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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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),...
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+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,...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.
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+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.
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+"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.
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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"...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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"...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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"....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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
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+Date: Monday, January 8 2018 07:47 PM
+Subject: Fwd: radical breakthrough
+From: jeffrey E. < jeevacation@gmail.com>
+To:
+jeffrey epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>;
+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...
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+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....
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+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:...
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+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
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+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...
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+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
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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,"...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"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:...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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."...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.
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+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,"...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+which point, at Kushner's direction, the initial explanation of Comey's firing became that
+the president had acted solely on their recommendation. But this pretense unraveled almost
+immediately, not least because most everyone in the West Wing, wanting nothing to do
+with the decision to fire Comey, was helping to unravel it. The president, along with his family, stood on one side of the White House divide,
+while the staff mouths agape, disbelieving and speechless— stood on the other. If you...
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+After all,
+that's why he was elected
+At some level he had a point. It's the Hoover syndrome: any president can be hostage to
+what the FBI knows, and a president who treats the FBI with something less than
+deference does so at his own peril. But this president had stood up to the feds. One man
+against the unaccountable power that the left had long railed against-and that more
+recently the right had taken as a Holy Grail issue, too. Here was another peculiar Trump attribute: an inability to see...
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+Hyper-by-the-book Rod Rosenstein-heretofore the quintessential apolitical player—
+immediately became, in Washington eyes, a hopeless Trump tool. But Rosenstein's
+revenge was deft, swift, overwhelming, and (of course) by the book. On May 17, twelve days after FBI director Comey was fired, without consulting the
+White House or the attorney general, Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert
+Mueller to oversee the investigation of Trump's, his campaign's, and his staff's ties to
+Russia. If...
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+17
+ABROAD AND AT HOME
+n May 12, Roger Ailes was scheduled to return to New York from Palm Beach to
+O meet with Peter Thiel, an early and lonely Trump supporter in Silicon Valley who
+had become increasingly astonished by Trump's unpredictability. Ailes and Thiel, both
+worried that Trump could bring Trumpism down, were set to discuss the funding and
+launch of a new cable news network. Thiel would pay for it and Ailes would bring
+O'Reilly, Hannity, himself, and maybe Bannon to it. A week
+later,...
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+Republic Airport in Farmingdale, Long Island. Accompanying Hannity was a small group
+of current and former Fox employees, all Ailes and Trump partisans. But each felt some
+open angst, or even incredulity, about Trump being Trump: first there was the difficulty of
+grasping the Comey rationale, and now his failure to give even a nod to his late friend
+Ailes. Fox anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle spent much of the flight debating Trump's entreaties to
+have her replace Sean Spicer at the White House....
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+But Trump showed little interest in the small stuff. So, okay, it would have to be peace in the Middle East. For Trump, as for many showmen or press release entrepreneurs, the enemy of
+everything is complexity and red tape, and the solution for everything is cutting corners. Enter the Crown Prince of the House of Saud, Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz
+Al Saud, age thirty-one. The fortuitous circumstance was that the king of Saudi Arabia, MBS's father, was
+losing it.
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+place even the new secretary of state designate, Rex Tillerson, had no real experience in
+foreign policy. And for certain regimes, especially the familycentric Saudis, Kushner, the son-in-law, was
+much more reassuring than a policy person. Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly
+drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy particulars and relationships. This
+presented a do-over opportunity for the world in its relationship with the United...
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+on all your houses—and keep us out of it); Flynn's anti-Iranism (of all the world's perfidy
+and toxicity, there is none like that of the mullahs); and Kushner's Kissingerism (not so
+much Kissingerism as, having no point of view himself, a dutiful attempt to follow the
+ninety-four-year-old's advice). But the fundamental point was that the last three administrations had gotten the Middle
+East wrong. Hence, the new operating
+principle was simple: do the opposite of what they (Obama, but the Bush...
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+intuitive understanding of family, ceremony, and ritual and propriety, truly scored
+The foreign policy establishment had a long and well-honed relationship with MBS's
+rival, the crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN). Key NSA and State Department
+figures were alarmed that Kushner's discussions and fast-advancing relationship with
+MBS would send a dangerous message to MBN. On MBS's
+assurance that he would deliver some seriously good news, he was invited to visit the
+White House in March. (The...
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+They felt certain that they had set out on the road to peace in the Middle East and in this,
+they were much like a number of other administrations that had come before them. "It's
+going to be beautiful."
+"He believed," said the caller, "that this trip could pull it out, like a twist in a bad
+movie."
+
+On the empty roads of Riyadh, the presidential motorcade passed billboards with pictures
+of Trump and the Saudi king (MBS's eighty-one-year-old father) with the legend
+TOGETHER WE PREVAIL. And...
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+There "has been a little
+strain, but there won't be strain with this administration," the president assured Hamad bin
+Isa Al Khalifa, the king of Bahrain. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian strongman, ably stroked the president and said, "You
+are a unique personality that is capable of doing the impossible." (To Sisi, Trump replied,
+"Love your shoes. Trump's view was that Qatar was providing
+financial support to terror groups— pay no attention to a similar Saudi history. (Only some
+members of...
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+house-oversight-020059
+
+ 
+What did the people around Trump actually think of Trump? Mostly they kept their answers to themselves, but in the instance of Comey and
+Mueller, beyond all the usual dodging and weaving rationalizations, there really wasn't
+anybody, other than the president's family, who didn't very pointedly blame Trump
+himself. "He's not only crazy," declared Tom Barrack to a friend, "he's stupid."
+But Bannon, along with Priebus, had strongly opposed the Comey firing, while...
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+"So we're going to do it," insisted Bannon, with joie de guerre and manic energy, "the
+way they did it. Not what he imagined."
+Bannon, in great excitement, and Priebus, grateful for an excuse to leave the
+president's side, rushed back to the West Wing to begin to cordon it off. It did not escape Priebus's notice that Bannon had in mind to create a rear guard of
+defenders-David Bossie, Corey Lewandowski, and Jason Miller, all of whom would be
+outside spokespeople that would largely be loyal to...
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+18
+BANNON REDUX
+annon was back, according to the Bannon faction. According to Bannon himself:
+B''m good. The geniuses around here thought otherwise."
+Was Bannon back? asked the worried other side of the house-Jared and Ivanka, Dina
+Powell, Gary Cohn, Hope Hicks, H. If he was back, that meant he had successfully defied the organizational premise of the
+Trump White House: the family would always prevail. Steve Bannon had, even in his
+internal exile, not stopped his running public verbal assault...
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+She was often
+billed as Deputy National Security Advisor; that was her sometime designation even in the
+New York Times. Actually, she was Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy the
+difference, Bannon pointed out, between the COO of a hotel chain and the concierge. Coming back from the overseas trip, Powell began to talk in earnest to friends about
+her timetable to get out of the White House and back into a private-sector job. On May 26, the day before the presidential party returned from...
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+Despite his apparent
+obsession with the "fake news" put out by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and
+CNN, for the president the threat of fake news was actually greater on the right. Though
+he would never call out fake news on Fox, Breitbart, and the others, these outlets which
+could conceivably spew a catchall of conspiracies in which a weak Trump sold out to a
+powerful establishment were potentially far more dangerous than their counterparts on
+the left
+Bannon, too, was seen to be...
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+after a long and bitter internal debate, the president announced that he had decided to
+withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. For Bannon, it was a deeply satisfying slap
+in the face of liberal rectitude-Elon Musk and Bob Iger immediately resigned from
+Trump's business council and confirmation of Trump's true Bannonite instincts. It was, likewise, the move that Ivanka Trump had campaigned hardest against in the
+White House. "The bitch is dead."
+
+There are few modern political variables more...
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+Paul Manafort, making a good living in international financial gray areas, his risk
+calculation based on the long-shot odds that an under-the-radar privateer would ever
+receive close scrutiny, would now be subjected to microscopic review. His nemesis, Oleg
+Deripaska still pursuing his $17 million claim against Manafort and himself looking for
+favorable treatment from federal authorities who had restricted his travel to the United
+States-was continuing his own deep investigation into Manafort's...
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+This was Bannon's fundamental insight about Trump: he made everything personal,
+and he was helpless not to. Dissuaded by everyone from focusing his anger on Mueller (at least for now), the
+president focused on Sessions. Sessions "Beauregard" was a close Bannon ally, and in May and June the
+president's almost daily digs against the attorney general beyond even his loyalty and
+resolve, Trump issued scathing criticism of his stature, voice, and dress provided a
+sudden bit of good news for the...
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+and naïveté about the Russian charges. But now there seemed to be a new understanding:
+Donald Trump believed he had vastly more power, authority, and control than in fact he
+had, and he believed his talent for manipulating people and bending and dominating them
+was vastly greater than it was. Pushing this line of reasoning just a little further: senior
+staff believed the president had a problem with reality, and reality was now overwhelming
+him. If true, this notion directly contravened the...
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+Priebus himself could, not too helpfully, argue only that no
+one had any idea how much worse all this would have been without his long-suffering
+mediation among the president's relatives, his Svengali, and Trump's own terrible
+instincts. There might be two or three debacles a day, but without Priebus's stoic resolve,
+and the Trump blows that he absorbed, there might have been a dozen more. On June 8, from a little after ten in the morning to nearly one in the afternoon, James
+Comey testified in...
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+Five days later, on June 13, it was Jeff Sessions's turn to testify before the Senate
+Intelligence Committee. Unlike Comey, who had been invited to the Senate to show
+off his virtue and had seized the opportunity-Sessions had been invited to defend his
+equivocation, deception, or stupidity. Bannon, watching the testimony from the West Wing, quickly became frustrated. "The cosmopolitans would be cheering for us for taking down the
+man who took Hillary down." Where the president saw Sessions as...
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+responsive as those in the commercial life that Trump was from-and that they yearned to
+meet the market and find the Zeitgeist. But what if these institutions the media, the
+judiciary, the intelligence community, the greater executive branch itself, and the "swamp"
+with its law firms, consultants, influence peddlers, and leakers were in no way eager to
+adapt? "I think that's the lesson of the first hundred days that some people around here have
+learned," said Bannon, ignoring Kushner. This is...
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+The media had unlocked the value of Donald Trump, but few in the media had
+I unlocked it more directly and personally than Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Their MSNBC breakfast show was an ongoing soap-opera-ish or possibly Oprahesque
+drama about their relationship with Trump how he had disappointed them, how far they
+had come from their original regard for him, and how much and how pathetically he
+regularly embarrassed himself. The bond he once had with them, forged through...
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+In the
+world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been
+robbed from him. Scarborough and Brzezinski had taken their relationship with Trump and amply
+monetized it, while putting no percentage in his pocket-and in this instance, he judged
+his commission should be slavishly favorable treatment. Don't mention
+Joe or Mika to him was a standing proscription. Out of this accumulated rage came his June 29 tweet about Mika Brzezinski. Crazy Mika" in one tweet, he wrote...
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+"Mika and Joe totally love this. Ten days later, a large table of Bannonites was having dinner at the Bombay Club, a high-
+end Indian restaurant two blocks from the White House. One of the group- Arthur
+Schwartz, a PR consultant asked a question about the Mika and Joe affair. Perhaps it was the noise, but it was also a fitting measure of the speed of events in the
+Trump era: Bannon lieutenant Alexandra Preate replied, with genuine fogginess, "Who?"
+The operetta of the Mika tweets- the...
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+And yet, contravening all cultural and media logic, Donald Trump produced on a daily
+basis an astonishing, can't-stop-following-it narrative. In six months as president,
+failing to master almost any aspect of the bureaucratic process, he had, beyond placing his
+nominee on the Supreme Court, accomplished, practically speaking, nothing. Inside the White House, the daily brouhaha and world's fascination was no cause for
+joy. It was, in the White House staff's bitter view, the media that turned...
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+The role was to be Donald Trump's heirs and attendees. Their
+father took some regular pleasure in pointing out that they were in the back of the room
+when God handed out brains but, then again, Trump tended to scorn anyone who might
+be smarter than he was. Their sister Ivanka, certainly no native genius, was the designated
+family smart person, her husband Jared the family's smooth operator. That left Don and
+Eric to errands and admin. There were the outsiders, like Corey Lewandowski, the...
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+On June 9, 2016, Don Jr., Jared, and Paul Manafort met with a
+movieworthy cast of dubious characters in Trump Tower after having been promised
+damaging information about Hillary Clinton. When this meeting became public thirteen months later, it would, for the Trump White
+House, encapsulate both the case against collusion with the Russians and the case for it. Walking into Trump Tower that June day were a well-connected lawyer from Moscow,
+who was a likely Russian agent; associates of the...
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+seriously, and without a thought of any consequence here, were merely entertained
+by the possibility of dirty tricks; (c) the three men were united in their plan to get rid
+of Lewandowski-with Don Jr. as the hatchet man— and, as part of this unity,
+Manafort and Kushner need to show up at Don Jr.'s silly meeting. Whatever the reason for the meeting, no matter which of the above scenarios most
+accurately describes how this comical and alarming group came together, a year later,
+practically nobody...
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+the Kushner side, thus sacrificing Don Jr. in an attempt to deflect responsibility away from
+themselves. Even before word of the June 2016 meeting leaked out, Kushner's legal team-largely
+assembled in a rush since the appointment of Mueller, the special counsel had been
+piecing together a forensic picture of both the campaign's Russian contacts and Kushner
+Companies' finances and money trail. In January, ignoring almost everybody's caution
+against it, Jared Kushner had entered the White House...
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+developing a story that had far more details about the meeting quite possibly supplied by
+the Kushner side which it would publish on Saturday, July 8. In Hamburg, Ivanka, knowing the news would shortly get out, was presenting her
+signature effort: a World Bank fund to aid women entrepreneurs in developing countries. Ivanka, in the view of
+almost every White House staffer, profoundly misunderstood the nature of her job and had
+converted traditional First Lady noblesse oblige efforts into White...
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+Kasowitz— the lawyer whose
+specific job was to keep Trump at arm's length from Russian-related matters-was kept
+on hold on the phone for an hour and then not put through. The president insisted that the
+meeting in Trump Tower was purely and simply about Russian adoption policy. Even though it was likely, if not certain, that the Times
+had the incriminating email chain—in fact, it was quite possible that Jared and Ivanka and
+the lawyers knew the Times had this email chain— the president ordered...
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+Later that week, Corallo, seeing no good outcome and privately confiding that he
+believed the meeting on Air Force One represented a likely obstruction of justice quit.
+(The Jarvanka side would put it out that Corallo was fired.)
+"These guys are not going to be second-guessed by the kids," said a frustrated Bannon
+about the firewall team. Jared and Ivanka helped to coordinate a set of lurid leaks alleging drinking, bad
+behavior, personal life in disarray-about Marc Kasowitz, who had advised the...
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+poor-fish Jarvanka flunky—and he believed she had now deeply implicated herself in the
+entire disaster by participating in the Air Force One meeting. The next day, with more
+inquiries coming from reporters, he confronted Hicks inside the cabinet room, accusing
+her of doing Jared and Ivanka's dirty work. "You don't know what you're doing," shouted a livid Bannon at Hicks, demanding to
+know who she worked for, the White House or Jared and Ivanka. "You are dumb as a stone!" Moving
+from the cabinet...
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+And no decision hounded
+him so much-really from the first moment of his presidency—as what to do about
+Afghanistan. It involved not only his own
+resistance to analytic reasoning, but the left brain/right brain divide of his White House,
+the split between those who argued for disruption and those who wanted to uphold the
+status quo. In this, Bannon became the disruptive and unlikely White House voice for peace or
+anyway a kind of peace. In Bannon's view, only he and the not-too-resolute backbone...
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+He put the
+responsibility for it on two of his favorite people to blame: Bush and Obama. For Bannon, Afghanistan represented one more failure of establishment thinking. Curiously, McMaster had written a book on exactly this subject, a scathing critique of
+the unchallenged assumptions with which military leaders pursued the Vietnam War. Trump
+had already authorized the Pentagon to deploy the troop resources it believed were
+needed, but Defense Secretary Mattis refused to act without a specific...
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+By now Bannon believed McMaster would be out by August. In Bannon's scenario,
+Trump would give McMaster a fourth star and "promote" him to top military commander
+in Afghanistan. As with the chemical attack in Syria, it was Dina Powell even as she made
+increasingly determined efforts to get herself out of the White House, either on a Sheryl
+Sandberg trajectory or, stopping first at a way station, as ambassador to the United Nations
+who struggled to help support the least disruptive, most...
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+And when he won, not only would another grievously stupid chapter in the war in
+Afghanistan be avoided, but Jarvanka, and Powell, their factotum, would be further
+consigned to irrelevance and powerlessness. Withdrawal, whatever its merits and however much a takeover of Afghanistan by the
+Taliban could be delayed or mitigated - still left Donald Trump with having lost a war, an
+insupportable position for the president. The agency had spent sixteen years successfully avoiding Afghanistan, and...
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+we're stuck and losing and nobody here has a plan to do much better than that."
+Though there was still no hint of a viable alternative strategy in Afghanistan, Bannon,
+his Jarvanka frustration cresting, was sure he was the winner here. Later on the day of the Afghanistan briefing, Bannon heard about yet another harebrained
+Jarvanka scheme. They planned to hire Anthony Scaramucci, aka "the Mooch."
+After Trump had clinched the nomination more than a year before, Scaramuccia
+hedge funder and go-to...
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+It was not just that before he became a dedicated supporter of Donald Trump, he was a
+dedicated naysayer, or that he had once been an Obama and Hillary Clinton supporter. He was,
+by his own account, a fantastic networker. (This boast was surely true, since Skybridge
+Capital was a fund of funds, which is less a matter of investment acumen than of knowing
+top fund managers and being able to invest with them.) He had paid as much as half a
+million dollars to have his firm's logo appear in the...
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+He declared himself Trump's man on Wall Street,
+even if, practically speaking, he wasn't a Trump man and he was exiting his firm on Wall
+Street. Kushner, with whom Scaramucci
+had exercised a rare restraint during the campaign, and who had steadily heard from other
+New York contacts about Scaramucci's continued loyalty, helped push the question. But the Mooch was not ready to give up the
+fight: after yet more lobbying, he was offered, at Bannon's instigation, the post of
+ambassador to the...
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+Spicer, ever ridiculed in the media for his cockamamie defense of the White House and
+a seeming dumb loyalty, had been judged by the president, quite from the inauguration, to
+be not loyal enough and not nearly as aggressive as he should be in Trump's defense. "What does Spicer's forty-member
+comm staff actually do?" was a persistent First Family question. He appeared to have offered the job to various people, one of whom was
+Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Fox News personality and cohost of The Five....
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+can help us."
+It was the president who, meeting with Scaramucci, was won over by the Mooch's
+cringeworthy Wall Street hortatory flattery. (I can only hope to realize a small part of
+your genius as a communicator, but you are my example and model" was one report of the
+gist of the Scaramucci supplication.) And it was Trump who then urged that Scaramucci
+become the true communications chief, reporting directly to the president. On July 19, Jared and Ivanka, through intermediaries, put a feeler...
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+21
+BANNON AND SCARAMUCCI
+annon's apartment in Arlington, Virginia, a fifteen-minute drive from downtown
+B Washington, was called the "safe house." This seemed somehow to acknowledge his
+transience and to nod, with whatever irony, to the underground and even romantic nature
+of his politics the roguish and joie de guerre alt-right. Bannon had decamped here from
+the Breitbart Embassy on A Street on Capitol Hill. His lieutenant, Alexandra Preate, also
+lived in the building, as did the American...
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+Fed chairman and currying favor with Bannon-"licking my balls," Bannon said with a
+quite a cackle. In return for supporting Cohn's campaign to win the Fed job, Bannon was
+extracting fealty from him for the right-wing trade agenda. But Bannon had the vision
+and the discipline he was sure he did. I'll be there for the duration."
+Before the dinner, Bannon had sent around an article from the Guardian-though one
+of the leading English-language left-leaning newspapers, it was nevertheless...
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+Let's tell a prosecutor what not to look at!"
+Bannon then described the conversation he'd had with the president earlier that day: "I
+went right into him and said, 'Why did you say that?' And he says, 'The Sessions thing?'
+and I say, 'No, that's bad, but it's another day at the office.' I said, 'Why did you say it was
+off limits to go after your family's finances?' And he says, 'Well, it is ...? You may not like it, but you just guaranteed if
+you want to get anybody else in [the special...
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+He's got the five geniuses around him:
+Jarvanka, Hope Hicks, Dina Powell, and Josh Raffel." He threw up his hands again, this
+time as if to say Hands off. "I know no Russians, I don't know nothin' about nothin'. They are going to lay her out. They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg
+on national TV. He"-the president-"said to me
+everybody would take that Don Junior meeting with the Russians.
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+geniuses, the same people who talked him into firing Comey, the same people on Air
+Force One who cut out his outside legal team, knowing the email was out there, knowing
+that email existed, put the statement out about Don Junior, that the meeting was all about
+adoptions ... the same geniuses trying to get Sessions fired
+"Look, Kasowitz has known him for twenty-five years. Kasowitz has gotten him out of
+all kinds of jams. He's New
+York's toughest lawyer. Mark Corallo, toughest motherfucker I...
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+Now, I gave him a plan, I said you seal the Oval Office, you send those two kids home,
+you get rid of Hope, all these deadbeats, and you listen to your legal team —Kasowitz, and
+Mark Dowd, and Jay Sekulow, and Mark Corallo, these are all professionals who have
+done this many times. You listen to those guys and never talk about this stuff again, you
+just conduct yourself as commander in chief and then you can be president for eight years. If you don't, you're not, simple. "
+And then another call...
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+The fact that the
+president had been saying the same stuff about his rotten team from the first day, that this
+riff had been a constant from the campaign on, that he would often say he wanted
+everybody to go and then turn around and say he didn't want everybody to go—all that
+rather went over Scaramucci's head
+Scaramucci began taunting Priebus publicly, and inside the West Wing he adopted a
+tough-guy attitude about Bannon-"I won't take his bullshit." Trump seemed delighted
+with this behavior,...
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+Then, that evening, there was a small dinner in the White House, with various current
+and former Fox News people, including Kimberly Guilfoyle, in attendance and this was
+leaked. Drinking more than usual, trying desperately to contain the details of the
+meltdown of his personal life (being linked to Guilfoyle wasn't going to help his
+negotiation with his wife), and wired by events beyond his own circuits' capacity,
+Scaramucci called a reporter at the New Yorker magazine and unloaded. The...
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+candidates were Powell and Cohn, the Jarvanka favorites; OMB director Mick Mulvaney,
+one of the Bannon picks; and Kelly. In fact, Kelly-who would soon abjectly apologize to Priebus for the basic lack of
+courtesy in the way his dismissal was handled-had not been consulted about his
+appointment. Now the paramount issue before the Trump
+government was that somebody would have to fire Scaramucci. Since Scaramucci had
+effectively gotten rid of Priebus— the person who logically should have fired...
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+22
+GENERAL KELLY
+n August 4, the president and key members of the West Wing left for Trump's golf
+Oclub in Bedminster. The new chief of staff, General Kelly, was in tow, but the
+president's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, had been left behind. During the president's absence, the West Wing would be renovated-Trump, the
+hotelier and decorator, was "disgusted" by its condition. The president did not want to
+move over to the nearby Executive Office Building, where the West Wing business...
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+Some Trumpers, particularly those with over-the-transom access to the president,
+believed that he had been tricked into some form of very-much-not-Trump submission. Roger Stone, one of those people whose calls Kelly was now shielding the president from,
+spread the dark scenario that Mattis, McMaster, and Kelly had agreed that no military
+action would ever be taken unless the three were in accord—and that at least one of them
+would always remain in Washington if the others were away. After Kelly...
