Epstein Secrets

re Turkish presence is wide in Kurdistan, to Syria via the opposition forces, Lebanon in the future and Tunisia, not to mention Turkish presence in Central Asia and the Balkans. Moreover, it will not be easy to compete with the role that the Gulf Cooperation Council states have started to play after they le

nd abandoning a novel, Rhodes gave up a publishing job and moved to Washington to write speeches for Rep. Lee Hamilton, eventually helping to draft the 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group reports. Now advising a president known for his rhetoric, Rhodes -- credited as the lead author of Obama's National Security S

the Arab and Muslim world. When Ronald Reagan was elected president, Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, did not even exist. All of this changed in 1990, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and President George H. W. Bush dispatched 700,000 troops to

a truck bomb devastated a building housing U.S. Air Force personnel in the Saudi city of Dhahran. (Although Saudi Hezbollah carried out the attack, the 9/11 Commission noted "signs that al-Qaeda played some role.") That same year, another al-Qaeda fatwa declared, "The latest and the greatest of these Western aggres

e 9/11. It might sound from these citations that the 9/11 Commission marked a new stage in the U.S. treatment of these

tral feature of the protection has been to defend the 9/11 Commission's false picture of al-Qaeda as an example of non-st

have an ARMY command, NORTHCOM, to take charge of America - North America, the way SOUTHCOM is in charge of South America and CENTCOM is in charge of Central Asia. This used to be illegal... We had the posse comitatus acts which said, yes, if there’s a real emergency HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015003 --- PAGE BREAK ---

have an ARMY command, NORTHCOM, to take charge of America - North America, the way SOUTHCOM is in charge of South America and CENTCOM is in charge of Central Asia. This used to be illegal... We had the posse comitatus acts which said, yes, if there’s a real emergency you could call up the ARMY to deal with the

ers, whose presence in the United States was concealed from the FBI by CIA officers for months before 9/11. It might sound from these citations that the 9/11 Commission marked a new stage in the U.S. treatment of these terrorists, and that the report now exposed those terrorists who in the past had been protected. On