Epstein Secrets

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

since 2007, Carl Levin leads Senate oversight of the Pentagon and is at the forefront of the raging debate over the defense budget. Levin and Sen. John McCain, the committee's ranking member, agree that the $600 billion in military cuts set to take effect next year unless a new budget passes would be, in

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 elsewhere, Levin has argued, "We should do something intelligent, which mea

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

ns have caused trouble ever since Cain was angry at Abel. FINALLY: In an extraordinary public rebuke of Donald J. Trump's campaign, Mitt Romney and John McCain, the last two Republican presidential nominees, denounced Mr. Trump in forceful terms on Thursday and warned that his election could put the United

mperament nor the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be the shining city on the hill." Mr. McCain, once a rival of Mr. Romney's, effectively linked arms with him soon after his address, saying that he shared Mr. Romney's dismay about Mr. Trump's

(2/22, Caygle, Cheney, 6.73M) reports House Speaker Pelosi "and her Republican counterparts" are "battling over the contours of a panel inspired by the 9/11 Commission to investigate the deadly Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, with Republicans demanding equal representation." Politico says they "have already traded

tability system that failed to press for the truth about what happened." The AP adds the probe "found "two contrasting stories" of what happened to McClain in August 2019 after someone reported him as suspicious. One, based on officers' statements to investigators, where police describe a violent, relen