Wales skyscraper in central Hong Kong and unofficially maintain +informers in Hong Kong's police, governing authority, airport administration and at other levers +of power in Hong Kong. Such remote surveillance was so... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020336.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020336.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a7e8673ecbf239dad66598cdcb551120abacbcb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020336.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +184 +CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE +The Pawn in the Game +"The whole key is, the state department's the one who put me in Russia." +--Edward Snowden in Moscow, 2014 +When Snowden arrived in Hong Kong on May 20, 2013 he became a person on interest to any +parties who knew, or later learned, about his coup. He was after his arrival in Hong +Kong, as he put it, the NSA's "single point" of a potential catastrophic intelligence failure. He +also stated the consequences if caught, telling Poitras: "The US Intel... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020337.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020337.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed40fb687b15fd5c69cd88f7d7d52fc787a3d2d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020337.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +CIA Deputy Director Morell said, after reviewing the case on a +panel appointed by President Obama: "Snowden thinks he is smart, but he was never in a position +in his previous jobs to fully understand the immense capabilities of our Russian and Chinese +counterparts." He could adopt a self-confident tone in his post-mortem conversations with +journalists in Moscow, but he had no means to block the efforts of the Chinese or Russian +services in Hong Kong. For +example, the Chinese intelligence... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020338.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020338.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e057fd42a1ebd10834a7c8a04e9ce6d6952aed95 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020338.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +186 +The day after his attempt to pressure the Washington Post, he asked Greenwald to drop +everything he was doing and immediately fly to Hong Kong. Presumably, he wanted Greenwald's story and the video done in Hong +Kong before he became a suspect. If they had immediately flown to Hong Kong that May, it still +might have left Snowden an escape window. Greenwald, although agreeing to come to Hong Kong, waited in New York for two days while +the Guardian editors completed their due diligence.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020339.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020339.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ba8f05c63adadf99abcb62e32de5a9caa6b28ba1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020339.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +187 +The U.Ss also had the ability to track Snowden's movements via the cell phones of his +lawyers and other confederates after he surfaced. By this time, US intelligence had established that Chinese and Hong +Kong security services were monitoring Snowden's every move. The real prize, in any case, was not Snowden himself but the NSA's secrets documents that he +had with him in Hong Kong. Two days later, the "single point of failure," as Snowden described himself, was on his way to +Russia, where... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020340.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020340.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..203b0556410170737e7f460a4b7397335df68268 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020340.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Several hundred US and British intelligence +officers worked around the clock in Washington DC, Fort Meade, Maryland and Cheltenham, +England for months on end to determine if which parts could be still salvaged from what had been +until the Snowden breach the most powerful communications intelligence system in the world. Adding insult to injury, Snowden, speaking from his new perch in Moscow, told applauding +audience that the entire purpose of the U.S. exercise, including deliberately "trapping"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020341.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020341.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..40624d3ede4fe1fb759bd912538b09ea4a9bdf4e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020341.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +189 +PART FIVE +WALKING THE CAT BACK +Deception is a state of mind—and the mind of the state +--James Jesus Angleton +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020341 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020342.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020342.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b532c7fedced5b66e511cac80ef0767883753acc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020342.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +190 +Chronology 3 +Snowden in Russia +2013 +June 23 +Snowden arrives from Hong Kong at Sheremetyevo International +Airport on Aeroflot flight SU213 at 5:15 PM local time. July 12 +Snowden, in his first public appearance in Russia, holds press +conference at Sheremetyevo International Airport, +July 14 +August 1 +Snowden first meets Anatoly Kucherena, his lawyer-to-be +Snowden's application for asylum is granted for one year. September 23 Kucherena states Snowden has access to NSA documents in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020343.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020343.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..34037bc97dd2fdd99c86072d72cfd2b7ba9ccb76 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020343.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Having experienced these incredible sensations, I realized that I had to write about them, but only in the +form of a novel that would not claim any sophisticated philosophical conclusions." +—Anatoly Kucherena +Before flying to Moscow, I arranged to have dinner with Oliver Stone at Parma, an Italian +restaurant on the upper east side of New York. I had greatly respected Stone ability as a film +director after watching him work in Wall Street II: Money Never Sleeps, a film in which I had a +cameo... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020344.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020344.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0f15850c22f91436a7dc1ae5e40dc57988666da3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020344.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Stone said that the million dollar deal with Kucherena effectively +guaranteed that any competing project would not have access to Snowden. Clearly, +Kucherena was no ordinary lawyer. In light of such connections, Stone said Kucherena might be acting as an +intermediary for other parties who did control access to Snowden in Russia but that were not his +concern. Kucherena delivered the exclusive access to Snowden. He learned of my book from Snowden. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020345.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020345.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f9c4f48be6aa24728cbbac90db359deed0974c5f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020345.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +193 +"There is only one door to Snowden," Zamir wrote me. "His name is Kucherena." Since +Zamir said Kucherena rarely saw journalists he that he had a contact in his office. Next, my questions had to be translated from English to Russian +(even though Snowden does not speak Russian) and then vetted by Kucherena's staff. Zamir +also suggested I stay at the National hotel in Red Square because Snowden has gone there for +previous meetings with Bamford. So I sent Kucherena, via Zamir, ten questions... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020346.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020346.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce478c3b9df80227f7950e316642ae59bb21b5ea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020346.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +194 +CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE +Vanishing Act +"They talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great." -Snowden Moscow, 2015 +My night flight from New York to Moscow took less than eight hours. It landed at 7:40 AM on +October 29, 2015 at terminal D a Sheremetyevo International Airport. Sheremetyevo Two, where all international flights land, was built in the waning days of the Cold +War for international passengers arriving for the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics. To better understand the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020347.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020347.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6130c2c619613c2fecc988ca0f3c2617f59950ed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020347.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +But that raises the question: Was Snowden's plan really to go to Ecuador? Government] really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to travel to +Latin America, because the CIA can operate with impunity down there," he explained in a +recorded interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation, in 2014, He had +previously discussed the likelihood of his being captured in Ecuador with Julian Assange in Hong +Kong in June 2013 before his departure for Moscow. He also told Alan... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020348.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020348.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e1627fd5565599f626b5a6a9514cd33425943832 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020348.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The first news that Snowden was even in Russia came on July 1, 2013. A statement posted on +n the Wikileaks web site and signed "Edward Snowden," after thanking "friends new and old" for +his "continued liberty," accused President Obama of pressuring "leaders of nations from which I +have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions. These are the old, bad +tools of political aggression." Since the Aeroflot flight to Cuba was the only means of getting +directly from Moscow to Latin America,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020349.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020349.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb5d47e2c8226a3450a546b114d1d99e1fda0f0c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020349.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +197 +although his image was constantly shown on airport TV screens. Egor Piscunov, a Russian +journalist who checked into the capsule hotel for 4 hours told me, "It was a total vanishing act." +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020349 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020350.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020350.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8385c8bd0e50d2d41283a9d933a5cb6a74a70f8d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020350.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +198 +CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX +Through the Looking Glass +"There's definitely a deep state. Trust me, I've been there" +—Edward Snowden in Moscow +While waiting to hear back from Kucherena's office, I arranged to meet with Victor Ivanovich +Cherkashin, who gad been one of the most successful KGB spy handlers in the Cold War. I was particularly interested in his recruitment of three top American intelligence +officers; Aldrich Ames in the CIA, Robert Hanssen in the FBI and Ronald Pelton in the NSA. So I... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020351.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020351.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d49c09714dfd83d6c6eff9a294e2e930e5d16b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020351.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +199 +Since Ames had been initially paid by Cherkashin $50,000 in cash for his first delivery, I asked +whether he fit into the category of a disgruntled employee. Ames told me at our first secret meeting that they were misleading Congress by +exaggerating the Soviet threat." Cherkashin evaluated Ames as a man who felt not only slighted +by his superiors but "helpless to do anything about it" within the bureaucracy of the CIA. "The +money we gave, even if he could spend only a small portion of it,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020352.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020352.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4d2cf389e2c624b893474b00b1bb7395c6f03e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020352.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"We prefer to the more general term 'espionage +source." +"So anyone who delivers state secrets to the KGB, for whatever reason, is an espionage +source?" I asked +"Certainly, if the information is valuable to us," Cherkashin answered. "Hanssen delivered +secrets exposing American human and electronic operations against Russia. It is the delivery of secrets, not the methods used, that counts." +"If some unknown person simply delivered a trove of top-secret communications secrets to the +doorstep of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020353.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020353.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5d383f23f63f15592a7d384b91503c1d543a6fba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020353.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +So he was given $5,000 in cash and a plane +ticket to Vienna, where he was domiciled at the residence of the Soviet ambassador to Austria. A +KGB's electronic communications expert, Anatoly Slavnov, was then sent to Vienna to supervise +the Pelton debriefings. In them, Pelton managed to recall Project A, a joint NSA-CIA-Navy operation in which +submarines surreptitiously tapped into Soviet undersea cables in the Sea of Okhotsk, which +connected a to the Soviet Pacific Fleet's mainland headquarters... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020355.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020355.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2d503f0221fd76d678076be171ac4ce3bc23cc4d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020355.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +203 +CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN +The Handler +As for his [Snowden's] communication with the outside world, yes, I am his main contact +- Anatoly Kucherena, September 23, 2013 +Time was rapidly running out for me in Moscow. On November 15, +", I still had not been able +to make contact with Anatoly Kucherena, and my flight back to New York was in five days. My +fixer, Zamir, had been trying to arrange an appointment for three weeks but he had only received +one call back from Kucherena's assistant, Valentina... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020356.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020356.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..682fd0db7087058ef023113bc54e33627aa91d12 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020356.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"Why are you interested +in seeing Kucherena?" +I told him that I wanted to speak to him about Snowden but that I had been unable to arrange +a meeting. "That's no problem," he said, raising his cell phone (which never left his hand.) He hit a number +the speed dial, and spoke rapidly in Russian (which I do not understand.) He cupped his hand +over the phone and asked how long I would be in Moscow. After I told him that I was leaving on Friday, he spoke again in to the person on the other end +"You... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020357.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020357.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c3268c935bae5483471f585e2a8fabccab7bdeaa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020357.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +205 +of Justice charged with corruption; and Suleyman Kerimov, a civil servant from Dagestan, who +had amassed an estimated fortune of $7.1 billion. To break the ice, I asked him about Oliver Stone. I knew he had a small role in Oliver Stone's +forthcoming movie "Snowden." in which he plays Snowden's lawyer in Moscow. "How did you come to be Snowden's lawyer?" I asked. "Snowden picked me from a roster of 15 lawyers with which he had been given." He then went +to Sheremetyevo International Airport... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020358.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020358.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b1b8561aba6e7b5c6a6000110113f15225ecf9f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020358.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +206 +"When I accepted the case, I received Snowden's dossier." He answered. If so, it would explain how Kucherena could be so certain that Snowden had +brought "material" with him to Russia that he had not provided to journalists in Hong Kong. Before meeting with Kucherena, I had met with Sophie Shevardnadze, the previously-mentioned +grand-daughter of Politburo member Edward Shevardnadze and widely-followed television +journalist. So I asked Kucherena about his 2013 interview with her, which was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020359.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020359.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d47b94c43090f265c14128e949c75e74f5f968ad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020359.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +207 +While Kucherena did not arrange an interview with Snowden, as I had hoped, he did +something I considered more important. He confirmed the accuracy of his September 2013c +assertion that Snowden had brought secret material to Russia; material he had not given to +journalists in Hong Kong. After what I learned from Cherkashin about the lengths that Russian +intelligence would go to obtain U.S. communications intelligence secrets, I viewed Snowden's +access to this material to be a crucially... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020362.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020362.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb93a40f2eeeaab49afec7a6b63ade29be184366 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020362.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +210 +CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT +Snowden's Choices +"It is the choices we make that show who we truly are" +J.K Rowling, the Philosopher's Stone +Whereas Russian authorities had the opportunity to thoroughly debrief Snowden as to his +motive for stealing state secrets, US authorities did not have that opportunity (and it seems +unlikely that they will have it in the foreseeable future.) So Snowden's motive is a missing part of +the puzzle. What we do know is +that Snowden made four extraordinary choices... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020363.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020363.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0a4005572ec3e158f90b68c045e33cd995f8062e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020363.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +He even could have sent Poitras +documents anonymously over his own TOR software and server. Yet he chose to move to Booz Allen he also greatly increased the risk of exposure because the +auditing system at Booz Allen could trace back unauthorized copying (though not in real time.) +Presumably he knew, as he later told Greenwald and Poitras, that stealing documents at the Booz +Allen job meant that he would either go to prison or escape from America. In keeping with the latter option, +only about a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020364.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020364.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..419e8440c2b7adcae784256fdb7d8f7f0765c92c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020364.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In his five weeks at this Booz Allen +job, he also used this same newly-acquired "Priv Ac" at the NSA to steal files from the Israeli, +Canadian and Australian intelligence services. In the parlance +of intelligence operations, an employee of an intelligence service who changes his jobs! solely to +steal the more valuable secrets of services is called an "expanding penetration." +It is not possible to believe that Snowden did not know the damage that the highly-sensitive +documents he was taking from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020365.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020365.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..538772af1779e6a2e11dd9e83073de93870f5147 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020365.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +If some consideration by Snowden precluded Brazil as a destination, +Snowden could have also gone to Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba, Iceland, or Venezuela, which are also +countries that do not have active extradition treaties with the United States. Yet, instead of +proceeding to a country from which he could not have been extradited, he flew to Hong Kong, +which had a vigorously enforced extradition agreement. As previously mentioned, when he left Hong Kong not a single journalist had agreed to meet... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020366.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020366.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94c6a730a29c575515657e8843cd1c4259a1f067 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020366.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +214 +The third choice Snowden made, and the choice that most effectively defined him to the public, +was to reveal himself as the man behind the leak in a video in Hong Kong. He not only +identified himself as the person who stole the government documents published by the Guardian +and Washington Post, but he incriminated himself further on camera by allowing Poitras to film +him actually disclosing NSA's secret operations to Greenwald. If he merely wanted to be a whistle-blower, he could have, as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020367.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020367.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e5e0d0bb3394e16fb9ce90155b9d09f3db703c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020367.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +215 +The final choice he was made to board a non-stop flight to Moscow on June 23, 2013. To remain in Hong Kong once a criminal complaint was leveled against him would have meant +that, at the very minimum, Hong Kong authorities would seize him and the alleged stolen property +of the US government in his possession. Even if he was released on bail, the Hong Kong +authorities would almost certainly retain all the NSA and GCHQ files he had gone to such lengths +to steal. He also would not be allowed... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020368.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020368.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..70bb24e2c544638b613184c861e079e2e98cde5e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020368.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +216 +before departing to Moscow, and Assange accommodated him by laying down a smoke screen of +decoy flights to facilitate his escape from Hong Kong and sending him a helper. Taken together, these actions show that Snowden was determined to succeed where others +before him had failed. He not only wanted to take full credit for stealing files from the NSA but +he wanted to escape any American retribution for his act. To protect +himself, he was also willing to rely on the influence of an adversary... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020369.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020369.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..04f88657fe2e330fcc1e2fcfc28a8b50c05f362d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020369.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +217 +CHAPTER TWENTY NINE +The Whistle Blower Who Became a Controlled Source +"The [U.S.] government's investigation failed- +—that they don't know what was taken" +—Edward Snowden in Moscow +In Moscow I had learned that Russian intelligence services use the broad, umbrella term +"espionage source" to describe moles, volunteers and anyone else who delivers another state's +secrets to it. It is also a job +description that fitted Edward Snowden in June 2013. Unless one is willing to believe that the Putin... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020370.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020370.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9be1000cf7e5e436b9cc657c28bcea38c0e91ae2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020370.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +218 +Snowden to come to Russia. We know that the Russian government acted in advance to facilitate Snowden's trip from Hong +Kong. Without such an intervention, it would not be possible for an American without an entry +visa to Russia, or, for that matter, any other country to check-in and board an Aeroflot flight to +Moscow. We also +know that a special operation was mounted to take Snowden off the plane once it landed in +Moscow. Since Putin himself has taken +credit for authorizing Snowden's trip... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020371.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020371.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5b5e006072701c165112a28e5634ed374d23a594 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020371.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +219 +such communication intelligence to Russia, it would be the height of naiveté for U.S. or British +intelligence to accept such claims as anything more than part of the cover story. As for the Snowden's motive, I see no reason to doubt Snowden's explanation that he stole +NSA documents to expose NSA surveillance that he believed was an illicit intrusion into the +privacy of individuals. Many of Russia's espionage sources before Snowden were also dissatisfied employees who had +access to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020372.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020372.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ce94ba864d5431edf785e0a0f271a28c8bd957a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020372.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +220 +provided no basis to speculate that he was in mainland China. He could have been staying in a +well-prepared safe-house anywhere in Hong Kong or even at the home of an unknown associate. All that is really known is that soon after he emerged from this venue and gave his celebrated +interview to journalist he was aboard an Aeroflot plane bound for Moscow where he would +become, if he was already, a potential espionage source for Russia. Whatever his initial motivation may have been, Snowden's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020374.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020374.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0dd13f36dacffd95dc460182431adf9cab5d09ab --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020374.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +222 +CHAPTER THIRTY +The Consequences for the 'War on Terrorism' « +"Because of a number of unauthorized disclosures and a lot of hand-wringing over the government's role in the +effort to try to uncover these terrorists, there have been some policy and legal and other actions that make our +ability collectively, internationally, to find these terrorists much more challenging." +CIA Director John Brennan in response to the Paris attack, November 2015 +In the evening of November 13, 2015, normal life... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020375.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020375.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e42c7089cfcb2739319a9fc47fb85c463f7e40a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020375.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +223 +Yet, in June 2013, the NSA found that envelope had been breached by Snowden who +deliberately compromised three programs that it used to keep track of terrorist organizations +around the world. The first system he divulged, and the one which though it received the most +public attention, did the least damage, was what the NSA called the 215 program because it had +been authorized by section 215 of the Patriot Act of 2001. This program amassed, the billing +records of every phone call made in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020376.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020376.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ded2b96584d2605f10faa6b663d433802ee0e4d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020376.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +" Snowden also suggested that to avoid being +automatically "targeted" by the NSA, one should avoid "jihadi forums." These tips for evading +U.S. and British surveillance, far from being an off-hand leakage of information, were supplied by +him in written answers to interrogatives sent to him by Laura Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum while +Snowden was still on the NSA payroll in May 2013. Just as Robert Hanssen had +compromised the NSA's interception of communication at the Soviet Embassy in the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020377.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020377.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f298b79a28550d5a665b0ab65b1726418ba4862c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020377.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +225 +CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE +The Consequences for America: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly +[TK] +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020377 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020378.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020378.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f6b303469e2bd085e494284b394abd11318a2f94 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020378.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +226 +END NOTES +Prologue +On The Trail of Snowden +1. "No Such Agency"-The best description of the birth of the NSA can be found in James +Bamford, The Puzzle Palace, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1982, pp. 1-4 +2. "I had written several books..." -- My first book, Inquest: The Warren Commission and +the Establishment of Truth, (Viking Press, New York 1966) examined the failure of the +FBI, Secret Service and CIA to establish the context of the John F. This interest continued on other of my books,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020379.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020379.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2f00aaa949ff1070f6ecb47abfe3cc8863eede2e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020379.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Te-Ping Chen, a journalist for the Asian edition of the Wall Street +Journal, also received some similar replies when she interviewed Mira hotel employees the +day Snowden left the Mira. Te-Ping Chen and Ken Brown, "Snowden's Options for +Refuge Narrow," Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2013 +8. "He sent journalist Glenn Greenwald."