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+Adelson told the president, was the only person he trusted on Israel in the White House. Adelson's billions and implacability always impressed Trump, and his endorsement,
+Bannon believed, significantly strengthened his hand. But overriding the management of the harrowing West Wing dysfunction, Kelly's
+success or even relevance, as he was informed by almost anyone who was in a position
+to offer him an opinion depended on his rising to the central challenge of his job, which
+was how to manage...
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+in the White House for two years and then leave to run Trump's reelection campaign. "If
+you can get this idiot elected twice," Nunberg marveled, you would achieve something
+like immortality in politics. He seemed to
+have moved into a heightened state that allowed him to see just how ridiculous the White
+House had become. And, while many Bannonites
+argued the case for Jarvanka ineffectiveness and irrelevance just ignore them, they said
+-Bannon, with mounting ferocity and pubic venom, could abide...
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+Against this background, almost no one paid attention to the announcement by the
+Trump supporter and American neo-Nazi Richard Spencer that he was organizing a protest
+at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, over the removal of a statue of Robert E. "Unite the Right," the theme of the rally called for Saturday, August 12, was
+explicitly designed to link Trump's politics with white nationalism. On August 11, with the president in Bedminster continuing to threaten North Korea-
+and...
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+The
+signing was held in a big ballroom at the Clubhouse two hours after Alex Field's attack. During the signing, Trump took a moment to condemn the "hatred, bigotry, and
+violence on many sides" in Charlottesville. As Richard Spencer had correctly understood, the president's sympathies
+were muddled. It wasn't until the next morning that the White House finally tried to clarify Trump's
+position with a formal statement: "The President said very strongly in his statement
+yesterday that he condemns...
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+And only then: "We must love each other, show affection for each other and unite
+together in condemnation of hatred, bigotry and violence.... We must rediscover the
+bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans... . And
+those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the KKK, neo-
+Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold
+dear as Americans."
+It was a reluctant mini-grovel. As he got back
+on Marine One to head...
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+Outside of the portion of the electorate that, as Trump once claimed, would let him shoot
+someone on Fifth Avenue, the civilized world was pretty much universally aghast. Every CEO of a public company who had associated him- or herself with the Trump
+White House now needed to cut the ties. The overriding issue might not even be what
+unreconstructed sentiments he actually seemed to hold in his heart-Bannon averred that
+Trump was not in fact anti-Semitic, but on the other count he wasn't sure but...
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+He was still not sure he would be fired, yet Bannon, in only the second on-the-record
+interview he had given since the Trump victory, called Kuttner and in effect sealed his
+fate. If Trump was helplessly Trump in his most recent news conference, Bannon was
+helplessly Bannon in his chat with Kuttner. And he insulted his internal
+enemies— "they're wetting themselves."
+If Trump was incapable of sounding like a president, Bannon had matched him: he was
+incapable of sounding like a presidential...
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+the air that a terrorist breathed." This was the precise line Schwartz would hand out to
+reporters in the coming days in a further effort to establish Bannon's right-wing virtue. Alexandra Preate, Bannon's lieutenant, arrived at Joe's out of breath. Seconds later,
+Jason Miller, another PR man in the Bannon fold, arrived. During the transition, Miller
+had been slated to be the communications director, but then it had come out that Miller
+had had a relationship with another staff member who...
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+Seconds later, Schwartz looked up. His eyes widened and for a moment he went silent. Then he said: "Nunberg says Bannon's dead."
+And, indeed, unbeknownst to the Bannonites, even those closest to him, Bannon was at
+that moment finalizing his exit with Kelly. By the next day, he would be packing up his
+little office, and on Monday, when Trump would return to a refurbished West Wing-a
+paint job, new furniture, and new rugs, its look tilting toward the Trump Hotel-Steve
+Bannon would be back on...
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+EPILOGUE:
+BANNON AND TRUMP
+n a sweltering morning in October 2017, the man who had more or less single-
+O handedly brought about the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, stood on
+the steps of the Breitbart town house and said, with a hearty laugh, "I guess global
+warming is real."
+Steve Bannon had lost twenty pounds since his exit from the White House six weeks
+before he was on a crash all-sushi diet. "That building," said his friend David Bossie,
+speaking about all White Houses but...
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+for defying a federal court order to take down a monument of the Ten Commandments in
+the Alabama judicial building.)
+For Bannon, the president's political thinking had been obtuse at best. He was unlikely
+to get anything from McConnell-and indeed Trump had demanded nothing for his
+support for Luther Strange, which came via an unplanned tweet in August. Roy
+Moore was the clear candidate of the Trump base-and he was Bannon's candidate. Hence, that would be the contest: Trump against Bannon....
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+It was a full-on Trump speech, ninety
+minutes of rambling and improvisation the wall would be built (now it was a see-
+through wall), Russian interference in the U.S. election was a hoax, he would fire anybody
+on his cabinet who supported Moore. But, while his base turned out en masse, still drawn
+to Trump the novelty, his cheerleading for Luther Strange drew at best a muted response. Reading his audience and desperate to find a way out, Trump suddenly threw out a line
+about Colin Kaepernick...
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+The daily discussion among senior staffers, those still there and those now gone all of
+whom had written off Tillerson's future in the Trump administration-was how long
+General Kelly would last as chief of staff. There was something of a virtual office pool,
+and the joke was that Reince Priebus was likely to be Trump's longest-serving chief of
+staff. In return, the president heaped more abuse on
+Cohn- the former president of Goldman Sachs was now a "complete idiot, dumber than
+dumb." In fact,...
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+But, as sure as politics, someone would
+In that sense, the Trumpian and Republican future was already moving beyond this
+White House. There was Bannon, working from the outside and trying to take over the
+Trump movement. There was the Republican leadership in Congress, trying to stymie
+Trumpism-if not slay it. Indeed, fearing Haley's hold on the president,
+Bannon's side had-the very morning that Bannon had stood on the steps of the Breitbart
+town house in the unseasonable October weather— gone...
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+Most problematic of all, Hicks and Miller, along with everyone on the Jarvanka side,
+were now directly connected to actions involved in the Russian investigation or efforts to
+spin it, deflect it, or, indeed, cover it up. Miller and Hicks had drafted or at least typed-
+Kushner's version of the first letter written at Bedminster to fire Comey. Hicks had joined
+with Kushner and his wife to draft on Air Force One the Trump-directed press release
+about Don Jr. and Kushner's meeting with the...
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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+The locution, "If I were president..." was turning into,
+"When I am president..."
+The top Trump donors from 2016 were in his camp, Bannon claimed: Sheldon
+Adelson, the Mercers, Bernie Marcus, and Peter Thiel. In short order, and as though he
+had been preparing for this move for some time, Bannon had left the White House and
+quickly thrown together a rump campaign organization. The heretofore behind-the-scenes
+Bannon was methodically meeting with every conservative leader in the...
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020119.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+however long it lasted—had created the opening that would provide the true outsiders
+their opportunity. Trump was just the beginning. Standing on the Breitbart steps that October morning, Bannon smiled and said: "It's
+going to be wild as shit."
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020119
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+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020120.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
+I am grateful to Janice Min and Matthew Belloni at the Hollywood Reporter, who,
+eighteen months ago, got me up one morning to jump on a plane in New York and that
+evening interview the unlikely candidate in Los Angeles. My publisher, Stephen Rubin,
+and editor, John Sterling, at Henry Holt have not only generously supported this book but
+shepherded it with enthusiasm and care on an almost daily basis. Michael Jackson at Two Cities TV, Peter Benedek at UTA, and my lawyers,...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020121.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020121.txt
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020121.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+INDEX
+Abbas, Mahmoud, 231, 299
+Abe, Shinzo, 106
+Abraham Lincoln, USS, 182
+Abramovich, Roman, 80
+Adelson, Sheldon, 6, 141-43, 178, 289, 309
+Afghanistan, 42, 263-68, 275-76
+Agalarov, Aras, 254
+Agenda, The (Woodward), 116
+Ailes, Beth, 1, 4, 223-24
+Ailes, Roger, 1-8, 11, 24, 26, 57, 59-60, 147, 164, 178-79, 195-98, 210, 212, 222-23
+Alabama, 301-3
+Al Shayrat airfield strike, 193-94
+alt-right, 59, 116, 121, 128-29, 137-38, 174, 180, 296
+American Prospect, 297
+Anbang Insurance Group,...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9223d09e51bb6f9a1a6c71085fd1e2b79b6eebb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020122.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Baker, Peter, 277
+Bannon, Steve, 185, 209, 247
+Afghanistan and, 263-68
+agenda of, in White House, 115-21, 275-77
+agenda of, post-firing, 301-10
+alt-right and, 137-38
+background of, 55-60
+campaign and, 3, 12-13, 17-18, 55, 86, 112-13, 201
+Charlottesville and, 294-96
+China and, 7-8, 297
+Cohn and, 144, 146, 186
+Comey firing and, 169-70, 211-15, 217-18, 232-33, 245-46, 261
+CPAC and, 126-34
+eve of inauguration and, 4-10
+first weeks of presidency and, 52-55, 60-65, 67-70
+Flynn and, 95, 103,...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020123.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020123.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..427f6bd969f5679f584e841d93ec4d9992fa42c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020123.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Trump pressured to fire, 173-82
+Trump's personality and, 21, 23, 35, 45, 47-48, 148-49, 158
+Trump's Times interview and, 277-78
+White House appointments and, 4, 36, 86-87, 89, 189, 285
+Barra, Mary, 88
+Barrack, Tom, 27-29, 33, 42, 85, 233, 240
+Bartiromo, Maria, 205
+Bass, Edward, 56
+Bayrock Group, 100-102
+Bedminster Golf Club, 165, 213-14, 216, 287-94, 297, 302, 307
+Beinart, Peter, 297
+Benghazi, 97
+Berkowitz, Avi, 143
+Berlusconi, Silvio, 100
+Berman, Mark, 78
+Best and the Brightest, The...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020124.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020124.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ead83b1e3aee6e0a557ab52ed89c303110d0ad2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020124.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Brzezinski, Mika, 66-69, 121, 176, 247-49
+Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 66
+Buckley, William F., 127
+Bush, Billy, 10, 13-14, 34, 86, 96, 161
+Bush, George H. W., 26, 27, 34, 126
+Bush, George W., 16, 27, 44, 82, 90, 126, 128, 138, 182, 184, 199, 205, 225, 227, 264
+Bush, Jeb, 21, 56, 138
+business councils, 35, 87-88, 239, 298
+Camp David, 84
+Canada, 107, 228
+Card, Andrew, 27
+Carlson, Tucker, 140, 205
+Carter, Arthur, 74-75
+Carter, Graydon, 74, 199
+Carter, Jimmy, 27, 66
+Caslen, Robert L., Jr., 189
+Celebrity...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020125.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020125.txt
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020125.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Comey, James, 6, 11, 168-70, 211-20, 223-24, 229, 232-33, 237, 242-45, 261-62, 280, 307
+Commerce Department, 133
+Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), 126-39
+Conway, George, 201-2
+Conway, Kellyanne, 9-10, 12, 18, 20, 33, 37, 39, 43, 45, 48, 60, 64, 81, 84, 86-87, 91, 93, 96-97, 107, 109, 112, 122,
+127, 129, 132, 134, 146, 170, 175-76, 185, 188, 198-203, 205, 207, 209, 261, 269, 291
+Corallo, Mark, 238, 257, 259-60, 280-81
+Corker, Bob, 43
+Corzine, Jon, 56, 144
+Coulter, Ann, 29, 128,...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020126.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020126.txt
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020126.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Emanuel, Rahm, 27
+Enron, 278
+environmental regulation, 182, 295
+Epstein, Edward Jay, 102
+Epstein, Jeffrey, 28
+Europe, 5, 142
+European Union, 99
+executive orders (EOs), 120, 133
+climate change, 182
+immigration and travel ban, 61-65, 68, 70, 78, 95, 113, 117
+executive privilege, 245, 278
+Export-Import Bank, 271
+Facebook, 21
+Farage, Nigel, 275
+Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, 6, 11, 42, 96, 98, 101-2, 156, 159, 168-70, 210-20, 235, 244 46, 255, 281
+Federalist Society, 86
+Federal Reserve,...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020127.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020127.txt
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020127.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+General Motors, 88
+Georgia (post-Soviet), 226
+Gingrich, Newt, 177
+Giuliani, Rudy, 16, 30, 86-87, 210, 242, 279
+Glover, Juleanna, 78
+Glover Park Group, 203
+Goldman Sachs, 55-56, 81-82, 119, 143-49, 174, 179, 184, 270, 305
+Goldman Sachs Foundation, 82
+Goldwater, Barry, 127
+Gore, Al, 123
+Gorka, Sebastian, 129
+Gorsuch, Neil, 85-87, 133
+Grimm, Michael, 310
+Guardian, 276
+Guilfoyle, Kimberly, 223, 272-73, 284
+H- 1B visas, 36
+Haberman, Maggie, 91-92, 206-7, 277
+Hagin, Joe, 186, 229
+Hahn, Julia,...
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new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020128.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Homeland Security Department, 63, 86, 133, 218, 285, 288
+Hoover, J. Edgar, 219
+Hubbell, Webster, 97
+Hull, Cordell, 105
+Hussein, Saddam, 27
+Hutchison, Kay Bailey, 81
+IBM, 88
+Icahn, Carl, 20, 141, 211
+Iger, Bob, 88, 238
+immigration and travel ban, 36, 62-65, 68, 70, 78, 95, 113, 116-17, 138, 288
+infrastructure, 224, 295
+Ingraham, Laura, 201, 205, 222
+intelligence community, 6-7, 41-42, 98, 101-2, 104, 153, 159, 219
+Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE), 56-57
+In the Face of Evil (documentary),...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020129.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020129.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..430b3a5b98c3e872feaa980b29842a3ddd8b56f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020129.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Kasowitz, Marc, 238, 259-60, 280-81
+Kazakhstan, 281
+Keaton, Alex P., 128
+Kelly, John, 4, 63, 109, 188, 218, 285, 287-91, 294-97, 299-300, 304-7
+Kennedy, John F., 53, 84
+Kent, Phil, 92
+Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack, 183-84, 188-93
+Kim Jong-un, 293
+King, Martin Luther, Jr., 50-51
+Kirk, Russell, 127
+Kislyak, Sergey, 95, 106, 151, 154-55, 218, 236
+Kissinger, Henry, 41, 77, 142, 145, 193, 226-28
+Koch brothers, 178
+Kudlow, Larry, 143, 207
+Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 294-95
+Kurtz, Howard, 217
+Kushner,...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020130.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020130.txt
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020130.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Russia and, 24, 106, 154-56, 170, 236, 239, 253-58, 261, 271, 273, 278, 280, 283-84, 307-8
+Saudi Arabia and, 225-29
+Trump's speech to Congress and, 149-51
+White House staff and, 33, 110, 121, 140, 143-49, 186, 253, 268, 271-74, 282-83, 286
+Kushner, Josh, 69, 166
+Kushner Companies, 256
+Kuttner, Robert, 297-98
+labor unions, 67-68
+Ledeen, Michael, 104
+Lee, Robert E., 293
+Lefrak, Richard, 27
+Le Pen, Marine, 100
+Lewandowski, Corey, 11-13, 17, 26, 28-29, 204, 234, 237-38, 252-53, 255
+Lewinsky,...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020131.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020131.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ea7c5cb9d60a243a792e0517ef1d29f8b358fb6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020131.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Mexico, 39, 62, 77, 93, 228
+Middle East, 29, 70, 140, 145, 157, 190, 211, 224-33, 242, 264
+Mighty Ducks, The (TV show), 56
+military contractors, 265, 267
+Miller, Jason, 234, 237-38, 299
+Miller, Stephen, 61, 64-65, 89, 133, 148, 209, 213, 229, 258, 307
+Mnuchin, Steve, 13, 133, 290, 296, 304
+Mohammed bin Nayef, crown prince of Saudi Arabia (MBN), 228, 231
+Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia (MBS), 224-31
+Moore, Roy, 302-4
+Morgan, Piers, 22
+Morning Joe (TV show), 32, 66-67, 121, 189,...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020132.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020132.txt
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020132.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Netanyahu, Benjamin, 6, 142, 231
+New Republic, 98, 297
+Newsom, Gavin, 272
+New Yorker, 37, 56, 151, 154, 215, 284-85
+New York magazine, 74
+New York Observer, 72-76, 141
+New York Post, 15, 74, 113, 207
+New York Times, 37, 51, 90-92, 96, 151-53, 196, 205, 207, 211, 236, 237, 257, 259-60, 266, 271, 277
+Nixon, Richard M., 2, 8, 26-27, 41, 54, 90, 93, 212-13, 222
+Nooyi, Indra, 88-89
+North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 77
+North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 99
+North Korea, 291-93,...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020133.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020133.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4787252026f5fffe78b699246c306218992119aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020133.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+PayPal, 21
+Pelosi, Nancy, 78
+Peña Nieto, Enrique, 77-78, 228
+Pence, Karen, 124, 209
+Pence, Mike, 92, 95, 106-7, 123-24, 171, 209, 218, 240
+Pentagon, 7, 55
+Perelman, Ronald, 73, 141
+Perlmutter, Ike, 141
+Petraeus, David, 263-64
+Pierce, Brock, 56-57
+Planned Parenthood, 117
+Playbook, 171
+Podesta, John, 27
+Politico, 171
+Pompeo, Mike, 49, 51, 157, 306
+populists, 6, 24, 31, 100, 113, 118, 142, 174-75, 177, 276, 301
+Powell, Dina, 81-82, 145-46, 176-77, 184-88, 190, 192-94, 229, 235-36, 258, 261,...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020134.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020134.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3b0a22270512322db9d588b39e81270bae7689cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020134.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Renaissance Technologies, 58
+Republican National Committee (RNC), 10-11, 13, 26, 28, 30, 32-33, 52, 112, 119, 172, 205
+Republican National Convention, 21, 26, 28, 253
+Republican Party, 2, 18, 30, 40-41, 81, 86, 98, 111-12, 117-21, 128, 161-67, 171-72, 201, 290, 303
+fracturing of, 179-80, 253, 283, 306, 309-10
+Rhodes, Ben, 41, 154, 159, 185, 215
+Rice, Susan, 7, 41, 153
+Rometty, Ginni, 88
+Rose, Charlie, 309
+Rosen, Hillary, 78
+Rosenstein, Rod, 212, 214, 216-21, 279
+Ross, Wilbur, 78, 133,...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..76fb2d8d103be7da838ef48565e40f5dd0b2b2f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020135.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Scaramucci, Anthony, 268-74, 277, 281-86, 288, 307
+Scarborough, Joe, 32, 47, 66-69, 81, 121, 147, 176, 247-49
+Scavino, Dan, 229
+Schiller, Keith, 217, 229
+Schlapp, Matt, 127, 129, 131-33
+Schlapp, Mercedes, 129
+Schmidt, Michael, 277
+Schwartz, Arthur, 249, 298-300
+Schwartz, Tony, 22
+Schwarzman, Stephen, 35, 78, 87-88, 298
+Secret Service, 84
+Seinfeld (TV series), 56
+Sekulow, Jay, 281
+Sessions, Jeff, 4, 59, 61-62, 64, 94, 138, 151-52, 155-56, 170, 212, 214, 216-18, 220, 241-42, 245-46, 261, 277,...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..baac2bfe7ef62a71c648c0ea872d0d19fb8f121d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020136.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Syria, 42, 183-84, 188-93, 219, 226, 265
+Taliban, 267
+tax reform, 87, 167, 224, 290
+Tea Party, 5, 18, 26, 33, 58-59, 128, 161-63
+Thiel, Peter, 21, 222, 309
+Thrush, Glenn, 91, 277
+Tillerson, Rex, 4, 21, 86, 211, 225, 229, 265, 267, 296, 304-6
+Time magazine, 50, 56, 93, 130, 147, 276
+Time Warner, 78, 92
+trade, 116, 174, 276
+transgender ban, 284
+Treasury Department, 133
+Trotta, Liz, 223
+Trudeau, Justin, 107, 228
+Truman, Harry, 61
+Trump, Barron, 14
+Trump, Don, Jr., 17-18, 27, 204, 252-61, 271,...
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new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020137.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+electoral victory of, 3, 9-20, 24, 34-39
+executive orders and, 61-65, 120
+fake news and, 39, 48, 135-36, 152, 168, 215, 237
+Flynn and, 103-4, 106-7
+foreign policy and, 184, 226-28
+future of presidency of, 308-10
+Gorsuch nomination and, 85-87
+Haley and, 305-6
+Hannity interview and, 309
+Harrisburg trip and, 209
+immigration and, 61-65, 68, 117
+inauguration and, 1, 40-44, 47-51, 251
+information and influences on, 70-71, 108-9, 113-16, 188, 192-93
+intelligence briefings and, 115
+intelligence...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020138.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020138.txt
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020138.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+phone calls with foreign leaders, 78
+political style of, 45-48, 249-51
+popular vote and, 34
+press secretary and, 110, 205-6, 272-74
+Priebus as chief of staff and, 26-34, 109-10, 122, 146, 187, 243, 285
+Republican Party and, 112, 163
+right wing and, 196-97, 222-23, 237
+Russia and, 24, 37-39, 41, 95-107, 151-54, 168, 190-91, 212, 218-21, 236-42, 244-45, 253-62, 271-72, 278-79,
+283, 303, 307-8
+Saudi Arabia and, 224-32
+Scaramucci and, 269-71, 273-74, 282-84
+Scarborough and Brzezinski and, 66-69,...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24c65fb8f4f4da8fc87510fba6d3737e391d8f94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020139.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Christie and, 31
+Comey and, 170, 210-13, 216-17, 233, 237, 245, 261-62
+Haley and, 305
+Kelly and, 288-90, 306
+media and, 156, 202-3, 207, 272-73, 277-79
+Obamacare and, 166
+Paris Climate Accord and, 239
+Powell and, 81-82, 140, 145-46, 186-88
+Russia and, 239, 256-58, 261-62, 273, 307-8
+Saudi Arabia and, 229, 231
+Syria and, 190, 192
+White House role of, 68-71, 78-81, 118-19, 181, 187, 200, 252, 285
+White House staff and, 124, 146-48, 202-3, 268, 272-73, 282-83, 286, 289
+Trump, Melania, 14-15, 18,...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..55592375062e74493fa1962a06470a3d8130d53a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020140.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Venezuela, 293
+Vietnam War, 53, 264
+Vogue, 35
+Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, 201, 269
+Walker, Scott, 33
+Wall Street 2 (film), 270
+Walsh, Katie, 10, 18, 52, 64, 110-17, 119-25, 144, 161, 163, 168, 171-72, 181-82, 187, 239, 303
+Washington Post, 35, 37, 56, 78, 95-97, 105-6, 151-52, 155, 206, 211, 236, 237, 266
+Washington Times, 129
+Watergate scandal, 212-13, 278
+Weekly Standard, 38
+Weinstein, Harvey, 203
+Weissmann, Andrew, 278
+Welch, Jack, 88
+West Bank, 6
+White House communications...
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+ABOUT THE AUTHOR
+MICHAEL WOLFF has received numerous awards for his work, including two National
+Magazine Awards. He has been a regular columnist for Vanity Fair, New York, The
+Hollywood Reporter, British GQ, USA Today, and The Guardian. He is the author of six
+prior books, including the bestselling Burn Rate and The Man Who Owns the News. He
+lives in Manhattan and has four children.
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+From:
+Sent:
+To:
+Subject:
+Attachments:
+Steven Sinofsky
+2/21/2018 5:48:07 PM
+Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
+Fwd: Pro Rata: Wednesday, February 21
+image1.png
+Importance:
+High
+Excerpt from below... Same old story: Yesterday, I grabbed coffee with Day One Ventures
+founder Masha Drokova, and heard a familiar-and still disappointing
+—story: While raising her fund, she was told by prospective investors
+that she should get a male co-founder.
