Epstein Secrets

n was "Trust & Faith." Last week DesJarlais, as a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform participated in questioning three State Department whistle-blowers about the handling of terrorism threats to U.S. personnel in Libya last year that led to the killing of Chris Stevens and three othe

milestone of 400 parts per million and unless you are a chimney sweep that is bad news, because humans have never lived through it You think that Susan Rice gave bogus talking points about Benghazi, what about the BS talking points that the entire Republican Party has been spewing on climate change since

Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials." The next day, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland clarified that the administration had no intention of arming the rebels. As for coordinating arms shipments, presumably

s column for NOW Lebanon today, "we've heard senior officials in the Obama administration, from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to UN Ambassador Susan Rice, say that arming the opposition could be tantamount to arming al-Qaeda, since we don't know who this opposition really is." U.S. intelligence anal

d. The foreign policy establishment had a long and well-honed relationship with MBS’s rival, the crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN). Key NSA and State Department figures were alarmed that Kushner’s discussions and fast-advancing relationship with MBS would send a dangerous message to MBN. And of course it did.

es so as to make it easier to leak, and at the same time to protect the leakers. This intelligence, it was rumored, consisted of spreadsheets kept by Susan Rice that listed the Trump team’s Russian contacts; borrowing a technique from WikiLeaks, the documents were secreted on a dozen servers in different plac

an Assange, began posting thousands of classified State Department cables online. Candid descriptions of foreign lea

“moved” applied. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024976 --- PAGE BREAK --- 20 A myth quickly arose that the women in the administration—Clinton, U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, and national-security aide Samantha Power, whose Pulitzer Prize—winning book on genocide was influential in Obama’s thinking—drove the debate. “The

lity must eventually give way to the more mundane realities of running the department. She is midway through a five-year plan to increase the size of the State Department’s foreign- service staff by 25 percent and double USAID. And she’s taken a leaf from the Pentagon playbook and launched a “Q.D.D.R.”— Quadrennial Diplo

options stretching beyond a twenty minute horizon—the State Department's Policy Planning Staff comes to mind-routinely get

proaching leisure, those days have been long gone. Even offices created expressly to explore policy options stretching beyond a twenty minute horizon—the State Department's Policy Planning Staff comes to mind-routinely get pulled into the maelstrom of daily struggles to manage breaking developments through some combinati

t to the president for national security affairs is an ideal opportunity to restore best practices to the national security apparatus. To her credit, Susan Rice appears to be reaching out with this very much in mind. If changes are made that better serve the president by forcing people to think through policy

options stretching beyond a twenty minute horizon—the State Department's Policy Planning Staff comes to mind-routinely get

proaching leisure, those days have been long gone. Even offices created expressly to explore policy options stretching beyond a twenty minute horizon—the State Department's Policy Planning Staff comes to mind-routinely get pulled into the maelstrom of daily struggles to manage breaking developments through some combinati

t to the president for national security affairs is an ideal opportunity to restore best practices to the national security apparatus. To her credit, Susan Rice appears to be reaching out with this very much in mind. If changes are made that better serve the president by forcing people to think through policy