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18.61M) reports the Administration has "embarked on its toughest round of economic sanctions against Syria, intending to break President Bashar al- Assad's reign over the country and stop a civil war that has claimed over half a million lives." Diplomatic and humanitarian assistance experts, however,
Verma, Yee, 18.61M) reports the Administration has "embarked on its toughest round of economic sanctions against Syria, intending to break President Bashar al- Assad's reign over the country and stop a civil war that has claimed over half a million lives." Diplomatic and humanitarian assistance experts,
elations that the probe was an FBI setup targeting the Trump White House." SSCI Approves Final Russia Report. The Hill (8/4, Miller, 2.98M) reports the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday "voted to adopt its fifth and final report on Russia's election interference efforts in 2016, with committee leaders vowing to keep work
get a pass" from her. "Senator, I'm offended by the question," Gabbard responded. Pressed on her secret 2017 trip to meet with then-Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has since been toppled by rebels and fled to Russia, she defended her work as diplomacy. The article stated that Gabbard may have made some in
17 trip to meet with then-Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has since been toppled by rebels and fled t
Trump's picks, potentially lacking the votes even from Trump's party for confirmation for Director of National Intelligence. But her hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee offered a roadmap toward confirmation. It opened with the chairman, Sen. Tom Cotton, (R-AK), swatting back claims that Gabbard is a foreign "asset,
ammad Suleiman, a top aide to President Bashar al-Assad who had been working with North Korea to build a
71 184 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS 2008. It revealed that a group of Israeli commandos killed General Muhammad Suleiman, a top aide to President Bashar al-Assad who had been working with North Korea to build a nuclear facil- ity in Syria. Israel had destroyed that facility in Operation Orchard nearly a year e
anti-Snowden side of the divide. “I don’t look at this as being a whistle-blower,” the Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said after she was briefed on Snowden’s theft. “I think it’s an act of treason.” The Republican representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, her coun- @
et be a presidential game changer of the kind that everyone knew would surely come. Still, these were chemical weapons launched by a repeat offender, Bashar al-Assad. In any other presidency, such an atrocity would command a considered and, ideally, skillful response. Obama’s consideration had in fact been less th
ying international law, had used chemical weapons. There was video documenting the attack and substantial agreement among intelligence agencies about Assad’s responsibility. The politics were right: Barack Obama failed to act when confronted with a Syrian chemical attack, and now Trump could. The downsid
perform kamikaze acts for him—yjust as everyone else knew they would almost certainly never be confirmed. OOK Ok As James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee approached—it would take place on June 8, twelve days after the presidential traveling party returned home from the long trip to the Middle East and
ties even where the committee only sees difficulties. On Syria, for example, the report notes that 'Russia views its intervention in support of the Assad regime as a success, and it is clear that its presence in Syria presents the West with difficulty in supporting peace in the region. Russia's increa
igence-proposes-holding- limited-worldwide-threat-hearing-in-august/> (7/21, Gazis, 3.68M) reports that DNI Ratcliffe "has proposed appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a partially open hearing on worldwide threats in early August. But he suggested that the majority of the hearing, including a traditional questi
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Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Lebanon
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Bill Clinton
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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Damascus
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Middle East
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Marc Rich
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Yemen
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Vladimir Putin
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Cairo
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Hillary Clinton
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Department of Justice
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Donald Trump
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Joe Biden
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Jerusalem
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Prince Andrew
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