- Greenwald's description of his encounters with +Snowden is taken mainly from Chapter I, "Contact his book," and Chapter II "Ten Days in +Hong Kong" of his book. "directly... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020380.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020380.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b8cb738af1eec9329b2718d8a74a623fc057093f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020380.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +"Sitting on his unmade bed..." - George Packer, "The Holder of Secrets," New +Yorker, October 20, 2014 +3. Snowden "Trapped: +Interview with Brian Williams, May 28, 2014, +http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview +4. "When two NSA analysts..."—"Claim US Spy Caught with Secrets." Los Angeles +Mirror, p. 1, August 2, 1960. His posts are quoted by Joe Mullins, "NSA leaker +Ed Snowden's life on Ars Technica," Ars Technica, June 13, 3013. (Hereinafter cited +as Ars Technica report.)... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020381.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020381.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f65c46d038c70885e2ecbb30dd4580106841c412 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020381.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Officer Is Found Guilty in +Leak Tied to Times Reporter," New York Times, January 26, 2015. Although none of +this information appeared in her 2012 biography All In: The Education of Davis +Petraeus, he had violated his oath to protect this information. See +Eli Lake, "Petraeus, Justice and Washington's Culture of Leaks," Bloomberg View, +March 4, 2015 http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-04/petraeus-justice- +and-washington-s-culture-of-leaks +10. In an interview in Moscow..."-Snowden met... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020382.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020382.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4244e4fd6d00d5423f8f4c1069de56efa580e834 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020382.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Lee, "Here Is Everything We +Know About Prism to Date," Washington Post, June 12, 2013 +20. "Edward Snowden is not the "whistleblower" +..."-- "NSA Director Adm. Spy Agency Targets +Changed Behavior after Snowden," Reuters, May 12, 2014 +23. "The vast majority of the electronic documents..." "Snowden Leak Could Cost +Military Billions: Pentagon," NBC News, March 6, 2014 +24. "Has caused grave damage to our national security."-Hearings Before Senate Select +Committee on Intelligence, January 27, 2017,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020383.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020383.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a68fcb9dcd26d4b234c4a6eb5385c4c9315d385a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020383.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +231 +32." Fact and Fable in Psychology," Joseph Jastro, Fact and Fable in Psychology, +Houghton Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1900, pp.202-204 +33. "I haven't shot anybody..." Statement Analysis: "The Last Words of Lee Harvey +Oswald." http://www.statementanalysis.com/lee-harvey-oswald/ +Like Snowden, Oswald was a high school dropout from a broken family who joined an +elite unit of the U.S military but failed to get an honorable discharge, became hostile to +policies of the U.S. government and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020384.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020384.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..df0e23c683d29f6f74db81526e7ce8d599db2cd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020384.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +"Any private contractor..."—Snowden Interviewed by Brian Williams, NBC, +May 28, 2014 (Hereinafter Snowden NBC Interview.) +2. Navy Information Operations Command, "History +of NIOC Hawaii", http://www.public.navy.mil/fcc- +c 10f/niochi/Pages/AboutUs.aspx +3. "Keith Alexander, the four-star general who headed..." - Author's Interview +with Keith Alexander +4. See Jason Leopold, "Inside +Washington's Quest to Bring Down Edward Snowden," Vice, June 4, 2015 +7. "According to Ledgett, the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020385.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020385.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1540895e544da5ab9761d6c99317294f25f7f24f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020385.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +See "The Snowden Saga, Vanity Fair, May +2014 +18. " Snowden had not yet completed his..." - Author's Interview with Source A +19. "FBI faced a dilemma..." -- Author's Interview with a former Justice +Department official with knowledge of the Snowden case, hereinafter Source +20. "Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Kim Philby, See "The Spy Cases," +Appendix A of this book. +22. Jane Mayer "Snowden Calls Russian-Spy Story +"Absurd" in Exclusive Interview," New Yorker, January 21, 2014. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020386.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020386.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d093e4c34aea6c576445e207c47219b7c7b2099 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020386.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +234 +http://www.thejournal.ie/edward-snowden-says-the-us-can-look-at-nude- +photos-2032314-Apr2015 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020386 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020387.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020387.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1615ce64f198ef0fa141ea31d3e8fff81f261206 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020387.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Wired. op. cit +"Lon Snowden, like his father ..."—The best reporting on Snowden's +childhood was done by Suzanne Andrews. ""The Snowden Saga, Vanity Fair, May +"Snowden, alone, stayed home..." — Author's interview with Joyce Kinsey. +4. Leonnig, Jenna Johnson and +Marc Fisher, "Who Is Edward Snowden," Washington Post, June 15, 2013 +6. "To Anime conventions..." -Christopher Johnson, "Chatting about Japan +with Snowden, Japan Times, June 18, 2013. +7. Leonnig, Jenna +Johnson and Marc Fisher, "Who Is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020388.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020388.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02028edbe3d1bb0bad3f08f94542fcc8e4d7bca0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020388.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +236 +"He pointed out from Moscow..."—Snowden interview with Brian Williams. NBC Interview, op.cit. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020389.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020389.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..902513ec434b5d13d62ae37fbe3c14444d30210e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020389.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +"Part of a 12 man team..." -- Author's Interview with former CIA +officer who requested anonymity (Hereinafter Source E.) +3. "The only person there to..." —Mavanee Anderson interview, "Edward +Snowden's Friend Mavanee Anderson Exclusive Interview," +MSNBC,"Last Word," www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQUMdolBWE +4. Warning on Snowden in '09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks, New +York Times, October 10, 2013 +5. Warning on Snowden in '09 Said to Slip Through the Cracks, New +York Times, October 10, 2013 +7.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020390.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020390.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..47494a93b5e5aa6c5874bfd55feb9af70c3ce40a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020390.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"Much of what I saw in Geneva.." -- Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen +Mac Askill, "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance +revelations," Guardian, June 9, 2013 +2. "This "free pass," as ..." — Author's Interview with Tyler Drumheller +3. "His initial job for Dell..." - "The Snowden Saga," Vanity Fair, op,cit. +5. The information about her and +Snowden's travel to Mount Fuji and other places in Japan come from the Little Red +Ninja blog written by Jennie Chamberlin.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020391.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020391.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..74cce76b263927b2680b3e856019d760ca12caed --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020391.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +"They [the NSA] are intent.." -- Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill, +"Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations," +Guardian, June 9, 2013 +15. "None of whom took any action..." -- Andrea Peterson, +, "Snowden: I raised NSA +concerns internally over 10 times before going rogue," Washington Post, March 7, +2014. The NSA's response came from NSA spokesperson, Vanee Vines-Author's +Interview. +16. "US Investigations Services, or USIS..."-- Dion Nissenbaum,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020392.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020392.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a85b01b69c045d9dde2e7d58e9d46bf61a6a1ee9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020392.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"In Hawaii in 2012.."-Author's interview with former Dell executive who +requested anonymity because of company policy about Dell employees discussing +the Snowden case. +2. "Living in paradise..." Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill, +"Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations," +Guardian, June 9, 2013 +3. "I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile," Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, The +Guardian, July 18, 2014.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020393.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020393.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..66f0a7d7c36d7a7425146084e4338b166550c1be --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020393.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"What I came to feel..." -Snowden quoted in "I, Spy: Edward Snowden in +Exile,"Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian, July 18, 2014. +http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower- +interview-transcript +2. "Deputy Director Ledgett explained.." -"The Snowden Saga," Vanity Fair, op. cit +3. "Was still working at Dell..." - "The Snowden Saga," Vanity Fair, op. cit +6 "This 2012 theft was made..."- Author's interview with Michael Hayden +7." "I crossed that... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020394.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020394.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5017b676edaad811716b6a82dede9bd44423fa14 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020394.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +"The group "Anonymous..." - Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, +Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (Verso, New +York), 2014, pp 1-8 +2. Sue Halpern, "In the Depths of the Net," New York Review of Books, +October 8, 2015 +3. "Silk Road, which acted..."-- Homer Jenkins, "The Anti-Hero of Silk +Road." Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2015. "Assange said in an ..." - Michael Hastings, "Julian Assange: The Rolling +Stone Interview," Rolling Stone, January 18, 2012. Fitzpatrick, Privacy for Me +and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020395.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020395.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2e23cbae92dc840499340b4baee226f6b8ce7f60 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020395.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +243 +"The most dangerous man.."--Rolling Stone interview with Jacob +Appelbaum, "Meet the Most Dangerous Man in Cyberspace: The American +Behind Wikileaks, Rolling Stone, December 2,2010 +11. "Appelbaum acted to defeat-..." - George Packer, The Holder of +Secrets, The New Yorker, October 20, 2014 +12. "TOR Stinks..."—Sean Michael Kerner, "Snowden Leaks Show NSA +Targets Tor," E Week, October 4, 2013 +14. "He had been "moonlighting"..." -- Runa Sandvik," What Edward +Snowden said at the Nordic Media... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020396.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020396.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b4a231ba9bc50d50656400b58fbd002fd71bb0c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020396.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +""It wasn't that they put ..." -- Barton Gellman, "Edward Snowden, after +months of NSA revelations, says his mission's accomplished," +Washington Post, December 23, 2013 +2. "The Journalist to whom..." -The description of Snowden's attempts to +contact Glenn Greenwald in December 2012 and January 2013 can be +found in Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide, (Metropolitan Books, New +York, 2014, pp. 7-10 +3. "Up until 2004, Greenwald.." -- Mark Memmott, "He Broke the +NSA Leaks Story, But Just Who Is Glenn... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020397.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020397.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5699ae5868d875d1b9a456873ee9112c8595ede7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020397.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +"Poitras had other impressive credential..." - New School blog, +"Laura Poitras: Secret No Longer," New School News, August 14, +2013 http://blogs.newschool.edu/news/2013/08/laura-poitras-secret- +no-longer/#.VggJhN BzGc +12. +'''I didn't. You chose yourself." -Snowden's emails to Laura +Poitras were extracted from her film CitizenFour and published in +Wired. See Andy Greenberg, "These Are the Emails Snowden Sent +to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks," Wired, October 13, 2014 +(Hereinafter Snowden... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020398.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020398.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9e7a3cdab7cdd12fbd5d0a8f77ced6bfeb318ccc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020398.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"Binney had been a..."—Frontline Interview, "William Binney," PBS. "What you know as Stellar Wind," -- Andy Greenberg, "These Are the +Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks," Wired, +October 13, 2014 +23. "My most trusted confidante..."-- Andy Greenberg, "These Are the +Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks," Wired, +October 13, 2014 +25. "He had Poitras write Barton Gellman..."-The Frontline +Interview, "Barton Gellman," PBS, March 7,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020399.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020399.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..757ccb6ca4b3606ae0a0700861f1e183b3d3fc68 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020399.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +"System for stratifying its data..." —Michael McConnell interview, +Rachael King, "Ex-NSA Chief Details Snowden'S Hiring at Agency, +Booz Allen," Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2014. +3." Snowden applied to Booz..."— Author's interview with Source F +4. "Snowden made no secret..." — Lana Lam. the South China Morning Post, +June 23, 2013 +5. "He targeted my company..." -- Rachael King, "Ex-NSA Chief +Details Snowden's Hiring at Agency, Booz Allen," Wall Street Journal, +February 4, 2014. +6. "Establish... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020400.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020400.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f0343c2ce2924e3763bfa4c7948126475620d886 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020400.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"At this point, Snowden..."—Author's interview with former DIA officer who +requested anonymity. +3. "He had visited Hong Kong...."—Lindsay Mills' blog, op.cit. +4. "According to Albert Ho..."-- Keith Bradsher, "Hasty Exit Started With Pizza +inside a Hong Kong Hideout." New York Times, June 24, 2013. "That whole period was..." - "I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile,"Ewen MacAskill +and Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian, July 18,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020401.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020401.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..00ce1481024f76e68906609ca20b551582a7eeab --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020401.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +No Place to Hide. op.cit. p16-18 +15. "Miss publishing it..." — The description of the Guardian's reaction to +Greenwald's offer of a scoop was reported by Luke Hardy, a Guardian reporter +commissioned by the Guardian editor to write "the Snowden Files," a book that +Oliver Stone bought the film rights from the Guardian for $700,000. See The +Snowden Files. op cit. p.100-115 +16. "Arranged for Micah Lee..." -- Micah Lee, "Ed Snowden taught me to +smuggle secrets past incredible danger." The Intercept,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020402.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020402.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..28c610a684a635a9fe90a892433a547a3aecd5e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020402.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The overseers..." -- Barton Gellman, "Edward Snowden, +after months of NSA revelations, says his mission's accomplished," +Washington Post, December 23, 2013. +2. "On timing, regarding meeting..."-The description of the meetings +with Snowden in Hong Kong, June 3-June 9, is taken from Poitras® +documentary CitizenFour. 2014, The film, hereinafter referred to as +CitizenFour, can be found at: https://thoughtmaybe.com/citizenfour/ +5. "Minutes after meeting, I..."-..." — George Packer, "The Holder of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020403.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020403.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c60c748b67012ee9c7412c04dd17e52089f75048 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020403.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +"Thanks to Russia ..." --Julian Assange, "How 'The +Guardian' Milked Edward Snowden's Story," Newsweek, +April 20, 2015 +2. "Julian Assange had made..." - David Leigh and Luke +Harding, "Julian Assange: the teen hacker who became +insurgent in information war," Guardian, January 30, +2011 +3. "Snowden telephoned Assange..." -- Assange interview +in (London) Sunday Times. Also, "Snowden told me they had abused +Manning..." - Michael Sontheimer, "Spiegel Interview +with Julian Assange," Spiegel Online... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020404.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020404.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb30a6fbdbe1e6b1c0780195a246773a42883612 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020404.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +"Insert an encrypted key..."-..."-- Barton Gellman, +"Code name 'Verax': Snowden, in exchanges with Post +reporter, made clear he knew risk." Washington Post, June +9, 2013 +3. "I can't help him evade..." - Gellman quoted in "The +Snowden Saga, Vanity Fair. op.cit +4."Asked Fidel Narváez..." -- Juan Forero, "Ecuador's +strange journey from embracing Snowden to turning him +away," Washington Post, July 2, 2013 +5. "My only comment is that..." — Lana Lam, "Whistle- +blower Edward Snowden talks to South... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020406.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020406.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0dd67880c0ae4f614a6052b38ce6cdf7073d1ff3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020406.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +"Totality of Snowden's Actions," - Author's interview +with Michael Hayden. Also, "Hayden interview," Meet +The Press, NBC, December 15, 2013 +2. "Whistle blower Bradley Birkenfeld...."-- David +Kocieniewski, "Whistle-Blower Awarded $104 Million by +I.R.S." New York Times, September 11, 2012 +4. "Whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg..."- Martin Arnold, +"Pentagon Papers Charges Are Dismissed," New York +Times, May 11, 1973 +5. "A treasure trove of..." - Christopher Andrews, The Sword +and the Shield (Basic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020407.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020407.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5cfa467f6c994161e2b96acf8975e6d9727dbd7c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020407.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +"The FBI, which was..." - Author's interview with a +Senate Intelligence Committee staff member who +requested anonymity. +12. "Snowden may have carried..." — Author's interview +with Tyler Drumheller. +13. "Absence of evidence is..."- Carl Sagan, Cosmos +(Random House, New York) 1980. "We have many notable cases..." For the cases of +Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, see Appendix A +16. The quote from The Usual +Suspects was adopted by the movie from Charles +Baudelaire's observation, "La plus belle des... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020408.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020408.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8dab65cd523578834697eb28da510ad17836947d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020408.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +"The NSA was actually..."--James Bamford and Tim De +Chant, "Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare, Nova, PBS. Bagley, Spy Wars: +Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games, (Yale University +Press, New Haven) 2008, p. 46. "Hanssen laid down his ….."—Author's interview with +Victor Cherkashin, Also see Victor Cherkashin and +Robert Hanssen in Appendix A +5. Bagley, +Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games, (Yale +University Press, New Haven) 2008, pp. 6-11 See Also, +Anatoli Golitsyn in Appendix A +6. "Wang... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020409.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020409.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..81d94dfe39df30f1d928941a68c2322efb681305 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020409.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +"Looking to capitalize on..." —Transcript of Interview +with General Keith Alexander, Australian Financial +Review, May 8, 2014. +13. Williams, +"NSA leaker Edward Snowden seeks return to U.S., on +his terms," Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2015 +14. "Every facet of Snowden's..."--Janet Reitman, "Snowden +and Greenwald," Rolling Stone, December 4, 2013 +16. "His hosts and they.." --Richard Byrne Reilly, "Former +KGB general: Snowden is cooperating with Russian +intelligence," Venture Beats, May 22, 2014 +17.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020410.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020410.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85b6ecc5c39b8fb3cf74dc01046bddfdb3ffb2e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020410.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +258 +CHAPTER SEVENTEEN +The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing +1. "There's a zero percent..." -- James Risen, +"Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia," +New York Times, October 17, 2013 +2. "The instruction manual ..." --Glenn Greenwald, +"Guardian Journalist: Snowden docs contain +NSA 'blueprint'," USA Today, June 15, 2013 +3. "Keys to the Kingdom..."-Walter Pincus, +"Snowden still holding 'keys to the kingdom'," +Washington Post, December 18m 2013. "Via a Vice magazine..."- Jason Leopold,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020411.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020411.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..22c163256885e15a9d203629919406a366c8e645 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020411.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +"No intelligence service..." - Glenn Greenwald, +"Email exchange between Edward Snowden and +former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey," +Guardian, July 16, 2013 +13. An answer came three..." -- Sophie +Shevardnadze, "Snowden believes he did +everything right' - lawyer Anatoly Kucherena," +RT Television, September 23, 2013 +//www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/snowden-russia- +lawyer-kucherena-214/ +14. "I had all of..."— Author's interview with +Anatoly Kucherena +15. Also, Author's interview with Anatoly +Kucherena +17.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020412.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020412.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b0939c25061af856572d2e52e48b94f984edf583 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020412.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +260 +Made Call to Let Leaker Depart." New York +Times, June 23, 2013 +20 "Both the Chinese and the Russians..." —Morell. +op. cit. p. 284 +21 ."What I can say..." - Snowden Interview, ARD-TV, +January 26, 2014. +https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B95Id3j0M0IrdDA5W +IZ4dllUbjg/preview +22 "She urgently texted Snowden..." -Laura +Poitras, CitizenFour. +23 "Poitras' co-interrogator of Snowden." Jacob +Appelbaum, "Edward Snowden Interview: The NSA +and Its Willing Helpers." Spiegel On Line, July 8, +2013 +24 "There... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020413.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020413.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26df95850e37e2e7ae4c72b6d54f8c1f616b6270 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020413.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +" NSA lost sight of..."-- Adam Entous, Julian E. Scurries to +Shore Up Spying on Russia," Wall Street +Journal, March 24, 2013 +32. "Britain also discovered..."-- Tom Harper, +Richard Kerbaj and Tim Shipman, "British spies +betrayed to Russians and Chinese," Sunday Times +(London) June 14 2015. "Losing some of its capabilities..."--Chris Strohm +and Gopal Ratnam, "NSA Leader Seeks +Openness on Secret Surveillance Orders." +Bloomberg News, June 13, 2013. Also Author's +Interview with a staff member of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020414.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020414.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3253d1e9f902619cf4f32452ea5f2302278f7ea1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020414.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Loiko, "Former Russian +spymaster convicted of treason," Los Angeles Times. "Harold Nicholson in 1996..."— See Harold Nicolson, Appendix A +4. Preparing these "Americans," -- FBI, "Operation Ghost Stories: Inside the +Russian Spy Case." October 31,2011, +https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/october/russian103111/russian10311 +1 +7. "Angleton had pointed out..."—Author's interview with James Jesus +Angleton. +8. "The situation suddenly changed..."-- Bill Gertz, "Counterspies hunt Russian +mole inside... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020415.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020415.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ebcf021d60f8378ede704e5980164c629141e2b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020415.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"Russia had dispatched at least..." —Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, +(Doubleday, New York) 2007, pp.450-451. Also, Walter Pincus, "CIA passed +bogus news to presidents," Washington Post, October 31, 1995 +15. "There are no rivers..."—Michael Hayden interview in Wall Street Journal. Gerald Baker, "Michael Hayden Says U.S. Is Easy Prey for Hackers," Wall +Street Journal June 22, 2015 +16. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020417.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020417.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..382c843495ce61286a9216b2508ce354791d8078 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020417.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +"There are many things..." -- Barton Gellman, "Edward Snowden, after +months of NSA revelations, says his mission's accomplished, " Washington +Post, December 13, 2013 +2. "By 1914, the US Army..." —National Security Agency, Pearl Harbor Review: +The Black Chamber, NSA, 2009 +https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologicheritage/centercrypthistory/pearlha +rbor review/black chamber.shtml +3. "Its sensitive ears catch „"—David Kahn, The Codebreakers (Simon and +Schuster, New York), 1967 p.358 +4. "Expeditions to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020418.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020418.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb64afb76ace67073672798507fcb63ac725218e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020418.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +266 +13. , Rajesh De, the NSA's..."—Rajesh De, "Former NSA Lawyer on 'Harm' of +Edward Snowden's Revelations," Bloomberg, July 27, 2015. +https://bol.bna.com/former-nsa-lawyer-on-harm-of-edward-snowdens- +revelations/ +14. "The attack on Sony..."-- Rob Lever, "Some Experts Still Aren't Convinced +That North Korea Hacked Sony," Business Insider, December 30, 2014 +15. "The Chinese are viewed ..."--General Alexander quoted in: Kelley Vlahos, +"America's Already-Failed Cyber War," The American... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020419.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020419.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..affcee2d91bbef72c10b95b7115a8b1403c66871 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020419.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +"You have private for-profit ..."--James Bamford and Tim De Chant, +"Edward +Snowden on Cyber Warfare." PBS Nova, January 8 2015 +2. "Ames had been a..." - See Aldrich Ames, Appendix A +3. "White House lawyer.."-- Rajesh De, "Former NSA Lawyer on 'Harm' +of Edward Snowden's Revelations," Bloomberg, July 27, 2015. +https://bol.bna.com/former-nsa-lawyer-on-harm-of-edward-snowdens- +revelations/ +7. "North Korea in 1968..." -- John Prados and Jack Cheevers, "USS Pueblo: +LBJ Considered Nuclear Weapons,"... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020420.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020420.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a9fbee69ebd5c5bd87903ebf625d5ae268c5adc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020420.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"A computer system called E-QIP..." -- Joe Davidson, " Federal +background check system shut down because of 'vulnerability'," +Washington Post, June 29, 2015 +14. "This memorandum noted the..." - Author's interview with a former NSA +executive who requested anonymity. "NSA was set back..."-- Rachael King, "Ex-NSA Chief Details Snowden's Hiring +at Agency, Booz Allen," Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2014. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020421.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020421.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f014e65e79b51bbd006dd6eda57f046fca4277dc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020421.