+• She initially considered the suggestion, she told...
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+Hot event alert: RSVP to our 2/26 event in NYC for interviews with NBA star
+Draymond Green, BBG Ventures' Susan Lyne, JPMorgan's Jennifer Piepszak, and
+Equinox CEO Harvey Spevak. Top of the Morning
+Illustration: Rebecca Zisser / Axios
+AT&T's proposed $85 billion purchase of Time Warner took another turn yesterday. A
+federal judge hearing the Justice Department's lawsuit to block the deal denied a
+request by the telecom giant to disclose communications between Justice Department
+officials,...
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+•
+Why it matters: The ruling is a blow to AT&T's attempt to show that the
+lawsuit to block the deal is politically motivated by President Trump's antipathy for
+CNN, which Time Warner owns. What they're saying: "We respect the judge's decision and look forward to
+the upcoming trial," said Dan Petrocelli, who is leading AT&T and Time Warner's
+defense in the case, in a statement. At a hearing on Friday, a Justice Department lawyer said that AT&T's
+argument for the documents "didn't make sense."
+Go...
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+Photo: George Rose/Getty Images
+Broadcom has adjusted its takeover offer for Qualcomm to $79 per share, down from
+the its "best and final" bid of $82. The move is a response to Qualcomm's
+announcement yesterday it would pay $127.50 a share for NXP, up from the $110 it
+had offered. Why it's the BFD: Broadcom and Qualcomm's takeover dance has taken a
+dramatic turn for what should have been a boring transaction between two chip
+companies.
+•
+Bottom line: "Broadcom has long said its acquisition of...
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+Venture Capital Deals
+• Moovit, an Israeli maker of a transportation app, has raised $50 million in Series D
+funding led by Intel Capital, with participation from Sequoia, BMW iVentures, NGP,
+Sound Ventures, BRM, Gemini, Vaizra, Vintage, and Hanaco. http://axios.link/fQSW
+• Vectra, a San Jose, Calif-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $36 million in
+Series D funding led by Atlantic Bridge, with participation from the Ireland
+Strategic Investment Fund, Nissho Electronics Corp., Khosla...
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+• Gabi, a San Francisco-based insurance shopping services, has raised $9.5 million in
+Series A funding led by Canvas Ventures, with participation from Correlation
+Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Securian Ventures, A. Capital
+Ventures and Project A. www.gabi.com
+• Dover Microsystems, a Waltham, Mass.-based cybersecurity company, has raised
+$6 million in seed funding. Hyperplane Venture Capital led the round with
+participation from Draper, Qualcomm Ventures and the Hub...
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+Equistone Partners Europe will retain a stake along with company management.
+www.winkemann.de
+Public Offerings
+• Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) plans to debut an IPO of its asset-management arm,
+WS, for Monday next week, according to Reuters. Deutsche Bank is planning to offer 25% of existine
+DWS shares for an expected 1.5 billion to €2 billion ($1.85 billion to $2.47 billion).
+http://axios.link/KNnd
+• Opes Acquisition, a Mexico-based blank check company formed by Axis Capital
+Management to acquire a...
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+More M&A
+• S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), a provider or markets data and analytics, has agreed to
+set to acquire Panjiva, a New York-based provider of supply chain data.
+www.panjiva.com
+• The Adecco Group, a Swiss human resources services firm, has acquired Vettery,
+a New York-based recruiting startup, for just over $100 million, according to
+TechCrunch. http://axios.link/hBcz
+• Oracle has acquired Zenedge, an Aventura, Fla.-based cybersecurity solutions
+provider. www.zenedge.com
+• Bosch has acquired...
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+• Nicholas Leiby has joined Weinberg Capital Group as director. He was
+previously vice president at Resilience Capital Partners. www.weinbergcap.com
+Final Numbers
+Reproduced from BP Energy Outlook 2018; Chart: Axios Visuals
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020151
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+Axios, 3100 Clarendon BIvd, Suite 200, Arlington VA 22201
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+1
+[DECEMBER DRAFT --- 287 pages]
+THE SNOWDEN AFFAIR
+A Spy Story in Six Parts
+By Edward Jay Epstein
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020153
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+2
+CONTENTS
+PROLOGUE
+On the Snowden Trail: Hong Kong 2014
+PART ONE
+The Intelligence Crisis
+Chapter One
+Chapter Two
+The Great Divide
+The Crime Scene Investigation
+PART TWO
+Snowden's Arc
+Chapter Three
+Chapter Four
+Chapter Five
+Chapter Six
+Chapter Seven
+Chapter Eight
+Chapter Nine
+Tinker
+Secret Agent
+Contractor
+Thief
+Crossing the Rubicon
+Hacktavist
+String-Puller
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020154
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+3
+Chapter Ten
+Chapter Eleven
+Chapter Twelve
+Chapter Thirteen
+Chapter Fourteen
+Raider of the Inner Sanctum
+Escape Artist
+Whistle Blower
+Enter Assange
+Fugitive
+PART THREE
+The Counterintelligence Conundrum
+Chapter Fifteen
+Chapter Sixteen
+Chapter Seventeen
+Chapter Eighteen
+Did Snowden Act Alone
+The Question of When
+The Keys to the Kingdom Are Missing
+The Unheeded Warning
+PART FOUR
+The Game of Nation
+Chapter Nineteen
+Chapter Twenty
+Chapter Twenty-One
+Chapter Twenty-Two
+Chapter Twenty-Three
+The Rise...
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+4
+Chapter Twenty-Four
+Chapter Twenty-Five
+Chapter Twenty-Six
+Chapter Twenty-Seven
+Dinner with Oliver Stone
+Vanishing Act
+through the Looking Glass
+the Handler
+Chapter Twenty-Eight
+Chapter Twenty-Nine
+PART SIX
+CONCLUSIONS
+Snowden's Choices
+The Whistle Blower Who Became an Espionage Source
+EPILOGUE
+THE SNOWDEN EFFECT
+Chapter Thirty
+Chapter Thirty-one
+The 'War on Terrorism' after Snowden
+America after Snowden: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
+Appendix A
+the Spies in this Book [TK]
+End...
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+6
+Chronology 1: Snowden Thriller:
+From Honolulu to Moscow in 82 Days. Edward Snowden begins working as an infrastructure-analyst in
+training at the National Threat Operations Center for outside contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. June 5, 2013, London The Guardian publishes a classified document revealing that the National
+Security Agency has secretly been gathering the telephone billing records of millions of American. In a 12-minute long video posted on the website of the Guardian,
+Edward Snowden...
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+7
+PROLOGUE
+On The Snowden Trail: Hong Kong 2014
+The National Security Agency, or, as it now commonly called, the NSA, was created on
+October 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...
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+8
+administrative zone of China, whose national security apparatus is ultimately controlled by
+Beijing. Making the possibility of questioning him even more remote, he next went to Russia, a
+country which has no extradition treaty with the United States. I decided to begin my investigation of this case in Hong Kong because it was the place to
+which Snowden first fled after leaving Hawaii. It
+would not protect him from the reach of US law since Hong Kong had an active extradition treaty
+with the...
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+9
+I arrived in Hong Kong on May 20" 2014- the same day that Snowden had arrived there the
+previous year. I checked into the five-star Mira Hotel. It was in the Tsim Sha Tsui shopping
+district of Kowloon, a 10-minute ferry ride away from Hong Kong island, where most of the
+foreign consulates are located. Snowden had told the journalists from the
+Guardian that that he had been at Mira Hotel since he first arrived in Hong Kong on May 20th
+until he left on June 10". My first surprise was that...
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+He proposed we meet at the Foreign Correspondent's Club on
+top of Ice House Street in central Hong Kong, a venue, I recalled, reminiscent of where John
+LeCarre had set the opening chapter of his spy novel The Honourable Schoolboy. When we spoke
+later, Bradsher told me that he knew Albert Ho, who had been retained as Snowden's lawyer, for more
+than a decade, and interviewed him many times as he was a leader of a political movement in
+Hong Kong. Bradsher said that a few days after Snowden had...
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+"Not even where he was staying in May in Hong Kong," I persisted. He leaned
+forward and, after a brief hesitation, said, jokingly I assumed that he would not divulge that
+information "even if you held a gun to my head." We met two more times but, true to his word,
+Tibbo would not say if he even knew the identity of the "carer."
+Meanwhile, Joyce Xu, a very resourceful Chinese journalist who was assisting me in Hong
+Kong, had filed the equivalent of a Freedom of Information request with the Hong...
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+After
+Snowden outed himself on the Internet, the mission began tracking Snowden's movements. Since
+Snowden, his lawyers and the journalists in his entourage frequently used their cell phones to text
+one another, it was fairly easy for the mission to follow Snowden's trail after he left the Mira
+hotel. Presumably, the Hong Kong Police also knew where he was during this period. My source
+further suspected that the massive Chinese intelligence contingent in Hong Kong also knew, since
+it had close...
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+13
+Nor did Snowden's breach begin with him 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 journalists in 2013. Even if
+he had managed to elude American intelligence from late May to early June 2013, he could not
+hide all the history that led to his decision to come to Hong Kong. There had to be an envelope
+of reality surrounding it, including Snowden's motivation, associates, movements,...
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+18
+CHAPTER ONE
+The Great Divide
+"What you've seen so far is just the tip of the iceberg."
+-- retired Admiral Michael McConnell, vice chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton
+On June 9, 2013, the Guardian, the British newspaper known for the quality and gravity of its
+reporting posted Snowden's 12-minute video on its website. In it, Snowden identified himself as
+an infrastructure analyst at a regional base of National Security Agency that was located in Oahu,
+Hawaii. He revealed in a calm, unemotional...
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+19
+room at the Mira hotel from June 3 to June 9", 2013, as the event was actually unfolding. Snowden, speaking for the camera, describes himself as a civilian contractor for the National
+Security Agency. "Sitting on his unmade bed —white sheets and covers, white headboard, white bathrobe, white
+skin-Snowden seems like a figure in some obscure ritual, being readied for sacrifice," George
+Packer wrote about the film in a widely-read article in The New Yorker. This powerful narrative, as lucidly...
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+20
+warrant and the PRISM slides, few of the other documents that Snowden had given Poitras and
+Greenwald for publication had little to do with either domestic surveillance or the infringements
+on the privacy of Americans. By the Lawfare Institute's count, 32 of Snowden's leaks to these
+journalists concerned the NSA's overseas sources and method, nine identified overseas locations
+of the NSA's intelligence bases, 25 of them revealed the identities of foreign officials of interest to
+US...
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+To be sure, the view of those on the Snowden side of the divide is not grounded in legal
+definitions, but in a broader notion of morality. Snowden's supporters do not accept that the law
+should be applied in this fashion to Snowden. They argue that Snowden had a moral imperative to
+act, even if it meant breaking the law. For example,
+Ben Wizner, a lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union who represented Snowden since
+November 2013, argues that Snowden's taking of classified documents was...
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+This
+expansion of the whistle-blowing concept to adversaries was echoed by Russian President
+Vladimir Putin. He complimented Snowden for having "uncovered illegal acts by the United
+States around the globe," Putin's view implies a convenient global concept of whistle-blowing
+that justified breaking US laws. The Washington Post and Britain's Guardian, the newspapers that
+initially published the purloined documents, won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. The journalists, who
+assisted Snowden in this...
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+23
+Yahoo and Google, collecting private data on hundreds of millions of their members provide them
+with vast searchable data bases that they can sell to advertisers and other search parties. As Snowden himself pointed out, "If Facebook is going to hand
+over all of your messages, all of your wall posts, all of your private photos, all of your private
+details from their server, the government has no need to intercept all of the communications that
+constitute those private records." These Internet...
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+24
+public only learned that the phone company was turning over its billing records on June 5, 2013,
+when Snowden disclosed it to the Guardian and Washington Post. It had obtained a warrant issued by a secret court established by
+Congress in 1978 as part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for each request for
+records. As its name implies, the FISA court was meant to deal
+with matters bearing on foreign intelligence activities in the United States. A month after the...
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+It was issued by Judge Roger Vinson of
+the FISA court on April 25, 2013 and ordered Verizon to turn over to the FBI all its billing
+records of landline customers for the next 90 days. Snowden also provided the Washington Post and Guardian with another secret document, which
+was actually a power point presentation on 20 slides by the NSA to other intelligence agencies. It was
+authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and was designed to
+collect messages sent over...
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+26
+officials, senior members of the Obama Administration, and members of the oversight committees
+of Congress do not view Snowden as a hero or even an authentic whistle-blower. Admiral Michael Rogers, who replaced General
+Alexander as head of the NSA in January 2014, said that March at a public forum at Princeton
+University. "Edward Snowden is not the "whistleblower" some have labeled him to be." He
+further explained to Congress: "Snowden stole from the United States government a large...
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+27
+would not be on Snowden's side of the divide (and the Snowden breach ended the career of many
+of them, including General Alexander.)
+But political leaders in both parties could also be found on the anti-Snowden side of the divide. "I don't look at this as being a whistle-blower." Senator Dianne Feinstein (D. - Calif.), the head
+of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said after she was briefed on Snowden's theft of documents. Mike Rogers, (R.-Mich.), her counterpart on the House
+Intelligence...
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+The members of the
+House and Senate Intelligence Committees, but not the public, also have been privy to an NSA
+investigation that established the chronology of his actions, including changing jobs, copying more
+than one million classified documents at the Signals Intelligence Center in Hawaii and flying to
+Russia. For example, when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theater on November
+22, 1963, he said famously, "I haven't shot anybody." Ten months later, the Warren...
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+But Snowden also has a credibility problem. For example, Snowden got access in the spring of 2013 to the
+super-secret NSA's computers storing these electronic files by working at Booz Allen Hamilton, a
+hedge-fund owned consulting firm, that helped manage computer systems at its Kunia base in
+Hawaii. On his application to Booz Allen in March 2013, Snowden claimed to be in the process
+of completing a master's degree at the University of Liverpool in computer security sciences,
+which he expected...
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+30
+movements in the latter part of June in Hong Kong. CIA Deputy Director Morell would go no
+further than to state that during that period he had no doubt the intelligence services of Russia and
+China "had an enormous interest in him and the information he [Snowden] had stolen."
+Presumably, the last thing these adversary services would want would be to make this "interest"
+transparent to the United States. I learned when I was interviewing James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's
+legendary...
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+31
+As in any case involving the loss of state secrets, uncontested facts remain in extremely short-
+supply. The opinion-laden appellatives such as "patriot" and "traitor" that have tended to fill the
+gap in the great divide do little to address the important mystery of how many thousands of state
+secrets were taken from the United States. How did Snowden breach the supposedly formidable
+defenses of the NSA? And what
+was the final destination of the stolen documents? For this endeavor, it is...
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+32
+CHAPTER TWO
+The Crime Scene Investigation
+"Any private contractor, not even an employee of the government, could walk into the NSA building, take
+whatever they wanted, and walk out with it and they would never know."
+Edward Snowden, Moscow 2014
+About 15 miles northwest of Honolulu on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, adjacent to the
+sprawling Wheeler Air Force Base, is a 250,000 square foot man-made mound of earth and
+reinforced concrete surrounded by an electrified fence. Inside the mound is a...
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+Snowden had been hired to work there as an
+outside contractor by Booz Allen Hamilton, a private company owned by a hedge fund, which
+managed much of the information technology at the Center. General Alexander, returning to Washington DC after assigning the sensitive job of
+investigating the breach to Richard "Rick" Ledgett, the Director of the NSA's Threat Operations
+Center at NSA's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. Ledgett was also the logical choice to head the damage...
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+The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon's own intelligence service, meanwhile
+was kept partially in the dark. It did not learn from the NSA that Snowden had stolen military
+documents, concerning the joint Cyber Command until July 10, 2013. Many of these files came from this joint command, which
+had been set up in 2011 by the NSA and Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force cryptological
+services to combat the threat of warfare in cyberspace. The loss was considered of such
+importance that...
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+35
+By late July, NSA investigators made their initial assessment. The logs showed that an unauthorized party had begun copying files in mid-April, which
+was just days after Snowden began his job at the Center. The breach illicit activity ended just
+before Snowden's last day of work there. Not only
+had he been in charge of the National Threat Center at the time of the Snowden breach, but he
+personally supervised the NSA's damage assessment team. And, in the shake-up that followed
+that followed,...
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+For one thing, Snowden had made the claim to journalists,
+four months after he was in Russia, that he had turned over all the documents he took from the
+NSA's compartments to journalists Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong. However, on August 18, 2013, the investigators had the opportunity to examine the files that
+Snowden had actually given Poitras and Greenwald in Hong Kong. This discovery came when
+David Miranda, Greenwald's romantic partner, was detained at Heathrow Airport by...
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+When I
+discussed the chronology of the copied documents with a former government official briefed on
+the investigation, he suggested that Snowden's purpose may have changed between 2012 and
+2013. When I asked him what might have induced the change, he replied "That is one of the
+unanswered questions." That Snowden only took these two whistle-blowing documents at the
+tail-end of his 9-month operation, and after he had contacted Poitras and Greenwald, suggests he
+may have had another motive prior...
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+Even if
+it went no further, the FBI would satisfy its superiors in the Department of Justice that it had done
+its law-enforcement job. When the investigation came to this fork in
+the road in the summer of 2013, according to a source on the House Intelligence Committee, it
+chose the former route. When the British spies Guy Burgess,
+Donald Maclean and Kim Philby, for example, fled to Moscow in the Cold War the presumption
+was that they had a prior intelligence connection with Russia. And Philby...
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+39
+23d but in actuality it had acted on June 22, 2013, which was the day before the plane (or
+Snowden) departed from Hong Kong. The Hong Kong authorities had been advised as early as
+June 19, 2013 that there were criminal charges against Snowden and only a typographical error in
+spelling out Snowden's middle name-James instead of John-- in the criminal charges prevented
+the Hong Kong police from immediately ordering his detention. His Hong Kong lawyers were
+advised of the pending charges, which...
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+40
+Putin then decided that this agent would be "welcome, provided, however, that he stops any kind
+of activity that could damage Russian-US relations." Putin's disclosure came as no surprise to the
+NSA investigation since the Russian pro-government newspaper Kommersant had reported that
+Snowden visited the Russian consulate in Hong Kong. Putin's authorization could certainly account for Aeroflot waiving its usual passport and visa
+check to allow Snowden to board its plane. It also might explain...
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+He also demonstrated that such a theft, which the NSA calculates
+exceeded one million documents, can go undetected for at least two weeks. If Snowden managed
+this feat on his own, as he claims in his Hong Kong video, it suggests that any other civilian
+employee with a perceived grievance against NSA practices or American foreign policy could also
+walk away with some of the most precious secrets held by US intelligence. Such vulnerability
+extends to tens of thousands of civilian contract...
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+43
+PART TWO
+SNOWDEN'S ARC
+"I woke this morning with a new name. Before
+me I saw 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. I woke this morning with a new name. Wolfking Awesomefox"
+--Edward Snowden in Geneva, June 12, 2008.
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+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."
+-Snowden in Moscow, 2014
+Edward John Snowden was born on June 21, 1983 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. His
+parents, Lon Snowden and Elizabeth "Wendy" Barrett, according to their marriage records, wed
+when they were both 18 in 1979. He was stationed at
+its main aviation base, where his father-in-law Edward John Barrett, was an officer and rising star
+of the Coast...
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+45
+parents separated, Snowden's mother, Wendy, bought a two-bedroom condominium in Elliott
+City, Maryland. She moved Snowden, along with his two cats, into the condominium. According to his neighbor Joyce Kinsey,
+Snowden, alone, stayed home almost all the time. At the age of 18, Snowden was still living by himself, while other teens his age went to
+college, Snowden now devoted a large part of his time playing fantasy games on the Internet. These Anime games had by 2002 achieved a fanatic...
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+46
+Instead of seeking a job in Japan, Snowden sought to join the Special Forces through the 18X
+program. It was an Army Reserve program created in 2003 that allowed individuals who had not
+served in the military or completed their education, to train to be a Special Forces recruit. He
+listed his religion on the application as "Buddhist" because, as he explained in a sardonic post on
+Ars Technica, "Agnostic is strangely absent" from the form."
+He enlisted in the army reserves on May 7, 2004,...
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+He also posted provocative
+modeling pictures of himself on the Ars Technica website. He commented on his own beefcake-
+style pictures "So sexxxy it hurts" and "I like my girlish figure that attracts girls." He approached
+a model agency called Model Mania. He also began dating Lindsay Mills around this time. She was an extremely attractive 19-year
+old art student at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Jonathan Mills, Lindsay's father, was an
+applications developer at the Oracle Corporation.
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+Snowden did not meet these standards. Lacking these qualifications, the CIA can make an exception only if a candidate had at least two
+years civilian or military work experience in the telecommunications and/or automated
+information systems field that are comparable to one of the requisite degree fields., Even here,
+Snowden in no way qualified. In fact, his only paid work was as a security guard at a language school at
+the University of Maryland, and that job lasted less than one year. Snowden,...
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+49
+Chronology2: The Snowden Thriller
+The Intelligence World, 2006-2014
+June2006-Feb 2007
+CIA
+Trainee, Langley, Virginia
+March 2007- Feb 2009
+CIA
+Communications officer. Geneva, Switzerland
+June 2009-Sept 2010
+DELL/ NSA
+Security instructor, Yokoda. Japan
+October 2010- March-2012 DELL/ NSA
+Computer platforms, Maryland-designing computer platforms
+April 2012- March 2012
+DELL/ NSA
+System administrator, Oahu, Hawaii
+M arch 2012- May 2013
+October 2013- Present
+BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON/ NSA
+Infrastructure...
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+51
+CHAPTER FOUR
+Secret Agent
+"Sure, a whistleblower could use these [computer vulnerabilities], but so could a spy."
+--Edward Snowden in Moscow
+The sudden transformation of Snowden in 2006 from a night watchman on a university
+campus to secret agent for the CIA provided him with a powerful new identity and one much
+closer to the avatars he adopted for his fantasy games. When Brian Williams, then a NBC anchorman,
+began an hour-long NBC television interview with Snowden in 2014 by saying, "It...
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+52
+period is Mavanee Anderson, a young and attractive summer intern at the US Mission from May
+to August 2007. She described befriending Snowden, who, according to her, said that he was in
+the CIA and also demonstrated to her his martial arts skills. During his time in Geneva, he received no promotions or commendations for his work. In
+December 2008, he received an unfavorable evaluation from his superior and a "derog," the
+CIA's shorthand for a derogatory comment. "It was not a stellar...
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+If any party was looking for a
+disgruntled US employees, Snowden's Internet chatter about bad choices in gambling could
+arouse its interest. That Snowden used his The TrueHooHa alias for these Internet posting would
+not prevent a sophisticated espionage organization, such as the Russian Intelligence service, from
+quickly uncovering that his true identity was Edward Snowden. Since it was no secret, at least to the Russian
+Intelligence services, that the US mission in Geneva housed the CIA...
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+The
+problem was that Snowden had deliberately misused it by adding code to it. This code could have
+compromised the security of the CIA's "live system." So while what the CIA public affairs officer
+said was correct, it clouded the issue. From Moscow, he wrote James Risen of the New York Times that his superior officer ordered him
+not "to rock the boat." Further, he complained that the technical team at the CIA station in
+Geneva had "brushed him off" even though he had a legitimate complaint....
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+55
+CHAPTER FIVE
+Contractor
+"Private contractors don't clear employees. The government does." --
+Admiral Michael McConnell, Vice Chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton
+Snowden, age 26, returned from Europe and moved into his mother's condo. He was not only
+unemployed now, having resigned the CIA without qualifying for any benefits, but his financial
+state had been hurt by the huge losses he had suffered playing the options market in Geneva. His
+vision of himself as a secret agent, the unstoppable...
