Epstein Secrets

know what the political consequences were. All over Europe, the extremists of the right and the left—fascists and communists—surged in popularity. Hitler came to power in 1933. Six years later Europe was at war. Nobody expects all of that history to repeat itself. Europe's population is older today

esident Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld—most associated with extreme views of how to han

of the first four years. During the 2004 campaign, Bush came close to jettisoning the two people—Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld—most associated with extreme views of how to handle post-9/11 foreign affairs. After the election, Cheney saw the influence of his principal ideolo

e to read almost every coded message the Germans sent during the war, giving the Allies an enormous advantage. The D-Day invasion involved convincing Hitler that the Allies had a huge army of nearly 400,000 men, massed around Dover preparing an attack on Calais head on, with a second army in Scotland pois

n unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we dont know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld United States Secretary of Defense (2001-2006, 1975-1977) HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015880 Chapter 9 KNOWN UNKNOWNS Donald Rumsfeld HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015881

was both the youngest and the oldest serving U.S. Secretary of Defense, serving under both Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. We will shortly discover Rumsfeld’s convoluted view of the world turns out to be closer to the truth than Hilbert’s tidy mathematical aspiration. As well as believing there were no u

ntries made on the stage of world history. Some of this unease was surely a result of his own life, marked by a lucky escape from Germany in 1937, as Hitler was finally perfecting a national machine of lurid and murderous potency. I suspect Morgenthau would have been terrified now by the always-on, all-se

ging the most expensive war on terrorism in human history, the US was uneasily discovering that it was creating more terrorists. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had sketched the nature of this puzzle in an October, 2003 memo with acid clarity. He asked: “Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading m

yond what the soldiers and analysts could match or even fully monitor. “Is our current situation such that ‘the harder we work, the behinder we get?” Rumsfeld asked in 2003.38 To be constantly behind. This was a commander’s nightmare. Among other things it was that sense of never quite catching up that had

n 357 Hilbert, David 182, 193, 194, 238 Hilbert Problems 196, 221 Hilbert’s 10th Problem 243, 253 Hilbert’s Hotel 182 Himalayas 55 hippocampus 11, 32 Hitler, Adolf 213 Hoane, Joe 5 Hodges, Wilfrid 150 H6f6i House 79, 80 Hofstadter, Douglas xi, 49, 310 Hogarth, Mark 280 Hole in the Wall Project 35 Holmes,

uel 332 Rosetta Stone 89 Rowling, JK 306 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 366 RSA encryption 165 Rubik’s cube 345 Rule 164 192 tules 192, 200 Rumsfeld, Donald 190, 194 RunMe 245 Ruohonen, Keijo 251 Russell, Bertrand 155, 193, 195 Russell paradox 155 S Sachs, Oliver 12 Sagan, Carl 68 Sandler, A

9, 150-54, 158, 160, 185, 188, 198-201, 203-9, 213, 216-17, 229, 235, 247, 258-59, 261-62, 271, 277, 279, 281, 297, 307 Hiltzik, Matthew, 203-4, 207 Hitler, Adolf, 127 HNA Group, 269 Hogan, Hulk, 22, 308 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020127 Homeland Security Department, 63, 86, 133, 218, 285, 288 Hoover, J. Edgar, 2

Rose, Charlie, 309 Rosen, Hillary, 78 Rosenstein, Rod, 212, 214, 216-21, 279 Ross, Wilbur, 78, 133, 229-30 Roth, Steven, 27, 141 Rove, Karl, 57, 238 Rumsfeld, Donald, 27 Russia, 24, 37-39, 92, 151-56, 160, 190-91, 236-46, 273, 303, 307-8 Bannon on, 6—7, 238-40, 278-83 Comey and, 168-70, 210-20, 242, 244-45