Epstein Secrets

the House of Representatives "haggle[s] over the formation of a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol," the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Rules and Administration Committee are "pressing ahead with a series of investigative hearings to scruti

nfirmation hearing in the Senate to be deputy OMB director, may still face competition from Gene Sperling, who has the distinction of twice leading the National Economic Council." Haaland Commits To "Strike The Right Balance" On Oil, Natural Gas. The AP (2/22, Daly) reports that in testimony prepared for her confirmation he

als, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the confidential nature of the ongoing investigation into the hack." The vulnerabilities at Homeland Security, in particular, "intensify the worries following the SolarWinds attack and an even more widespread hack affecting Microsoft Exchange's email progra

address funding needs and widening inequality." The Washington Post (3/29, Stein, 10.52M) says as Biden's team began putting the package together, the National Economic Council "circulated an internal proposal calling for about $3 trillion in new spending and $1 trillion in new tax hikes," but some members of the economic

ic ways of doing it—which had in fact been suggested to Trump. (A curious one—an idea that later would seem ironic—was to get rid of General Kelly at Homeland Security and move Comey into that job.) But the point really was that Trump had wanted to confront and humiliate the FBI director. Cruelty was a Trump attribu

a lightweight and Bannon a slob who couldn’t run anything. 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 also retailed the