Epstein Secrets

ugh is both gatekeeper and confidant for President Obama when it comes to foreign policy. The former football safety at Saint John's University in Minnesota and House foreign affairs staffer is said to be so close to the president "that colleagues -- even his superiors -- often do not make a major move

00 billion in military cuts set to take effect next year unless a new budget passes would be, in Levin's words, "a train wreck." (Defense Secretary Panetta has preferred the more apocalyptic "doomsday mechanism.") But while McCain has proposed protecting the defense budget by reducing federal spending

lpel, slicing and dicing Pentagon programs to save an estimated $490 billion over the next decade. As CIA director before his move to the Pentagon, Panetta oversaw the raid that killed bin Laden, handing Obama his signature foreign-policy achievement, and he jealously guarded his agency's turf against

ee top Obama Cabinet positions are held by Clinton veterans: Secretary of State Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. It's only a slight exaggeration to say that the many staffing changes since 2010 have resulted in the Obama camp running the campaign while the C

eeds to be involved — and what fingerprints to leave, if any." The 72-year-old man, a Fulbright scholar who spent 11 years living in New Mexico and Minnesota, had been expecting the news of his son's death. After all, it had already been falsely reported several times over the past two years. So Nasser a

hat killed bin Laden, and U.S. officials boast of eliminating two more of Al Qaeda's top operatives in Pakistan in recent months. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has called drones "the only game in town," and President Obama recently dismissed concerns about civilian casualties, insisting that he is not orde

bers of Congress. they have only 59 senators — one short of the number needed to end a Republican filibuster. Even if Al Franken were seated as Minnesota's sec- ond senator, Kennedy and Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., are suffering health prob- lems that could preclude them from casting votes to end the

ministrat ion's approach :0 ttsrrorism almost sug- gesti: "he's wishing that this boentry would be at- tackle again, in order to make his point." Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney "smons some blood in the water' on the issue of na- tionaisecurity. Cheney h