Epstein Secrets

the press by an administration already girded for combat. How depressing to look back on those days and see not just the obvious -- Douglas Feith, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice; those who promised America would be "greeted as liberators" (Cheney), and who threatened nuclear "mushroom clouds" (

onald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz suggested the war could be done on the cheap and that it would largely pay for itself. In October 2003, Rumsfeld told a press conference about President Bush's request for $21 billion for Iraq and Afghan reconstruction that "the $20 billion the president reque

before an anti-war rally in Chicago, said he didn't oppose all wars, just the "dumb" ones. They are joined by the small cadre of allies in print — the Washington Post's Walter Pincus, the national security bureau of Knight- Ridder -- who dared to doubt the mise en place of intelligence being hand-delivered to the pre

is not to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as it is to make it smaller. As Eugene Robinson pointed out this week in an op-ed in The Washing Post — Paul Ryan's make-believe budget — that last year, "the Ryan Budget" was a big Republican selling point with Ryan proposing turning Medicare into a

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,

ikely to have come from the National Security Advisor’s antagonists inside the White House as from the Justice Department. On Wednesday, February 8, the Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung came to visit Flynn for what was billed as an off-the-record interview. They met not in his office but in the most ornate room in the E

olicitor General for the United States (2010-2011). Professor of Law, Georgetown U. Lead counsel for the plaintiff in Supreme Court case Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld. *Terry Kawaja *— CEO, Luma Partners. *Juliette Kayyem*— Foreign Affairs Columnist, Boston Globe. Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard. Asst Sec. fo

er*— Deputy Asst. Sec of Defense for Countcrnarcotics and Global Threats. *Adam Weiss**- co-CEO, Scout Capital. * *Katharine Weymouth**— Publisher, Washington Post* *Michael Wolf"— CEO, Activate. finr President and COO, MTV Networks. Fmr Prtnr, McKinsey. Former Senior Partner, Booz Allen & Hamilton. *Paul Wolp