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+It first had to find technicians willing to go to Japan. Since Snowden had a long-time
+interest in going to Japan, he was more than willing to relocate to Japan. For an outside contractor such as
+Dell, such a security clearance was pure gold. If a potential recruit lacked a top secret clearance,
+before Dell could deploy him or her at the NSA, it needed a wait for the completion of a time-
+consuming background check. Even though the CIA had "security
+concerns" about Snowden, as CIA Deputy...
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+Like Snowden, she also deemed herself, tongue and cheek, a "super hero." In this
+sense, her Internet avatar, was a match for Snowden's "Wolfking Awesomefox,"
+In Japan, Mills and Snowden spent time with another American couple, Jennie and Joseph
+Chamberlin, who also worked at the Yokota base. Jennie, a sergeant in the public affairs section
+of the US Air force, had been at Art College with Mills, and called herself in her blog the "Little
+Red Ninja." Her husband, Joseph Chamberlin was a...
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+Hacktavists such as Julian Assange had adopted the battle cry: system administrators, or "syst
+admins of the world unite." Instead of asking them to "throw off their chains," as Marx did, he
+asked them to send classified documents about secret government activity to the Wikileaks site. Snowden recalled in Moscow in 2014: "I actually recommended they [the NSA] move to two-
+man control for administrative access back in 2009." To make his point even clearer, he added:
+"A whistleblower could use...
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+Even though she had been living on and
+off with Snowden during the past two years abroad, including while he worked at the CIA in
+Switzerland and the NSA in Japan, they had not shared a home in America up until now. The
+now 25-year old Mills posted on Instagram "Finally in our first US place together." She also put
+on line pictures of him in bed with her, who she now affectionately referred to in her posts as a
+"computer crusader."
+Dell meanwhile had him to work on problem- solving for its...
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+It had proceeded from the effort of the Clinton
+Administration to cut the size of the government by privatizing tasks that could be more
+efficiently done by for profit companies. US Investigations Services, or USIS as it is now called,
+which won the contract for background checks, was initially owned by the hedge fund Carlyle
+Group who later sold it to another hedge fund, Providence Equity Partners. In Snowden's case, as USIS did not have access to Snowden's CIA
+personnel files, it did not...
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+61
+blocks from the Royal Kunia country club. It had a master bedroom with a walk-in closet, a patio
+deck in back shielded from public view by a clump of palm trees and a large garage with an
+automatic door. The move to Hawaii entailed a brief separation from his girlfriend since Mills had
+committed her to attending her girlfriend's wedding in May. After he left for his new assignment,
+she wrote on Instagram, "Sex toy party and then saying goodbye to my man -- well not goodbye
+so much as see you...
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+62
+CHAPTER SIX
+Thief
+"We begin by coveting what we see every day"
+—Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs
+In Hawaii in 2012, Snowden was living a very comfortable life. He was earning from Dell
+just over $120,000 a year. Looking back at this period of life from Moscow,
+he said he had been "living in paradise."
+He went to work five times a week, a 15 minute trip drive through a lush landscape with sugar
+plantations. After passing through security, he parked his car in a sprawling parking lot,...
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+He later told a Libertarian gathering, at which Ron Paul also spoke, "Law is a lot
+like medicine. Not only did Snowden support this position in his Internet postings, but so did his
+girlfriend Lindsay Mills in her own on-line postings. Most relevant to his future activities at the NSA, Snowden whole-heartedly agreed with the
+position of Paul on the dangers inherent in government's surveillance of US citizens. Paul
+described the CIA, the organization which had forced Snowden out, as nothing...
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+64
+Two days after his 29" birthday dinner on June 21st, she described him playfully as a "goof."
+She wrote in her blog:"The universe is telling me something and I'm pretty sure it's saying get out,
+Fuck you Hawaii." In early July, she summed up her shaky situation with Snowden, in another
+blog, writing: "I moved to Hawaii to continue my relationship with E. [but] it has been an
+emotional roller coaster since I stepped off the plane." She also found it odd that Snowden would
+work on his computer...
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+65
+available to him in his job at Dell, he may have been seeking wider access in 2012 for a more
+nefarious purpose than a NSA job. While Snowden may have believed such results
+would elevate him, the NSA's offer did not meet his expectations. "It was totally unrealistic for
+Snowden to expect to get a SES position," a former senior NSA officer told me. Snowden
+ambitions may have been disappointed in this instance, but it did not prevent him from later
+claiming that he had been a senior adviser to...
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+66
+CHAPTER SEVEN
+Crossing the Rubicon
+"What I came to feel is that a regime that is described as a national security agency has stopped representing the
+public interest and has instead begun to protect and promote state security interests. "
+--Edward Snowden, interviewed in Moscow 2014
+Soon after Snowden failed to get a SES job at the NSA, he intensified his rogue activities. At
+that time, Dell was tasked with building an enhanced backup system for the NSA in Hawaii. Deputy
+Director Ledgett...
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+67
+This 2012 theft was made even more serious by the interconnection of NSA computers with
+those of other intelligence agencies. After the 9/11 Commission concluded that part of the reason why US
+intelligence agencies were unable to "connect the dots" in advance of the attack was because this
+"stove-piping, the NSA stripped away a large part of its "stove-piping." One result was that the
+NSANet, which Snowden had access to at Dell in 2012, became a shared network. In
+maintaining them, system...
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+In his 1956 book The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and
+Consequences of American Security Policies, the sociologist Edward Shils brilliantly dissects the
+fascination with secrecy among individuals on all ends of the political spectrum who fear that
+government agencies will use covert machinations against them. In Shils' concept, this anti-
+government counter-culture is "tormented" by the government's possession of knowledge
+unavailable to them. This is the direction of the
+future but I...
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+69
+represented at the Computer Chaos Club convention in Berlin. In addressing these cyber punks
+Assange and his followers at Wikileaks declared that the main enemy in cyber space was the NSA. In the late fall of 2012, Snowden further tested his newly found powers. Using an alias, he
+reached out to some of the leading hacktavists. It opened a door for him to the darker side of
+cyber space.
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+"When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss gazes into you". ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
+By 2012, the alienated hacktavist battling to unlock the secrets of evil corporations and
+governments had become a stock hero of popular culture. For example, in the prize-winning Girl
+with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy by Stieg Larsson, which sold 90 million copies, the heroine, a self-
+educated hacker in her twenties named Lisbeth Salander steals incriminating documents from
+computers that provides journalist...
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+So, to evade this built-in transparency in the Internet, dark side users have come to
+rely on ingenious software to hide their IP address. It was first called The Onion Router, since it moves IP addresses through
+multiple layers, but it quickly became known simply by its acronym, TOR. It was created by Ross Ulbricht, a libertarian who wore a
+Ron Paul t-shirt, "to create a website where people could buy anything anonymously, with no trail
+whatsoever that led back to them." (Ulbricht received a...
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+If US intelligence services used it, the targets could figure out
+that anyone visiting a site without an IP address was using TOR software to hide it. If TOR was
+exclusive used by US intelligence services, the targets could further deduce that all the
+anonymous visitors were avatars for American intelligence. It even provided funding for its promulgation with the State
+Department, the National Science Foundation, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors
+financing TOR's core developer. The public...
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+He was the North American representative
+for Wikileaks before he moved to Berlin in 2013. He was so well-regarded among
+hacktavists that Assange chose him as his keynote speaker replacement at the "Hackers of the
+Planet Earth" (HOPE) convention in New York City. Assange also sung his praises, telling
+Rolling Stone "Jake [Appelbaum] has been a tireless promoter behind the scenes of our cause."
+For its part, Rolling Stone entitled its profile of Appelbaum, "Meet the most dangerous man on
+the...
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+74
+Nevertheless, Snowden worked to assist the TOR movement. This activity required a two gigabyte server called "The Signal," which
+he described as the largest TOR relay station in Honolulu. Sandvik first heard directly from Snowden in November 2012. He would later tell Sandvik from Moscow that he had been "moonlighting" on behalf of
+the TOR cause at the NSA. The "crypto party" movement itself had
+been started in 2011 in Australia by Asher Wolf, a radical hacktavist and anarchist living...
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+On December 11, 2012, following Snowden's instructions, Sandvik arrived shortly before 6
+PM at the Fishcake furniture store in downtown Honolulu. She proceed to the back of the store
+where there was a public space called the Box Jelly. Folding chairs and work tables had already been set up, Snowden was there waiting for her with
+Lindsay Mills, who he introduced to Sandvik as his girlfriend. But that Snowden brought her and
+introduced her to Sandvik suggests that he did not keep secret from her...
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+He also continued to invite activists to his crypto parties and he
+openly advertised the Oahu Crypto Parties on the Internet until 2013. It better reflected on what CIA
+Deputy Director Morell, who reviewed the situation in 2014 as a member of President Obama's
+NSA Review Committee, described as the NSA's new "culture of transparency." Even though the
+NSA's activities were largely walled off to the outside world, he found that the NSA in the post-
+Cold War age had encouraged its technical...
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+77
+CHAPTER NINE
+The String-Puller
+"It wasn't that they put it on me as an individual - that I'm uniquely qualified [or] an angel descending
+from the heavens — as that they put it on someone, somewhere."
+--Edward Snowden in Moscow, 2013
+Downloading NSA documents was not Snowden's only rogue activity while working at the
+NSA for Dell in 2012. Three weeks after the Crypto party, Snowden began anonymously
+contacting a high-profile journalist, He used the same alias "Cincinnatus" that he used...
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+Like Poitras, he joined the board of directors
+of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The foundation, which eventually Runa Sandvik and
+Micah Lee would join, had been set up expressly to funnel money to both Assange's Wikileaks
+site and the defense fund for Bradley Manning after he was arrested. According to
+Assange, "WikiLeaks had been cut off from more than 90 percent of its finances." So the
+Freedom of the Press Foundation came to its rescue. "The field of battle is WikiLeaks." He served...
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+Snowden, unwilling to deal with
+Greenwald through an unencrypted channel, broke off contact with him in January 2013. The alternative route to Greenwald that Snowden chose was Laura Poitras. They both were founding board members of the Freedom of the Press
+Foundation. Government's increasing powers of domestic surveillance [through] its expanding
+covert domestic NSA activities"
+Since 2011, Poitras had been filming the construction of a massive NSA repository for data in
+Bluffdale, Utah. Just...
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+He used Lee, who was the chief technology officer
+at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, as the encrypted gateway to Poitras who, it will be
+recalled was a founding Board member of that small foundation. Lee had been an associate of
+Runa Sandvik's at TOR and was a prominent member of Noisebridge, an eclectic anti-
+government hackers' commune based in Northern California, of which Appelbaum was also a
+member. "I
+need to get information securely to Laura Poitras and her alone, but I can't find...
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+In January 2013, he was merely a contract employee of Dell working as a
+computer technician at the NSA base in Hawaii. He said that he had read Greenwald's account in Salon that past April, a
+blog in which Greenwald detailed the 40 times in which Poitras was searched by US authorities. The story also said that Poitras believed that she was on a special watch-list and under constant
+US government surveillance. She had come under such scrutiny by US authorities, it turned out,
+because of her...
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+To elude this "adversary," Snowden stressed to her that she would have to adopt a
+conspiratorial set of mind. So
+Poitras knew, as early as January 2013 that she was creating an encrypted channel for someone
+with access to NSA secrets and who would be incriminated by providing them to her. The key source for Poitras' previously-referred to short video was William Binney. The NSA's domestic surveillance program that Binney told
+the press about years before being interviewed in Poitras' film was...
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+83
+practically include comprehensive coverage of the United States." As a result, he wrote. "The
+amount of US communications ingested by the NSA is still increasing."
+He further offered to substantiate her worst fears about the growth of NSA surveillance' "I
+know the location of most domestic interception points, and that the largest telecommunication
+companies in the US are betraying the trust of their customers, which I can prove." He even
+proffered, evidence implicating President Barak Obama...
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+84
+met and "everything else is done," he said "The key will follow." He was now pulling the strings. One of his conditions was that she helps him recruit Greenwald and other outlets for his
+disclosures. He next directed her to contact Greenwald. I believe you know him." (Snowden apparently did
+not tell her that he had unsuccessfully attempted to reach out to Greenwald before he had
+contacted her.)
+His continued interest in Greenwald was understandable. Aside from Greenwald's opposition
+to what...
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+Even though
+Gellman had left the staff of the Washington Post in 2010, he had previously written several
+stories on that subject for the newspaper. He
+was therefore interested in Poitras' offer (although he would consult a friend at the Justice
+Department about the legality of publishing NSA documents. Snowden now had laid the groundwork for at least two possible outlets; one an establishment
+newspaper in Washington DC, the Washington Post; and a well-respected international
+newspaper, the...
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+He also echoed other concerns Greenwald had publicly
+expressed including defending American privacy from government intrusions. He asserted in
+his email that the "shock" of the documents he would give Greenwald would result in the public's
+learning about the secret "mechanisms through which our privacy is violated." According to
+Snowden's assessment, following that initial uproar, they could achieve another objective in their
+common cause. He said to Poitras, "He's real," and he agreed to help...
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+87
+CHAPTER TEN
+Raider of the Inner Sanctum
+"They think there's a smoking gun in there that would be the death of them all politically."
+-Edward Snowden in Moscow
+The nightmare of the NSA is a penetration. As the CIA, FBI and NSA found out in the 1990s,
+No intelligence service is invulnerable to it. Any employee of a large intelligence organization can
+turn, or be turned, against it. Among the more than 10,000 intelligence workers employed by the
+NSA, it is a near certainty that over time one or...
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+These Level 3 documents
+are described by NSA executives as "the Keys to the Kingdom" because they could invalidate
+America's entire intelligence enterprise if they fell into the hands of an adversary. At Dell, Snowden had access mainly to Level 1
+and Level 2 data (which he could, and did, download from shared sites on the NSA Net.) These
+lower level documents had whistle-blowing potential since they concerned NSA operations in the
+US. Consequently, at Dell, while Snowden could find
+documents of...
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+Since it handled higher level secret documents,
+Booz Allen had stricter requirements for applicants than Dell. He wrote on his application that he was expecting a master's degree from
+the online division of Liverpool University in England. According to
+Admiral McConnell, Snowden never actually worked in the Booz Allen offices, which are housed
+in a skyscraper in downtown Honolulu. Instead, he was immediately assigned to work at the
+NSA's highly-sensitive National Operations Threat Center in the...
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+90
+He returned on April 13th to Hawaii, One domestic task he to attend to was helping Mills
+pack up their possessions, which they stored in boxes in the garage. On Monday April 15th, Snowden began on-the-job training as an analyst at the National
+Threat Operations Center—a training that he would not complete. The same week he began the
+training, he prepared his exit by writing Booz Allen that he needed a brief medical leave in May to
+undergo medical treatment for his putative epilepsy symptoms....
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+Even though
+Snowden was no longer a system administrator, he might still have been able to steal or borrow a
+service computer. Yet, despite all the NSA's and Booz Allen's security measures, he managed
+to download hundreds of thousands of level 3 documents to an unsealed computer. He also took some less-sensitive documents from the administrative file (which contained
+mainly Level 1 documents) at the end of April. He completed the operation on Friday May 17, 2013, the last day he would ever...
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+92
+CHAPTER ELEVEN
+The Escape Artist
+"I'm not self-destructive. But if we don't
+take chances, we can't win."
+--Snowden in Moscow
+The next evening Snowden drove to Honolulu International Airport. At this point, Snowden was still a free man. Snowden's destination was Hong Kong. After
+crossing the International Date Line, Snowden waited three hours in the transit zone of Narita.
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+"That whole period was very
+carefully planned and orchestrated," Snowden later told the Guardian in Moscow. Here, for the
+first time, Snowden communicated directly with first Gellman and then Greenwald. He emailed Gellman under the alias "Verax
+" Already, via Poitras, he had provided this Washington Post journalist with power point slides
+from a NSA presentation about a joint FBI-NSA-CIA operation codenamed PRISM. In attempting to persuade him of the
+urgency of the trip, he wrote him that he...
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+94
+short-term travel to meet with me." He added pointedly "You need to be involved in this story."
+To further convince him, he suggested that they immediately speak on the phone via a website
+that encrypts conversations. If Greenwald
+wanted the scoop, he had to follow Snowden's instructions, which included dividing the scoops
+between the Guardian and the Washington Post. According to his plan, Gellman would break the
+PRISM story in the Washington Post and Greenwald would break the "mass...
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+Poitras also
+asked the hacktavist Jacob Appelbaum to help her interview Snowden about the NSA's
+operations. Appelbaum had communicated
+with Snowden under his Oahu Crypto party alias about an obscure piece of software just a few
+after Snowden had met with Runa Sandvik in Hawaii in 2012. However he learned about him,
+Snowden allowed Appelbaum to put to him detailed questions to concerning the secret operations
+of the NSA before he met with Poitras and Greenwald in Hong Kong. Indeed, Poitras...
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+She explained to Greenwald, "It is
+going to sound crazy to some people." Her concern was that it would detract from the credibility
+of the rest of the story. "Even
+the Constitution is subverted when the appetites of power demand it," Snowden asserted, and
+paraphrasing President Thomas Jefferson, he continued. "Let us speak no more of faith in man,
+but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography." Snowden, showing his cult-
+like faith in encryption, had "cryptography" for...
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+97
+not turn over the second cache, telling Greenwald, "There are all sorts of documents that would
+have made a big impact that I didn't turn over."
+By the time he received the message from Poitras on June 1", Snowden had finished his
+preparations for the journalists. With selected documents copied on a thumb drive, he moved
+from the residence where he had been staying for ten days to a venue for meeting the reporters. The place he chose was the five-star, $330 a day, Mira hotel in the Kowloon...
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+The [American] system failed comprehensively, and each level of oversight,
+each level of responsibility that should have addressed this, abdicated their responsibility."
+--Edward Snowden in Moscow
+While Snowden was attempting to reel in the journalists in Hong Kong, Lindsay Mills received
+a jarring surprise in Hawaii. The brief note
+Snowden left her indicated that her eight year relationship with Snowden had, at least temporarily,
+been put on hold by him. "I feel alone, lost, overwhelmed, and...
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+99
+MacAskill had stayed at the W Hotel when Poitras and Greenwald Poitras went to the Mira
+Hotel. Poitras did not want to bring along an uninvited guest to the first meeting with Citizen
+Four. As instructed, at 10 AM on June 3rd, she and Greenwald went to the Mira restaurant. Greenwald noted: "The first thing I saw was the unsolved Rubik's cube
+twirling in the man's left hand." The man said "Hello" and introduced himself as "Ed Snowden."
+Greenwald was particularly surprised by Snowden's boyish...
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+100
+Snowden also performed his security procedures on camera, including stuffing bed pillows
+under the door to block any eaves-droppers, throwing a red blanket over his head, which he called
+jokingly his "magical cloak of power." He explained to Greenwald that his donned his "cloak"
+when he turned on his laptop to prevent any hidden cameras in the room from spotting his
+password. It was not without irony that he went
+through these security rituals to protect his data as he allowed Poitras to...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.
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+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
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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"...
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+189
+PART FIVE
+WALKING THE CAT BACK
+Deception is a state of mind—and the mind of the state
+--James Jesus Angleton
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020341
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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
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+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...
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+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,...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+" 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...
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+225
+CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
+The Consequences for America: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
+[TK]
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020377
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+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,...
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+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...
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+"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.)...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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.
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+234
+http://www.thejournal.ie/edward-snowden-says-the-us-can-look-at-nude-
+photos-2032314-Apr2015
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020386
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+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...
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+236
+"He pointed out from Moscow..."—Snowden interview with Brian Williams. NBC Interview, op.cit.
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+"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....
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+"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....
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+"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,...
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+"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....
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+"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...
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@@ -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...
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+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...
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@@ -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...
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@@ -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...
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@@ -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,...
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@@ -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...
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@@ -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,...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+"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...
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+"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...
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@@ -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...
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@@ -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...
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+"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....
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+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,...
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+"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....
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+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...
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@@ -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...
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@@ -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...
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@@ -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.
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@@ -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...
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@@ -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...
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@@ -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,"...
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+"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.
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+"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...
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@@ -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...
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+"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..." -...
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@@ -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....
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+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
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@@ -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)...
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+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:...
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+"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...
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+"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...
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+"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.
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+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,...
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+"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..." --...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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@@ -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...
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+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/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...
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+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...
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@@ -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...
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@@ -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...
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+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. Preate
+Chief Executive Officer
+CapitalHQ
+The information transmitted in this email (including...
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@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+From:
+Sent:
+To:
+Subject:
+Attachments:
+[triversr@gmail.com]
+10/11/2018 5:34:33 PM
+Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
+Update
+PHOTOS. pptx; HONOR KILLINGS MS.doc
+Importance:
+High
+miss chatting with you
+am back at work; will give keynote to the Louisiana State Psychological Association
+in early November and next day meet with department heads and deans for three local Universities, Tulane,
+New Orleans, Louisiana State to see if some kind of 3-year deal can be worked out
+then off to U Texas at...
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+Chinese Influence &
+American Interests
+PROMOTING CONSTRUCTIVE VIGILANCE
+A PUBLICATION OF THE HOOVER INSTITUTION
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020447
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+Chinese Influence &
+American Interests
+PROMOTING CONSTRUCTIVE VIGILANCE
+Report of the Working Group on
+Chinese Influence Activities in the United States
+LARRY DIAMOND
+Senior Fellow
+The Hoover Institution
+Stanford University
+Co-Chairs
+ORVILLE SCHELL
+Arthur Ross Director
+Center on US-China Relations
+Asia Society
+HOOVER INSTITUTION PRESS
+STANFORD UNIVERSITY |
+STANFORD, CALIFORNIA
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020448
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@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+With its eminent scholars and world-renowned library and archives, the Hoover
+Institution seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote
+economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace for
+America and all mankind. 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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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....
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+"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.
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+'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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+• 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.
+•...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.)...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+"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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"##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...
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+"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,...
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+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:...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+"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...
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+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....
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+"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....
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+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....
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+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...
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+"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....
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+"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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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),...
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+(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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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....
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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,...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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.
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+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...
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+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...
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+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
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+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...
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+Mishcon de Reya
+Yours faithfully
+Muncande RegaLi
+Mishcon de Reya LLP
+Direct Tel:
+Direct Fax:
+Email:
+51150637.2
+4
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020665
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+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 <noreply+feedproxy@google.com>
+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...
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+
+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...
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+
+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...
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+
+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
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+
+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,...
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+
+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
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+
+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...
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+
+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...
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+
+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...
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+
+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
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+
+What might look like a fun photo at first glance, showing two brothers, Michael and Sean McQuilken, is actually the last
+picture of them before being struck by lightning. The photo was taken at Moro Rock in California's Sequoia National Park
+on August 20, 1975. I took a photo of Mary (their sister) and Mary took a
+photo of Sean and me. Sean was collapsed and huddled on his knees. All of them survived but, sadly, Sean took his own life in 1989.
+#12 Moving An Apartment...
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+
+This amazing photo, taken in Alba Iulia, Romania back in 1987, shows construction workers moving a whole house after
+it was deemed to be in the way of a new boulevard. The building was split into two parts and moved 55 meters to the side. The workers moved the 7,600-ton building in just six hours.
+#13 Motel Manager Pouring Acid In The Water
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020678
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+
+The photograph, taken by Horace Cort, shows Jimmy Brock, manager of the Monson Motor Lodge motel pouring a bottle
+of muriatic acid into the pool to scare protesters swimming in the pool. Martin Luther King Jr was arrested for
+trespassing at the same motel seven days prior and the protesters planned a swim-in in the motel's pool.