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +"The break-up of the..." --Nick Allen, "Soviet break-up was geopolitical disaster, says +Putin," The Telegraph, April 26, 2005 +2. Scurries to Shore Up Spying on Russia," Wall Street Journal, March +24, 2013 +3. "Russian acronym SORM had..."-- Stephen Aftergood, "The Red Web: Russia and the +Internet," FAS, October 5, 2015. https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2015/10/red-web/ +4. "Victor Norris Hamilton..." -- Staff, "American Defector Is Found in Russian Prison," +New York Times, June 4, 1992 +6. "He was... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020422.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020422.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce0e18eac21b5ef84c2da743c889341d20da50e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020422.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"From the 127-page..."-David Larter and Andrew Tilghman, "Military clearance OPM data +breach 'absolute calamity'," Navy Times, June 18, 2015 +15. "It is next to impossible..."--Bruce Schneier quoted in Homer Jenkins, "The Anti-Hero of Silk +Road." Wall Street Journal, June 3,2015 +16. "Under Putin, Russia had..." - Nicole Perroth, "Online Security Experts Link More Breaches +to Russian Government, New York Times, October 28, 2014 +17. "The Silk Road founder..."-- Homer Jenkins, "The Anti-Hero of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020423.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020423.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b5fdaf4214943bb2a8a70e2d831c07f5e1997f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020423.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"The first [false assumption] ..."—Snowden video in Hong Kong +2. "Giving China its first.."--2014 Annual Report to Congress by the U.S.-China Economic and +Security Review Commission, quoted in David Tweed, "China Takes Nuclear Weapons +Undersea Away From Prying Eyes, Bloomberg Business, December 8, 2014 +3. "A vast enterprise in China..."- Nir Kshetri, The Rapidly Transforming Chinese High- +Technology Industry and Market (Chandos Publishing, London) 2008. p.92 +5. "Cyber attack had harvested..." -... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020424.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020424.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..23fff13b22f3b86af34e3dbec82bf76f8f4ee247 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020424.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"The whole key is..." -- Transcript of interview with Snowden in Moscow. "I, Spy: Edward Snowden +in Exile," Ewen MacAskill and Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian, July 18, 2014. +http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp-edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-interview- +transcript. +2. "The purpose of my..." -"I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile," Ewen MacAskill and Alan +Rusbridger, The Guardian, July 18, 2014.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020426.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020426.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..684dab4b94b6519efbf717f625816be226eaca72 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020426.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +274 +CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR +Dinner with Oliver Stone +1. "I had to tune to..." --Stuart Kemp, "Oliver Stone Options Novel by Edward Snowden's +Russian Lawyer," Hollywood Reporter, June 10, 2013 +2. "Before flying to Moscow..."-Author's Interview with Oliver Stone +3. "Oliver Stone Buys Edward Snowden +Russian Lawyer's "Novel" About Asylum-Seeking Whistleblower," Deadline, June 10, +2014 +4. "The only door to..."— Author's email exchange with Lazamir Gotta +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020426 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020427.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020427.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..910711914c91c32eed2907fdf2183f21afdcc182 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020427.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +"The talk about Russia..." -"The NSA was actually..."--James Bamford and Tim De Chant, +"Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare, Nova, PBS. "Izvestia, "a special operation..." — Andrei Gridasov, Igor Yavlyansky and Mary Gorkovskaya +"Secret Services in Moscow with Wikileaks conducted Operation Snowden," Izvestia, June 23, +2013 +3. Cohen, +"Snowden Speaks: A Sneak Peek an Exclusive Interview," The Nation, (website), +October 10, 2014 +4. "Discussed the danger with Assange..."-- Assange interview, (London)... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020428.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020428.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..684355f968b9ce08ffe5ef8b590ce5719d2f6494 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020428.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +276 +CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX +Through the Looking Glass +"There's definitely a deep state..." -- Katrina vanden Heuval and Stephen F. Cohen, +"Snowden Speaks: A Sneak Peek an Exclusive Interview," The Nation, (website), October +10 +2. "According to Cherkashin, Ames..." - Author's interview with Victor Cherkashin +3. Curry, "Ex-intelligence Expert Guilty Of +Espionage, Chicago Tribune, June 6, 1986.Also, see Pelton in Appendix A +5. "Signed a copy of my book..." - Edward Jay Epstein, James Jesus Angleton:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020429.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020429.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..14486a54f4ab4089582f9e5ba2c12025e84202a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020429.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"As for his [Snowden's] communication.." -- Anatoly Kucherena Interview, "Snowden +believes he did everything right," Sophie & Co, RT Television, September 23,2013 +2. "I learned from a Russian researcher..." -- Author's interview with Vassili Sonkine +3. "When I had been investigating..." -Edward Jay Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, +op.cit, pp. 209-240 +4. "It was a rare..." — The vast majority of the 15 Americans defectors to the Soviet Union +in the Cold War, including Joel Barr, Morris and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020430.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020430.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fcb858b58c4fb5df76837d02a2462398b601f3b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020430.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"I had a special level..."-- Edward Snowden and Peter Taylor, "Are you a traitor," +Transcript. BBC Panorama, October 15, 2015 (Aired on BBC October 10, 2015) +5. "In respect to China alone..."-- James Risen, "Snowden Says He Took No Secret +Files to Russia," New York Times, October 17, 2013 +7. "If things went wrong..." -- Edward Snowden and Peter Taylor, "Are you a traitor," +Transcript. "Gellman considered Hong Kong.."-- Barton Gellman, "Code name 'Verax': +Snowden, in exchanges with Post... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020431.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020431.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4cccf1c56309621b75a447bb6800652f427565b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020431.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"The mission's already accomplished..." - Barton Gellman, "Edward Snowden, after +months of NSA revelations, says his mission's accomplished, " Washington Post, +December 13, 2013 +17. "His legal representative in Moscow..." - Sophie Shevardnadze, "Snowden believes +he did everything right' - lawyer Anatoly Kucherena," RT Television, September 23, +2013. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020432.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020432.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae0c4599b72413706c93e13bfecd5a343457e9ce --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020432.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +280 +CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE +The Whistle-Blower Who Became an Espionage Source +1. "If I were providing..." - "I, Spy: Edward Snowden in Exile," Ewen MacAskill and Alan +Rusbridger, the Guardian, July 18, 2014. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/-sp- +edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-interview-transcript +3. "There is no way..."—Author's interview with an intelligence source who requested +anonymity +5. "Pelton, for example, who..." — Author's interview with Victor Cherkashin. +6. June 16,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020433.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020433.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2b12c421d8b0871e34f3817e62f1c8d36723eae0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020433.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"Because of a number of..."--Amy Davidson, "Don't Blame Edward Snowden for the +Paris Attacks," The New Yorker, November 19, 2015 +2. "None of the communications.." -- David Gauthier-Villars, "Paris Attacks Show Cracks in +France's Counterterrorism Effort," Wall Street Journal, November 23, 2015 +3. "Testimony of General Alexander..."- Ellen Nakashima,"Officials: Surveillance +programs foiled more than 50 terrorist plots." Washington Post, June 18, 2013 +4. "To assist furtive Internet users..." --... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020437.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020437.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bd77fca3d7cb06c02d9243d56f5984ee85b1efc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020437.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Richard Kahn [ +4/27/2018 8:25:30 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Will Cohen Cooperate? Tenuous Finances May Provide Crucial Clues +Importance: High +shockingly it appears he has some money in real estate deals... +will Cohen Cooperate? Tenuous Finances May Provide Crucial Clues +2018-04-27 08:00:00.2 GMT +By shahoem vagirip un the talewee since federal agents seized +the files of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal +attorney and fixer, a question has... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020438.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020438.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..071f5c8fed275f528fd3c1a0c690b611936cde44 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020438.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Sean Hannity +Cohen has said in court that he had only three legal +clients during the past year: Broidy, Trump and talk-show host +Sean Hannity. He gave seven others "strategic advice and +business consulting." +Last month Cohen said he borrowed from his home-equity +credit line to make a $130,000 payment in October 2016 to Stormy +Daniels, an adult-film star who says she had sex with Trump. In a Thursday morning appearance on "Fox & Friends," Trump +distanced himself from Cohen, saying he did only "a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020439.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020439.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c2981bd2a3fa341f3a2e633cb319afeaa6af618a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020439.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Park Avenue +one property that may prove harder to extract cash from: +Cohen's palatial Park Avenue home. In late 2015, +Cohens moved +the property into a type of +trust designed to limit tax exposure when +transferring property +The trust structure has tax consequences for typical +mortgages, but those could be dodged if the Cohens took out an +interest-only loan. +the new entity, +taking out a revolving +home-equity line of credit against the property from First +Republic Bank. Fima and Ania Shusterman,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020440.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020440.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f7ea3c6b0b8ad8cdd6bdf4081266b258a7c75b75 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020440.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Steve Bannon +7/22/2018 11:25:42 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Fwd: Re: +Importance: +High +Translation to follow +Begin forwarded message: +From: Benjamin Harnwell < +Date: July 22, 2018 at 4:32:45 PM EDT +To: Steve Bannon I +Subject: Re: +It was that article in La Repubblica which you asked to be translated this afternoon. In Sacratissimo Corde lesu et Purissimo Corde Mariae et Castissimo Corde Ioseph. Benjamin Harnwell +Founder and President of the Board of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020441.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020441.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9c08716c56f9c07d16f310ddbaf95801d964e5c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020441.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +On Jul 22, 2018, at 4:02 PM, Benjamin Harnwell< +wrote: +Bannon the European: He's opening the populist fort in Brussels +The former Trump strategist arrives in Europe with "The Movement". Steve Bannon, 65, the American far-right guru who was +Donald Trump's right-hand man in the White House - but let go last summer following the racist +violence in Charlottesville - is preparing to march on Brussels. Launching, he told the Daily Beast +himself, a new non-profit foundation called The Movement, (Il... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020442.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020442.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..62d64286c402214950e65786b8179bed728479fa --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020442.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +house-oversight-020442 + +paraphrasing the Satan of one of his favorite books, John Milton's Lost Paradise. Hell in this case would +be the dear old Europe and its democratic values. The "army of darkness" is already among us. In Sacratissimo Corde lesu et Purissimo Corde Mariae et Castissimo Corde loseph. Benjamin Harnwell +Founder and President of the Board of Trustees +Dignitatis Humanae Institute +Cell: +Office: +Istituto Dignitatis Humanae +44 Via delle Fornaci +Roma... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020443.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020443.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5a90f8667bbe6a2dd8bade4cc94d4ab4048cce3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020443.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Steve Bannon | +8/27/2018 6:11:26 PM +jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Fw: The 'Deplorables' Called Into Battle Again - WSJ +Importance: +High +Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T +From: Alexandra Preate < +Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:37:29 -0400 +To: Steve Bannon< +Subject: The 'Deplorables' Called Into Battle Again - WSJ +https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-deplorables-called-into-battle-again-1535376353?mod=mhp +The 'Deplorables' Called Into Battle Again +As midterms near, President... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020444.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020444.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..551fbf9a0248355e7e08b7723b47d68c8a8cf573 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020444.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-020444 + +Steve Bannon believes the specter of impeachment will motivate mainstream Republicans as well as core Trump +backers. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press +"This is all grass roots," Mr. "It's 2016 all over again...This is Trump's first re-election." +The political calculus behind such thinking is pretty simple: In 19 months as president, Mr. Meanwhile, as the Labor Day kickoff of the fall campaign approaches, Republicans face a Democratic party whose +activists appear... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020445.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020445.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92108ff2cfb073836304719da00b09ad6de3142f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020445.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-020445 + +And if political advertising is any indication, candidates appear to be embracing both messages with nearly equal fervor. Data compiled by CMAG Kantar Media on all political ads run so far this year show that a pro-Trump message is the +most common element of GOP ads. Mentions of the tax cut Republicans pushed through Congress last year. Seib at jerry.seib@,wsj.com +Alexandra V. 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The views expressed in this publication are solely those of +the participants in the workshop and do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff, +officers, or Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution or the participant's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020450.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020450.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..68b361c0f8c994cef3680ebee535b388500d177f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020450.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Working Group Participants +This report grew out of a series of discussions over the past year and a half at the Hoover Institution, +Sunnylands, and George Washington University in which the following scholars participated: +ROBERT DALY +Woodrow Wilson International +Center for Scholars +ANDREW J. NATHAN +Columbia University +International Associates +MINXIN PEI +LARRY DIAMOND +Claremont McKenna College +Hoover Institution, +Stanford University +ANNE-MARIE BRADY +University of Canterbury, +New Zealand +JEFFREY... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020452.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020452.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7eb03393095a0d58d357a0c66d99cdb0f2fe4ffb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020452.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Acknowledgments +This Working Group was jointly convened by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University +and the Center on US-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. These co-conveners +have also been assisted, financially and logistically, by The Annenberg Foundation Trust +at Sunnylands. We are grateful to each of these institutions for their support of our work, +and to Thomas Gilligan, Director of the Hoover Institution, and Ambassador David Lane, +President of The Annenberg Foundation... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020453.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020453.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..858544ed291cc109f2499907d41563e1d12952e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020453.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +We could not have produced this report without him. We would also like to thank Barbara Arellano and Alison Petersen at the Hoover Institution +Press for their dedicated assistance in producing, editing, and publishing this report, as well +as Laura Chang at the Center on US-China Relations at Asia Society for her assistance in +helping to coordinate the project. Finally, we would like to thank all of the Working Group participants for their generous +contributions of time and effort. None were... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020454.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020454.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3947a6be62ea1d8f8ebc57f30c6dbef5b31defd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020454.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Contents +Policy Principles for Constructive Vigilance +Introduction +ix +1 +SECTION 1 +SECTION 2 +SECTION 3 +SECTION 4 +SECTION 5 +SECTION 6 +SECTION 7 +SECTION 8 +Congress +State and Local Governments +The Chinese American Community +Universities +Think Tanks +Media +Corporations +Technology and Research +APPENDIX I +APPENDIX II +Chinese Influence Operations Bureaucracy +Chinese Influence Activities in Select Countries +Australia +Canada +France +Germany +Japan +New Zealand +Singapore and Asean +United Kingdom +APPENDIX... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020456.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020456.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d5319a71778e3a05b2969096acdb244442bdc9c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020456.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Policy Principles for +Constructive Vigilance +The members of this Working Group seek a productive relationship between China and +the United States. To this end, and in light of growing evidence of China's interference +in various sectors of American government and society, we propose three broad principles +that should serve as the basis for protecting the integrity of American institutions inside the +United States while also protecting basic core American values, norms, and laws.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020457.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020457.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c3427a4cdecd724dece8a146b0fd5c2d964d0ee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020457.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Integrity +Foreign funding can undermine the independence of American institutions, and various +types of coercive and covert activities by China (and other countries) directly contradict +core democratic values and freedoms, which must be protected by institutional vigilance +and effective governance. +• Openness and freedom are fundamental elements of American democracy and +intrinsic strengths of the United States and its way of life. These values must be +protected against corrosive actions by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020458.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020458.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01c1eeb6499de42b3d10dfb36d13b77b30213f4c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020458.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +xi +• All American institutions- governmental and nongovernmental -that deal with +Chinese actors (and other potential sources of inappropriate foreign influence) should +review their oversight and governance practices and codify and exemplify best +standards of practice and due diligence. Reciprocity +American institutions are deflected from their purpose of increasing US-China +understanding, and become distorted as one-way channels of Chinese influence, when they +are denied access to China on a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020460.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020460.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f9a101f3c433852fbd8143aee9baaa8b74a56d01 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020460.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Introduction +For three and a half decades following the end of the Maoist era, China adhered to +Deng Xiaoping's policies of "reform and opening to the outside world" and "peaceful +development." After Deng retired as paramount leader, these principles continued to +guide China's international behavior in the leadership eras of Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. Admonishing Chinese to "keep your heads down and bide your time," these Party leaders +sought to emphasize that China's rapid economic development... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020461.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020461.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2c267958ff067da880f9bfcaf7c7b755d4ef4442 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020461.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +2 +with increased challenges in the diplomatic, economic, and security domains, China's +influence activities have collectively helped throw the crucial relationship between the +People's Republic of China and the United States into a worrisome state of imbalance and +antagonism. (Throughout the report, "China" refers to the Chinese Communist Party and the +government apparatus of the People's Republic of China, and not to Chinese society at large +or the Chinese people as a whole.) Not only are the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020462.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020462.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94e2ea74f7674f2d0007eb40a3ae7c0377882f7f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020462.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Except for Russia, no other country's efforts to influence American politics and society +is as extensive and well-funded as China's. Summary of Findings +This report, written and endorsed by a group of this country's leading China specialists and +students of one-party systems is the result of more than a year of research and represents +an attempt to document the extent of China's expanding influence operations inside the +United States. While many of the +activities described in this report are... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020463.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020463.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6fab6b1e37a52eacb4d264f7d44203be2fd30c40 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020463.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +These +activities complement China's long-standing support of visits to China by members +of Congress and their staffs. In some rare instances China has used private citizens +and/or companies to exploit loopholes in US regulations that prohibit direct foreign +contributions to elections. +• On university campuses, Confucius Institutes (CIs) provide the Chinese government +access to US student bodies. With the direct support +of the Chinese embassy and consulates, Chinese Students and Scholars... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020464.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020464.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fb68fc599c83fd61402cca841e4300a8c2efb24c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020464.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +At the same +time, the Chinese government has severely limited the ability of US and other Western +media outlets to conduct normal news gathering activities within China, much less +to provide news feeds directly to Chinese listeners, viewers, and readers in China, by +limiting and blocking their Chinese-language websites and forbidding distribution of +their output within China itself. +• Among the Chinese American community, China has long sought to influence— +even silence-voices critical of the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020465.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020465.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ced6b53d456da24bb8e2b3d9d93d32352ffec70 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020465.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Sunshine is the best disinfectant against +any manipulation of American entities by outside actors and we should shine as much light +as possible on Chinese influence seeking over organizations and individuals if it is covert, +coercive, or corrupting. Defending the integrity of American +democratic institutions requires standing up for our principles of openness and freedom, +more closely coordinating responses within institutional sectors, and also better informing +both governmental and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020466.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020466.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..33d50d071affce0b9d6c7b567353341f921e1d93 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020466.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +7 +NOTES +1 Malcolm Turnbull, "Speech Introducing the National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and +Foreign Interference) Bill 2017," December 7, 2017, https://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/speech- +introducing-the-national-security-legislation-amendment-espionage-an. +2 See CCP Central Committee Document No. 9: http://www.chinafile.com/document-9-chinafile-translation. +3 https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peoples-republic-china. +4 National Endowment for Democracy,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020468.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020468.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fbae4dfe9541c0f5ff6b1e23705290a3c71ffbc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020468.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +SECTION 1 +Congress +During past presidential administrations, the US Congress has generally served as a brake +on executive initiatives to "engage" China at the expense of other US interests that +members have historically valued, such as maintaining good relations with Taiwan, +interacting with the Tibetan government in exile, and expressing support for human +rights. When President Donald Trump assumed office in 2017 and actively began courting +Chinese President Xi Jinping, first at Mar-a-Lago and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020469.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020469.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..add0bf2062a4aa0dde443f54f5df456fcbda44cc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020469.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +10 +viewed such "engagement" as too often taking place at the expense of more important +interests, the Congress has usually been more wary than the White House of allowing hopes +for a more positive US-China relations to determine our policy. At times, such as during +the passage of the Taiwan Relations Act in 1979 and in reaction to the Chinese crackdown +around Tiananmen Square in 1989, Congress has actively resisted the White House and +sought to turn American policy in directions both the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020470.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020470.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..29c8ea1b103d445a1758ec2a520e0442748da896 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020470.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Although most members of +Congress accepted the Ford administration's cautious approach to China as wise, many were +circumspect about the merits of China's political, economic, social, and value systems, then +experiencing the last turmoil of the Cultural Revolution and the decline and death of Mao +Zedong in 1976. These congressional visits to China seemed to help the Chinese government improve its +standing with Congress and favorably influence American public opinion. One notable feature of this... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020471.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020471.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9ca9c5800019bb63a58ed0d0423fff3d51ff2864 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020471.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +12 +Influence Efforts after Establishing Official Relations, 1979-1988 +As the Carter administration began moving toward full diplomatic recognition of the +PRC, it withheld many of the details about its plans from Congress. The +United States had already dropped recognition of Taiwan at the United Nations, and now +many in Congress worried that the United States would move to completely abandon the +island. In response, Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act in 1979, which underlined +the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020472.