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ompany (founded by former journalists, it provided information to private clients), had been retained by Democratic Party interests. Fusion had hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy, in June 2016, to help investigate Trump’s repeated brags about his relationship with Vladimir Putin and the nature of Trump’s

nature of Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin. With reports from Russian sources, many HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019911 connected to Russian intelligence, Steele assembled a damaging report—now dubbed the “dossier’—suggesting that Donald Trump was being blackmailed by the Putin government. In September, Steele

Haldeman and Alexander Haig; Gerald Ford’s Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney; Jimmy Carter’s Hamilton Jordan;

ief operating officer, or even prime minister. Larger-than-life chiefs have included Richard Nixon’s H. R. Haldeman and Alexander Haig; Gerald Ford’s Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney; Jimmy Carter’s Hamilton Jordan; Ronald Reagan’s James Baker; George H. W. Bush’s return of James Baker; Bill Clinton’s Leon Panetta,

wden Speaks.” | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 328 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019816 Selected Bibliography SELECTED BOOKS Andrew, Christopher. The Sword and the Shield. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Bagley, Tennent H. Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ

, neither it nor its allies were able to find a trace of Snowden during that time. It was, in a phrase made famous by the former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, “a known unknown.” Just as likely he could have been staying in a well-prepared safe house anywhere in Hong Kong or even at the home of an unknown a

famous by the former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, “a known unknown.” Just as likely he could have

9, 241, 243, 261-62, 278-80 Obama wiretapping story and, 157-60 sanctions and, 105—7, 226 Sessions and, 151-52, 155-56, 245-46 Syria and, 190-91, 226 Steele dossier and, 37-39, 92-93, 102, 151, 156 Russian oligarchs, 17, 81, 100-101, 254 Ryan, Paul, 32, 117-21, 159-67, 170-72, 224 Sandberg, Sheryl, 187, 2

, 217-18, 223, 229, 251-52, 257-58, 261, 272-73, 282, 286, 296, 307 Spy magazine, 74 Starr, Ken, 233 State Department, 63, 86, 228-29, 231 Steele, Christopher, 37, 99 Steele dossier, 37-39, 92-93, 102, 151, 156 steel industry, 67-68 Steinmetz, Benny, 211 Stone, Roger, 13, 17, 55, 288 Strange, Luther, 30

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

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estimating $200 billion for Iraq. but that was before a monumentally mismanaged occupation and a civil war. Back then, in 2002. Defense Secretary Donald Rtunsfeld thought $50 billion to $60 billion woukl do the job, but he asked people not to hold him to a hard number. For the record, the price tag pas

" he said, "what history decides." U.S. troops and their families, as well as the Iraqis dying every day. are more than Interested" in whether Mr. Rumsfeld and President Bush are making good decisions. The generals and Mr. Rumsfeld also continued the administration's soft retreat from taking full res