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+Image source: Rare Historical Photos
+This photo, taken in 1948, shows Lucille Chalifoux, a 24-year-old woman auctioning off her children after her husband
+lost his job and the family was forced to move from their apartment. Lucille was pregnant with her fifth child at the time. All of the children were bought off and rumors say they were forced into slavery.
+#15 "Tragedy By The Sea'
+Photographer John Gaunt was in the front yard of his beach home when he heard his neighbor shouting...
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+
+"In 1998, I found myself in Aparan, a large town an hour's drive from Armenia's capital, Yerevan. As soon as I took my first shot, an
+old man approached me," said French photographer Antoine Agoudjian. "Tears streamed down his face. He told me that
+his son had died. It was beautiful, not because
+the man is beautiful, but because he represents something deep inside the collective consciousness of the Armenian
+community: a celebratory resilience in the face of overwhelming...
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+
+What looks like an innocent high school picture, actually hides a dark secret - the teens on the left, pretending to point
+guns at the camera, were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the same people that organized and carried out the Columbine
+shooting.
+#18 Atomic Bomb Detonation
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020683
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+Image source: Reddit
+Harold Edgerton was an MIT physicist, photographer, and pioneer of strobe light photography - a type of photography
+that allowed to capture incredibly fast moving things clearly. This photograph was taken at the Nevada ProvingGrounds
+by Edgerton on June 5, 1952, during the operation Operation Tumbler-Snapper test series.
+#19 'flight Of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge In Korea'
+HOUSE
+OVERSIGHT020684
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+
+Back in 1950, Associatede Press photographer Max Desfor took this dramatic photograph of refugees trying to cross a
+destroyed Pyongyang bridge, over the Taedong River in North Korea to escape the country. The photo won the Pulitzer
+Prize in 1951.
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+
+#20 "I Will Not Be Sued! I Have The Voice Of An Angel! No Man Can Sue Me."
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020686
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+
+After giving an amazing performance in Chicago's Civic Opera House back on November 17, 1955, opera singer Maria
+Callas was served a court summons by U.S. Marshal Stanley Pringle and Deputy Sheriff Dan Smith for breach of contract. Upon being presented with the document, Maria screamed "I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel! No man can
+sue me." The singer was nicknamed "The Tigress" and vowed never to return to Chicago again.
+#21 Young Osama
+In this family...
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+
+Just moments after this picture was taken, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed by the girl seen on the bottom
+left wearing orange flowers - she was wearing a suicide west.
+#23 SS Grandcamp
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020689
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+
+What might seem like an ordinary picture at first, shows a fire breaking out aboard the ship called SS Grandcamp. The
+people on the dock are members of the Texas City Volunteer Fire Department, attempting to extinguish the fire. Just
+moments after the picture was taken, the ship exploded and caused what is still known as the largest non-nuclear
+explosion in human history. Over 5,000 people were injured and 468 died in this 1947 tragedy.
+#24 Soviet Soldiers Harassing A...
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+
+During the Soviet occupation of Germany, mass rapes took place in the occupied territory during the war and after. Some
+historians say that as many as 2 million German women might have been raped.
+#25 'Leap Into Freedom'
+Image source: TIME
+After post-war Berlin was divided into four occupation zones, the living conditions were greatly different in each one. Between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million people fled from Soviet-occupied East Germany. Barricades and barb wire...
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+Image source: TIME
+LIFE photographer Robert Capa captured this dramatic image on 6 June, 1944 - during the D-Day invasion. The man in
+the photo is Private First Class Huston Riley, a 22-year-old soldier who was shot multiple times. The photographer and a
+fellow sergeant helped the wounded soldier who later recalled thinking "What the hell is this guy doing here? Here's a cameraman on the shore." Robert spent over an hour taking photographs as men around him died. Sadly, only one roll of the...
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+
+This photo, captured in October 1912, shows an 11-year-old Sanders Spinning Mill worker Giles Edmund Newsom, who
+recently lost two fingers after an accident in the workplace. He was working along his younger brother for a few months
+before the accident.
+#28 Rodney Alcala
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020694
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+
+In this picture, Rodney Alcala, known as the 'dating game killer', cross-examines himself in court. He killed several
+women in the 70s and was even a guest on a dating show during that period. He tried representing himself in court,
+changing his voice and pretending to be a different person, but eventually lost and was sentenced to death.
+#29 "The Last Laugh?"
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020695
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+
+Two convicted murderers - Richard Hickock and Perry Smith - laugh after hearing about their death sentences. They
+have murdered a family of four after trying to rob them and only finding $50.
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+
+#30 Argument
+This dramatic photo was taken by French-Iranian photographer Abbas in Tehran, Iran back in 1978. Cheap Gear, Amazing Photos: Photographer Uses Her Old Canon To Take Amazing Landscape Shots
+2.
+3.
+5-Minute Tutorial On How To Make Dull Photos Look Amazing
+Woman Spent A Year Decorating Her Pub With 70,000 Poppies To Honour Fallen Soldiers
+4. Every Year These 4 Friends Take The Same Christmas Photo, And The Way They Change Is Amazing
+5. Powerful Birth Photos...
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+house-oversight-020698
+
+Yuhong has already gathered over 518k followers on her Instagram account and almost 16k on YouTube. We're sure that
+after seeing her incredible talent, you'll become a follower too. Check out her unbelievable transformations in the gallery
+below! More info: Instagram | youtube.com | h/t: Bored Panda
+This is He Yuhong, the Chinese blogger with a thousand
+faces, before her transformations
+Image credits: yuyamika7
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020698
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+
+#1 Albert Einstein
+Image source: yuyamika7
+#2 Johnny Depp
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020699
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+house-oversight-020716
+
+#18 Greta Garbo
+Image source: yuyamika7
+#19 Taylor Swift
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020716
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+Related posts:
+1.
+2.
+3.
+4.
+5. This Chinese Blogger Transforms Herself Into Mona Lisa, And Nobody Would Expect This
+This Health Blogger Shows The Truth Behind Instagram Pics
+Chineasy: Easier Way To Learn Chinese By Teacher Shao Lan
+Guy Caught Staring At Taylor Swift Starts A Photoshop Battle
+Chinese Artist Reimagines Cats And Dogs As Humans, And The Result Is On Point (22 Pics)
+49 Short Wholesome Comics About Daily Struggles
+Posted: 06 Mar 2019 07:41 AM PST
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020719
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+house-oversight-020720
+
+Sometimes, when the days get too gray and gloomy, you need a little pick-me-up before you can carry on, something that
+would make you smile. Artist Valerie Minelli and her comic series about life aim to do just that. "If I can make one person
+cheer up reading them, it's a success," claims the author of the drawings. Short and honest, the
+comics should make your day a little brighter and maybe even remind you a little bit of yourself. More info: Instagram...
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@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+house-oversight-020774
+
+#49
+Related posts:
+1.
+2.
+3.
+4.
+5. This Illustrator Showed Her And Her Boyfriend's Daily Struggles In 25+ Cute Comics
+Over 57k Fans Love This Artist's Relatable Comics About Her Daily Struggles As A Woman
+Woman Illustrates Her Daily Struggles In 15+ Relatable Comics (New Pics)
+Artist Illustrates The Daily Struggles Of Women In This Relatable And Comical Series
+10 Wholesome Comics About An RPG Character Who Was Never Vaccinated
+This 16-Year-Old Boy Knew He Wanted To Be An...
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+house-oversight-020775
+
+Dusan Krtolica is a 16-year-old artist from Serbia who creates intricate pencil drawings of both real and mythical animals. Even though the artist is still young, he has plenty of experience under his belt - more specifically, 14 years of it. The artist started drawing when he was just 2 years old and says it is his greatest passion. Throughout his
+career as an artist, Dusan already had 6 solo exhibitions, participated in TV shows and even written and published
+an...
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@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Related posts:
+1.
+2.
+3.
+4.
+5.
+11-Year-Old Prodigy Creates Fantastic And Highly Detailed Drawings
+19-Year-Old Artist Spent All Summer Creating This Massive Chinese Zodiac Drawing
+16-Year-Old Artist Wins The National Art Competition With Her Impressive Hyper-Realistic Pencil Drawing
+Masterful Horror Makeup By 19-Year-Old Artist
+For The Last 7 Years, This Artist Has Been Drawing Comics For His Girlfriend Every Day (NSFW)
+23 Ordinary Slavic People That Look Just Like Famous Celebrities
+Posted: 06...
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+house-oversight-020802
+
+a light-hearted and fun way." This new approach attracted people who love this unique culture from all over the
+world. "The funny thing is that in the end, many foreign people recognize themselves in these Slavic mini-stories, so
+lately we have people from all over the world being our becoming our biggest fans and observing cultural and other
+similarities between Slavic and their cultures," said the Facebook page. Check out their collection of Hollywood celebrities and...
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+Image source: slavorum.org
+#3 Cara Delevingne? Image source: slavorum.org
+#4 Dr. Gregory House
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020803
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@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Image source: slavorum.org
+#5 Bruce Willis
+Image source: slavorum.org
+#6 Donald Trump???
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+Image source: slavorum.org
+#7 Ron Weasley? Image source: slavorum.org
+#8 Megan Fox Or Just A Girl From The Street?
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+Image source: slavorum.org
+#9 Emilia Clark? Image source: slavorum.org
+#10 Julia Stiles?
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@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Image source: slavorum.org
+#11 This Is The Cosplay Of Xenia Shelkovskaya, But One
+Person, Right?d
+Image source: slavorum.org
+#12 Hello Harry Potter
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020807
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+Image source: slavorum.org
+#13 Jennifer Lawrence? Image source: slavorum.org
+#14 Amy Winehouse?
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+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020809.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Image source: slavorum.org
+#15 Sasha, Is That You? Image source: slavorum.org
+#16 Transporter
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020809
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+Image source: slavorum.org
+#17 Justin Bieber Or Just A Guy? Image source: slavorum.org
+#18 John Snow Or Not? Image source: slavorum.org
+#19 Leonardo?????
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+Image source: slavorum.org
+#20 Nicole Kidman Or Not? Image source: slavorum.org
+#21 Severus Snape
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020812
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+house-oversight-020814
+
+#23 Is This Emilia Clark Or Not? Image source: slavorum.org
+Related posts:
+1.
+2.
+3.
+4.
+5. Slavic Women In Vivid Portraits By Yakovlev & Aleeva
+Polish Artists Recreate Traditional Slavic Wreaths To Preserve The Tradition
+1000 People Were Asked To Identify Famous Pop Culture Logos, And The Results Are Surprising
+35+ Hilarious Times People Thought They Met Celebrities
+These People Recreated 50 Famous Artworks And Some Might Be Better Than The Originals
+You are subscribed to...
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+From:
+Sent:
+To:
+Subject:
+Steve Bannon [
+5/13/2018 11:02:26 AM
+jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
+Fw: WSJ
+Importance:
+High
+Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
+From: Alexandra Preate <
+Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 08:23:58 -0400
+To:
+Subject: WSJ
+SUBSCRIBE NOWSIGN IN
+TECH
+Tesla's Engineering Chief Takes Leave of Absence at Pivotal ... PRO BANKRUPTCY
+Weinstein Co. Unsecured Creditors Want Sale Proceeds ... POLITICS
+GOP Lawmakers Meet With Justice Department Over ...
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+OPINION
+The Endless Clinton Campaign
+OPINION
+The Mystery of Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea
+LIFE
+Why Doesn't Your Husband Want to Have Sex? LIFE
+John McCain: 'Vladimir Putin Is an Evil Man'
+POLITICS
+Mueller Asked Ford for Records After It Rejected Michael ... WSJ
+The Fight Over FBI's 'Top-Secret' Intelligence Source
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020816
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+OPINION
+The Concept of Rights Went With Responsibilities
+OPINION
+The Justice Hall of Mirrors
+TECH
+Tesla's Engineering Chief Takes Leave of Absence at Pivotal ... PRO BANKRUPTCY
+Weinstein Co. Unsecured Creditors Want Sale Proceeds ... POLITICS
+GOP Lawmakers Meet With Justice Department Over ... OPINION
+The Endless Clinton Campaign
+OPINION
+The Mystery of Michael Flynn's Guilty Plea
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020817
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+LIFE
+Why Doesn't Your Husband Want to Have Sex? LIFE
+John McCain: 'Vladimir Putin Is an Evil Man'
+POLITICS
+Mueller Asked Ford for Records After It Rejected Michael ... WSJ
+The Fight Over FBI's 'Top-Secret' Intelligence Source
+OPINION
+The Concept of Rights Went With Responsibilities
+POTOMAC WATCH
+About That FBI 'Source'
+Did the bureau engage in outright spying against the 2016 Trump campaign? House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes at the Conservative Political Action Conference,...
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+Strassel
+May 10, 2018 6:50 p.m. ET
+1663 COMMENTS
+• • The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it agreed to brief House
+Intelligence Committee members about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI's
+investigation of the Trump campaign. Among them is that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation outright hid critical
+information from a congressional investigation. In a Thursday press conference, Speaker Paul Ryan...
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+Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his
+or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign. Obama political appointees
+rampantly "unmasked" Trump campaign officials to monitor their conversations, while the FBI played dirty
+with its surveillance warrant against Carter Page, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
+that its supporting information came from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Now we...
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+Correction
+The FBI briefed House Intelligence Committee members about a top-secret intelligence source but did not
+allow them to see documents. An earlier version of this article misstated this. Preate
+Chief Executive Officer
+CapitalHQ
+The information transmitted in this email (including any attachments) is intended only for the person or entity
+to which it is addressed, and may contain non-public, proprietary, confidential and/or privileged material. If
+you are not the intended recipient, you...
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+From:
+Sent:
+To:
+Subject:
+Jay Lefkowitz
+3/7/2011 7:11:08 PM
+Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]; Darren
+Fw:
+Importance:
+High
+Martin Weinberg
+Original Message
+Alexandra"
+Seat: 03/07/2011 02:04 PM EST
+Sub ect eEkowitz
+Dear Mr. Lefkowitz,
+Here are the questions I'd like to ask Jeffrey Epstein. Thank you,
+Alexandra
+-what is he chiefly focusing on now? Is he spending more time on The Jeffrey Epstein Science Foundation? How has his social
+life changed from three vears ago?
+-Is he still close with...
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+house-oversight-020823
+
+'Ingmelun aa deu pue
+po ah tae ce
+Sut fo mont
+
+&666x6x6x68x88888x88888x8xx++
+pue
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+Created and Compiled by Mary Meeker
+February 2011
+This report looks at the federal government as if it were a business, with the goal of informing the
+debate about our nation's financial situation and outlook. In it, we examine USA Inc.'s income
+statement and balance sheet. We analyze the drivers of federal revenue and
+the history of expense growth, and we examine basic scenarios for how America might move
+toward positive cash flow. Thanks go out to Liang Wu and Fred Miller and former Morgan...
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+Shultz, Paul Volcker, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Ravitch and John Doerr
+February 2011
+Our country is in deep financial trouble. Federal, state and local governments are deep in debt
+yet continue to spend beyond their means, seemingly unable to stop. Our current path is simply
+unsustainable. USA Inc. uses each of these guideposts, and more; it is full of ideas that can help us build a
+better future for our children and our country. First, Mary Meeker and her co-contributors describe America's...
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+Third, the report highlights how powerful bipartisan constituencies have emerged in the past to
+tackle great issues for the betterment of our nation, including tax reform, civil liberties,
+healthcare, education and national defense. Momentum will
+follow once the process begins to gain support, and USA Inc. should help by stimulating broad
+recognition and understanding of the challenges, by providing ways to think about solutions, and
+by helping constituencies of action to emerge. As the old...
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+Table of Contents
+About USA Inc. Foreword
+Summary
+Introduction • •
+iii
+vii
+5
+High-Level Thoughts on Income Statement/Balance Sheet
+Income Statement Drilldown
+Entitlement Spending
+Medicaid • •
+Medicare
+Unemployment Benefits
+Social Security • • •
+Rising Debt Level and Interest Payments
+Debt Level
+..... Effective Interest Rates
+Debt Composition • . . . • • • • -
+Periodic Large One-Time Charges
+TARP
+r.....
+r. . ... ....... Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac
+...•
+ARRA
+-
+..... Balance Sheet...
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+What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? •
+High-Level Thoughts on How to Turn Around USA Inc.'s Financial Outlook
+Focus on Expenses . . . . . . . . • •
+Reform Entitlement Programs • •
+Restructure Social Security •
+Restructure Medicare & Medicaid
+Focus on Operating Efficiency • •
+Review Wages & Benefits • •
+Review Government Pension Plans
+Review Role of Unions • . •
+Review Cost Structure & Headcount
+Review Non-Core 'Business' for Out-Sourcing
+Focus on Revenues • .
+'.... Drive Sustainable...
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+Summary
+Imagine for a moment that the United States government is a public corporation. Imagine
+that its management structure, fiscal performance, and budget are all up for review. Now
+imagine that you're a shareholder in USA Inc. How do you feel about your investment? But although 100% of us are stakeholders in the United
+States, very few of us look closely at Washington's financials.
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+We aim to present data, trends, and facts
+about USA Inc.'s key revenue and expense drivers to provide context for how its financials have
+reached their present state. Forecasts generally come from 3rd-party
+agencies like the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the nonpartisan federal agency charged
+with reviewing the financial impact of legislation. F2010 Cash Flow = -$1.3 Trillion; Net Worth = -$44 Trillion
+With a Negative Trend Line Over Past 15 Years
+USA Inc. Annual Cash Flow & Year-End Net...
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+Underfunded entitlements are among the most severe financial burdens USA Inc. faces. Corporate
+income Tax
+$191B
+Social
+Insurance Tax
+wwr.koch.com
+F2010 USA Inc. Revenues + Expenses At A Glance
+F2010
+Revenues =
+$2.2T
+otner
+$208B
+40%
+Individual
+Income Tax
+Soggb
+41%
+F2010 USA Inc. Expenses =
+$3.5T
+Discretionary
+One-Time Items
+11O4H
+Net Interest
+Paument
+$196B
+Entitlement
+Programs
+6%
+4%
+20%
+Social
+Security
+$707B
+Non-berense
+Discretionary
+MANTH
+12%
+20%
+22%
+Defense
+16%
+wec care...
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+Millions of Americans have come to rely on Medicare and Medicaid - and spending has
+skyrocketed, to 21% of USA Inc.'s total expenses (or $724B) in F2010, up from 5% forty
+years ago. Together, Medicaid and Medicare - the programs providing health insurance to low-income
+households and the elderly, respectively - now account for 35% of total healthcare spending in
+the USA. Total Government Healthcare Spending Increases are Staggering -
+Up 7x as % of GDP Over Five Decades vs. Education Spending...
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+The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, enacted in early 2010, includes the biggest
+changes to healthcare since 1965 and will eventually expand health insurance coverage by
+~10%, to 32 million new lives. The CBO sees a potential $143B reduction in the deficit over the next 10 years,
+but this assumes that growth in Medicare costs will slow - an assumption the CBO admits is
+highly uncertain. Unemployment Insurance and Social Security are adequately funded...for now. Since Social Security...
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+Entitlement Spending Increased 11x
+While Real GDP Grew 3x Over Past 45 Years
+USA Real Federal Expenses, Entitlement Spending, Real GDP % Change, 1965 - 2010
+1200%
+1000%
+ 800%
+From
+Change
+600%
+400%
+200%
+0%
+— Total Expenses
+- Entitlement Programs
+— - Real GDP
+Entitlement
+Expenses
++10.6x
+Total
+Expenses
++3.3x
+Real GDP
+- +2.7x
+==---
+1965
+1969
+1973
+KP
+B www.kpcb.com
+1977
+1981
+1985
+1989
+1993
+1997
+2001
+2005
+2009
+Note: Data adjusted for inflation. Source: White House Office of Management and Budget....
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+By 2025, entitlements plus net
+interest payments will absorb all - yes, all - of USA Inc.'s revenue, per CBO. Entitlement Spending + Interest Payments Alone Should
+Exceed USA Inc. Total Revenue by 2025E, per CBO
+Entitlement Spending + Interest Payments vs. Revenue as % of GDP, 1980 - 2050E
+40%
+Total Revenue & Entitlement + Net Interest
+Payments as % of GDP
+- Kevenue
+30%
+- Entitlement Spending + Net
+Interest Payments
+20%
+10%
+0%
+1980
+1990
+2000
+2010E
+2020E
+2030E
+2040E
+2050E
+Source: Congressional...
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+• From 1965 to 2005 (a period chosen to exclude abnormal trends related to the recent
+recession), annual revenue growth (3%) has been roughly in line with GDP growth, but
+corporate income taxes have grown 2% a year. Social insurance taxes grew 5% annually and
+represented 37% of USA Inc. revenue, compared with 19% in 1965. An expert might ask:
+• What level of social insurance or entitlement taxes can USA Inc. support without reducing
+job creation?
+• Are low corporate income taxes important to...
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+The good news: Although time is
+growing short, we still have the capacity to create positive outcomes. Even though USA Inc. can print money and raise taxes, USA Inc. cannot sustain its financial
+imbalance indefinitely - especially as the Baby Boomer generation nears retirement age. Net
+debt levels are approaching warning levels, and some polls suggest that Americans consider
+reducing debt a national priority. Unlike underfunded pension
+liabilities that can bankrupt companies, USA Inc.'s...
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+Improving long-term GDP growth - productivity and employment. Fundamentally, federal revenues depend on GDP growth and related tax levies on consumers
+and businesses. To break even without changing expense levels or tax policies,
+USA Inc. would need real GDP growth of 6-7% in F2012-14 and 4-5% in F2015-20, according to
+our estimates based on CBO data - highly unlikely, given 40-year average GDP growth of 3%. How Much Would Real GDP Need to Grow to Drive USA Inc. to Break-Even
+Without Policy...
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+For employment gains, USA Inc. should minimize tax and regulatory uncertainties and
+encourage businesses to add workers. While hiring and R&D-related tax credits may add to
+near-term deficits, over time, they should drive job and GDP growth. Immigration reform could
+also help: A Federal Reserve study in 2010 shows that immigration does not take jobs from
+U.S.-born workers but boosts productivity and income per worker. America's Resources Allocated to Housing + Healthcare Nearly Doubled as a...
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+With these trends, USA Inc. will not be immune to the sudden crises that have afflicted others
+with similar unfunded liabilities, leverage, and productivity trends. The sovereign credit issues in
+Europe suggest what might lie ahead for USA Inc. shareholders - and our children. In effect,
+USA Inc. is maxing out its credit card. Common principles for overcoming this kind of burden
+include the following:
+1) Acknowledge the problem - some 80% of Americans believe 'dealing with our growing
+budget...
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+A Basic Summary of America's Financial Statements
+February 2011
+USA Inc. - Outline
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+Introduction
+High-Level Thoughts on Income Statement/Balance Sheet
+Income Statement Drilldown
+6
+7
+8
+Balance Sheet Drilldown
+What Might a Turnaround Expert - Empowered to Improve
+USA Inc.'s Financials - Consider? Consequences of Inaction
+Summary
+Appendix
+B www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc.
+2
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020842
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+house-oversight-020843
+
+This work is licensed for non-commercial distribution (but NOT for excerpting, or modifying or creating derivatives) under the Creative Commons
+Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported CC BY-NC-ND license. You can find this license at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-
+nd/3.0/legalcode or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA, 94105, USA. This page is intentionally left blank.
+4
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020843
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+CB www.kpcb.com
+CB www.kpcb.com
+Introduction
+USA Inc. | Introduction
+About This Report
+USA Inc. | Introduction
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020844
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+Presentation Premise
+For America to remain the great country it has been for the past 235 years,
+it must determine the best ways to honor the government's fundamental
+mission derived from the Constitution:
+...to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
+provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the
+blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. It should manage its operations
+and programs as effectively and efficiently as...