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020472.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f185aec6a8e35bd125a99ba606cf8b24cdb3467 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020472.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +13 +The staff delegation trips to China were welcomed and sought after by congressional staff +and congressional support agency personnel, mainly from the Congressional Research +Service of the Library of Congress, which had a growing interest in China and the issues +it posed for US policy. Among them are the Washington, DC-based US-Asia Institute +(USAI), which has played a leading role in managing the congressional staff delegations +side since 1985.3 The National Committee on US-China Relations... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020473.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020473.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6eec92fd26f8f4798655f2308066bf78765a4b13 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020473.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +One trip in +December 1989 featured very heated debates with Chinese officials, especially after it +was announced that National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of +State Lawrence Eagleburger were also in Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders and that +the two had made an earlier secret trip in July, soon after the crackdown. As US-China relations continued during a tumultuous post-Tiananmen crackdown period, +Congress played important roles on such key issues as the debate... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020474.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020474.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d04c83ce574c2903ef558aeeb3e3ee38c8cfc290 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020474.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In one instance, after a visit to China supported by CAIFC, an +American congressional official was asked by two employees at CAIFC who facilitated his +trip to host them during a return visit to Washington. Current Era +Tensions in US-China relations subsided after the terrorist attack on America in September +2001 and subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq preoccupied the Bush administration +and Congress. In addition to the work of the US-Asia +Institute, those organizing and facilitating staff... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020475.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020475.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2dce39310d660755e0449b3110d1c70d748323eb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020475.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +16 +of China); the China Working Group (led by members supportive of closer engagement +with China); and the Senate China Working Group (led by members supportive of closer +relations). Earlier legislation had established the Congressional-Executive Commission +on China, focused on human rights conditions in China (a perennial negative aspect +in US-China relations), and the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, +which was known for its annual report listing a variety of developments in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020476.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020476.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..695195fc9ffa57c2c808a81ab87a7bebb5250652 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020476.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Promote Transparency +Follow-on congressional oversight will go far toward educating the Congress, the media, +and the public about these important topics. Promote Integrity +Congress needs also to distinguish between issues that present a real threat to the United +States, such as Chinese espionage and Chinese-directed monitoring of Chinese students +on US campuses, and institutions such as Confucius Institutes, which, as we have noted +elsewhere in this report, can be better regulated by... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020477.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020477.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6a207a8d98f778d8d4bdd692598fea1404098291 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020477.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +"China's Overseas United Front Work." US-China Economic and Security Review +Commission. August 24, 2018. https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/China%27s%20 +Overseas%20United%20Front%20Work%20-%20Background%20and%20Implications%20for%20USfinal +7 Information from a participant on one trip to China arranged by Jimmy Wong. +8 Mattis, Peter. "Contrasting China and Russia's Influence Operations." War on the Rocks. January... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020478.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020478.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4eb1ba554899766a20fbef2320a0f270f849dce2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020478.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +SECTION 2 +State and Local Governments +In late 2017, an American city in the mid-Atlantic region was invited to form a sister +city relationship with a town in southern China. In a briefing, an American China expert told the local sister city committee that there +was no reason not to explore a partnership, provided the American side had defined +goals and was aware of Beijing's increasingly repressive domestic policies, its growing +suspicions of US influence, and its well-funded efforts to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020479.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020479.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8efe0f6438de5f2a75f851723454b53b2e8cb3f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020479.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"We Have Friends All Over the World" +China pursues sister city relationships under an organization called the Chinese +People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which is part of China's +united front bureaucratic structure (See Appendix: Chinese Influence Operations +Bureaucracy) that aims to strengthen the rule of the Chinese Communist Party and +increase China's influence overseas. With its long-standing Maoist slogan, "We Have +Friends All Over the World," the association had... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020480.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020480.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cbd506eea8f0a12c5aa0d418d48d39bb267a352c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020480.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +For China, all exchanges have a political character and +hopefully a political harvest. Third, it is important for local officials to understand that local American "exchange" +companies that bring Chinese delegations to the United States and promote +professional interactions between the United States and China all depend on official +PRC sanction and have received approval to receive Chinese delegations. They, too, are subject to rules made by the Chinese Communist Party, its united... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020481.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020481.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e9ceb5f30370acdff696ac3ea13b82f7b13cb010 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020481.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Following the establishment of the pioneering Washington State China +Relations Council in 1979,2 centers for joint innovation and entrepreneurship, such as +the Michigan China Innovation Center and the Maryland China Business Council +were set up in nearly every state. Americans of Mainland, Taiwanese, and +Hong Kong ancestry have founded cultural centers like the Asia Institute-Crane House +in Louisville, Kentucky, and the China Institute in New York? American Communities as Targets +While American... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020482.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020482.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9544e1792069eaaae07100c68b0fd8a58ea468cb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020482.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +23 +affiliates. 12 These and other organizations maintain close ties to China's diplomatic +missions in the United States and are often in contact with training or "cultural +exchange" companies that bring delegations of PRC experts and Communist Party +members to US cities and states for so-called study tours. US and Chinese groups promoting exchanges and investment have often been a +valuable resource for American local leaders-see, for example, the Virginia Museum of +Fine Arts annual China Festl3... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020483.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020483.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..055e91eb275814b7a8667114bfa470416fa426d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020483.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Garcetti stated that Los +Angeles and China "have closely integrated economies, closely integrated cultures and +closely integrated geography. ... We hope to be the leading Chinese city in America +for investment, tourism and students."17 +Sometimes federalism, in the form of local leaders' independent China policies, +is a good thing and may, during times of upheaval in Washington, DC, help to +offset unwise national policies. But if US-China relations continue on their current +downward trajectory,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020484.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020484.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0810c575846be49ff2c7ece431ea531c9764e34b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020484.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +25 +practices for cooperating with China in ways that do not undermine national +interests should be a regular topic at annual meetings. +• Meet with stakeholders across sectors-local leaders of industry, academia, +the arts, religious groups, Chinese American organizations, and professional +associations- to discuss issues emerging from cooperation with China, because a +community-wide approach is required. +• Celebrate successes and share best practices. In the era of US-China competition, +there is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020485.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020485.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9c03558db5a7a6ae1e7e876299283b8f9a8929cb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020485.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +They should also check lists of funders and organizations against lists of +known United Front agencies and registered foreign agents. +• Not treat other stakeholders-other countries, Taiwan, or companies-in a +prejudiced manner to win favor in Beijing. NOTES +1 As promised in the referenced sister cities agreement. +2 Washington State China Relations Council. https://www.wscrc.org. +3 Michigan-China Innovation Center. https://www.michiganchina.org. +4 Maryland-China Business Council.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020486.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020486.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7cf06c41f81355e74482ac6502b3b3f6b446c128 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020486.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +"Holidays for All: Asian Students Ask for a Day Off on Lunar New Year." Washington +Post. "Chinese Continue to Eye SC for Investment." Upstate Business Journal. "How a Bizarre $300M 'Chinatown' Scandal Played Out in Ypsilanti, Beijing, and Wayne +State." Detroit Metro Times. Mayor Vows to Strengthen China Ties Despite Trade War Fears." Financial Times. "Chinese Reversing Big US Real Estate Buying Spree That Had Helped Boost Prices." Wall +Street Journal. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020488.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020488.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1d6ca3f8cba36cafc01c182bb82973b1ad508012 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020488.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +SECTION 3 +The Chinese American Community +Chinese Americans have made essential contributions to almost every aspect of American +life for over a century. Although they form a vital strand in the social fabric of the United +States, Beijing also views Chinese Americans as members of a worldwide Chinese diaspora +that, whatever the actual citizenship of individuals may be, presumes them to retain +not only an interest in the welfare of China but also a loosely defined cultural, and even +political,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020489.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020489.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72eea5c65f1e4d0a68df6c0d77fbb445905fc5b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020489.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +30 +Origins and Structure +From the 1950s to the 1970s, when the United States maintained an alliance with the +regime of Chiang Kai-shek on Taiwan, pro-PRC organizations faced challenges gaining +traction in the United States. This antagonistic state +of affairs began to change after President Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972.' On +February 24, 1973, more than forty Chinese on the East Coast, most of them immigrants +from Taiwan, established the Washington Association to Promote China... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020490.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020490.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7b764646ac173728fd0efa4d9984279bd10ba3b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020490.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +31 +In China, all of the organizations involved in outreach to the overseas Chinese community +are led by senior members of the Chinese Communist Party. Sun Chunlan, the former +head of the United Front Work Department, is listed as the president of the China Overseas +Friendship Association and the executive vice president of the China Council to Promote +Peaceful Reunification. The head of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, Qiu Yuanping, +also leads the China Overseas Exchange Association. The... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020491.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020491.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7be5e1de06a2969a97af526b7a2024bab8e7e348 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020491.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +32 +historical connections and responsibilities as "sons and daughters of the Yellow Emperor" +to support the PRC's goals and the "China Dream." As Xi Jinping described it in a 2014 +speech to the Seventh Conference of Overseas Chinese Associations, "The Rejuvenation of +the Chinese Nation is a Dream shared by all Chinese" [emphasis added]. In January 2018, +Politburo member and former state counselor and foreign minister Yang Jiechi made this +presumption even clearer when he called upon the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020492.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020492.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..467376a7a4407c7e2970ca61fce86272c12fc0d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020492.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The president of the United Fujianese American +Association (#E(##4Ft) told reporters: "I have received quite a few letters of appointment +on previous occasions, but none for which I have felt such deep significance as the one +today. It's a heavy responsibility."14 +Peaceful Reunification Councils +A key goal of PRC overseas activities is to convince, and sometimes pressure, Chinese in +the United States to accept that the PRC government in Beijing is the sole representative +of China and Chinese,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020493.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020493.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0987ad756d7d514456647e50d7586defd48ce3b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020493.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +34 +Sing, one of San Francisco's six major community organizations representing Chinese +immigrants, became the first major Chinese group to fly the flag of the PRC on its building. Then a second Tong declared its fealty to Beijing, and a competition broke out between the +PRC and Taiwan in San Francisco's Chinatown to see which side could fly the most flags. The value of these associations to Beijing can be seen in this +example: When China's president Xi Jinping visited the United States in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020494.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020494.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..896424df2caae41b8f15042105ca88142e36c193 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020494.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Members of the CPPCC are expected to write reports about how their activities have +aligned with China's interests and to detail their work on China's behalf24 The potential +exploitation of Chinese American members in this body by the Chinese government not +only risks harming the interests of the United States but also has the potential to harm the +security, reputation, and welfare of these Chinese Americans. A similar quandary could present itself to those Chinese Americans who have chosen +to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020495.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020495.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eaf42eadb1fd2f8ce9cab338d21804e9af613514 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020495.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +36 +While the US government needs to adopt a no-tolerance policy toward attempts by Chinese +security forces to travel to the United States to secretly harass, manipulate, intimidate, and +monitor China's perceived enemies in the United States, the best antidote to such intrusion +is for federal and local governments to do more to strengthen ties to Chinese American +communities and to give greater visibility into the various inducements and pressures +Beijing exerts on these communities. This would... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020496.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020496.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1ea84d3cac0bec4c5cd644f267451a806fd5e1c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020496.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +37 +'100,000 Strong Foundation': Education or Indoctrination?" Foreign Policy Association. May 27, 2016. https:// +foreignpolicyblogs.com/2016/05/27/florence-fangs-foundation-china-education-indoctrination. +2 www.chinaqw.com/node2/node2796/node2829/node3243/userobject6ai5003.html. +3 See the United Front Work Department of the CCP Central Committee. www.zytzb.gov.cn/html/index.html. +4 The following US chapters of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification +carry some... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020497.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020497.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e4e11fda86b11bd49b045deed9d51c22da4e9e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020497.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +38 +20 The Chinese embassy also targets prominent Chinese Americans through the Committee of 100, +an organization of the most elite Chinese Americans in the United States. Committee members report +significant pressure from the Chinese consulate on committee members to toe the Party line. Some +prominent Committee members are openly sympathetic to the goals of the Chinese Communist Party. One +of them is George Koo, who in addition to serving in a senior position on the committee is also listed as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020498.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020498.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..392bc94e654f07aa2d4805d7316540442ba41862 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020498.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +SECTION 4 +Universities +American universities have long played a leading role in relations between the United +States and China. Ever since the Carter administration first explored the possibility +with Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese counterparts of sending Chinese students to +the United States in 1977-78,1 PRC government authorities (like their Republican-era +predecessors) have seen American universities as integral to China's economic and +scientific development. For the first two decades after... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020499.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020499.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02b13997ab736362f797b37800c9785897c8a97d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020499.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +40 +For their part, American universities and US scholars have also engaged in China during +this period, although in far fewer-but not insignificant-numbers. (For example, in +2015-2016, 11,688 American students and scholars were studying in China.) For those +in the field of Chinese studies, it is de rigueur to study and do research in Chinese +universities. Some US universities-notably Johns Hopkins School +of Advanced International Studies (Hopkins-Nanjing Center), New York... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020500.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020500.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..452f88b1778e554d30356d09dbd0e546847db088 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020500.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +41 +Confucius Institutes +One of the most controversial aspects of the whole US-China educational exchange +is the Confucius Institutes (CI), of which there are now 110 (plus 501 Confucius +Classrooms in secondary schools) across the United States. ® For secondary schools and +colleges that have no or little other coverage of China on campus, CIs are an important +resource. Sponsored by the Hanban, an organization directly under the Ministry of +Education in Beijing, but also with ties to the External... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020501.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020501.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d90f9ec5757e1c590d8386891a009b67352cf758 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020501.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +42 +state, stating in a letter addressed to their state's universities that these organizations +"are a threat to our nation's security by serving as a platform for China's intelligence +collection and political agenda." They added that, "We have a responsibility to uphold +our American values of free expression, and to do whatever is necessary to counter any +behavior that poses a threat to our democracy." The Texas A&M system complied with +this request by ordering the closure of all CIs.12 Then,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020502.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020502.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..703ed96ad2edc07df09af33b99863afdca964d84 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020502.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +43 +CIs in the mainstream Chinese studies curricula on US campuses to date. (See below +for our recommendations concerning CIs.) +Chinese Students and Scholars Associations +Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSA) on American campuses maintain +regular contact with China's diplomatic missions in the US. Even when these contacts +are purely for cultural purposes, the CSSA provides a ready channel or entry point +for the political departments of China's embassy and consulates in the US to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020503.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020503.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8fb0c89a2243b8b044a249648513aaa5805642e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020503.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +44 +the Chinese government retaliated by banning students and scholars with funding from +the Chinese government's China Scholarship Council from attending UCSD. Academic authorities at one Washington, +DC, university were even warned by the Chinese embassy that if an event concerning +Xinjiang went ahead, they risked losing their Confucius Institute. This issue has +become more serious over the past several years, as the political environment in China +has tightened and Chinese students widely fear... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020504.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020504.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d211ad6e875306dce5a09c81b615af9cce1c1e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020504.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Indeed, since 2011, +Chinese sources have participated in at least 1,186 donations or contracts worth more +than $426 million to seventy-seven American universities, according to disclosures +made to the US Department of Education, making China the fifth most active country +by number of gifts, and fourth, behind Qatar, England, and Saudi Arabia, in total +monetary value of gifts. (These disclosures are only required of universities that accept +federal aid, and the figures also include funds from... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020505.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020505.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c9bd5e0f8c3917efbdec62f6f242163a6b62573f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020505.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +CUSEF undertakes a range of programs aimed at Americans that can accurately be +described as "influence-seeking activities"; as such, it has registered in the United +States under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). Its lobbying activities include +sponsoring all-expense-paid tours of China for delegations composed of what the +foundation's website refers to as "thought leaders," including journalists and editors, +think-tank specialists, and city and state officials.32 CUSEF has not often... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020506.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020506.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..569f6498c4bbc2c0d678f1213d761c782328574e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020506.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Pressure on University Administrations +There are a large number of successful exchange programs between American and +Chinese universities. Three US universities have developed campuses in China (Johns +Hopkins, Duke, NYU), more than one hundred universities participate in cooperative- +education programs in China, and countless US faculty members participate in +collaborative projects with Chinese colleagues (principally in the sciences). Since +2017, foreign university collaborative institutions... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020507.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020507.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e685f023e3464f23452172c87949dd2bc683d84c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020507.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +48 +Such cases establish a worrying precedent of Chinese intrusion into American +academic life. The message from China to US universities is clear: Do not transgress the +political no-go zones of the Chinese Communist Party or government, or you will pay +a price. Some American faculty members report troubling conversations with +university administrators who continue to view Chinese students as such a lucrative +revenue stream that it should not be endangered by "needlessly irritating... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020508.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020508.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3321e57b74f111cfbc95fecb23a2a452e22de4bf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020508.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +49 +• Attempts to control the agendas, participant name lists, what is written, and +what is said at joint scholarly conferences held in China, and now sometimes +even in the United States. (A recent technique is to require that a talk or paper +by an American participant in a Chinese organized event be handed over to the +organizing group for vetting well before the event itself, so a participant can be +disinvited, if necessary.) +• Restriction of internet and email communications when in China. +•... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020509.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020509.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..177c992f6919c94fa7f48b209290653f3fd48114 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020509.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +50 +Conclusion and Recommendations +US-China academic exchanges are valuable to both China and the United States and +should be maintained and developed. However, in doing so, universities must be alert +to the risks of engaging with the Chinese government, institutions, and funders and +be proactive in applying a higher level of due diligence and vigilance as a defense of +the core principle of academic freedom, especially when conflicts take place at home +in their own universities. Promote... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020510.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020510.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8cdf88d5ad6d6d974572c1fdc57a2d029dac5906 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020510.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Above all, they must insist that the terms of each gift +impose no restrictions on academic freedom. The activities of all chairs, centers, +and projects funded by Chinese support need to be fully transparent and supervised +by independent faculty committees and university administrators, who must bear +in mind that even when a joint project, research grant, or gift has undergone due +diligence and has no explicit or evident strings attached, it can still produce a natural +sense of obligation... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020511.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020511.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..92d39181d0c3dc3f9e701c7129169eb1782801ac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020511.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +52 +Promote Integrity +Be Alert to Risks The primary risk is of inappropriate influence over admissions, +course content, and program activities stemming from the influence of Chinese +government-linked donors, diplomatic missions, student groups, and institutions. They have dealt with political quid pro quos from donors from South Korea, Taiwan, +Japan, Israel, Russia, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and other countries in the past and +currently, and American universities have long learned how to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020512.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020512.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d2b6779457f850006252e7c99bf18393ac48bc44 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020512.