Epstein Secrets

o has benefitted Obama, although the White House has been careful to control the spotlight. One rough moment occurred in 2009, when Clinton flew to North Korea to negotiate EFTA00712761 the release of two captive journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling. Ling's sister Lisa had worked closely with Clinton and

uring his 2000 presidential bid (a role immortalized by the made-for-TV movie Recount), where he became close friends with fellow Gore campaigners Philippe Reines and Andrew Shapiro, now both in top roles at the State Department, as well as Rajiv Shah, the current USAID administrator. Bash went on to be minor

perational periods' of their deployment. `The Commander lost confidence in the team's ability to accomplish the mission,' the statement said." -- North Korea fired a "new type of ballistic missile" into the sea, toward Japan. Simon Denyer and John Hudson report: "South Korea's National Security Council

gh that some Clinton advisers were convinced Warren would be the best pick. ... In a memo to Clinton written shortly after the August meeting, ... Philippe Reines, a longtime adviser, concluded of Warren: 'If a crystal ball said she wouldn't antagonize you for four years, it's hard to argue she isn't the most

noodles, meat and kimchi; no fruit or salad’’) and accommodations (“a worn, drab-colored suite consisting of a bedroom and a salon’’) in places like North Korea. Nor will his fellow Egyptians be much intrigued by the details of his battles against nuclear proliferators. At the moment, the protestors have othe

d political concerns. At times, his narrative comes close to condoning the motives of states that seek nuclear weapons. “Iran’s goal is not to become another North Korea — a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community — but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity

anages a few pages of a mystery, but mostly she sleeps, without any pills, often right through landing. “If she couldn’t sleep most of the way,” says Philippe Reines, her longtime press secretary, “she wouldn’t be able to function.” Some of her best road stories involve Holbrooke, her close friend, a maestro of d