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+Why We Wrote This Report
+As American citizens / tax payers, we care about the future of our country. As investors, we search for data and insights to help us make better
+investment decisions. (It's easier to predict the future with a keen
+understanding of the past.)
+We found ourselves searching for better information about the state of America's
+financials, and we decided to assemble - in one place and in a user-friendly format
+- some of the best data about the world's biggest "business." In...
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+...And What You Won't
+We do not make policy recommendations. We aim to present data, trends, and
+facts about USA Inc.'s key revenue and expense drivers to provide context for
+how its financials have reached their present state. Forecasts generally come from 3rd-party agencies like the
+Congressional Budget Office (CBO). We hope that this report helps advance the
+discussion and we welcome others to opine with views (backed up by data).
+, www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | Introduction
+11 |
+We Focus on...
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+Summary
+www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | Introduction
+13
+Highlights from F2010 USA Inc. Financials
+• Summary - USA Inc. has challenges.
+• Cash Flow - While recession depressed F2008-F2010 results, cash flow has been negative
+for 9 consecutive years ($4.8 trillion, cumulative), with no end to losses in sight. Negative
+cash flow implies that USA Inc. can't afford the services it is providing to 'customers,' many
+of whom are people with few alternatives.
+• Balance Sheet - Net worth is negative and...
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+Financials...
+• To analysts looking at USA Inc. as a public corporation, the financials are challenged
+- Excluding Medicare / Medicaid spending and one-time charges, USA Inc. has supported a 4% average net
+margin' over 15 years, but cash flow is deep in the red by negative $1.3 trillion last year (or
+-$11,000 per household), and net worth? is negative $44 trillion (or -$371,000 per household).
+• The main culprits: entitlement programs, mounting debt, and one-time charges
+- Since the Great...
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+Financials
+• If entitlement programs are not reformed, USA Inc.'s balance sheet will go from bad to
+worse
+- Public debt has doubled over the last 30 years, to 62% of GDP. This ratio is expected to surpass the
+90% threshold - above which real GDP growth could slow considerably - in 10 years and could near
+150% of GDP in 20 years if entitlement expenses continue to soar, per CBO.
+- As government healthcare spending expands, USA Inc.'s red ink will get much worse if healthcare costs
+continue...
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+...How Might One Think About Turning Around USA Inc.? One might consider...
+• Options for reducing expenses by focusing on entitlement reform and operating efficiency
+- Formula changes could help Social Security's underfunding, but look too draconian for Medicare/Medicaid;
+the underlying healthcare cost dilemma requires business process restructuring and realigned incentives.
+- Resuming the 20-year trend line for lower Federal civilian employment, plus more flexible compensation
+systems and...
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+Rank
+1|
+2
+3
+4
+5
+Overview of USA Inc.'s Key Financial Challenges
+& Potential and/or Solutions
+Financial
+Challenge
+Medicaid
+Medicare
+Social
+Security
+Slow GDP /
+USA
+Revenue
+Growth
+Net Present Costl
+($T / % of 2010 GDP)
+$35 Trillion3 / 239%
+$23 Trillion / 156%
+$8 Trillion / 54%
+--
+Mathematical Illustrations
+and/or Potential Policy Solutions?
+• Isolate and address the drivers of medical cost inflation
+• Improve efficiency / productivity of healthcare system
+• Reduce coverage for optional benefits &...
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+The Challenge Before Us
+Policymakers, businesses and citizens need to share responsibility for
+past failures and develop a plan for future successes. Past generations of Americans have responded to major challenges
+with collective sacrifice and hard work. Will ours also rise to the occasion? CB www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | Introduction
+23
+This page is intentionally left blank.
+24
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020853
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+High-Level Thoughts on
+Income Statement/Balance Sheet
+CB www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | High Level Thoughts
+25
+How Would You Feel if...
+?
+..your Cash Flow was NEGATIVE for
+each of the past 9 years...
+...your Net Worth has been
+NEGATIVE for as long as you can
+remember...
+... it would take 20 years of your
+income at the current level to pay off
+your existing debt - assuming you
+don't take on any more debt.
+₽ www.kpcb.com
+Note: See slide 30 for net worth qualifier. USA Inc. | High Level...
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+Welcome to the Financial Reality (& Negative Trend) of USA Inc. F2010 Cash Flow = -$1.3 Trillion; Net Worth = =$44 Trillion
+USA Inc. Annual Cash Flow & Year-End Net Worth, F1996 - F2010
+$400
+$0
+$15,000
+$0
+Annual Cash Flow ($Billion)
+-$400
+-$15,000
+-$800
+-$30,000
+Year-End Net Worth ($Billion)
+• One-Time Expenses
+-$1,200
+• Cash Flow (left axis)
+-$45,000
+-0- Net Worth (right axis)
+-$1,600
+-$60,000
+F1996
+F1998
+F2000
+F2002
+F2004
+F2006
+F2008
+F2010
+Note: USA federal fiscal year ends in September; Cash...
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+Only Politicians Work in Trillions of Dollars—
+Here's How Much That Is
+1 Pallet
+• 1 Football Field
+$1 Million (MM)
+217 Football Fields
+$1 Billion (B)
+$1 Trillion (T)
+www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | High Level Thoughts
+29
+Net Worth Qualifier
+• The balance sheet / net worth calculation does not include the power to tax
+- the net present value of the sovereign power to tax and the ability to print the
+world's reserve currency would clearly bolster USA Inc.'s assets - if they could be
+accurately...
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+A Word of Warning About Comparing
+Corporate & Government Accounting...
+• Government accounting standards do not report the present value of future
+entitlement payments (such as Social Security or Medicare) as liabilities. Instead, entitlement payments are recognized only when they are paid.
+• Our analysis takes a different view: governments create liabilities when they
+enact entitlements and do not provide for revenues adequate to fund them.
+• We measure the entitlement liability as the present...
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+Metric Definitions & Qualifiers
+• Cash Flow = 'Cash In' Minus 'Cash Out'
+- Calculated on a cash basis (which excludes changes in non-cash accrual of
+future liabilities) for simplicity.
+• One-Time Expenses = 'Spending Minus Repayments' for Non-Recurring
+Programs
+- Net costs of programs such as TARP, ARRA, and GSE bailouts.
+• Net Worth = Assets Minus Liabilities Minus Unfunded Entitlement Liabilities
+- Assets include cash & investments, taxes receivable, property, plant &
+equipment (as defined by...
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+Even Adjusting For Cyclical Impact of Recessions, USA Inc.'s 2010
+Structural Operating Loss = -$817 Billion vs. -$78 Billion 15 Years Ago
+USA Inc. Annual Operating Surplus / Deficit, Structural vs. Cyclical', F1996 - F2010
+$400
+Annual Federal Government Surplus / Deficit ($ Billion)
+$0
+-$400
+-$800
+• Structural
+• Cyclical
+-$1,200
+-$1,600
+Note: 1) Congressional Budget Office defines a structural surplus or deficit as the budget surplus or deficit that would occur under current law if the...
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+How Did USA Inc.'s Financial Reality
+Get to this Difficult Point? Has Not Adequately Funded Its Entitlement Programs
+Recessions come and go (and affect USA's revenue), but future claims
+(related to entitlement program commitments) on USA Inc. now
+meaningfully exceed its projected cash flows. But without
+proper financing, support may dwindle.
+www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | High Level Thoughts
+37
+USA Inc. Has Substantially Expanded
+Its "Business Lines" Over Past 80 Years
+From 1789 to 1930, 41%' of USA...
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+"Business Lines" Have Expanded
+From Defense to Insurance & Other Areas
+USA Inc. F2000
+F1800
+F1900
+F2000
+2.2%
+2.5%
+18.2%
+Other
+0.3%
+Interest
+Payment
+0.7%
+www.kpcb.com
+Defense
+1.3%
+Other
+1.4%
+Defense
+0.9%
+Interest
+Payment
+0.2%
+Other
+5.1%
+Health
+Insurance
+3.6%
+Defense
+3.0%
+Interest
+Payment
+2.3%
+Retirement +
+Disability
+Insurance
+4.2%
+Note: Fiscal year 1800 / 1900 ended in June. Health insurance includes Medicare, Medicaid (federal portion)
+and other federal health programs, retirement and...
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+Next 80 Years (1931-2010) = Era of Expansion
+Defense Down to 20% of Spending; Social Security + Healthcare Up to 44% in F2010
+Total Federal Government Outlays ($B)
+Defense
+% of Total Outlays
+USA Inc.'s Budget Outlays For the Next 78 Years (1931-2010)2
+1931 .... 1940
+... 1950
+….. 1960
+….. 1970 ... 1980 … 1990
+...2000 …2010
+$4
+$9
+$43
+$92
+$196
+$591
+$1,253
+$1,789
+$3,456
+$1
+23%
+$2
+20%
+$14
+32%
+$48
+52%
+$82
+42%
+$134
+23%
+$299
+24%
+$294
+16%
+$694
+20%
+Interest on the Public Debt
+% of Total...
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+Entitlement Programs Are the Largest & Growing Expense Items
+on USA Inc.'s Income Statement in Peace Time
+USA Inc. Spending as % of GDP, 1795 - 2010
+• All Other Spending
+• Social Security
+• Medicare + Medicaid
+Federal Spending As % of GDP
+45%
+40%
+35%
+30%
+25%
+20%
+15%
+10%
+5%
+0%
+1795
+www.kpcb.com
+World War Il
+Civil War
+Great Depression
+World War I
+War of 1812
+1820
+1845
+1870
+1895
+1920
+1945
+1970
+1995
+Note: Medicaid spending only includes federal (not state) portion of spending. Source: John Cogan,...
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+The Original Estimates of Medicare's Costs
+Were Vastly Underestimated
+• In 1965, the official estimate of Medicare's costs was $500 million per year,
+roughly $3 billion in 2005 dollars.
+• The actual cost of Medicare has turned out to be 10x that estimate.
+• Medicare's actual net loss (tax receipts + trust fund interest - expenditures)
+has exceeded $3 billion (adjusted for inflation) every year since 1976 and
+was $146 billion in 2008 alone. In other words, had the original estimate...
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+Data Points and Trends
+National' Healthcare Spending as % of GDP
+Federal Healthcare Spending as % of GDP
+Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending as % of GDP
+% of Adult Population Considered Obese
+% of Americans Receiving Govt. Subsidy
+% of Americans that Pay No Federal Income Tax
+National' Education Spending as % of GDP
+1965
+6%
+1
+3
+13
+20
+20
+5
+→
+→
+→
+2005
+16%
+5
+2
+32
+35
+33
+Federal Education Spending as % of GDP
+→
+Gross Debt as % of GDP
+47
+64
+Interest Payments as % of GDP
+1.2
+1.5
+Gini Index of Income...
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+What's the Proper Level of This and That? We begin with the premise that for an enterprise (even a country
+that can 'print money' and tax) to be sustainable, it cannot lose
+money on an ongoing basis. Successful businesses (and households) typically base their
+expenses on their ability to generate present and future revenue
+- in other words, they don't spend unless they can pay. We analyze the data and present scenarios and options for solving
+the math and financial challenges facing USA Inc. CB...
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+51
+This page is intentionally left blank.
+52
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020867
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+Income Statement Drilldown
+www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown
+53
+Income Statement -
+USA Inc. Shows -8% Median Net Margin Over 15 Years
+USA Inc. Annual Net Income & Median Net Margin, F1996 - F2010
+$400
+40%
+-$400
+-$800
+-80%
+• Net Income ($B)
+- 15-Year Median Net Margin (%)
+-$1,200
+-120%
+-$1,600
+-160%
+F1996
+F1998
+MR www.kocb.com
+F2000
+F2002
+F2004
+F2006
+F2008
+F2010
+Note: USA federal fiscal year ends in September. Source: White House Office of Management and Budget. USA Inc. |...
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+Income Statement -
+F2010 USA Inc. Revenues + Expenses at a Glance
+F2010 Revenue =
+$2.2 Trillion
+F2010 USA Inc. Expenses =
+$3.5 Trillion
+Net Interest
+Payment
+$196B
+Entitlement
+Programs
+Discretionary
+One-Time Items
+$152B
+Other
+$208B
+6%
+4%
+Social
+Security
+$707B
+Corporate
+Income Tax
+$191B
+10%
+Individual
+Income Tax
+$899B
+20%
+9%
+Non-Defense
+Discretionary
+$431B
+12%
+41%
+22%
+20%
+40%
+Defense
+$694B
+16%
+Social
+Insurance Tax
+$865B
+Medicare +
+Federal
+Medicaid
+$724B
+www.kpcb.com
+Unemployment Insurance
++ Other...
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+Income Statement - Excluding 'Underfunded' Medicare / Medicaid + One-Time
+Charges, USA Inc. Shows 4% Median Net Margin Over 15 Years
+USA Inc. Annual Net Income & Median Net Margin
+(Excluding Medicare / Medicaid & One-Time Charges), F1996 - F2010
+$600
+60%
+$400
+40%
+20%
+0%
+-$200
+-20%
+-$400
+-40%
+Net Income (ex. Medicare / Medicaid / One-Time Charges) ($B)
+-$600
+— 15-Year Median Net Margin (%)
+-60%
+-$800
+-80%
+F1996
+F1998
+F2000
+F2002
+F2004
+F2006
+F2008
+F2010
+www.kpcb.com
+Note: 1) Excludes both...
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+100-Year Review of USA Inc.'s Basic Income Statement
+Including Revenue & Expense Drivers as Percent of GDP
+1910 • • • 1920
+••• 1930.
+••• 1940 ••= 1950
+1960
+•• 1970 •• 1980 "• 1990
+ 2000
+2010
+Revenue ($B)
+% of GDP
+Individual Income Taxes
+% of GDP
+Social Insurance Taxes
+% of GDP
+Corporate Income Taxes
+% of GDP
+Other
+% of GDP
+Expense ($B)
+% of GDP
+Defense
+% of GDP
+Interest on the Debt
+% of GDP
+Social Security
+% of GDP
+Healthcare
+% of GDP
+Other
+% of GDP
+Surplus / Deficit ($B)
+% of...
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+Conclusions: 100-Year Review of USA Inc. Income Statement
+• America's government has grown dramatically - USA Inc.'s revenue as percent of
+GDP has risen from 2% to 15%. In addition, USA Inc.'s spending as percent
+of GDP has risen to 24% in 2010, up from 3% average between 1790 and 1930.
+• USA Inc.'s average operating income was at or near breakeven for most of the
+periods from 1910 to 1970.
+• In the 1970s, as healthcare expenses (related to Medicare and Medicaid) began
+to surge, USA Inc....
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+Defense Spending Is The Second-Largest Expense Item After
+Entitlements, But Below Long-Term Trend as Share of GDP
+• With budget deficits rising, some advocate cutting back on defense spending, the
+second-largest expense item after entitlements.
+• Defense spending has risen substantially in recent years, due to the wars in
+Afghanistan and Iraq, and other costs related to the Global War on Terror. As a
+percentage of GDP, however, defense spending in the U.S. remains below its 60-
+year trend.
+• On...
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+...While Defense Spending Rose to 5% of GDP in F2010 &
+Is Up from All-Time Historical Low of 3% in F1999
+But It Is Still Well Below Post-World War II (1948-2000) Average of 7%
+USA Inc. Defense Spending as % of GDP, F1948 - F2010
+U.S. Defense Spending as % of GDP
+20%
+15%
+10%
+5%
+0%
+1948
+www.kpcb.com
+1948-2000 Average = 7%
+5%
+1953
+1958
+1963
+1968
+1973
+1978
+1983
+1988
+1993
+1998
+2003
+2008
+Source: White House OMB. USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown
+$950 Billion = Cumulative Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan...
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@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020875
+www.kpcb.com
+Note: Ranking among countries with 2009 defense spending of $3 billion or higher; data for North Korea unavailable. Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown
+68
+Defense Spending as % of GDP
+8%
+10%
+China
+Taiwan
+Turkey
+Egypt
+France
+UK
+South Korea
+Algeria
+Kuwait
+Morocco
+Chile
+Russia
+Greece
+Colombia
+Singapore
+USA
+Iraq
+UAE
+Israel
+Oman
+Saudi Arabia
+Top 25 Countries by Defense Spending as Percent of GDP,...
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@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+HOUSEOVERSIGHT020876
+www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown
+70
+Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; Center for Strategic and International Studies, Business Monitor International. Active Troops per 1000 Citizen
+50
+France
+Pakistan
+Malaysia
+Croatia
+USA
+Kuwait
+Thailand
+Belarus
+Russia
+Vietnam
+Colombia
+Egypt
+Iraq
+Iran
+Turkey
+Saudi Arabia
+United Arab Emirates
+Libya
+South Korea
+Greece
+Syria
+Singapore
+Jordan
+Israel
+North Korea
+Top 25 Countries by Active Number of Troops...
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+Entitlement + Interest + One-Time Expenses for F2010
+1
+Entitlement
+Spending
+Medicaid
+(-$273B Net Loss)
+Medicare
+(-$272B Net Loss1)
+Unemployment
+Benefits
+(-$115B Net Loss)
+Social Security
+(-$75B Net Loss1)
+2
+Rising Debt
+Level & Interest
+Payments
+Debt Level
+($9T Outstanding)
+Effective Interest
+Rates
+(2.2%)
+Debt Composition
+3
+Periodic Large
+One-Time
+Charges
+TARP
+($26B Net Profit2)
+Fannie Mae /
+Freddie Mac
+(-$41B Net Loss)
+ARRA
+(-$137B Net Loss)
+Note: denotes F2010 net income / net loss of...
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+Entitlement Spending: Lacks Sufficient Dedicated Funding
+Entitlement programs were created with the best of intentions by
+the Government. However, with the exception of Social Security (which was developed
+with a pay-as-you-go funding plan and constructed to be legally flexible if
+conditions change) and unemployment insurance (which was designed
+to be flexible at State level), other entitlement plans (including Medicaid
+and Medicare) were developed without sufficient dedicated funding. Here we...
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+Entitlement Revenue ($B)
+Y/Y Growth
+Social Security
+% of Revenue
+Medicare
+% of Revenue
+Medicaid
+Unemployment Insurance
+% of Revenue
+Other
+% of Revenue
+Entitlement Expense ($B)
+Y/Y Growth
+Social Security
+% of Expense
+Medicare
+% of Expense
+Medicaid
+% of Expense
+Unemployment Benefits
+% of Expense
+Other
+% of Expense
+Entitlement Surplus / Deficit ($B)
+Net Margin (%)
+3 www.kpcb.com
+Entitlement Spending: Expenses Up 169%
+Over Past 15 Years, While Dedicated Funding Up Only...
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@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Entitlement Spending: Non-Partisan CBO Advises Excluding Social Security /
+Medicare Trust Funds' Balances + Interest Income in Fiscal Analysis
+Trust funds can be useful mechanisms for monitoring the balance between
+earmarked receipts and a program's spending, but they are basically an
+accounting device, and their balances, even if "invested" in Treasury securities,
+provide no resources to the government for meeting future funding commitments. Thus, assessing the state of the federal...
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+Entitlement Spending: What The Programs Are and
+How They Have Evolved
+Social Security Act signed into law by
+President Roosevelt. Social Security Trust Fund
+balance started to decline.
+1935
+1937
+1965
+1975
+1983
+2003
+2008 2010E
+Unemployment Insurance
+signed into law as part of
+the Social Security Act,
+setting up a joint federal-
+state program (funded via
+taxing employers) to
+provide temporary
+monetary support to laid-
+off workers
+Medicare & Medicaid
+created to provide
+hospital & medical
+insurance...
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@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Entitlement Spending: Observations from Previous Slide
+• Entitlement revenue was $0.87 trillion, yet entitlement
+spending was $1.98 trillion in F2010.
+• Entitlement spending exceeded entitlement revenue by
+129% in F2010.
+• Social Security (ex. Trust Fund interest income) accounted
+for 73% of dedicated entitlement revenue yet only 36% of
+entitlement spending in F2010 while Medicare accounted for
+21% of revenue and 23% of spending and Medicaid
+accounted for 0% of revenue and 14% of...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020883.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020883.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a4797c70c4c5ba854797776ead5519367a16e96d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020883.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+...Entitlement Spending: Clarification On
+'Unfunded' / 'Net Responsibilities'
+• Unless they are reduced, USA Inc.'s financial liabilities - whether they are actual
+debt or the present value of future promises, whether called 'unfunded' liabilities or
+'net responsibilities' and whether funded by dedicated taxes or general revenue -
+represent significant claims on USA Inc.'s future economic resources.
+• To be sure, the projected unfunded liabilities are not the same as debt, because
+Congress can...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020884.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020884.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1e50c3382f8c0992be05374ef3c27f2f185da509
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020884.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+Entitlement Spending: Medicare & Medicaid Payments per Beneficiary
+Have Risen Faster than Social Security Payments
+Owing to Rising Healthcare Costs + Expanded Coverage
+Percent Change in Real Annual Social Security / Medicare / Medicaid
+Payments per Beneficiary From 1966
+1966-2009
+CAGR
+Medicare
++8%
+2500%
+Medicaid
+2000%
+Social Security
+% Change from 1966
+- Medicare
+1500%
+1000%
+Medicaid
++3%
+500%
+0%
+Social Security
++2%
+1966
+1970
+1974
+1978
+1982
+1986
+1990
+1994
+1998
+2002
+2006
+, www.kpcb.com
+Note: Data...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020885.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020885.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..25003533557c6aa8a74877add581d70aa836d8f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020885.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+Entitlement Spending: While Beneficiaries From Aging Population
+Rose 2x From 1966 to 2009, Beneficiaries From Expanded Eligibility
+(Low-Income / Disabled) Rose 10x
+Combined Social Security + Medicare + Medicaid Enrollment
+by Old Age Group vs. Expanded Eligibility Group, 1966 - 2009
+• Expanded Eligibility (Low Income / Disabled)
+• Old Age
+—% of Total Population
+Total Enrollment (MM)
+160
+140
+120
+100
+80
+60
+40
+20
+0
+1966
+www.kpcb.com
+1970
+40%
+30%
+20%
+1974
+1978
+1982
+1986
+1990
+1994
+1998
+2002
+2006
+As %...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020886.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020886.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0eab1158214444cb3b811005065502501f1cd4d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020886.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Entitlement Spending per Beneficiary: Inflation-Adjusted Average Pre-Tax
+Income from Entitlement Programs Has Gone Up 3x Since 1966
+to $12K in 2008, or 15% of Average Pre-Tax Income
+Annual Pre-Tax Income from Entitlement
+Programs per Beneficiary ($ / year)
+Inflation-Adjusted Pre-Tax Income from Entitlement Programs' per Beneficiary
+& As % of Average Pre-Tax Income, 1966 - 2008
+$14,000
+16%
+$12,000
+$10,000
+$8,000
+$6,000
+$4,000
+$2,000
+14%,
+Entlement Income me o or Average Pre 1. Income
+$0
+0%
+1966...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020887.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020887.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..00cf5c08765b7f76c355d117b478590968733d53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020887.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Entitlement Spending: Observation from Previous Slide
+• Clearly, lower interest rates have allowed Americans to
+borrow more and save less. But given the high correlation
+between rising entitlement income for beneficiaries and
+declining savings rates, one might also wonder if Americans
+feel less compelled to save money as they feel that they can
+depend on the government to give them money.
+, www.kpcb.com
+Note: Savings rate is the amount of money saved divided by income after taxes. USA Inc. |...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020888.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020888.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c30fe84e9c60604bbf3483aa81c5e5898f951741
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020888.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Next, We Drill Down on Entitlement Programs...