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Promote Reciprocity +The academic community nationwide should work toward a common set of principles +and practices for protecting academic freedom and promote greater reciprocity. US universities should not only work together but they should also work with other +universities around the world to develop a "Code of Conduct" for acceptable and +unacceptable practices in academic exchanges with Chinese institutions and funders. +(The section on think tanks in this section recommends similar measures.)... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020513.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020513.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3733e356ebd28367f3d50e1a0975a2bd606220ea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020513.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +54 +6 "Destinations." Institute of International Education. 2017. https://www.iie.org/Research-and-Insights +/Open-Doors/Data/US-Study-Abroad/Destinations. +7 A particularly useful survey of examples of China's interference on US campuses can be found in Lloyd- +Damnjanovic, Anastasya. A Preliminary Study of PRC Political Influence and Interference Activities in American +Higher Education. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Kissinger Institute +on China and the United... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020514.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020514.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fdd9e618974006fd857cced0a6428c97916c7da6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020514.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"Chinese Student in US Is Caught in Confrontation." New York Times. "Tensions Rise as Chinese Government's Influence Infiltrates Aussie Universities." +News.com.au. September 1, 2017. http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy +/tensions-rise-as-chinese-governments-influence-infiltrates-aussie-universities/news-story/e7768b0bblf5 +9537608884527387372. +25 For example, to cite cases, in the last few years Wang Jianlin from Wanda is reported to have +personally pledged substantial... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020515.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020515.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d2445ef4820d7c74e00ae0e197fdcb9cd0eed738 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020515.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier." New York Review of Books. April 11, 2002. +http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2002/04/11/china-the-anaconda-in-the-chandelier. +42 See Tiffert, Glenn. "Peering Down the Memory Hole: History, Censorship and the Digital Turn." +August 21, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/r/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/08/23/Editorial +-Opinion/Graphics/Tiffert-Peeringdownthememoryhole2017.pdf. +43 "Chinese companies are buying up cash-strapped US colleges." Bloomberg. "Many... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020516.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020516.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb7f599ced6ad6f6898636b409673018212930c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020516.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +SECTION 5 +Think Tanks +Think tanks play an unparalleled role in shaping American public opinion, media +narratives, and US government policy. For this reason, they are high-value targets for +lobbying and influence activities by foreign governments and nongovernmental actors, +including those from the People's Republic of China. Think tanks in the United States date to the early twentieth century, when industrial +capital and private philanthropy (led by the likes of Andrew Carnegie, John D. Most of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020517.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020517.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6f02d4706e9ced1434d77e748da8d9af640bdf6f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020517.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The second role is to influence government policy. The fourth role is to provide personnel to go into government service for fixed periods +of time through the famous American "revolving door," whereby think tanks become +"governments in waiting" for ex- and would-be officials until just after an election, +when there is usually a large-scale turnover of personnel in Washington as each new +administration is formed. In American think tanks, selection of general research topics can be influenced... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020518.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020518.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2cbbc03aac715db8c3902c164b2df719259a9418 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020518.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +59 +recognized China experts (with the exception of one who is more broadly an Asia +expert but has extensive experience with China-related projects) who have served as +directors of programs or centers in their respective institutions. One directs a think tank that is partially supported by Chinese +government funds. China has become a priority field for US think tanks concerned with international +relations, and most now have staff members (often several) devoted to researching and +publishing on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020519.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020519.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..84524e828086e31342c02c31d0af06a5f16b9f38 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020519.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +60 +that he had "moved away from Track 2 because China does not have much to say +beyond the Xi Catechism. Even in private conversations, we are not getting anything +interesting." And yet another indicated that he no longer participates in many joint +events because they need to be "framed in a way to fit the Chinese narrative, including +the speakers, agenda, topics and writing." Achieving true candor in such dialogues +with the Chinese side has long been difficult, as Chinese interlocutors... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020520.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020520.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7fae63e4f73946e19278614d44eff5efb6224b50 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020520.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +61 +Since 2010, American (and other foreign) researchers have encountered a +progressively more restrictive research environment in China. The registration and information +requirements of the 2017 Law on the Management of Foreign NGOs is part of the +problem, she believes, by severely constraining opportunities to conduct joint +projects and research in China. At the same time, Chinese researchers working in the US are able +to schedule appointments easily with their American counterparts and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020521.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020521.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a79754c12d2c72f755378b59ea4e8af67474b83e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020521.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Chinese Outreach to US Think Tanks +Chinese outreach to American think tanks takes several forms, including via embassy +and consular officials, Chinese think-tank scholars, and representatives of China's +state-run media. Embassy and Consular Officials +Chinese embassy and consular officials meet frequently with many (but not all) of +the interviewees. On the one hand, they took her to lunch and +expressed "concern with her mind set" indicating that she just "just do [es] not +understand the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020522.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020522.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..020d2d6bc8a98041369d6d04471bc1a7d3eda484 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020522.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +63 +a delegation from Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) —but again there were +no discernible consequences. In a separate case, a senior Chinese Ministry of Foreign +Affairs official warned that a particular interactive website focusing on Chinese +security issues was "anti-China." In response, the think tank invited contributions by +a prominent Chinese think-tank scholar: "The content of the website didn't change, +but the official didn't complain again." In another instance, the Chinese... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020523.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020523.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b7b477a1f60f87672333dffd09a9a00cf655ca8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020523.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The Chinese Institute of Contemporary +International Relations and the University of International Relations, both of which +have links to the Ministry of State Security (MSS), host conferences on US-China +relations and/or Track 2 dialogues. So do the Foreign Ministry-affiliated China +Institute of International Studies, Chinese People's Institute for Foreign Affairs, +and the China Foreign Affairs University. The +Center for China and Globalization is another such "independent" think tank,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020524.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020524.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..86e395a191220dcadf7ef1ee8196370bdaf4c07c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020524.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +One analyst noted that +former Hong Kong chief executive C.H. Tung's and Fu's relationships with US think- +tank scholars and presidents provide them with frequent opportunities to speak before +large public audiences at prestigious American venues and to advance an official +Chinese narrative while gaining a certain added legitimacy at home. Chinese president Xi Jinping has also encouraged Chinese think tanks to "go +global" — establishing a presence within the United States and other countries... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020525.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020525.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..25cba71be59599433738254236884de3a81f7985 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020525.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +More recently, Chinese publishing entrepreneur Zhou Zhixing has established the +US-China New Perspectives Foundation, with offices in both Los Angeles and +Washington, DC. It is likely that more such think tanks initiated with or without formal Chinese +government support will follow in the United States. Think-Tank Funding +Different US think tanks have different funding models. At least one type (Federally +Funded Research and Development Centers, or FFRDCs) is funded entirely by the +US... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020526.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020526.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f3d19609c06156db0a982c9c27f6720f1fa29027 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020526.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Tung and his China-US Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) have emerged as a +leading funding source for several think tanks, providing financial assistance for a +variety of projects ranging from supporting book research and writing, to funding +collaborative projects, to promoting exchanges. As one analyst noted, "C.H. is a special figure +because he is half Hong Kong and half PRC." Another commented that he currently +has the potential to undertake a joint project with C.H. Tung as an "open united front... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020527.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020527.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c6cf9bfec3aecbd9753406f39324350c301ea24 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020527.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +68 +Taiwan's TECRO also supports work at several think tanks. In rare cases—because one +usually excludes the other-US think tanks end up accepting funds from both Taiwan +and mainland China sources. Visa Access +Most American scholars consider travel to China an important element of their ability +to do their job-attending conferences, participating in delegations, and undertaking +independent research. One US think-tank scholar, a Chinese national, travels to China on a Chinese passport. One senior... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020528.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020528.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6468c7611c10351b03a8e108818a4d04d8c20858 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020528.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +69 +a junior researcher was told not to list the think tank as her place of employment +on her visa application or it might be rejected. (To avoid this scenario, the senior +researcher reached out to a Chinese official to pave the way and the visa was issued.) +In another instance, a visa expediter was banned from doing business with the +Chinese embassy after it informed a think tank that it had landed on a list making +it difficult to get visas. A senior Chinese official told one think-tank analyst... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020529.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020529.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8dd700174694608400c772d0e511b27d9c223e20 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020529.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +70 +increasingly flood public events put on by US think tanks in Washington, using the +events as press conferences and to pose leading questions. While Western reporters are +not immune to this type of behavior, the Chinese media undertake such distortions +in a far more systematic manner, with a pointed political agenda that is usually +determined by the government's current political "line." +With this in mind, US think tank analysts have developed a varied set of approaches +to their interactions... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020530.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020530.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7f0996bd34928503c3a90b136d78a073f91cc89f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020530.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Several +analysts noted that they have heard that their articles and reports have been translated +into Chinese in neibu (internal circulation) channels for consumption by think tanks +and government officials. Another +scholar reported that a Chinese think tank at one point claimed she was one of its +fellows and posted bogus content on its website that it alleged she had written. While some of the think-tank scholars interviewed have had their books translated +into Chinese by mainland presses,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020531.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020531.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f6355ec999b9ad652ce58bad38c363176ad9c1f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020531.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +72 +consulting, noted, "Access to China is my livelihood." At the same time, he argues, +"I never say anything contrary to my views, but I write in a way that is less shrill." +Another scholar noted, "I don't self-censor, but there is no need to launch a polemic +every day of the week ... polemics get your visa cut off. China's greatest power is +the power of visa control." A third commented, "I don't censor the substance, but +I may modulate what I say." He argued that he sometimes indulges the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020532.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020532.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2b1b99994a5934731d218b189845ceab40177c5b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020532.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +73 +Pressure from Think-Tank Boards or Outside Influencers +Interaction between think-tank analysts and the members of their institution's boards +of trustees varies significantly. In one case, a prominent former board +member complained to the head of the think tank about an article that was "too tough" +on China. In +another case, a board member tried to pressure a think-tank president to avoid hosting +the Dalai Lama, but failed. One scholar +indicated that his board is very involved and has lately... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020533.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020533.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d1395d5c377fb35bc8a9177599b181305cd6bf45 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020533.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +74 +Broader Concerns +Think-tank analysts voiced a range of concerns around the issue of Chinese +influence-seeking activities in the United States. One is the deliberate effort to manage +US perceptions and to frame issues in ways that are favorable to the Chinese +Communist Party. As one analyst noted, "This requires pushback, which is tough work." +While many believed that they could adequately defend themselves against efforts to +influence them, noting as one did that the "the general capacity of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020534.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020534.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a8fa8c8b624414a3440615cce5962580f398801b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020534.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +75 +Another analyst noted that we need "a granular view on issues of sharp power." +He pointed in particular to Confucius Institutes, arguing that he would not accept +Confucius Institute-sponsored research, but was fine with language training, although +it would be better to get them off campuses. He laughed at the idea that they were +"effective instruments of Chinese propaganda." Along these lines, a few individuals +indicated that they were less concerned about Chinese influence in the social... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020535.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020535.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d749e373ef2ab96480e0ba276dc44a4c9dcdbf5e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020535.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +76 +have also bankrolled a limited number of American think-tank activities. However, +American think tanks with centers in China have actively engaged in fund-raising +from mainland Chinese sources. With only a few exceptions, American think-tank +analysts do not foresee that Chinese money will become a significant factor in their +work at home any time soon, although because of endemic funding shortages at most +nonprofits, worries about reliance on Chinese money are not unfounded. Chinese media... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020536.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020536.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e5fc8143e2fc5232b7918305baf031d188d0c95e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020536.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +77 +Promote Transparency +• Think tanks should -in partnership with universities-jointly and regularly +produce summaries of difficulties in China-related research (access to regions, +agencies, persons, visas, etc.) and make these available to each other and to +US officials. The latter, in turn, should be mindful of the reciprocal nature of +think-tank work and how the inability of American scholars to secure meetings +with Chinese officials and scholars when Chinese scholars are afforded... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020537.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020537.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..036b22d93488e52e62acbea6766cff1335f362cf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020537.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +78 +• The US government should not unilaterally grant Chinese think-tank or university +scholars ten-year visas, as it has been doing, without exacting across-the-board +reciprocal treatment for US think-tank and university scholars. At the same time, +the US government should also advocate consistently on behalf of US think-tank +and university scholars who have been barred from visiting China. As a +democratic society, we should tolerate no infringements-overt or covert-on our +freedom of speech and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020538.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020538.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a9a2596ac85c73b9a6cd7064c041cf88aa8178f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020538.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +SECTION 6 +Media +When the Xinhua News Agency leased a massive sign in Times Square in 2011 and then +agreed to a twenty-year lease for a new US headquarters on the top floor of a Broadway +skyscraper, it was clear that, as analyst He Qinglian put it, +, "The Chinese have arrived."1 +Xinhua's foray into Manhattan was followed by a website of the People's Daily, the +mouthpiece of the Communist Party, which set up shop in the Empire State Building? The Chinese +government's campaign to "grab the right... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020539.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020539.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0de85685dc9dd56706b41f367b7c0baaf33997f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020539.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +80 +and comprehensive China to the world, and raise the country's soft power and the +influence of Chinese culture."6 External propaganda work has long been an important +foreign policy instrument for the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic +of China, but under Xi it has become a top priority of China's party-state. During the 1950s, Communist China used organizations such as the China News +Service, a successor to the Party's International News Agency (founded in 1938), to +appeal to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020540.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020540.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6100b7f43b88861d3f93670d83d6d8d00b6e2e2c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020540.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +81 +From 1980, Beijing added to its stable of foreign-facing propaganda publications-such +as Beijing Review, China Reconstructs, and China Pictorial-by starting or reopening +more than twenty periodicals, including the English-language China Daily, the overseas +edition of the People's Daily, the overseas edition of Outlook (#), and the Voice of China +(1#). Before 1982, the state-run +Xinhua News Agency had focused almost solely on providing news to domestic Chinese +clients. The China +News Service,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020541.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020541.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cc2939f8e9ce56bf65d16989e0e7e7bf8c05ab13 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020541.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In the United States, Xinhua doubled the number of bureaus, +adding Chicago, Houston, and San Francisco to its original footprint in Washington, +DC, New York, and Los Angeles. As part of this vigorous propaganda campaign, the Party has sought to turn China +Central Television into a global competitor to CNN. CCTV was already airing in +America as of 2004, when it cooperated with EchoStar, America's second-largest +satellite TV company, to launch the Chinese "Great Wall Platform" package,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020542.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020542.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9d10e5ec05d8b9a4a529835bd628251e2ec9157a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020542.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In filings with +the Federal Communications Commission, Phoenix was listed as owning 20 percent of +the US-based investor, RBC, while the remaining 80 percent was owned by an editor +at Phoenix who is also a US citizen. 12 Under such a setup, no FCC regulations would +have been broken. To be extra sure that the deal would go through, however, advisors +to Phoenix convinced the Hong Kong company to seek approval from the Committee +on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a Treasury... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020543.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020543.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d3a0aadbf61417250973d87789cb74a567a72042 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020543.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +In 2009, the Global Times (775% +affE), part of the People's Daily group, started an English-language newspaper as well. Chinese provincial media firms also have a footprint in the United States. It is fully owned by Guangzhou Media American Co, Ltd. +(#EEAFF47), which, in turn, is owned by GZ Television Media FIN= 77117 +(F 47]), a Chinese state-owned media outlet. In 2009, it was purchased by +a private Chinese company; three years later, the Chinese state-owned GZ Television +Media bought Sky... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020544.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020544.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..edb8f4c544228481c099998a4458c65d48c8c8c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020544.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +SinoVision, Qiaobao, and the Sino American Times +(E)NE/E) all belong to the Asian Culture and Media Group (&65>11#). Sources in these firms say that the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council +Of PRC (75 5 75 52 1F 35 # 4E) set up the firm in the early 1990s but hid its financial role +in these companies. All the major executives of these firms appear to have been either appointed directly +or approved by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.21 Most of the major executives +and editors... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020545.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020545.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..52f56090633516de1362dc8ee8c9c292fb1bd9da --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020545.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +86 +starting in 1990, the State Council's Overseas Chinese Affairs Office gave $800,000 +a year to SinoVision, ultimately increasing its subsidy to between $2 million and +$3 million a year. Wang made this charge in a 2011 letter to the Overseas Chinese +Affairs Office alleging widespread corruption at the station.26 Allegations of corruption +and governmental subsidies have not been corroborated. The vast majority of its stories about China, Sino-American relations, +Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020546.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020546.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..67bf09fb8acebabe5eb83fdca8b1ed0ebcbd41a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020546.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +87 +Another case in point is the World Journal (##Af), for years the premier Chinese- +language paper in the United States serving immigrants from Taiwan and only one of +the six newspapers owned by the United Daily News (UDN), Taiwan's most influential +newspaper company. The paper once dominated news coverage in Chinatowns across +America, and it acted as the voice of the Chinese Nationalist Party of Taiwan. Unlike +PRC-controlled outlets, the World Journal did cover events such as the death of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020547.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020547.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..921d4d3a68ecece596edb5023251a76a7b60b49a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020547.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Seeking to capitalize on the ever-larger number of mainlanders in the United +States and to battle the nascent Taiwan independence movement, PRC authorities +established organizations and Chinese-language schools to bolster their propaganda +work in the United States. The Party's United Front Work Department founded the +China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification in 1988, and +within a decade it had more than one hundred chapters in sixty countries, including +more than a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020548.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020548.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4641a8cb035f167ab1504cc6569852c02ec79e8e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020548.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Part of the reason +for this modification appears linked to the disappearance in China of the wife of +one of Mingjing's reporters after Mingjing aired interviews with a dissident Chinese +businessman. 40 +Beijing has also moved to tighten the ideological consistency for these papers. In 2001, +the Office of Overseas Chinese Affairs and the China News Service began a biannual +conference, the Forum on the Global Chinese Language Media, hosting representatives +from hundreds of Chinese-language... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020549.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020549.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7ad94660b3f75bf8ad24ac7fbad6ad458242bbad --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020549.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +90 +with representatives of the Chinese-language press to lay out China's demands for their +coverage of the event. 43 +In a further effort to control the overseas Chinese press, the China News Service +established the China News Service Overseas Center, which provides news reports, +editorials, and layout for overseas Chinese media outlets around the globe. The idea +behind the center was that if Beijing were to provide and package content for overseas +Chinese papers, and could convince them to run... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020550.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020550.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8cfa3c5662c07bc02b8f1208737f3dbbf41684ab --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020550.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +91 +in a DUI case in a suburb of Los Angeles, a popular WeChat channel reported that the +motorist was undocumented and had committed the act to extend his stay in the United +States. 47 Zhang noted that another cause of concern was the fact that these WeChat +channels helped foster anxiety among first-generation Chinese. As with other Chinese +immigrants who rely on traditional Chinese-language media for information, the anti- +American hothouse created by WeChat's "news channels" leads to a type of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020551.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020551.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4090e0c9ac8cc303233b877430c886cd7cd7e884 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020551.