Epstein Secrets

cting AG job needed someone with Senate confirmation. And even though she seemed to see herself as something of a prisoner held in hostile territory, Yates accepted the job. Given this context, the curious information she presented to White House counsel Don McGahn during the administration’s first week

White House in its assessment of the Yates message ended up seeing this as less a problem with an always hard-to-handle Flynn than as a problem with Yates, even as a threat from her: the Justice Department, with its vast staff of career and Obama-inclined prosecutors, had ears on the Trump team. 7 OK O

s who got us in all these wars ... It’s not a deep bench.” Bannon said he’d tried to push John Bolton, the famously hawkish diplomat, for the job as National Security Advisor. Bolton was an Ailes favorite, too. “He’s a bomb thrower,” said Ailes. “And a strange little fucker. But you need him. Who else is good on I

itutions. To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, “such a cunt.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020045 Since her firing on January 30, Yates had remained suspiciously quiet. When journalists approached her, she, or her intermediaries, explained that per her lawyers she was shut down on all

mp believed, of a sustained and well-organized media rollout for her. (His press view was confirmed later in May by a lavish, hagiographic profile of Yates in the New Yorker. “How long do you think she was planning this?” he asked, rhetorically. “You know she was. It’s her payday.”) “Yates is only famous

December. Hicks missed this point; later, it had to be highlighted for the president by Bannon. Three people in the Trump administration—the former National Security Advisor, the current attorney general, and the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law—had now been directly connected to the Russian diplomat. To

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

Hendricks; Nokia North and South America CTO Michael Murphy; SG Americas President Chris Pearson; Center for a New American Security Technology and National Security Program Adjunct Senior Fellow Elsa Kania; FP Analytics Managing Director Allison Carlson; and Foreign Policy Managing Editor Ravi Agrawal; 11:00 AM

or the FBI's search for collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin's plans to interfere in the 2016 presidential election." The Times says Yates "will be in a tight spot...forced to square her 2017 testimony that Michael Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia with new revelations that the prob

ya, including the use of mercenaries and private military contractors, and said Libyans themselves must rebuild a unified country." In a statement, National Security Adviser O'Brien said President Trump had spoken with several world leaders about Libya in recent weeks, and it was clear there was "no winning side

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

Hendricks; Nokia North and South America CTO Michael Murphy; 5G Americas President Chris Pearson; Center for a New American Security Technology and National Security Program Adjunct Senior Fellow Elsa Kania; FP Analytics Managing Director Allison Carlson; and Foreign Policy Managing Editor Ravi Agrawal; 11:00 AM

the FBI. It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division. The FBI and DOJ obtained one initial FISA warrant targeting Carter Page and three FISA renewals from the FISC. As required by statute (50 U

ntained contact with DOJ via then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with Deputy Attorneys General Yates and later Rosenstein. Shortly after the election, the FBI began interviewing Ohr, documenting his communications with Steele. For example, in Septemb