+• We begin with the programs with the least sound
+financials (Medicaid and Medicare) and end with the
+programs with the most sound financials
+(Unemployment Insurance and Social Security), as of
+today.
+• We then move to a drilldown of rising healthcare costs
+after the Medicaid and Medicare drilldowns.
+, www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown
+93
+Entitlement
+Spending
+Medicaid
+(-$273B Net Loss)
+Medicare
+(-$272B Net...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020889.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020889.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e4d0b23110f04fd01296ab9c0601e8d322a6513b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020889.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Medicaid: Facing Accelerating Cash Flow Deficits
+• Social Welfare Program - Created in 1965 to provide health insurance to low-income
+population (2% of Americans under coverage then and 16% now).
+• No Dedicated Funding - Federal funding comes from general revenue (all forms of tax
+receipts).
+• Ever-Growing Expenses - $273 billion in F2010, up 2x from 10 years ago.
+• Rising Healthcare Costs - Owing to aging population + unhealthy life styles +
+technology advances.
+• Growing Beneficiary +...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020890.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020890.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ac0ed9c69a3f893cf778a4a276dfa7c0bae28934
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020890.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+Medicaid: Enrollment Is Up 12x to 49 Million While Annual Payments per
+Beneficiary Are Up 4x to $5K From 1966 to 2009
+Real Annual Medicaid Payments per Beneficiary & Enrollment, 1966 - 2009
+Payments
+per Beneficiary ($/year)
+$5,000
+$4,500
+$4,000
+$3,500
+$3,000
+$2,500
+$2,000
+$1,500
+$1,000
+$500
+$0
+, www.kpcb.com
+• Enrollment
+— Annual Benefits per Enrollee
+1966
+1970
+1974
+1978
+1982
+50
+40
+30
+20
+1986
+1990
+1994
+1998
+2002
+2006
+Enrollment (MM)
+10
+0
+Note: Data are inflation adjusted. Source: Dept. of...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020891.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020891.txt
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eed36e896ac8c8c6d917a62b224e6649705937bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020891.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Medicaid: While We Focus on Federal Government Dynamics, It's Notable
+that State Government Medicaid Funding Also Faces Significant Challenges
+• Medicaid = Major and Growing Expense Line Item for State Governments
+- Medicaid funding responsibility is shared between federal & state governments. States with higher
+per-capita income (like New York) pay ~50% of total Medicaid cost while states with lower per-capita
+income (like Mississippi) pay ~22%.
+- On average, Medicaid accounted for 21% of...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020892.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020892.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..59312e77ac34d4f6e60a95fd1ec7066d142b4681
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020892.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Medicare: Complex Social Insurance Program
+With Insufficient Funding
+• Social Insurance Program - Created in 1965 to provide health insurance to the elderly (65+).
+• Four Parts - A) Hospital Insurance (to cover inpatient expenses, introduced in 1965); B)
+Medical Insurance (optional outpatient expenses, 1965); C) Medicare Advantage Plans
+(private alternative to A&B, 1997) and D) Prescription Drug Coverage (enacted 2003).
+• Funding Mechanism Varies
+- Part A has dedicated funding via payroll taxes...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020893.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020893.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0dbf663deb768ed0a3ad3fcc906e66457c8be2cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020893.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Medicare: Enrollment Up 2x to 46 Million While Annual Payments per
+Beneficiary Up 26x to $8,325 From 1966 to 2009
+Real Annual Medicare Payments per Beneficiary & Enrollment, 1966 - 2009
+Medicare Payments per Beneficiary ($/year)
+$10,000
+$8,000
+$6,000
+$4,000
+• Enrollment
+— Annual Per Cap Benefits (in 2005 dollars)
+50
+40
+30
+20
+10
+Enrollment (MM)
+$2,000
+$0
+1966
+1970
+1974
+1978
+1982
+1986
+1990
+1994
+1998
+2002
+2006
+, www.kpcb.com
+Note: Data are inflation adjusted using BEA's GDP price index. Source:...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020894.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020894.txt
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..60fa0b8b23f09c08982a866186e7dd1012420cd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020894.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Total Government Healthcare Spending Increases are Staggering -
+Up 7x as % of GDP Over Five Decades vs. Education Spending, Only Up 0.6x
+USA Total Government Healthcare vs. Education Spending as % of GDP, 1960 - 2009
+8%
+8.2%
+6%
+Spending as % of GDP
+4%
+2% 1.2%
+— Total Government (Federal + State + Local) Spending on Healthcare
+— Total Government (Federal + State + Local) Spending on Education
+0%
+1960 1964
+1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008
+3 www.kpcb.com
+Note: Total...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020895.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020895.txt
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bd2d215c30d16bb7f537a4a9b2c86b85cefaf9b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020895.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Think About That..
+• Total government spending on healthcare (including Medicare, Medicaid and
+other programs) has risen 7x from 1.2% of GDP in 1960 to 8.2% in 2009 while
+total government spending on education has risen only 0.6x from 4% of GDP in
+1960 to 6% in 2009.
+• Medicare and Medicaid, which did not exist in 1960, rose to 35% of total healthcare
+spending in 2009, while out-of-pocket spending declined to 12% of total healthcare
+spending in 2009 (or $894 per person per year), down from 47%...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020896.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020896.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9214efbfd17f2f143b6af3f1d3239b7eb5563b84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020896.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+USA Per Capita Spending on Healthcare =
+3x OECD Average
+Annual Per Capita Expenditure on Health Among OECD Countries, 2007
+• Public
+• Private
+Annual Per Capita Health Spending ($)
+$8,000
+$6,000
+$4,000
+$2,000
+$O
+www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown
+training, research, and environmental health. Source: OECD.
+households) on medical services and goods, public health and prevention programs, and administration. Excluded are health-related expenditures such as
+current health...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020897.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020897.txt
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..688db73b8f49e9615deb80d386bd8d7f107a5e01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020897.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+USA Spending on Healthcare IS NOT Performance-Based
+and IS NOT Correlated to Longer Life Expectancy
+Healthcare Spending per capita vs. Average Life Expectancy Among OECD Countries, 2007
+85
+Average Life Expectancy at Birth (Years)
+Japan
+80
+S. Korea •
+UK
+Linear Trend line (ex. USA)
+USA
+75
+Mexico
+• Hungary
+70
+1000
+2000
+3000
+4000
+5000
+6000
+Total Expenditure on Health per capita, $US (PPP Adj.)
+7000
+3 www.kpcb.com
+Source: OECD. USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown
+111
+In Addition to Life...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020898.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020898.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d576a8b332b743211c0bf40c1b134cd71b6a7483
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020898.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Think About That...
+• USA per capita healthcare spending is 3x OECD average, yet the
+average life expectancy and a variety of health indicators in the US
+fall below average.
+• But if you spend way more than everyone else, shouldn't your
+results (a.k.a. 'performance') be better than everyone else's, or at
+least near the top?
+• Should you examine sources of waste/inefficiency given lower
+output despite greater input?
+• Definition of 'Performance' = Amount of useful work accomplished
+given certain...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020899.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020899.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4996563de1ee4abc311478aa2d53edb290b9af26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020899.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+PPACA: A Detailed Drilldown into Costs of Recent Healthcare Reform Is Key
+as it May Increase Budget Deficit...
+• Congressional Budget Office expects Reform to lower the deficit by $143
+billion during 2010-19
+- Gross cost of $938 billion for expanded coverage, per CBO.
+- Less: $511 billion in spending cuts from lower Medicare reimbursement rate + $420
+billion in tax revenues (excl. excise tax) from higher payroll tax rates on high-income
+families and indoor tanning services + $149 billion in...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020900.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020900.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f38644aa4ee67a5094e50678aa83f898d6621838
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020900.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+PPACA -
+There Is Potential for 'Unintended' Consequences
+• The new law changes some system incentives, which may lead to new behavior
+patterns, many of which are complex and hard to predict.
+- The market may adapt to new MLR (Medical Loss Ratio) rules that incentivize
+and reward a very specific (but ultimately arbitrary) cost structure.
+- The cost/benefit analysis for employers and consumers may change, and
+some may opt to re-evaluate their current employer-sponsored coverage
+offerings.
+•...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020901.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020901.txt
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8b2f11aa0a2d0260061cd1ccf76e57cbe2ec2282
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020901.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+If History is a Guide, There is Potential for Estimates to Understate
+Eventual Costs - Medicare Is 10x Higher Than Spending Forecast
+Actual vs. Estimated Spending on Medicare
+In reality, total
+spending
+increased 61.1x
+120
+Annual Medicare Spending ($MM adjusted for
+inflation)
+100
+80
+60
+40
+20
+0
+, www.kpcb.com
+In the first year of
+Medicare, total
+spending was
+$1.8bn
+$2B
+1966A
+In 1967, the House
+Ways & Means
+Committee estimated
+spending would
+increase 6.7x by 1990
+$12B
+
+1990E (in...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020902.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020902.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..564481183ecf22085ef879407b0ea299a99d778b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020902.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+1
+Entitlement
+Spending
+Medicaid
+(-$273B Net Loss)
+Medicare
+(-$272B Net Loss1)
+Unemployment
+Benefits
+(-$115B Net Loss)
+Social Security
+(-$75B Net Loss1)
+2
+Rising Debt
+Level & Interest
+Payments
+Debt Level
+($9T Outstanding)
+Effective Interest
+Rates
+(2.2%)
+Debt Composition
+3
+Periodic Large
+One-Time
+Charges
+TARP
+($26B Net Profit2)
+Fannie Mae /
+Freddie Mac
+(-$41B Net Loss)
+ARRA
+(-$137B Net Loss)
+www.kpcb.com
+Note: denotes F2010 net income / net loss of respective programs, data per White House OMB....
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020903.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020903.txt
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8372757b3bd101bcdc9e57517e76d3d0a2decc52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020903.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Unemployment Benefits: Solid, Though Cyclical, Funding
+But Underfunded by $150B Over 49 Years Owing to -$115B Deficits in 2010
+USA Inc. Real Annual Unemployment Insurance Revenue & Expenses, F1962 - F2010
+Unemployment Insurance Revenue / Expenses ($B)
+$70
+$20
+-$30
+-$80
+-$130
+-$180
+www.kpcb.com
+1962
+1966
+1970
+• Unemployment Insurance Expenses
+• Unemployment Insurance Revenue
+— Unemployment Insurance Net Income
+1974
+1978
+1982
+1986
+1990
+1994
+1998
+2002
+2006
+2010
+Note: USA federal fiscal year ends...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020904.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020904.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ba9fbd9297a8da54fd6a98a90ba73e66d6321136
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020904.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+Unemployment Benefits: Good News—Unemployment Change In the Past
+Has Strong (71%) Inverse Correlation with Real GDP Change, so Economic
+Growth Should Reduce Unemployment
+Q/Q Unemployment Rate Change & Real GDP Change, CQ1:48 - CQ4:10
+Quarterly Unemployment Change
+-20%
+-15%
+-10%
+-5%
+0%
+5%
+10%
+15%
+20%
+- Quarterly Unemployment Rate Change
+- Quarterly Real GDP Change (Inverse Scale)
+1Q48
+1Q53
+1Q58
+1Q63
+1Q68 1Q73 1Q78 1Q83 1Q88
+1Q93
+1Q98
+1Q03 1Q08
+200%
+150%
+100%
+50%
+0%
+-50%
+-100%
+-150%
+Quarterly...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020905.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020905.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2a874d1655826167388638d1e6808cc661b1d587
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020905.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Unemployment Benefits: Bad News-Structural Problems in Labor Force
+Could Lead to Prolonged Duration/Increased Rate of Unemployment
+• Structural Problems in USA Labor Force
+- Healthcare costs may be a barrier to hiring for employers
+• Healthcare benefits = 8% of average total employee compensation; grew at
+6.9% CAGR from 1998 to 2008 compared with 4.5% CAGR in salaries.
+• Healthcare benefits are fixed costs as they are paid on an annual per-worker
+basis and do not vary with hours worked.
+• As...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020906.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020906.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..564481183ecf22085ef879407b0ea299a99d778b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020906.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+1
+Entitlement
+Spending
+Medicaid
+(-$273B Net Loss)
+Medicare
+(-$272B Net Loss1)
+Unemployment
+Benefits
+(-$115B Net Loss)
+Social Security
+(-$75B Net Loss1)
+2
+Rising Debt
+Level & Interest
+Payments
+Debt Level
+($9T Outstanding)
+Effective Interest
+Rates
+(2.2%)
+Debt Composition
+3
+Periodic Large
+One-Time
+Charges
+TARP
+($26B Net Profit2)
+Fannie Mae /
+Freddie Mac
+(-$41B Net Loss)
+ARRA
+(-$137B Net Loss)
+www.kpcb.com
+Note: denotes F2010 net income / net loss of respective programs, data per White House OMB....
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020907.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020907.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7e42af82ee100e29acacad1c92b42b2322ac9fee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020907.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Social Security: Financially Sound - So Far - Owing to
+Increased Revenue / Reduced Spending Post 1983 Reform,
+But 'Operating Loss' Resumed in 2009
+Real Social Security Operating Income, 1957 - 2010
+150
+Real Net Income of Social Security Program ($B)
+100
+• Operating Income (Tax Receipts - Expenditures)
+50
+-50
+-100
+www.kpcb.com
+1957
+1961
+1965
+1969
+1973
+1977 1981
+1985 1989
+1993 1997 2001 2005 2009
+Note: Data is adjusted for inflation using White House OMB's GDP price index (based on BEA's data)....
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020908.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020908.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..95d10f891f749f849d3371cc82a82d690ce37f5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020908.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Social Security: Observations
+• 52 million retired Americans (17% of population) received an
+average of $11,826 (in 2005 dollars) in Social Security payments
+(32% of USA per-capita income) in 2009.
+• By comparison, 10 million retired Americans (6% of population)
+received an average of $5,447 (in 2005 dollars) in Social Security
+payments (51% of per-capita income) in 1957.
+• When Social Security was created in early 20th century to provide
+retirement income to elderly Americans, 1 in 127...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..506b1583b7e24c301760fb1f6b8a4cbb8d61ba0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020909.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Social Security: Each Retiree Was Supported by
+42 Workers in 1945 & Just 3 Workers in 2009
+Supporting Workers per Social Security Beneficiary, 1945 - 2030E
+45
+40
+35
+30
+Forecast
+Supporting Workers per Beneficiary
+25
+20
+15
+5
+0
+1945
+1955
+1965
+1975
+1985
+1995
+2005
+, www.kpcb.com
+2015E
+2025E
+Source: Social Security Administration. USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown 135
+Think About That... If you are a worker in USA, Inc.
+(as 81 million tax-paying
+Americans are), in effect, you have
+5 times more...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78815fe0459fb48d3e8689aef8cc7eadb99b5b23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020910.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Analysts Often Think of Things as Math Problems... So, how about
+this one...
+www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown 137
+Americans Are Living 26% Longer, But Social Security 'Retirement Age' Has
+Increased Only 3% Since Social Security Was Created in 1935... USA Life Expectancy at Birth, 1935 & 2009
+USA Life Expectancy at Birth (Years)
+90
+80
+70
+60
+50
+40
+30
+20
+10
+0
++26%
+78
+62
+USA Full Retirement Age, 1935 & 2009
+USA Full Retirement Age...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fe9ec75ea3d85de5d336a09fcf6590730cf4be40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020911.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+That's a Math Problem...
+• If an expense rises by 26% and the ability to pay rises by only 3%,
+the math doesn't work. A computer in a science fiction movie might
+blurt out, 'does not compute...does not compute...'
+• "Something's Gotta Give...' as the 2003 film put it.
+• A mathematician or economist would say, 'the expense must go down or
+the ability to pay must rise to match the expense.'
+• Simple math implies that the age for collecting full benefits should rise
+from 67 to 72, so that expenses...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c15575ea25c98c9972e6377c57689f1e272b57b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020912.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Heretofore, Social Security and Unemployment Insurance
+have been effectively funded, but two significant entitlement
+programs (Medicaid and Medicare) were created without
+effective funding plans / programs. Only one of these
+(Medicaid) is means-tested (indicating that one is eligible for
+Medicaid only if he / she does not sufficient financial means). Left unchanged, Unemployment Insurance funding should
+improve as economic growth resumes, but Social Security will no
+longer be self-funded within...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..97ccbacd735a8292bb3e87d85f40bc8d76b32470
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020913.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Interest Payments:
+3 Determinants = Debt Level + Interest Rates + Maturity
+Interest
+Payments
+Debt
+Level
+Effective
+Interest
+Rates
+Debt Level
+• 62% of GDP in 2010, up 2x over 30 years
+• Projected to rise to ~146% of GDP by 2030E
+owing to diminishing surpluses from Social
+Security and rising expenses from Medicaid and
+other entitlement spending
+Effective Interest Rates
+• At historic low of 2.2% in 2010, vs. 30-year
+average of 6.4%
+• Will rise with federal funds target rate & long-term
+Treasury...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..029553db0a3f68ff4388e3706672433c4a7363e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020914.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+Entitlement
+Spending
+Medicaid
+(-$273B Net Loss)
+Medicare
+(-$272B Net Loss1)
+Unemployment
+Benefits
+(-$115B Net Loss)
+Social Security
+(-$75B Net Loss1)
+2
+Rising Debt
+Level & Interest
+Payments
+Debt Level
+($9T Outstanding)
+Effective Interest
+Rates
+(2.2%)
+Debt Composition
+3
+Periodic Large
+One-Time
+Charges
+TARP
+($26B Net Profit2)
+Fannie Mae /
+Freddie Mac
+(-$41B Net Loss)
+ARRA
+(-$137B Net Loss)
+www.kpcb.com
+Note: denotes F2010 net income / net loss of respective programs, data per White House OMB. 1)...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020915.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020915.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0424772a8182c9dd421011c9203763b601de6db5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020915.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Public Debt Up 2x Over
+Past 3 Decades
+www.kpcb.com
+Source: White House Office of Management and Budget. USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown 147
+Debt Level: Why It Has Risen
+Answer Part 1: Expenses (Entitlement + One-Time Items) Grew Faster Than GDP
+USA Real Federal Expenses vs. Real GDP % Change, 1965 - 2010
+1200%
+1000%
+800%
+600%
+— Total Expenses
+- Entitlement Programs
+- Non-Defense Discretionary
+Defense
+• Net Interest Payments
+— - Real GDP
+400%
+200%
+0%
+-200%
+B...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020916.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020916.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fffaa898df6152a89a474da962546f86ee4c03b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020916.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Debt Level: Entitlement Spending Increased 11x (1965 to 2010),
+While Real GDP Grew 3X
+USA Real Federal Expenses, Entitlement Spending, Real GDP % Change, 1965 - 2010
+1200%
+1000%
+% Change From 1965
+800%
+600%
+400%
+200%
+0%
+, www.kpcb.com
+- Total Expenses
+Entitlement Programs
+— - Real GDP
+Entitlement
+Expenses
++10.6x
+Total
+Expenses
++3.3x
+Real GDP
++2.7x
+1973
+2009
+Note: Data adjusted for inflation. USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown
+149
+Debt Level: Why It Has Risen
+Answer Part 2: Revenue (Esp....
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..39465885b525764e036803f7a28cd8a3c3efefaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020917.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+Debt Level: Recessions + Corporate Tax Accounting Changes
+Led to Revenue Underperformance (Relative to GDP Growth)
+USA Federal Receipts by Type ($B in 2005 Constant Dollars), 1965 - 2010
+1,200
+1,000
+800
+600
+400
+200
+0
+- Individual Income Taxes
+- Corporate Income Taxes
+Recessions
+1981
+Tax Cuts
+1981
+Accelerated Cost
+Recovery System
+→ Lower Corporate
+Taxes
+2001 / 2003
+Tax Cuts
+B www.kpcb.com
+1965
+1970
+1975
+1980
+1985
+1990
+1995
+2000
+2005
+2010
+Note:  The adoption of Accelerated Cost Recovery System...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020918.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020918.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d86223b34dc563fee981eea0445700f0cd449d68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020918.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Why Will Debt Level
+Continue to Rise? Public Debt Projected
+to Rise 2x Over
+Next 3 Decades
+www.kpcb.com
+Source: Congressional Budget Office Long-Term Budget Outlook (6/10), Alternative Fiscal Scenario (assuming a continuation
+of today's underlying fiscal policy. This scenario deviates from CBO's baseline because it incorporates some policy changes
+that are widely expected to occur and that policymakers have regularly made in the past). USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown
+153
+Debt Level:...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020919.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020919.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ebdb3047b044ee4ffd91fb91412461a9cd3130d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020919.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Debt Level: Why Will It Continue to Rise? Answer Part 1: Notional Social Security "Trust Fund" Surpluses Likely
+Turning Into Deficits Owing to Aging Population
+Social Security Cumulative Real Operating Surpluses / Deficits, 1982-2037E
+$200
+Social Security Operating Income ($B)
+$0 r
+-$200
+-$400
+-$600
+-$800
+Cumulative Surpluses
+(1982-2008) Reduced
+Federal Debt by
+$1.4T
+→
+Projected Cumulative
+Deficits (2009-2037E)
+Could Increase Federal
+Debt by $11.6T
+-$1,000
+1982
+1987
+1992
+1997
+2002
+2007
+2012E...
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..58a0df6444f84dcc18d94064b4b760162a772d84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020920.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+Debt Level: Why Will It Continue to Rise? Answer Part 3: Potential Loss on Guarantees on Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac
+Originations Could Rise
+Government-Sponsored Enterprises Gross Debt Composition, 1971 - 2008
+$9,000
+$8,000
+Total GSE Debt Outstanding ($B)
+$7,000
+• Freddie Mac
+RMBS
+$6,000
+• Fannie Mae
+RMBS
+$5,000
+$4,000
+• Freddie Mac
+Corporate Debt
+$3,000
+• Fannie Mae
+Corporate Debt
+$2,000
+• Other Debt
+$1,000
+$0
+1971
+1976
+1981
+1986
+1991
+1996
+2001
+2006
+B www.kpcb.com
+Note: RMBS is residential...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020921.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020921.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d2353629288cd1fc0de88075deb11f47f3aca28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020921.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Debt Level: Fannie Mae + Freddie Mac =
+Latest Estimated Ultimate Cost to Taxpayers Varies
+Base-Case
+Estimated Ultimate
+Net Loss
+$389 Billion
+Source
+Congressional
+Budget Office
+(CBO)
+Comments / Assumptions
+Net accrued loss to be borne by taxpayers, including
+net cash infusions (with implied default rate of ~5-
+10%) and risk premiums associated with federal
+government's implicit guarantee on GSEs' credit. On a cash basis, CBO's estimate would have been in
+line with White House OMB's...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020922.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020922.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf3fef3b5e0abaf8976ae00d95f78d084b1094af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020922.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+2
+3
+Entitlement
+Spending
+Rising Debt
+Level & Interest
+Payments
+Periodic Large
+One-Time
+Charges
+Medicaid
+(-$273B Net Loss)
+Debt Level
+($9T Outstanding)
+TARP
+($26B Net Profit2)
+Medicare
+(-$272B Net Loss1)
+Unemployment
+Benefits
+(-$115B Net Loss)
+Effective Interest
+Rates
+(2.2%)
+Fannie Mae /
+Freddie Mac
+(-$41B Net Loss)
+Debt Composition
+ARRA
+(-$137B Net Loss)
+, www.kpcb.com
+Social Security
+(-$75B Net Loss1)
+Note: denotes F2010 net income / net loss of respective programs, data per White House OMB....