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +It was then that Chinese officials revived an old tactic that the Communist Party +had employed before the revolution- using friendly foreigners and pro-PRC Chinese +immigrants to publicize China's story. Chinese officials called this tactic of localizing +the work of foreign propaganda, the "borrowed boat" strategy. 49 +One such friendly American was a China scholars who was for years associated +with Random House. According to Huang Youyi, the chief editor of the Foreign +Languages Press posted to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020552.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020552.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e868335062955dde5b00fa8ff5ebd0723b5ff269 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020552.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +A 2017 report by the Foreign Correspondents' +Club of China notes that in a survey of 117 foreign journalists based in China, +40 percent felt reporting conditions had deteriorated compared to 2016, nearly half said +they had experienced harassment, interference, and physical violence during their work +in China, while 15 percent said they encountered difficulties during their visa renewal +process and over 25 percent said they had learned that Chinese contacts had been +detained and otherwise... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020553.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020553.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a3c64a29cd35f5af71698fe7ee73b6dee6e71030 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020553.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +94 +November 2018 gathering in Beijing was cancelled by Beijing and forced to move to +Singapore.) +International service broadcasters +Another roadblock has been China's efforts to limit the influence of the Mandarin +services of the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. Starting in the first decade of the +2000s, the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, and the leadership of VOA's Mandarin +service began an annual meeting to allow embassy officials to voice their opinions +about VOA's content. It is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020554.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020554.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ab860243f94377d0997104512ec9334d11e95402 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020554.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The emphasis, the +staffers observed, is on travel, culture and language, programming the likes of which +Chinese viewers can access equally well on CGTN or China's internet. By contrast, the +content of Radio Free Asia remains far more hard-hitting than its counterpart, VOA. Conclusion and Recommendations +China has used America's openness to convey its message both to English- and +Chinese-speaking residents of the United States. Unlike in China, the United States government does +not block any... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020555.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020555.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cebbb12b8a04dedd4237b7e400df8a4678c69698 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020555.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Second, +the diminishing space within America's Chinese-language media for independent +voices runs counter to the goals of a liberal society seeking a diversity of perspectives. Furthermore, the PRC's control of Chinese-language media outlets in America and +its increasingly strong position among English-language outlets provides China +with the potential of mobilizing Chinese Americans and Americans alike to espouse +policies counter to US interest. The constant drumbeat of anti-American... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020556.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020556.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea8ea4bb6d67cf2a07fb1dc399ff013756ef4179 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020556.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +97 +Promoting Integrity +Figuring out how to properly counter the PRC's influence operations in both +English- and Chinese-language media presents enormous challenges in a free society. Failing that, the recent requirement that state-run +publications, TV and radio broadcasters, and potentially their employees, register as +agents of a foreign government is a partial solution.5° And in late 2017, Russia's RT +registered as a foreign agento while in September 2018, the US Justice Department +reportedly... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020557.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020557.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4c614402cbe2abe4f94c65c398a182fd912489f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020557.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"##Ж7" 21#4½JË, August 17, 2010. http://finance.eastmoney.com +/news/1355,2010081790350313.html. +4 "At National Meeting on Propaganda and Ideological Work, Xi Jinping Stresses That it is Necessary to +Raise the Banner High, Win the Support of the People, Cultivate New personnel, Invigorate Culture, Present +a Good Image, and Urges to Better Accomplish the Mission and task of Propaganda and Ideological Work +Under the New Situation." Xinhua. August 22, 2018. +5 "Xi Jinping Delivers Important Speech... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020558.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020558.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98868f5d08b88c0e5ed07df23bda1693e1401e92 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020558.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"Xi Jinping to Shake Up Propaganda, Censorship Chiefs as +China's Image Abroad Suffers." South China Morning Post. July 26, 2018. https://www.scmp.com/news/china +/policies-politics/article/2156921/china-reshuffles-propaganda-cyber-administration-chiefs. +21 The group's current chairman of the board, Cen Gong ($I), was sent from Beijing to the United States in +the 1990s. Previously, Cen had served as a deputy director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the PRC. +22 Xie Yining (W-7). +23 You,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020559.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020559.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5c2744c35c1fb3478bf7c0bd5a18830cbd8cf91b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020559.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +100 +(The First Forum on the Global Chinese Language Media Opens as +Scheduled)." China News Service. September 14, 2001. http://www.fcm.chinanews.com.cn/2001-09-14/2/91 +.html. +УапдКаа (78 Executives of Overseas Chinese Language Media +Gathers in Beijing for Seminar)." China News Service. August 26, 2016. http://news.xinhuanet.com/zgjx/2007-11/02/content6998084.htm. +45 Interview with Peter Wang, publisher of New York edition of Vision Times. +46 Zhang, Chi. "WeChatting American Politics:... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020560.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020560.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..691c5d71c061231ef6d1566ab90a3b5540d501c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020560.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Gong is contesting her dismissal through the Broadcasting Board of Governors, +while VOA management denies that it was responding to Chinese pressure to stop the interview or +Chinese authorities have used both a charm offensive and tougher tactics to deal with both VOA and +Radio Free Asia. In early 2018, relatives of some Uighur reporters on Radio Free +Asia were detained by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang province. In other cases, worried about potential Chinese retribution against family... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020562.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020562.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..da07d4f0202471adf10a319d279477b6446a8ee9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020562.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +SECTION 7 +Corporations +American corporations wield significant political influence domestically and are some of +the most significant sources of American soft power abroad. In addition, as Chinese corporations go abroad, they, too, bring with them the potential +of being leveraged by the Chinese government to advance China's interests. Trade statistics illustrate just +one aspect of this tangled web: In 2017, the United States exported goods worth $130 billion +to China, while importing goods worth... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020563.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020563.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77ecad1f4fac6707c936a5e298d7917ae9a07a86 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020563.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Second, as Chinese companies have become more global, they +have also grown more sophisticated in their efforts to socialize and localize +themselves in their new American communities, but also acquire political influence +in the United States. The Use of Business-Related United Front Organizations +Consistent with the practice of other nations, major Chinese firms operating in America +are represented by a chamber of commerce network. China's public-facing chamber in the United States +is known as... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020564.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020564.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d76c05c2fb54200ba52a6d1a9c4bfc7ed4d90cc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020564.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Such Chinese groups have increased their activity in the United States since 2015,1° and +many of these groups have had interactions with the United Front Work Department and +other Chinese officials both in the United States and in China, contacts that are distinctly +different from invitations to embassy or consular diplomats and bear further scrutiny." +At least eleven of the chambers identified in this +< Back +analysis were established in 2016 or later, consistent +with heightened activity... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020565.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020565.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e794018d95ab6840bec03d078018dfe578e1527d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020565.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +106 +be exploited for espionage or cyberattacks.I Both companies were key providers of +technology at the African Union headquarters building, where investigators have +found widespread electronic infiltration traceable to China, whose state-owned firms +constructed the building 16 Both Huawei and ZTE have also been accused of bribery +abroad to win contracts.17 +For years, the federal government has actively discouraged American companies, local +governments, and allied countries from partnering with... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020566.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020566.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..874e721ff420b1228a978c23b867ebc73981f98d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020566.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The Chinese e-commerce behemoth, Alibaba, was the largest source of +expenditures in 2017, accounting for $2 million, followed by technology company ZTE +($510k), Sinopec ($384k),23 and the Wanda America Group ($300k), affiliated with Dalian +Wanda.2 More difficult to track is Chinese corporate participation in American trade +associations. In early 2018, two Chinese companies have joined two major lobbying groups +noted for their political heft. 25 +Indirect Donations +A key exception to the ban on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020567.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020567.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f3c0b1d38086d7281fb13b92ed455303d5f8361a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020567.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +108 +Hiring of Former Senior Government Officials In other countries (such as Australia, UK, +France, and Germany), former senior government officials routinely take positions with +Chinese companies. A prominent +exception is the law firm Dentons, which merged with the Chinese law firm Dacheng in +201530 and employs numerous former government officials, including former ambassadors, +members of Congress, mayors, and generals. 31 +Earlier in 2018, Bloomberg News reported on the Imperial Pacific... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020568.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020568.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e6ad227e66e250785e75b4bb1882ecbbf5557c0c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020568.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +109 +in the United States, the activity was not in violation of laws against foreign campaign +activity. 35 +"Exporting" Corrupt or Unethical Business Practices +China scores poorly on international indices of corruption 36 As Chinese companies +expand abroad, it is possible that they could have a deleterious effect simply by exporting +suspect business practices. The "big four" +Chinese banks all operate in the United States, where their assets have increased sevenfold +between 2010 and 2016 to $126.5... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020569.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020569.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d579be5547d0b664f839c053eb5b7bc5b5b0044 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020569.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +For example, in June 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that Xi +warned a group of global CEOs that China would retaliate with "qualitative measures" +targeted at their companies, if the United States did not back off from the tariff war. Second, China is seeking to pressure American companies into legitimizing its geopolitical +claims and interests, for example by demanding that Western firms overtly acknowledge +that Taiwan is an irreversible part of China. Third, China has wooed American... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020570.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020570.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4f7a23a18c5c6799c273f13c41fbd5c8b73180f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020570.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +111 +Advancing Strategic Interests Abroad: A Case Study of Hollywood +As its market power mounts, China is increasingly able to leverage foreign corporations +not just to influence their home governments, but also to advance China's broader +strategic interests around the world. However, by the end of the Hu Jintao era, China's leaders had begun +calling for their country, too, to become a soft power leader, a theme Xi Jinping has continued +to stress. The subsequent surge in Chinese spending on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020571.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020571.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6327ccc21310a6625fb50d75669110793d9d417c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020571.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Indeed, the last spate of movies made for general circulation that addressed topics that the +Chinese government deemed sensitive were released in 1997 and included such productions +as Red Corner, Seven Years in Tibet, and Kundun. Several prominent American entertainers +have been subject to bans by China, most often for their association with the Dalai Lama. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, actor Richard Gere, an outspoken advocate of +Tibetan culture, stated, "There are definitely... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020572.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020572.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e096ff55a1260d285c13dc445ce07d64bac3af7b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020572.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Corporations should also provide greater clarity on their financial and supply +chain exposure to China and disclose the presence of CCP members in joint- or wholly +owned ventures. American business leaders should become better versed in the evolving nature of China's +global ambitions, especially in the use of United Front tactics for influencing almost all +aspects of China's interaction with the United States. To more +effectively resist growing Chinese pressures, American corporations will most... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020573.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020573.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..38dd0703683f56f597fb9259248affa99f29aa77 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020573.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +"Is Coercion the New Normal in China's Economic Statecraft?" Carnegie +Endowment for International Peace. May 3, 2017. https://www.ft.com/content/c7a2f668-2f4b-11e7-9555-23ef563ecf9a. +5 "CGCC Participates in Public Hearing on Section 301 Investigation of China and Voices for the Legal Rights +and Interests of Chinese Enterprises in the United States." China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A. October 10, 2017. https://www.cgccusa.org/en/cgcc-participates-in-public-hearing-on-section-301. +6... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020574.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020574.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aacf34a684a06bf3e5e358a6d1c5fa4786d3851a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020574.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The Philadelphia- +based Shenzhen Chamber's New Year's party included a city council member and a county commissioner. A +member of the House of Representatives from California has appeared at several events hosted by different +organizations, including a January 2018 forum organized by the Wenzhou chamber that was subsequently +featured prominently on the website of another United Front organization, the All America Chinese Youth +Federation. See +"ЛТ September 29, 2017.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020575.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020575.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..01c023e827c6048a7990bce72c9152ae32cfc31b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020575.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +"Why the US Is Investigating the Chinese Ownership of a CIA-Linked Insurance Company." +Newsweek. "Embattled Chinese Telecom Giant ZTE Hired Trump Campaign Veteran." Daily Beast, +June 1, 2018. https://www.thedailybeast.com/embattled-chinese-telecom-giant-zte-beefs-up-lobbying +-muscle. +21 "HNA Group Names Israel Hernandez as Head of International Corporate Affairs." PR Newswire.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020576.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020576.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..05ba511d50c616ae6155f74c49d6533d4d2d67dd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020576.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Accessed February 28, 2018. https://www.dentons.com/en/our +-professionals/people-search-results?locations=%7b01b010ec-b912-4de3-ad35-c18d31d3db87%7d&IsSee +FullTeam=1. +32 Campbell, Matthew. "A Chinese Casino Has Conquered a Piece of America." Bloomberg Businessweek. "Lawmakers Look to Curb Foreign Influence in State Elections." PBS Newshour. "Donor to Clinton Foundation, McAuliffe Caught Up in Chinese Cash- +for-Votes Scandal." Washington Post. September 16, 2016.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020577.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020577.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..472d62e58a309c5a8a0cd927a95a4fc35577c824 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020577.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +American technology CEOs, including those from Google, Apple, and Cisco, are +prominent attendees at the World Internet Conference. At one installment of the conference, a Chinese +antiterrorism expert argued that Beijing should increase its pressure on foreign internet companies such +as Twitter, which he argued should be punished for tweets that "defame the party, Chinese leaders, and +related national strategies." Facebook has been notably solicitous of the Chinese government in an effort +to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020578.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020578.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fd3c0db2d05bfa77e289707132e062a6f9e4cab1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020578.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +"Apple CEO to Attend State-Run Internet +Conference in China." Wall Street Journal. "China Presses Its Internet +Censorship Efforts across the Globe." New York Times. "Mark Zuckerberg Is +Determined to Launch His Social Network in China, Whatever It Takes." MIT Technology Review. "Facebook Is Trying Everything to Re-Enter China-and It's Not +Working." Wall Street Journal. "Report: China, Despite Ban, Is Facebook's Second-Largest Ad Market." Ad Age, +May 15, 2018.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020579.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020579.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4b62e227a36ec4a71c98745531ab54d1920f351 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020579.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +"GE Warns +of Slowing China Sales and Slump in Oil Prices." Financial Times. January 22, 2016. https://www.ft.com +/content/29315f70-c10a-11e5-9fdb-87b8d15baec2; "Wal-Mart Needs to Grow Overseas, and China's the +Big Prize." Chicago Tribune. February 6, 2018. https://media.gm.com/content +/dam/Media/gmcom/investor/2018/feb/GM-2017-Q4-Earnings-Deck.pdf; "Annual Report." Boeing Company. +2016. http://s2.q4cdn.com/661678649/files/docfinancials/annual/2016/2016-Annual-Report.pdf. +47 In 2017, Steve Wynn,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020580.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020580.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ec0e09975c29aabd2d87e6b8caee03fff17038bf --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020580.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +SECTION 8 +Technology and Research +Technology transfers between nations exist on a spectrum of legitimacy. This section reviews the targets of China's expropriation efforts, +the state and nontraditional collectors involved, and concludes with recommendations +for how the United States can better defend against this phenomenon. It is important to +note that not all expropriation of intellectual property occurs at the explicit direction +of the government and that China is not the sole country... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020581.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020581.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..20d53dbf63b16ae22d5b656a21cb820ed7bded4a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020581.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +122 +The Dynamics of Chinese IP Theft +Chinese nontraditional collection and IP theft is not done randomly by individuals acting +on their own. Rather, China has enacted some two dozen laws that have created a state- +run foreign technology transfer apparatus that sponsors, for example, labs in China that +rely wholly on information provided by compatriots working abroad. Targets +China targets all sources of American innovation, including universities, corporations, +and government labs, exploiting... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020582.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020582.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef83b14e888069d16263f2927395baf4dd62626b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020582.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +123 +Chinese defense universities explicitly tasked with acquiring foreign technology; others are +not and targeted for access to research they have pursued by their own passion and intellect. Collectors do not appear to be chosen by Beijing for their race or nationality; rather they +are targeted for their access to the desired intellectual property and their willingness to +violate their employee agreements or national laws. Indeed, more recent scholarship has +shattered the shibboleth that the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020583.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020583.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..45022e8e8365b73c405989ec0d10d677d22308f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020583.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +124 +Exchanges +The Chinese government organizes and pays for exchanges in which participants travel +from the United States, divulge technical knowledge through scripted venues, are briefed +on China's technology interests, return to their US base to collect more information, and +repeat the process. Cooperation organizations and advocacy groups +Many Sino-US S&T "cooperation" organizations in the United States facilitate these transfers +and have individual memberships of hundreds to thousands. One... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020584.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020584.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d33ac18c6b7c27dc028076bf84ee650be13eaa5a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020584.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +125 +is the China-US Joint Research Center for Ecosystem and Environmental Change at the +University of Tennessee, Knoxville.lº Launched in 2006, researchers from the University +of Tennessee and the DOE-funded Oak Ridge National Laboratory partnered with the +Chinese Academy of Sciences to address "the combined effects of climate change and +human activities on regional and global ecosystems and explore technologies for +restoration of degraded environments." The center's research focuses on science... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020585.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020585.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7f36d38b3b1cc6a60316a67645a7702d4c6aaa52 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020585.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +126 +Conclusion and Recommendations +China's aggressive policy is threatening the advantages the United States has long enjoyed as a +scientifically creative nation. The best source of resiliency in the face of rampant IP theft from China is continued +and expanded reinvestment in American innovation. The United States' current defense of +intellectual property has not been effective in refuting appropriation by China, by all +accounts the world's worst offender. Transparency, better information, and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020586.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020586.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..74b1bfb1ae1f47fc50afe14695aaa512a5ae395d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020586.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +As of March 2011, +China had the largest number of students in SEVIS, at 158,698.25 +The FBI has access to all of the student data contained in SEVIS, and no longer needs +the permission of DHS to initiate investigations of foreign students.26 However, the laws, +regulations, and directives governing SEVIS do not require some additional critical pieces +of information, which are nonetheless perceived to be important to manage the program. According to the Government Accounting Office (GAO): +• the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020587.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020587.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..41454cd7ee3a4dec2ddfc17da35e9d3dba3fb9e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020587.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +128 +to the changing economic and technological landscape."32 Specifically, the initiative aimed +to "build higher fences" around a core set of items whose misuse can pose a national security +threat to the United States. 33 +The reform initiative is synchronizing the two existing control lists, the Munitions List and +the Commerce Control List, so that they are "tiered" to distinguish the types of items that +should be subject to stricter or more permissive levels of control for different... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020588.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020588.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9815786f096dc6425a2a5b1acedd19955ef6c7cd --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020588.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +NOTES +1 See Hannas, William, James Mulvenon, and Anna Puglisi, Chinese Industrial Espionage. London: +Routledge. 2013. +2 For the best analysis of Made in China 2025, see Made in China 2025: Global Ambitions Built on Local +Protections. US Chamber of Commerce. 2017. https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/finalmade +inchina2025reportfull.pdf. +3 The IP Commission Report: The Report of the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. July 09, 2012.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020589.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020589.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c598c01efcb25fd1c2019b20c4c62bf4e4074a1b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020589.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +130 +14 With gratitude to Robert Skebo Sr. (personal communication) for pointing this out. +15 Zeng, Zhaozhi (M IF), Niu Zhengming and Zg +(Using Patent Resources to Promote Scientific and Technological Innovation", in +Technology and Innovation Management. 2004.6. 46-48. +ЛФ#м#" ("Using the Principle of Reverse Engineering for Innovation in High-Level Knowledge Processes +and Systems"). ## t 17 5. Science and Technology Management Research. 2005.7. +17 РС 17" " Imitative Innovation Based on... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020590.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020590.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..df1b3c04b5f2b627b46201f712758a80b28c50a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020590.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +131 +31 "Export Controls: Agencies Should Assess Vulnerabilities and Improve Guidance for Protecting Export- +Controlled Information at Universities." General Accounting Office. GAO-07-70. http://www.gao.gov/new +items/d0770.pdf. +32 "Export Control Reform Initiative: Strategic Trade Authorization License Exception." Federal Register. June 16, 2011. https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/product-guidance/231-sta/file. +33 Ibid. +34 "President Obama Announces First Steps toward Implementation of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020592.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020592.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd4e4b2e526302507701cee6b8804924ecb9a24c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020592.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +APPENDIX 1 +Chinese Influence Operations +Bureaucracy +While recent months have brought increased attention to the United Front Work +Department, or "United Front activities," it is important to emphasize that this is +but one of many institutions within the Chinese party-state involved in influence +operations. As a Leninist party-state, CCP organizations have higher political status than +government institutions. This has become even more pronounced under the Party's +general secretary Xi Jinping and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020593.