Edward Jay Epstein on “How America Lost Its Secrets”

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🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Amidst the chaos surrounding Michael Flynn’s departure as national security advisor and the slowly unspooling news story on the Trump team’s reported contacts with the Russian government, it’s worth taking a step back and remembering a previous political controversy involving the Kremlin: Edward Snowden’s asylum in Moscow. In his recent book How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft, Epstein argues that Snowden was effectively acting as a Russian spy, though he believes it’s not clear when and to what extent Snowden came under Russian influence. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Epstein at the Hoover Book Soiree to chat about the book and discuss its more controversial elements.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:32.6	I did manage to get access to the hotel records and it showed very clearly that he
0:39.4	checked in June 1st.
0:41.6	The Lord Poitrus and Glen Greenwald arrived June 2nd, so he checked in a day.
0:46.3	He arrived in Hong Kong May 20th to their 11 missing days.
0:51.0	I tried as hard as I could.
0:53.4	I went to Hong Kong, the police, the US Embassy.
0:57.4	No one knew where he was for those 11 days.
1:00.0	He might have been staying with a friend.
1:01.4	I don't want to make it sound overly sinister.
1:04.1	But when Putin answered he was meeting with Russian diplomats, we know he probably wasn't
1:10.7	meeting with Russian diplomats while he was seeing Poitrus and Glenwald.
1:14.9	And after that, according to his Hong Kong lawyer, he was being shuffled around to refugee
1:19.2	houses.
1:20.2	We can't exclude it, but it seems to me that something happened in those first 11 days
1:26.0	and you're absolutely right.
1:27.3	I do not know what.
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