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020923.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020923.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0842c73dde16ac1079d2710a5535c697e13487df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020923.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Effective Interest Rates: While USA Debt Has Risen,
+Net Interest Payments Have Fallen
+USA Net Federal Debt Outstanding & Net Interest Payments, 1980 - 2010
+$10,000
+$500
+• Net Debt Outstanding
+— Net Interest Payments
+$8,000
+$400
+Net Debt Outstanding ($B)
+$6,000
+$300
+$4,000
+$200
+Net Interest Payments ($B)
+$2,000
+$100
+$0
+$0
+1980
+1983
+, www.kpcb.com
+Source: White House Office of Management and Budget. USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown 163
+Effective Interest Rates: Hypothetical Exercise - If USA...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020924.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020924.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce84e58ac9129f17e9e07b184a5bd7f6d85a4470
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020924.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Effective Interest Rates: But Cost of Debt Unlikely to Continue to Decline
+For Extended Period If Economy Improves
+USA Federal Debt Weighted Average Yields, 1980 - 2010
+14%
+Weighted Average Treasury Yields (%)
+12%
+10%
+8%
+6%
+4%
+2%
+30-Year Average Yield
+7%
+0% г
+1980
+1983
+1986
+1989
+1992
+1995
+1998
+2001
+2004
+2007
+2010
+3 www.kpcb.com
+Source: US Treasury. USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown 165
+Effective Interest Rates: If Debt Levels & Interest Rates Rise Dramatically
+Beyond 2010, Net Interest...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020925.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020925.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..256a1ceb25c6e003b892a53568ac06ed23a57a0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020925.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Effective Interest Rates: If Debt Levels & Interest Rates Rise Dramatically
+Beyond 2010, Net Interest Payments Could Soar
+Net Interest Payment ($B)
+USA Net Federal Debt Outstanding & As Percent of Total Revenue, 1980 - 2016E
+$600
+30%
+• Net Interest Payment ($B)
+$500
+- As % of Total Revenue
+24%
+$400
+18%
+$300
+12%
+$200
+$100
+6%
+$
+0%
+1983
+1998
+2001 2004 2007 2010 2013E 2016E
+As % of Total Revenue (%)
+B www.kpcb.com
+Note: CAGR is compound annual growth rate. Source: White House Office of Management...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020926.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020926.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6b36735b51a163bec1c39a3153dab47dee4c2220
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020926.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Debt Composition: Average Debt Maturity Declining Since 2000, Combined
+With Declining Interest Rate, Leading to "Artificially Low" Interest Payments
+USA Inc. Short-Term Interest Rate, 1980 - 2010
+20%
+Average Treasury Securities Maturity (Years)
+Average Treasury Securities Maturity
+Short-Term Interest Rate
+6
+15%
+30-Year Average
+Maturity
+10%
+1
+JANt
+4
+5%
+Short-Term Interest Rate (%)
+3 г
+1980
+0%
+1983
+1986
+1989
+1992
+1995
+1998
+2001
+2004
+2007
+3 www.kpcb.com
+Source: Dept. of Treasury. USA Inc. | Income...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020927.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020927.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..285c62fa54fd266d5f07944bdc0daea1b3bbf720
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020927.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+Debt Composition: Foreign Investors & Governments
+Hold ~46% of USA Inc. Public Debt
+1989 Total Public Debt
+Outstanding
+$2 Trillion
+2010 Total Public Debt
+Outstanding
+$9 Trillion
+• Foreign Investors &
+Government
+• Federal Reserve
+• Mutual Funds
+19%
+18%
+28%
+10%
+6%
+11%
+6%
+• State & Local
+Governments
+• Private Pension Funds
+3%
+3%
+6%
+46%
+17%
+5%
+• Depository Institutions
+6%
+• Insurance Companies
+7%
+10%
+• Other Investors
+3 www.kpcb.com
+Note: Public debt ownership excludes Government Accounts Series...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020928.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020928.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a7d4e4275d65ea8fd4878ff666be52ef2b2090e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020928.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+And - You Guessed It - Here's the Punch Line... By USA Inc.'s Own
+Forecast...
+www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown 173
+Entitlement Spending + Interest Payments Alone Should
+Exceed USA Inc. Entitlement Spending + Interest Payments vs. Revenue as % of GDP, 1980 - 2050E
+40%
+Total Revenue & Entitlement + Net Interest
+— Revenue
+30%
+Payments as % of GDP
+- Entitlement Spending + Net
+Interest Payments
+20%
+10%
+0%
+1980
+1990
+2000
+2010E
+2020E
+2030E
+2040E
+2050E
+Source: Congressional Budget...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020929.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020929.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..718d1f223caa6531a4fe023857d48bfcca6a2006
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020929.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+CBO's Projection from 10 Years Ago (in 1999) Showed Federal Revenue
+Sufficient to Support Entitlement Spending + Interest Payments Until 2060E
+- 35 Years Later than Current Projection
+CBO's Projection in the '1999 Long-Term Budget Outlook' on
+Entitlement Spending + Interest Payments vs. Revenue as % of GDP, 1980 - 2070E
+40%
+Total Revenue & Entitlement + Net Interest
+- Revenue
+-— Entitlement Spending + Net Interest Payments
+30%
+Payments as % of...
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diff --git a/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020930.txt b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020930.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5e33dc0a795a4ddec6138f6e34c0f7aa7a3257c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extracted/summaries/house-oversight-nov/house-oversight-020930.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+Drill Down on USA Inc. Periodic Large One-Time Charges
+2
+3
+Entitlement
+Spending
+Rising Debt
+Level & Interest
+Payments
+Periodic Large
+One-Time
+Charges
+Medicaid
+(-$273B Net Loss)
+Debt Level
+($9T Outstanding)
+TARP
+($26B Net Profit2)
+Medicare
+(-$272B Net Loss1)
+Unemployment
+Benefits
+(-$115B Net Loss)
+Effective Interest
+Rates
+(2.2%)
+Fannie Mae /
+Freddie Mac
+(-$41B Net Loss)
+Debt Composition
+ARRA
+(-$137B Net Loss)
+Social Security
+(-$75B Net Loss1)
+www.kpcb.com
+Note: denotes F2010 net income / net...
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+One-Time Charges: What Charges from F2008-F2010
+May Look Like on Net Basis Over Next 10 Years
+One-Time Charges from the 'Financial Crisis' are Not Created Equal - While TARP Was the
+Headliner, When All's Said & Done, TARP may be Smallest Component, by a Long Shot
+Current Cost
+Ultimate Cash Cost
+($B, as of 2/11)
+($B, by F2020E)
+Comments
+TARP
+$213B - - - → <$51B1
+GSE
+$152 - - -→ -$1602
+May fall from net $213 billion to $51 billion or
+less' as banks continue to pay back their loans
+and automakers...
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+Drill Down on One-Time Charges
+Most of USA Inc.'s recent one-time charges are directly or
+indirectly related to America's real estate bubble and
+aggressive borrowing. First we look at the drivers of the real estate bubble (we call it
+'anatomy of a real estate bubble'), then we drill down on the
+past / present / future financial impact of the three types of
+one-time charges and the recipients:
+1) TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program)
+2) GSEs (Government-Sponsored Enterprises)
+2) ARRA (American...
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+Real Estate Bubble: Root Causes —Government Home Ownership Push +
+Declining Interest & Savings Rates + Aggressive Borrowing and Lending
+Led to 10+ Years of Rising Home Ownership
+USA Home Ownership Rates vs. Personal Savings Rates, 1965 - 2010
+June 2004: US home ownership = 73MM
+20%
+68%
+66%
+64%
+62%
+60%
+16%
+January 1993: HUD began promoting
+broader home ownership. Interest Rate & Personal Savings
+Rate
+58%
+1965
+1968
+1971
+B www.kpcb.com
+8%
+4%
+1974 1977...
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+Banks & Other Mortgage Originators Helped Fuel Housing Bubble as They
+Originated Lower Quality Mortgages -
+Alt-A & Subprime Origination Volumes Up 374% & 94% in 2006 vs. 2003
+Total Residential Mortgage Origination ($B)
+4,000
+3,000
+2,000
+1,000
+USA Residential Mortgage Origination by Product Type, 2001 - 2010
+50%
+45%
+40%
+35%
+30%
+25%
+20%
+15%
+10%
+0 -
+5%
+- 0%
+2001
+2002
+2003
+2004
+2005
+- Conventional
+• Subprime
+• Home Equity
+- Total Non-Conventional as % of Total
+2006
+2007
+• Jumbo
+• Alt-A
+•...
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+Investors Struggle with Today's Low ~4% Risk Free Rate
+• Pension funds & other investors look for ~8% annual returns
+in order to meet promised payouts.
+• The challenge is far greater than before given:
+• Rising obligations relative to income
+• Lower interest rates
+• Promises (e.g., pension, healthcare) made during an 8%
+interest rate environment are much harder to meet when the
+risk free rate has fallen from 8% to 3.6%.1
+• The choice is either to reduce obligations...
+or
+...Invest in riskier...
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+Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP):
+Recipient of 38% of Net Government (Taxpayer) Funding
+In TARP, the financial rescue program (created in October, 2008),
+USA Inc. purchased assets and equity from financial institutions to
+provide the capital and liquidity needed during the 2008 financial
+crisis (which followed the real estate bubble). USA Inc. | Income Statement Drilldown
+189
+TARP Distribution -
+Equally Distributed Among Financial Institutions / Automakers / Insurer / Individuals as of...
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+TARP Repayments and Outstanding Loans: Most Large Banks Have Repaid
+$222 Billion Paid Back', $23 Billion Outstanding
+TARP Repayments: Top 8
+Principal
+1
+Warrant &
+Other
+Proceeds
+TARP Outstanding: Top 8
+Citigroup
+Bank of
+America
+Wells Fargo
+JPMorgan
+Goldman
+Sachs
+Morgan
+Stanley
+PNC
+Financial
+US Bank
+$-
+www.kpcb.com
+General
+Motors
+-
+Chrysler
+Chrysler
+Financial
+$-
+CB www.kpcb.com
+SunTrust
+Regions
+Financial
+Key Corp. CIT Group
+Marshall...
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+Entitlement
+Spending
+Medicaid
+(-$273B Net Loss)
+Medicare
+(-$272B Net Loss1)
+Unemployment
+Benefits
+(-$115B Net Loss)
+Social Security
+(-$75B Net Loss1)
+2
+Rising Debt
+Level & Interest
+Payments
+Debt Level
+($9T Outstanding)
+Effective Interest
+Rates
+(2.2%)
+Debt Composition
+3
+Periodic Large
+One-Time
+Charges
+TARP
+($26B Net Profit2)
+Fannie Mae /
+Freddie Mac
+(-$41B Net Loss)
+ARRA
+(-$137B Net Loss)
+www.kpcb.com
+Note: denotes F2010 net income / net loss of respective programs, data per White House OMB. 1)...
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+Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac:
+A Brief History of Government-Sponsored Enterprises
+Fannie Mae established in
+1938 to provide liquidity to
+the primary and secondary
+mortgage markets
+Freddie Mac established in
+1970 after the Emergency
+Home Finance Act to
+provide further liquidity to
+the mortgage markets
+Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
+placed into conservatorship
+at a time when they
+guaranteed 57% of the $12
+trillion USA mortgage market
+1938
+1968
+1970
+1988
+2008
+Fannie Mae became a publicly traded company...
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+Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: Accounted for Majority of Total Residential
+Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) Issuance Since 1990s
+Mortgate-backed Security Volume
+Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Issuance
+and as % of Total Market Volume, 1998-2010
+2,000
+1,800
+1,600
+1,400
+1,200
+1,000
+800
+600
+400
+80%
+72%
+64%
+56%
+48%
+40%
+32%
+24%
+16%
+As % of Total MBS Marlet Volume
+8%
+1 0%
+, www.kpcb.com
+Base-Case
+Estimated Ultimate
+Net Loss
+$389 Billion
+1988
+1992
+1996
+2000
+2004
+2008
+1...
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+Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: Scenario Math - What Various Default Rates
+Could Mean for Taxpayer Ultimate Cash Cost
+Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac
+Outstanding Loan Guarantees
+Default Rate
+Loss Severity
+=
+Ultimate Cash Cost
+to Taxpayer
+Outstanding
+Loan Guarantees
+$5 Trillion'
+(before
+government
+conservatorship in
+9/08)
+3 www.kpcb.com
+Default
+Rate
+Loss Severity
+2%
+Ultimate Cash Cost
+to Taxpayer
+$50 Billion
+$160 Billion
+5%
+$125 Billion
+10%
+$250 Billion
+50%
+15%
+$375 Billion
+Current CBO /
+OMB Forecasts
+of...
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+America Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA):
+Recipient of 34% of Net Government (Taxpayer) Funding
+In ARRA (the economic stimulus program created in February,
+2009), USA Inc. aims to create jobs and promote investment and
+consumer spending by cutting taxes, expanding unemployment
+benefits, and increasing spending in education, healthcare,
+infrastructure, and energy. These measures are projected to increase federal spending by $500+
+billion while reducing federal tax receipts by $275 billion over...
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+ARRA: Spending Examples
+Education - Used ARRA funding and saved education jobs, such as
+teachers, principals, librarians, and counselors
+Tax Credits - Provided higher Earned Income Tax Credits
+Transportation - Repaired roads and bridges
+Energy - Provided additional funding for renewable energy and energy
+efficiency projects
+Nutrition Assistance - Provided additional assistance for low-income
+families to purchase food
+Other - Funding for various programs related to homeland security and
+law...
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+What 'One-Time Charges' from F2008-F2010
+May Look Like on Net Basis Over Next 10 Years
+One-Time Charges from the 'Financial Crisis' are Not Created Equal - While TARP Was the
+Headliner, When All's Said & Done, TARP may be Smallest Component, by a Long Shot
+Current Cost
+Ultimate Cash Cost
+($B, as of 2/11)
+($B, by F2020E)
+TARP
+GSE
+ARRA
+Comments
+May fall from net $214 billion to $51 billion or
+less' as banks continue to pay back their loans
+$214B - - - → <$51B1
+and automakers / AIG seek IPOs /...
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+208
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+Balance Sheet Drilldown
+www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | Balance Sheet Drilldown 209
+Balance Sheet: USA Inc. Federal Debt + Unfunded Entitlement
+Liabilities (Social Security + Medicare...) Exceed Stated Assets
+F1996
+F2003
+F2009
+F2010
+Comments
+ASSETS ($B)
+Cash & Other Monetary Assets
+Accounts / Loans / Taxes Receivable
+Inventories
+Property, Plant & Equipment
+TARP + GSE Investments
+Other assets
+Total Assets ($B)
+Y/Y Growth
+LIABILITIES ($B)
+Accounts Payable
+Accrued Payroll & Benefits
+Federal Debt
+Federal...
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+Net Worth:
+$44 Trillion in Perspective
+There are doubts about the accuracy of such a big negative number, especially when the value
+of USA Inc.'s assets is so hard to calculate. The value of natural resources, the power to tax,
+the ability to print the world's reserve currency, the human capital in our educational system -
+these and other assets would clearly reduce that number, if they could be accurately
+calculated. Given the differences between government and corporate accounting, what...
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+Total Liabilities: $47 Trillion in F2010,
+or $395,093 per Household Owing Largely to Entitlement Spending
+Total Assets / Liabilities / Net Worth of USA Federal Government,
+Using Corporate GAAP Accounting, F1996-F2010
+Inc. Total Assets / Liabilities / Networth ($T)
+USA
+$10
+$
+-$10
+-$20
+-$30
+-$40
+-$50
+• Unfunded Entitlement Benefits
+• Current Liabilities
+• Total Assets
+-$60
+-•- Net Worth
+Medicare liabilities down sharply owing to slower
+healthcare cost growth assumptions associated
+-$70
+with 2010...
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+Important Caveats on F2010 Medicare Liability Improvement
+• Medicare Part A and Part B unfunded liability improved to -$16 trillion in F2010, up 47% from -$31 trillion in
+F2009, per the Board of Medicare Trustees.
+• The improvement was driven primarily by downward revisions of future cost growth assumptions following
+enactment of healthcare reform in 2010.
+• However, Medicare's Chief Actuary Richard Foster noted that "while the Patient Protection and Affordable
+Care Act, as amended, makes...
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+Balance Sheet: Observations of Last Ten Years
+• Unfunded promise of future entitlement spending grew 6x to -$31
+trillion, owing to rapidly rising healthcare cost + new Medicare Part D
+program + aging population in the medium-future.
+• Federal net debt outstanding more than doubled to $9 trillion on the
+back of chronic budget deficits, two major recessions in 2001 and 2008,
+and growing entitlement spending.
+• Federal employee & veteran benefits outstanding also more than
+doubled, to $5.7...
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+This page is intentionally left blank.
+220
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+What Might a Turnaround Expert—
+Empowered to Improve USA Inc.'s
+Financials—Consider? CB www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 221
+First, Examine USA Inc. Key Drivers of Revenue & Expenses...
+• USA Inc.'s Revenue = Highly Correlated (83%) with GDP Growth
+- 90% of USA Inc.'s 2010 revenue derived from taxing individual and corporate
+income, which depends on GDP growth and changes to tax rates / composition.
+• USA Inc.'s Expenses = Less (73%) Correlated with GDP Growth
+-...
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+Then, Aim to Determine What 'Normal' Is...
+• We review 40-year income statement patterns and focus on
+'average' / 'normal' levels of USA Inc.'s revenue drivers
+(primarily related to taxes) and expense drivers (by category)
+as a percent of revenue, as a starting point to help define
+'average' / 'normal.'
+• Established businesses typically determine their expense
+levels based on their revenue trend / outlook.
+• In a perfect world, the government (and its citizens) would
+continually review the...
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+Revenue Growth: Average Federal Revenue (Driven by Taxes)
+In-Line With GDP Growth
+1965 - 2005 USA Real Federal Income Growth by Category vs. Real GDP Growth
+Individual Income Taxes
+Corporate Income Taxes
+Social Insurance Taxes
+Other Taxes & Fees
+Total Federal Revenue
+Real GDP
+3 www.kpcb.com
+Revenue Growth
+1965 Y/Y
+2005 Y/Y
+'05 vs 40-yr
+40-yr CAGR
+Variance
+Comments
+11%
+11%
+3%
+8%
+15
+43
+2
+41
+12
+5
+1
+1
+Individual & corporate income
+taxes are cyclical; 2005 Y/Y
+growth were significantly
+affected by...
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+Revenue Drivers as Percent of Total Revenue: Average Federal Revenue
+Are Skewed to Social Insurance (Entitlement) Taxes and
+Away from Corporate Income Taxes
+1965 - 2005 USA Real Federal Income Mix by Category
+Individual Income Taxes
+Corporate Income Taxes
+Social Insurance Taxes
+Other Taxes & Fees
+Total Federal Revenue
+1965
+Share of Total Revenue
+40-yr
+2005
+Average
+'05 vs 40-yr
+Variance
+42%
+43%
+46%
+-3%
+22
+19
+13
+37
+17
+7
+100%
+100%
+12
+33
+10
+100%
+-3
+0%
+, www.kpcb.com
+"Normal"
+Note: All data are...
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+Expense Growth by Category: Entitlement Spending Growing Much Faster than
+Other Expenses and 2% Higher than GDP Growth
+1965 - 2005 USA Real Federal Expenses Growth by Category vs. Real GDP Growth
+Entitlement Expenses
+Defense
+Non-Defense Discretionary
+Net Interest Payments
+Total Federal Expenses
+Real GDP
+Expenses Growth
+1965 Y/Y
+2005 Y/Y
+40-yr CAGR
+05 vs. 40-yr
+Variance
+Comments
+12%
+12
+10
+7
+11%
+7%
+3%
+6%
+6
+6
+2
+12
+3
+5%
+3%
+3%
+3%
+Normal
+-3%
+4
+4
+titlement expenses gre
+rcentage points faster th
+GDP...
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+Expense Drivers as Percent of Total Expenses:
+Entitlement + One-Time Items Are Crowding Out Other Federal Spending
+1965 - 2005 USA Real Federal Expenses Mix by Category
+Entitlement Expenses
+Defense
+Non-Defense Discretionary
+Net Interest Payments
+Total Federal Expenses
+1965
+Share of Total Expenses
+40-yr
+2005
+Average
+'05 vs. 40-yr
+Variance
+21%
+51%
+42%
+9%
+43
+20
+29
+7
+22
+7
+24
+23
+11
+-4
+-1
+100%
+100%
+100%
+0%
+Normal
+Note: All data are inflation adjusted using GDP price index from BEA; '05 vs. 40-yr...
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+Bottom Line, as Data in This Presentation Indicate... How would a financial / turnaround expert look at USA Inc.'s financials,
+business model, strategic plans, efficiency and aim to drive the
+'business' to break-even (or a modest profit) over the next
+5-10 years?
+, www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 233
+Matching Expenses & Revenue:
+Imperatives & Constraints
+There are many reasons to make changes
+- USA Inc. is losing money, and forecasts imply it will continue to...
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+Matching Expenses & Revenue:
+Imperatives & Constraints
+There are many constraints to making changes
+- ~90 million citizens (29% of Americans)' have grown accustomed to entitlement
+programs - 47MM on Medicaid, 45MM on Medicare, and 51MM on Social
+Security, and many of them vote.
+- Politicians depend on re-election campaigns, which can create conflicts,
+especially given that only 12% of the population are willing to cut Social Security
+and Medicare benefits, per Pew survey in 2/11.
+- Low personal...
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+High-Level Thoughts on How to
+Turn Around USA Inc.'s Financial Outlook
+CB www.kpcb.com
+USA Inc. | What Might a Turnaround Expert Consider? 237
+Negative Cash Flow =
+USA Inc.'s Fundamental Financial Problem
+• Negative cash flow implies that USA Inc. can't afford the
+services it is providing to 'customers' (citizens).
+• USA Inc. needs to re-prioritize its services and offer
+them in a more cost-effective way to stop losing (and
+borrowing) money.
+• The financial data imply that USA Inc.'s operations...
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+The First Step to a 'Turnaround' is Acknowledging
+There is a Problem
+A turnaround situation is first recognized when there is serious concern
+or dissatisfaction with the firm's [organization's] performance, results,
+and/or near-term forecasts of [financial] performance and results.
+- Richard Sloma, The Turnaround Manager's Handbook
+If your organization is in trouble, be honest. Make it absolutely clear to
+everyone in the company that survival [long-term viability] depends on
+cost management.
+-...
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+...Aim to Answer Questions Like These About USA Inc. Productivity / Operations
+• How does USA Inc. measure performance and progress - are tools in place to measure success / failure? Should USA Inc. empower an independent / 3rd party auditor with expertise in government operations
+round the world AND corporate turnarounds to conduct a broad-ranaina audit of USA Inc.'s operations t
+measure efficiency and productivity of each business lines?
+• Does USA Inc. have tight management and financial...
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+Financial Experts Tend to 'Assume What Can Go Wrong,
+Will Go Wrong,' and Usually Manage Expenses in that Way
+• In projecting scenarios, financial experts would note that USA Inc.'s revenue and expenses are highly
+correlated to economic changes - for example, a 0.1 percentage point slowdown in real GDP annual
+growth rate could worsen USA Inc.'s F2011-F2020E budget deficit by $288B, or 5% owing to lower tax
+revenue and higher welfare spending.
+- F2011-F2020E Impact on USA Inc.'s...
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+Good News: While 'Unfunded' Liabilities Have Helped Bankrupt Companies,
+USA Inc.'s Unfunded Liabilities are Not Legal Contracts
+• Medicare / Social Security - While beneficiaries have a legal
+entitlement to receive benefits as set forth under the Social Security Act,
+Congress has the legal authority to change the levels of benefits
+and/or the conditions under which they are paid. Congress's
+authority to modify provisions of the Social Security program was
+affirmed in the 1960 Supreme Court...
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