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020593.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..52c253b47876c7dab7aa1928a4c731f313b47c69 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020593.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The draft +policy proposals are then forwarded to the Leading Small Groups ($/), which +deliberate, vet, and sign off on the policy proposals before sending them to the +Politburo and the Politburo Standing Committee for a final decision. In this formal, ministry- +or department-initiated process, the ultimate decision-making authority lies with the +Politburo Standing Committee. At this level of policy formulation, of particular relevance to China's international +influence activities are the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020594.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020594.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ecd838d9da410cf595d4fd201db28c73c63893d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020594.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +135 +is the top official with oversight of China's overseas propaganda (NE) efforts, while +Politburo member and director of the CCP Propaganda Department Huang Kunming +oversees all media organs and has day-to-day oversight of the entire propaganda +system. Wang Yang, another PBSC member and the chairman of the Chinese +People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has overall responsibility for +the United Front portfolio, although Sun Chunlan (the only female member of the +twenty-five-man... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020595.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020595.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b77b4a2aacbcaf168754b72dc3f616276c8ecfe --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020595.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +While the Foreign Affairs Commission is the principal organization in the making +and coordination of China's overall foreign policy, the United Front Leading Small +Group and the External Propaganda Leading Small Group also have important-but +somewhat lower-status in the Chinese hierarchy. They are led, respectively, by the +Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of ideology and propaganda and +the head of the United Front Work Department. The Leading Small Group for United +Front Work is... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020596.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020596.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..93e1f905627be4a1c193e0f11da0cc76c928048b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020596.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +137 +Conference (2015), and the National Propaganda Work Conference (2013 and 2018). By contrast, the keynote speech at the National Overseas Chinese +Conference in 2017 was given by Yang Jiechi, who was at that time a state councilor +responsible for foreign affairs. +• The Central Foreign Affairs Work Conference is held at irregular intervals (2006, +2014, and 2018) to review Chinese foreign policy and announce new initiatives +and objectives. It is attended by key ministers, ambassadors, senior... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020597.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020597.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f0a5dbc2a51679ea4c3e57f97f7124f9f321e8f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020597.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Ministry of Foreign Affairs +The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a typical general-purpose bureaucracy that serves +as China's main interlocutor with foreign governments. The one area where it does is via its +Department of Public Diplomacy (ME 4#A=), which primarily oversees the MEA +Spokesman's Office in Beijing, international media outreach, and China's embassy +spokesmen abroad; international visitor programs; and "exchange" organizations, such +as the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020598.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020598.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6d7af3302db6fbc4bc307775388423d38bf84996 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020598.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +139 +Although the United Front Work Department has attracted much media attention, +and the term "United Front" has become a euphemistic one for many analysts writing +about China's influence activities abroad, the scope of the UFWD's activities in +China's external influence operations is actually limited. Its primary target audience +is the Chinese diaspora in general, and its elite members in particular. The mission +of engaging and influencing nonethnic Chinese audiences, individuals, and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020599.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020599.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..20461606ea557baaf16a2c89703d57257ded6f4a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020599.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +140 +also played a key diplomatic role in certain instances, such as providing a liaison +dialogue channel between the United States and North Korea. In addition, the ILD performs a range of other functions: +• Administering "private sector" liaison organizations to facilitate contact with +think tanks, NGOs, and individuals worldwide; +• Collecting current intelligence and information on the foreign policies, +domestic political scene and political parties, and societies in various... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020600.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020600.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6b99cafc1ecfb44316beae547586945a953a4019 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020600.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +141 +The State Council Information Office/External Propaganda Leading Group +The State Council Information Office/External Propaganda Leading Group is the nerve +center and leading organ in the sprawling system of China's international propaganda +(ANNE) work. The SCIO is commonly known in Chinese both as the Guo Xin +Ban (E) and Wai Xuan Ban (External Propaganda Office, ME%). It is formally under the State Council, but it is also overseen by the Chinese +Communist Party's External Propaganda Leading... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020601.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020601.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c5e6b272dbf418483a22c5eb7ff93975f3232fef --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020601.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020601 +Overseas Chinese +Committee +CUSEF +Chinese Influence Operations Bureaucracy +United Front LSG +United Front Work +Department +CCPPNR +Overseas Chinese +Affairs Office +CCP Politburo +CCP Central +Committee +Foreign Affairs +Commission +Foreign Affairs Office +CCP/ID +CICWS +State Council +External Propaganda +National People's +Congress +Foreign Affairs +Committee +Parliamentary +exchanges +Central Military +Commission +Propaganda +Department +Bureau for Press. Publishing, Radio, Film & +Education... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020602.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020602.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c03c3e454bf847601f7cf3ccb1af511b3296cf0d --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020602.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +CAFFC +CAIFC +CASS +CCP +CCP/ID +CCPPNR +CFIIS +CGTN +CICIR +CICWS +CIlS +ClISS +CMC +CPIFA +CPPCC +CPS/NAA +CRI +CSCPA +CUSEF +FAO +FALSG +LSG +SAFEA +SCIO +UFLSG +143 +China Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries +China Association for International Friendly Contact +Chinese Academy of Social Sciences +Chinese Communist Party +Chinese Communist Party International Liaison Department +China Council for Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification +China Foundation for International Strategic Studies +China Global... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020604.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020604.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..742d189a8cac8e8e9c5a2b81f320b31d4baf66f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020604.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +APPENDIX 2 +Chinese Influence Activities in +Select Countries +This report has focused on the range of challenges the United States faces in an era +of accelerating Chinese influence activities on multiple fronts. But this issue is hardly +unique to the United States-indeed, China's influence activities now occur all around +the world. In general, they seem more +advanced in Asia and Europe, but there is also evidence of such activities in Africa and +Latin America as well. In order to explore some of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020605.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020605.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6155a7c5c06a3665cfc861ec61311d623eb727ee --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020605.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +146 +Democracies worldwide are reckoning with the impact of "sharp power."? From Central +Europe, where China has created the "16 + 1 Initiative," to sub-Saharan Africa and +Latin America, where Chinese engagement in infrastructure and the media has grown +discernibly in recent years, China's sharp power has come into view. NOTES +1 Sarah Cook, "The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party's Media Restrictions +Affect News Outlets Around the World," Center for International Media... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020606.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020606.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a49b3af1d53e3b433c53471f16f095010174cac1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020606.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +The +director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, Duncan Lewis, +said the espionage and interference threat is greater now than at any time during +the Cold War due to a greater number of foreign intelligence actors and the advent +of cybertechnologies. He said foreign interference activities range from "a foreign +power using local Australians to observe and harass its diaspora community here in +our country through to the recruitment and co-opting of influential and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020607.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020607.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..81733d7426d7112b86df66af32edba04ce05ed99 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020607.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +148 +In June 2017, a joint investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and +Fairfax Media revealed that the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) +had warned the major political parties that two of Australia's most generous political +donors had "strong connections to the Chinese Communist Party" and that their +"donations might come with strings attached." One of them leveraged a $400,000 +donation in an attempt to soften the Labor Party line on the South China Sea.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020608.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020608.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..81e0c6d543dc4cb99a649a1f05bc9f717db24a14 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020608.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +149 +Turnbull also introduced legislation to establish a new Department of Home Affairs +which, among other roles, would house a national counter-foreign-interference +coordinator who would integrate intelligence and enforcement and coordinate policy +development. On December 16, 2017, at the height of this debate— and days after +Turnbull introduced the new laws-the coalition government passed a serious electoral +test by winning a by-election in the Sydney seat of Bennelong. According to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020609.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020609.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d3f1ee196571ce17cbaaf5cc71b89afd47528110 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020609.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +The chair of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence & Security, +Andrew Hastie, named one of Australia's most generous political donors as a "co- +conspirator" in a UN bribery investigation and linked the affair to covert interference. "In Australia it is clear that the Chinese Communist Party is working to covertly +interfere with our media and universities and also to influence our political processes +and public debates," Hastie told his committee, after receiving support from the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020610.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020610.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b90d84aff5dfff27bebca1a5f615fe37baa5d4f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020610.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +151 +5 Greg Sheridan, "Malcolm Turnbull's Chinese Double: Dishonour and Defeat," Australian (New South Wales), +March 30, 2017 (requires subscription), https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/greg-sheridan +/turnbulls-chinese-double-dishonour-and-defeat/news-story/55fbe920041a5f5ff7ec04b818085631. +6 Primrose Riordan, "China's Veiled Threat to Bill Shorten on Extradition Treaty," Australian (New South Wales), +December 4, 2017 (requires subscription),... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020611.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020611.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a0f9b815d774485c6cf38ba3c7dae33b1bedc1af --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020611.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +152 +(the Security Intelligence Service of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) identified +improper influence through community associations connected to Chinese intelligence +agencies and efforts to award politically connected Canadians in high-level roles with +Chinese entities.' Today, the view in Ottawa is that China is definitely trying to influence +Canadian opinion and opinion-makers but is not making much headway at present. As in other countries, Chinese state actors (the CCP International... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020612.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020612.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a106b64626e42128331a51abed8cff76b68cb87b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020612.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +153 +control of foreign countries (including China).3 Facing political pressure, he later +said none of the actions were "illegal" and that "foreign interference is a common +occurrence in many countries around the world and has been for decades."4 +• In 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was a subject of controversy for his +attendance at cash-for-access dinners. Among the attendees were Chinese billionaire +Zhang Bin, who donated $1 million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. Also +at the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020613.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020613.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..233cc6aaeec7469b6348483c91ec2b8c52cc6d0e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020613.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +154 +Business +One of the emerging debates in Canada concerns the future of China's telecom giant, +Huawei, which is widely believed to have links with China's People's Liberation Army. Huawei has little significant business in the United States and was recently banned from +participating in Australia's 5G wireless network project. Now Canada is debating that +issue, despite the fact that the firm has established a vast network of relationships with +all of Canada's major telecom carriers and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020614.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020614.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1378e0d1658cb64f48f2318734f958250d710946 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020614.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +155 +transparency, campaign financing rules, business regulation, and academic integrity +are cultivated and fairly robust. These experiences suggest the following solutions or best practices in the Canadian +case, which largely parallel the broader report's findings: +• Make clear public statements of Canadian values-political, economic, social, and +academic. +• Insist on reciprocity with Chinese actors in each domain of engagement. +• Identify what harms Canadian state, social, and community... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020615.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020615.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..db72a30007c59577e35b5bd79700bc170138a04f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020615.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +156 +7 James Kynge, Lucy Hornby, and Jamil Anderlini, "Inside China's Secret 'Magic Weapon' for Worldwide +Influence," Financial Times (London), October 26, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018, https://www.ft.com +/content/fb2b3934-b004-11e7-beba-5521c713abf4. +8 Robert Fife and Steven Chase, "Two Conservative Senators' Business Venture Linked to China," Globe and +Mail (Toronto), December 15, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020616.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020616.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1f12a205e42bda786db7c6adec469248522152a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020616.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +157 +But it also means that French state television of the 1960s often aired views favorable +to the Cultural Revolution, while Maoism was influential inside the radical Left. French diplomacy also has had its "China school," with leading figures such as Etienne +Manach (a historical Gaullist) and Claude Martin (who recently published his memoirs +under a title lifted creatively from a saying by Chairman Mao, "La diplomatie n'est pas +un dîner de gala" or "Diplomacy is not a dinner party"). The 1989... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020617.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020617.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24506b8bc92a1db40e2bc4748bc3827b8fc5d8d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020617.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +The district's Socialist Party +MP, a former advocate of Taiwan, switched his sympathies to the PRC before leaving +politics in 2017. While France has always seen itself as a melting pot society-where +even native languages dissolved over a generation-the economic attraction of China +is clearly felt. Politics +For decades, China's National Day reception has been the most sought-after +diplomatic reception in France, with queues often backing into the street. He has regularly made +positive remarks to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020618.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020618.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..50d5795b3461e969c19a81588ffcc93e1182f9a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020618.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +159 +Business +France maintains a negative trade balance with China and Chinese companies have +not invested much in France compared to what they've poured into Germany, Italy, +and the United Kingdom. Chinese investors reduced investments during the 2016-17 +presidential campaign and have also met with informal refusals in some cases, such +as Areva, the French nuclear company. In mainland France, the Comité France-Chine of MEDEF, the French business union, +has always been a prominent link, usually... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020619.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020619.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..adb0af21bc9fafe971a040b89ec6dbb4f6463e80 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020619.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +160 +Science et ses Applications, cofounded by the French and PRC Science Academies, +promotes stays in France for Chinese scientists. Huawei has been a major donor to the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques +(IHES), France's famous mathematics institution. The Fondation Victor Segalen is +a partnership between a French business school, ESCP, and China's NDRC, and is +sponsored by Huawei and a roster of French firms. Among the recent spate of Belt and +Road Initiative conferences, one at IRIS, a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020620.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020620.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c9eeab69a4c7a02d82a6dc25295b83ec29463b1f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020620.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +161 +of German society that has a clear interest in good German-Chinese relations and thus +is susceptible to Chinese influence: the business community. In December 2017, German authorities revealed that +Chinese agents had used faked LinkedIn identities or avatars of Germans engaged with +China to contact people in the political and media spheres. It was Merkel's government that won the release +of Liu Xia, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Thus, it makes sense +that the Chinese... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020621.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020621.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99eef127f080db7aad2e63b5d1bf8dc081b51cb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020621.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +162 +In 2016, the chair of the Human Rights Committee of the German Parliament was +told he would not be allowed to visit China with the rest of the committee if he did +not delete a report from his home page on Tibetan flags being hoisted at German town +halls. Academia +More than one hundred thousand Chinese nationals live in Germany, most of them +students. Similar to academics from other countries, several German researchers and +academics with a reputation of being critical toward the Chinese... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020622.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020622.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b89216bcf8856818f3b7ae0ef139a948b61c808a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020622.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +In a similar incident, at the first of a series of tournaments between German third +league soccer clubs and Chinese soccer clubs, the Chinese coach demanded that +spectators be forbidden from holding up Tibetan flags. Business +Close relationships, often decades old, between various enterprises and business +associations (including a newly established one on the Belt and Road Initiative) are +nurtured by the Chinese embassy, consulates, and representatives from Beijing. The +Chinese government... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020623.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020623.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f18f7450a7926c31ef66db674b250e9b147dc5ba --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020623.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +China Daily's advertisement +supplement, China Watch, is published in only one daily, after readers protested its +inclusion in another paper. In 2017, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency partnered +with a German firm, the German Television News Agency or DFA, to provide soft +features about how important China is to Germany. Called Nihao Deutschland, the +program has been criticized as propaganda in the mainstream German press. Chancellor Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron +have initiated... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020624.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020624.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0e382e98ceca042ac5c60ad2330f65b12927ec8a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020624.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +NOTES +1 The recent reports by ECFR and Merics/GPP| list some of them, but mainly deal with Europe in general: +Francois Godement and Abigael Vasselier, "China at the Gates: A New Power Audit of EU-China Relations," +European Council on Foreign Relations, December 1, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018, http://www.ecfr.eu +/publications/summary/chinaeupoweraudit7242; and Thorsten Benner, Jan Gaspers, Mareike Ohlberg, +Lucrezia Poggetti, and Kristin Shi-Kupfer, "Authoritarian Advance: Responding to... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020625.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020625.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..72f975f051df060c9b28ae9b49040971b3e34024 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020625.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +They lead homegrown movements with specific political targets in Japan itself, +notably attacking the conservative establishment and defending the country's "peace +constitution." These well-established groups, the origins of which lie in the Cold War +splits of 1950s Japanese politics, have long been attacked from the right in Japan for +being unpatriotic. But none has been linked credibly to Beijing's United Front Work +Department. The Japanese Communist Party, which still retains a substantial... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020626.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020626.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73a0eac42e319345d1d359feea84c24a2f590ded --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020626.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +167 +Okinawa and Senkaku/Diaoyu Debates +The clearest case of covert meddling occurs far south of Tokyo in Okinawa, the +ancient island-kingdom which is geographically closer to Taiwan than it is to the +Japanese mainland. As late as 2015, prominent Chinese were asserting that the Ryukyu +Islands, which include Okinawa, belonged as much to Beijing as they did to Japan. "I am not saying all former tributary states +belong to China, but we can say with certainty that the Ryukyus do not belong... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020627.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020627.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed4495ae8f8339794ca1d001711a6444f4f174ff --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020627.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +168 +Chinese Race."s Hong Kong has long been a base for flag-waving Chinese activists +agitating on the issue of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. The Chinese race today relies on you, and the Chinese race can +rely on you." Even more extreme is the way that the group frames its assertion that +the Ryukus (Senkaku/Diaoyu) should become part of China. "The Japanese people +are a part of the Chinese race and Japan is originally of Chinese blood," the group's +president, Zhao Dong, says in one posting.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020628.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020628.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8364e82b45803c1f40c255e45788d4a41ee93ede --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020628.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +169 +ННГ Japan+, November 10, 2015, +accessed October 11, 2018, http://japan-plus.net/952. +7 Daniel Moss, "As China Steps Up, Japan Isn't Stepping Aside," Bloomberg, July 10, 2018, accessed October 11, +2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-10/japan-reasserts-influence-as-china-rises. NEW ZEALAND +The issue of Chinese influence operations in New Zealand began to attract significant +attention in September 2017 when Anne-Marie Brady, a professor at the University of +Canterbury,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020629.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020629.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..de6cd0b5366c5b15202b53b0b38c259860200799 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020629.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Chinese Diaspora +There are currently two hundred thousand ethnic Chinese in New Zealand, primarily +concentrated in Auckland. During the Cold War, Chinese New Zealanders "were neither +pro-CCP nor pro-PRC" and its community institutions were "proudly independent." +Now, few activities are noticeably independent of Beijing. The organization considered most closely connected with PRC authorities in New +Zealand is the Peaceful Reunification of China Association of New Zealand, which was +founded in... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020630.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020630.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e84e0368a8f235aa4dd9688ea1e4ab4e9367782b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020630.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Since entering government, Yang "has been a central figure +promoting and helping to shape the New Zealand National government's China +strategy" and was a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Foreign Affairs, +Defense, and Trade from 2014 to 2016, which would have given him privileged access +to information.4 +Chinese influence efforts targeted toward New Zealand politics transcend the diaspora +community to include campaign contributions and the cultivation of relationships with +former... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020631.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020631.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cfc2c8e614edddb0ee3dab0da461f0265dc6d7a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020631.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Some New Zealand academics have roles at PLA- +linked universities. Civil Society +Media are a key target of China's influence efforts. New Zealand's local Chinese- +language outlets all have content cooperation agreements with China's Xinhua News +Service, participate in annual media training conferences in China, have at times +employed senior staff affiliated with the Communist Party, and have hosted CCP +propaganda officials. With respect to English media, China Daily in 2016 established a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020632.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020632.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7e04df627b8a2bc08fa4e0d9d02ea0294f8ebac --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020632.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +173 +NOTES +1 Anne-Marie Brady, "Magic Weapons: China's Political Influence Activities under Xi Jinping," Kissinger +Institute on China and the United States, September 18, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018, https://www +.wilsoncenter.org/article/magic-weapons-chinas-political-influence-activities-under-xi-jinping. Also see +Anne-Marie Brady, "Looking for Points in Common While Facing Up to Differences," Small States and the +New Security Environment, November 14, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020633.