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

Hurricane Sandy and too squishy on gun control. The conservative group GOProud was disqualified because they are openly gay. While both on wives #3, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump is lauded as an American patriot, because he demanded the President Obama show his long- fonn birth certificate, were invited to sp

ilar dissatisfaction with the state of "the movement," all chuckling when asked if they would be attending CPAC. Too many kooks, said one. Too much Gingrich and Trump, said another. It's funny, then, to see a panel discussion celebrating the legacy of sainted conservative intellectual William F. Buckley,

, Bush belatedly moved to rein in his vice president, siding with Justice Department lawyers on surveillance issues; firing Cheney's dearest friend, Donald Rumsfeld, from his Pentagon job; letting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice win the argument over whether to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor site (we didn't)

ened. After Iraq, there has been a weird amnesty and amnesia about people's misjudgment on the most consequential decision of our times.... Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Rice, McCain, Abrams, and others including the pro-war press claque are still offering their judgments unfazed. One of my fathe

. Would Americans have landed on the Moon in 1969 if JFK had not challenge the scientific community and the country at large? I often disagree with Newt Gingrich, but applauded him when during a January 2012 Republican Primary Debate he tried to defend US space exploration, suggesting that America should emb

the country at large? I often disagree with Newt Gingrich, but applauded him when during a January 2012 Re

, 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

saac, “Apple Still Holds the Keys to Its Cloud Ser- vice, but Reluctantly,” New York Times, Feb. 21, 2016. 121 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Newt Gingrich, “A Government Snoop That Puts the NSA to Shame,” Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2015. 122 the FISA court: http://www.tijc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/c

. 121 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Newt Gingrich, “A Government Snoop That Puts the NSA to Shame,”

made famous by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. “A known unknown.” Yet there HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_02

CCTV cameras, neither it, nor its allies, were able to find a trace of Snowden. It was, in a phrase later made famous by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. “A known unknown.” Yet there HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020371 220 provided no basis to speculate that he was in mainland China. He could have been staying

, 2011 “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...”—Newt Gingrich, “A Government Snoop That Puts the NSA to Shame,”

Edward Jay Epstein, “What Really Happed To Strauss- Kahn” New York Review of Books, December 22, 2011 “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...”—Newt Gingrich, “A Government Snoop That Puts the NSA to Shame,” Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2015 “The FISA court...” The history of the FISA court is a matter of

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

308 Gaza, 6 Gazprom, 101 Geffen, David, 12, 178 General Electric (GE), 88 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020126 General Motors, 88 Georgia (post-Soviet), 226 Gingrich, Newt, 177 Giuliani, Rudy, 16, 30, 86-87, 210, 242, 279 Glover, Juleanna, 78 Glover Park Group, 203 Goldman Sachs, 55—56, 81-82, 119, 143-49, 174,