Epstein Secrets

s data resources with its larger policy goals." NSA Still Trying To Impose Data System Controls To Guard Against Abuse. Government Executive (7/8, Clark, 57K) reports the NSA inspector general's office, in an unclassified version of its semiannual report released on Monday, found that NSA "is behind

the 2016 presidential campaign." The book says, "The team talked to judges for whom candidates had clerked and to those who had clerked with them. McGahn was particularly interested in what candidates had been like in their mid-twenties, the stage of life when he believed most people's views solidifi

ected. He was virtually unprotected." Administration Officials Reportedly Suspect "Incompetence," Not "Conspiracy." The Miami Herald (8/13, Wilner, Clark, 19K) reports, "Trump administration officials suspect a portrait of incompetence, rather than conspiracy, will emerge from a series of federal inve

use Judiciary Committee of "judge shopping" in an effort to get a favorable ruling to enforce its subpoena of former White House counsel Don McGahn. McGahn defied the subpoena in May and the committee filed a lawsuit in US District Court to enforce it. When the suit was filed, the committee "argued that

mber of the establishment. Bannon was—or at least saw himself to be—a fixer, power broker and kingmaker without portfolio. He was a cockeyed sort of Clark Clifford, that political eminence and influence peddler of the 1960s anc 70s. Or a wise man of the political fringe, if that was not an ultimate kinc

ling, mocking, falsetto-voice mimicry, and, as well, sweeping disparagements of his purpose and usefulness. “This is why we can’t have nice things,” McGahn uttered almost obses- sively under his breath, quoting the Taylor Swift song to comment on whatever egregious act Trump had just committed (“ . . bec