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020633.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1b71c44d67db990c1bfd26ca04375e539dd1fbcc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020633.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +At the same time, it is led by a Leninist party that embraces the ideas of the +United Front as a key tactic. China's self-declared role as the +representative of all Chinese people around the world and its stated position that all +Chinese are obliged to help China further complicate its position in Singapore, which +is 76 percent Chinese. This narrative and others are propagated by various means: +WeChat with Chinese-speaking populations, social and mainstream media, whispering +campaigns,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020634.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020634.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4435d481b838c5f51552fa4dbdf5ebab3971181e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020634.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +175 +China had succeeded, it would have forced a significant modification of Singapore's +approach to Taiwan. In 2004, it was clear that Lee Hsien Loong would replace Goh Chok Tong as +Singapore's third prime minister. By 2016, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had made +public his intention to step aside after the next general election (due by 2020) and let +a younger generation of political leaders take over. South China Sea +When Singapore became the ASEAN country coordinator in 2016, Chinese... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020635.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020635.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d061aefc19343bc52f7b43faeec93b1b37491713 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020635.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +176 +Omitted was the historical fact that Lee Kuan Yew was the only noncommunist +leader who in the late 1950s and early 1960s went into a CCP-backed United Front +organization and emerged the victor. That drew a red line, which provided the basis on +which Lee and his successors developed Singapore's relations with China. And, most crucial of all, although the majority of +Singaporeans are ethnic Chinese, Singapore is a multiracial country organized on the +basis of meritocracy and it does not view... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020636.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020636.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..48e610dc1f12e97ee179539e51db6cba21d97a91 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020636.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +177 +teaching at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy +(LKYSPP), was expelled from Singapore and permanently banned from the country. The Ministry of Home Affairs (responsible for internal security and counterespionage) +said in a statement announcing the expulsion that Huang had been "identified as +an agent of influence of a foreign country" who had "knowingly interacted with +intelligence organizations and agents of the foreign country and cooperated... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020637.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020637.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4959897ae396ba73fe69c19fcaf5a6b761aae0f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020637.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +178 +principle of noninterference enshrined in Article 41 of the Vienna Convention on +Diplomatic Relations. This was not the only instance of insensitive behavior by Chinese diplomats in +Malaysia. In 2015, the previous Chinese ambassador saw fit to make his way to +Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown, where only days previously the police had to use water +cannons to disperse a potentially violent anti-Chinese demonstration. There the +Chinese ambassador delivered a speech that, among other things,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020638.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020638.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..09231201c3be786d6222301cd06257ca827d4c9c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020638.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +179 +embedded in the intrinsic nature of the Chinese state, they cannot be abandoned unless +the nature of the Chinese state fundamentally changes. NOTES +1 "Singapore Government Statement," Government of Singapore, May 15, 1971, http://www.nas.gov.sg +/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/SGPress315.5.71.pdf. +2 Jermyn Chow, "SAF Armoured Vehicles Seized in Hong Kong Port, Mindef Expects Shipment to Return +to Singapore 'Expeditiously," Straits Times (Singapore), November 24, 2016, accessed October 11,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020639.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020639.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bcb75007312268ccde873d12688675eeb90452bc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020639.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Politics +Since 2012, the UK governments under prime ministers David Cameron and Theresa +May have progressively toned down criticism of China over human rights and Beijing's +obligations toward the United Kingdom to respect the Sino-British agreement on Hong +Kong. China has +also denied UK politicians, such as members of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs +Committee and the deputy chair of the Conservative Party's Human Rights Commission, +Ben Rogers, access to Hong Kong to investigate human... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020640.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020640.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e801dcd9b3cba2c02f9ba5f7631c485fb39781e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020640.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +181 +the United Kingdom have also established Chinese Communist Party cells. The use of +the CSSA UK to monitor dissent among Chinese students in the United Kingdom is a +direct violation of the principles of the United Kingdom's democracy. Institutions created or managed by the Chinese authorities include the country's +twenty-nine Hanban-managed Confucius Institutes as well as the new Peking +University HSBC Business School Oxford Campus-the first overseas campus of a +Chinese university.... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020641.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020641.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..afb3b7c0237548db94fbb61fd36bae0d3e888471 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020641.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +While independent reporting +continues, Chinese official media have become more influential in the United Kingdom +and internationally through their UK presence. For example, the re-branded China Global Television Network +Europe Ltd (CGTN), headquartered in London, is seeking to increase activities and +China Daily now distributes its China Watch "supplement" as an advertisement inside +the respected conservative newspaper the Daily Telegraph. The UK and Chinese +governments have also concluded a... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020642.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020642.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ae8d1fc3849ceebe3abf58abb75294b58f0097dc --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020642.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +For years, the Chinese telecom behemoth Huawei has provided broadband gear and +mobile networks to its clients in Britain, which include British Telecom and Vodafone. And for years, Huawei executives used their substantial business opportunities in +Britain as an example to counter allegations in the United States and other Western +countries that Huawei was linked to the People's Liberation Army and therefore a +security risk. A government report issued in July 2018 noted that technical and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020643.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020643.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..34a5fe257e58fd72a3c014102d97f1e9f4a8a34c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020643.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +184 +launched in 2015 and relaunched in 2017, has sought input on some of the issues +discussed here.23 A newly launched NGO, Hong Kong Watch, focuses on drawing +attention to the United Kingdom's special responsibility toward Hong Kong. The +Conservative Party Human Rights Commission has produced its own report on the +deteriorating human rights situation in both China and Hong Kong and has organized +inquiries and events on topics such as the United Kingdom's Confucius Institutes. 24 +While the... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020644.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020644.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bbf6231b47dd776a8b64bd5bce62bfccf2eb568b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020644.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +185 +7 "Summary of Business Appointments Applications—Rt Hon David Cameron," Advisory Committee on +Business Appointments, Government of the United Kingdom, February 28, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018, +https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cameron-david-prime-minister-acoba-recommendation +/summary-of-business-appointments-applications-rt-hon-david-cameron; Emily Feng, "David Cameron +Takes Senior Role in China Infrastructure Fund," Financial Times (UK), December 16, 2017,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020645.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020645.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f826c21fd0e5af97b6923aee25df6c8205552969 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020645.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +186 +20 "China's ZTE Deemed a 'National Security Risk' to UK," Guardian (UK), April 17, 2018, accessed +October 11, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/chinas-zte-a-national-security +-risk-to-uk-warns-watchdog. +21 Zoe Wood, "China Looking to Buy Stake in UK Nuclear Plants, Say Reports," Guardian (UK), July 8, 2018, +accessed October 11, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/08/china-interested +-majority-stake-uk-nuclear-power-stations-reports. +22 Adam Vaughan... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020646.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020646.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf42faf10ce15324d69e0c882672dd347fb0006e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020646.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +APPENDIX 3 +Chinese-Language Media Landscape +Official and Semi-Official Chinese-Language Media +By 2018, all of the major official Chinese media outlets had embedded themselves +deeply into the communications and broadcasting infrastructure of the +United States. +• CCTV or CGTN (English and Chinese), the semiofficial Hong Kong-based +Phoenix TV, and a few Chinese provincial TV channels are available in add-on +packages of two major satellite TV providers in the United States, DISH Network +and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020647.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020647.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a84e61e063b8fa84f255a60f7c8c05256d08cb9c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020647.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +188 +Chinese media social media presence +(E) = English version; (C) = Chinese version +Platform +CCTV (CGTN) +Official Organizations and Subscribers/Followers +Xinhua +People's +Daily +Twitter +Facebook +YouTube +Instagram +CCTV: 532K (E+C) +CGTN: 7.19M (E) +CCTV: 48.04M (E); +3.44M (C) +CGTN: 58.28M (E) +CGTN America: 1.2M (E) +289K (C) +550K (E) +China +Daily +11.8M (E) +4.54M (E) +1.8M (E) +11.6M (C) +221K (C) +46.92M (E) +43.15M (E) 35.17M (E) +171K (C) +173K (E) +111K (E) +25K (E) +696K (E) +3K (E) +23.5K... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020648.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020648.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..39a3e1517d6dfd4d1112b06f9c2ccfcc2268144f --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020648.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Its reporting hews closely +to China's official media: +• Example 1: On June 27, 2017, the US Department of State, in its annual Trafficking +in Persons Report 2017, put China at Tier 3, the lowest class. In reporting this +news, SinovisionNet simply reposted comments from the official website of the +Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China attacking the human rights record of the +United States.! +• Example 2: In March 2017, the US State Department published its 2016 Human +Rights Report. SinovisionNet... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020649.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020649.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..07ec74b718fc5fce61bb5f2cced77f2bb608f5c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020649.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +There is an unsubstantiated +rumor that the investment was subsidized by $1 million from the Ministry of +Propaganda. +• Duowei is another online source that was for years an independent Chinese- +language media. It was purchased in 2009 by a pro-PRC Hong Kong businessman. +• Mingjing, or Mirror Media, a Chinese-language web presence based in Canada, +was once considered independent of Beijing's control but has modified its +reporting in recent years. +• Backchina.com, (1zFJ, ranked as the fifth most... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020650.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020650.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..966226af7d0916c51f213128282a542b843c8c61 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020650.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +June 27, 2017. news.sinovision.net/politics +/201706/00411546.htm. +2 20167#1" Sinovision. March 9, 2017.news.sinovision.net/politics/201703 +/00401996.htm; "ФПЛ##ПЛхк17." Sinovision. March 6, 2017. news.sinovision.net +/politics/201703/00401682.htm. +3 "МН# 7#4ZН Kлхжддня." Sinovision. February 19, 2018. news.sinovision.net +/politics/201802/00431582htm htm Sinovision. February 13, +2018. news.sinovision.net/politics/201802/00431309.htm. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020652.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020652.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..73e0fd9bb3a49a554664dcce7723f23a9032972e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020652.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Dissenting Opinion +SUSAN SHIRK +Although I have no problem with the factual research that has gone into specific sections +of the report, I respectfully dissent from what I see as the report's overall inflated +assessment of the current threat of Chinese influence seeking on the United States. The +report discusses a very broad range of Chinese activities, only some of which constitute +coercive, covert, or corrupt interference in American society and none of which actually +undermines our democratic... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020654.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020654.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cb1ac2601397e4ddade60a9fe91464d4b42c598a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020654.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Once largely a form of economic competition, China's recent +turn to military and political rivalry with the United States has changed the whole +equation of the bilateral relationship. If the United States is to fare well in this increasingly +adversarial competition, Americans must have a far better sense than they now do about +both the nature of the system and values that underlay the People's Republic of China and +the challenges Beijing's ambitious agenda of multi-faceted outreach is beginning... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020655.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020655.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ff4a80cc71139b5937eb09b08f772343d782c074 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020655.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +196 +waixuan (ME), and the less than transparent manner in which Chinese influence seeking is +often carried out. We reiterate: it is absolutely crucial that whatever measures are taken to counteract harmful +forms of Chinese influence seeking not end up demonizing any group of Americans, or +even visitors to America, in ways that are unfair or reckless. Afterword +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020655 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020656.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020656.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c1c3dab12776205388db69e5a42a11f1fa6b979b --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020656.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +About the Participants +Robert Daly is Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the +Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Larry Diamond is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli +Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Karl Eikenberry (Ret.) is the Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow, Director of the US-Asia +Security Initiative and faculty member at Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific +Research Center. Donald... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020657.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020657.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0cc275bde5225247676797e2c0ac44b2b9772b23 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020657.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Nathan is the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Minxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and George +R. David Shambaugh is Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & +International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of +International Affairs, George Washington University. Susan Shirk is Research Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the +University of California... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020658.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020658.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a920e3c6daa144fe893d39b9523a01e97097797 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020658.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +199 +International Associates +Anne-Marie Brady is Professor at the University of Canterbury and a Global Fellow at the +Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. Timothy Cheek is Director of the Institute of Asian Research, Louis Cha Chair in Chinese +Research, and Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. John Fitzgerald is an Emeritus Professor in the Center for Social Impact at Swinburne +University of Technology. Timothy Garton Ash is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020660.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020660.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0b41c852a62da213edff01605d677ba043a7b782 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020660.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +Robert Trivers +12/22/2018 8:21:20 PM +Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Missing message +Importance: +High +no evidence you got the latest so i have sent you just the key message itself—rather long so i have put in bold +the only references to Enhanced Learning Foundation-references had to do with paying Amy Jacobson 30 +grand for a year of work on Honour killings-my own expenses covered by myself +of course i know little or nothing about stocks but i do feel like Trump... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020661.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020661.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa74dd39d0c743a6093e9fb00519b4016ff34ab0 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020661.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +if the ELF wanted a formal proposal, i am happy to do so +BTW resistance already making itself known-Texas A&M biology showed interest in hiring me but faculty +were critical of my honour killing work— particularly (as usual) my claim that victims were often beautiful- +where was my "metric" for beauty?—without which i was not allowed to speculate--and wasn't i disrespecting +the dead by saying they were often beautiful while still alive !! +i have thought through trans-sexuality in humans to my... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020662.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020662.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..97d4e8e4a1dcf71156dc175b2b3c081addc81f18 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020662.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Misheon de Reya +Our Ref: +JLL/HEW/HA/Alan Dershowitz +Your Ref: +URGENT - NOT FOR PUBLICATION - STRICTLY PRIVATE & + +Daily Mail +Northcliffe House +2 Derry Street +London +W8 5TT +DX 37954 Kingsway +www.mishcon.com +21 December 2018 +BY EMAIL +Dear Sirs +Our client: Alan Dershowitz +We act for Alan Dershowitz. Our client is featured in an article entitled 'Second woman claims billionaire Jeffrey Epstein +"directed" her to have sex with lawyer Alan Dershowitz WHILE he was defending pedophile on +underage... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020663.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020663.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f020b393a6b3f09a33f7caf0ad2bf8930242d0de --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020663.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Mishcon de Reya +• "Dershowitz would have been defending Epstein at the time of the alleged sexual +encounter, having been hired to work on the case in 2005 when a number of underage +giris began coming forward and telling police they were paid to have sex." +• "This makes +behest of Epstein." +the second woman to allege that she had sex with Dershowitz at the +These allegations mean and would be understood to mean that: +• Mr Epstein directed +to have sex with our client; +• Our client had encouraged Mr... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020664.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020664.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1b941a91273d06beed6d03ef95e2aa435efc8c89 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020664.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Mishcon de Reya +All of the above information was in the public domain at the time you published the Article. You published the Article without making any effort to +seek our client's comment. Further, you took the story from an article in The New York Daily +News, yet chose to ignore our client's position contained therein. You also deliberately +embellished upon the story in The New York Daily News: nowhere in that article does it state +either that +I claimed that she had sex with our client, or... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020665.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020665.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..48fcead6e453c533744523635738b4fb9aa34ea4 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020665.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Mishcon de Reya +Yours faithfully +Muncande RegaLi +Mishcon de Reya LLP +Direct Tel: +Direct Fax: +Email: +51150637.2 +4 +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020665 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020666.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020666.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f84bae8f1d5b83a64180cb9e60a04a50a9da54d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020666.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +From: +Sent: +To: +Subject: +3/7/2019 4:21:42 PM +Jeffery Edwards [jeevacation@gmail.com] +Fwd: DeMilked - 30 Ordinary Photos With Amazing Backstories +Importance: +High +Jeff/Warren: Go directly to photo #9. Terry +Sent from my iPhone +Begin forwarded message: +From: DeMilked +Date: March 7, 2019 at 2:48:52 PM GMT+1 +To: +Subject: DeMilked - 30 Ordinary Photos With Amazing Backstories +Reply-To: +DeMilked - 30 Ordinary Photos With Amazing Backstories +• 30 Ordinary Photos With... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020667.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020667.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e10029da3ac8496f64d81a883029afaf0c818789 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020667.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-020667 + +This is Tadeusz Zytkiewicz - the first person in Poland to receive a heart transplant - holding a picture of himself and the +performing doctor, Zbigniew Religa, with his colleague, seen sleeping in the corner. The difficult surgery took 23 hours +and Dr. Religa stayed up to monitor the patient's vitals. The photo, taken by American photographer James Stanfield, +was chosen to by National Geographic to be the best picture of 1987. +#2 The Three Unsung Heroes Of... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020668.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020668.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..419d6077a913f6239ec3acc829d527c63972138e --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020668.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +house-oversight-020668 + +The three men - Alexei Ananenko (second left) and soldiers Valeri Bezpalov (center) and Boris Baranov (far right) - +risked their lives o drain the fluid near the reactor during the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in Pripyat, Ukraine in 1986. After the plant's water-cooling system failed and a pool formed under the reactor 10 days into the disaster, there was a +high risk that the lava-like radioactive substance could melt through the barriers and drop the reactor's core into... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020669.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020669.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f4ddef15b6dcfdf5b8456bd9d26cdbfdbfd4b05a --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020669.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-020669 + +Cher Ami was the name given to a pigeon that saved 200 soldiers during WWI. The poor bird was shot multiple times +and lost an eye and a leg but still managed to deliver a message from the trapped battalion. +#4 'Behind Closed Doors' +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020669 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020670.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020670.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e540f196c4cc5df8f269e8bdf077734bb0d7b27 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020670.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +house-oversight-020670 + +Photographer Donna Ferrato took this gruesome picture back in 1982 when photographing the lives of wealthy swingers. The couple - Elisabeth and Bengt - were having an argument and it quickly escalated, resulting in Bengt hitting his +partner. The photographer wanted the photo to be published but many publishers refused and she only managed to do so +in 1991. The book was titled 'Living With the Enemy' and chronicled events of domestic violence. Thanks to Donna's +efforts,... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020671.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020671.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c3022adb243d4197666f3c5d7665e1fe971cc5ea --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020671.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-020671 + +The photo, taken by Fred Blackwell on May 28, 1963, shows three protesters - John Salter, Joan Trumpauer and Anne +Moody - sitting at the counter of a white-only Woolworth's five-and-dime store in Jackson while an angry mob pours +ketchup, sugar, and mustard on them. The three protesters were from the Tougaloo College, a black college that went on +to become the core of the civil rights movement in Mississippi. +#6 'Wait For Me, Daddy' +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020671 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020673.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020673.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1a73dacb6643e26718a042c6ca8c608cfda12bec --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020673.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +house-oversight-020673 + +This moving photo was captured by Claude Detloff in Vancouver during WWII as soldiers of the Duke of Connaught's +Own Rifles were marching off to fight. The boy's father safely returned home in October 1945. +#7 Childhood Friends +On April 6, 1972, workers of French company Joint Français went on strike and were confronted by the riot police. This +picture, captured by Jacques Gourmelen, shows two men - Guy Burmieux, a worker at the company, and Jean-Yvon +Antignac, a riot... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020674.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020674.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..03fe8e41cd4c4589dcacd2a7c5f59e9fd3d249fb --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020674.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-020674 + +This photo, taken in 1973 and titled 'Burst of Joy', shows United States Air Force Lt Col Robert L. Stirm reuniting with his +family after spending over 5 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. The girl with the open arms is Robert's 15-year- +old daughter Lorrie. The photo was taken by Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder and won a Pulitzer +prize. "You could feel the energy and the raw emotion in the air," recalled the photographer. +#9 The Youngest... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020675.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020675.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b088fc072c5396e313a4efce61eae7e820686196 --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020675.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-020675 + +Lina Medina, born on 23 September, 1933, was the youngest woman ever to give birth. She did so when she was just 5- +years-old. Turns out Lina was born with a rare condition called 'precocious puberty', a condition where sexual +development happens at an early age. Lina gave birth on May 14, 1939, via a cesarean section, since her pelvis was too +small. The child, named Gerardo, was born completely healthy but the father was never found out. +#10 'Terezka's... \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020676.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020676.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c4c02970f6a1b332d8bd14f1b7409cb71b02453c --- /dev/null +++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/20/house-oversight-020676.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +house-oversight-020676 + +The photo, taken by photographer David Seymour in 1948, shows Terezka, a young girl living in the home for emotionally +disturbed children located in Warsaw, 1948. The girl grew up in a concentration camp and the past horrors can still be +seen on her face. +#11 Two Brothers +HOUSEOVERSIGHT020676 \ No newline at end of file