“There is no denying that Snowden's dramatic disclosures, despite the damage they did to U.S. intelligence, accomplished a salutary service in alerting both the public and the government to the potential danger of a surveillance leviathan." (p.299)” — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area. — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
We have a thriving subculture of 'independent' American movies that makes an impact on America as a whole roughly equivalent to that of a… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
“Snowden’s penetration went beyond whistle-blowing, however. In the vast number of files he copied were documents that contained the NSA’s most sensitive sources and… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The problem of journalism is simple. Journalists are rarely in a position to establish the truth of an issue themselves, since they didn't' witness… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
“Unless one is willing to believe that the Putin regime acted out of purely altruistic motives in exfiltrating this American intelligence worker to Moscow,… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
“Greenwald told the Associated Press that the documents that Snowden had taken from the NSA constituted “the instruction manual for how the NSA is… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
“He further disclosed that before leaving the NSA, he had gained access to the lists of computers that the NSA had penetrated in foreign… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
“would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities.” — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
