Epstein Secrets

and even romantic nature of his politics—the roguish and joie de guerre alt-right. Bannon had decamped here from the Breitbart Embassy on A Street on Capitol Hill. It was a one-bedroom graduate-student sort of apartment, in a mixed-use building over a mega-McDonald’s—quite belying Bannon’s rumored fortune—with

uld return to a refurbished West Wing—a paint job, new furniture, and new rugs, its look tilting toward the Trump Hotel—Steve Bannon would be back on Capitol Hill at the Breitbart Embassy, still, he was confident, the chief strategist for the Trump revolution. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020111 EPILOGUE: BANNON AND TRUMP

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ent about the conference or their strategy. But Mr. Block and other former Aipac officials said that, as in previous years, the group would blanket Capitol Hill with its members — all of whom will carry a message about the Iranian nuclear threat. They will be pushing on an open door. Democrats and Republican

has the technical capability to produce a testable nuclear device in about a year and a missile-capable device in several years. But as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Arms Services EFTA00719598 Committee on Feb. 16, it does not appear that Khamenei has made this decision. Moreover

g the six non-nuclear weapon states that enrich uranium on their own soil." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a dramatic appearance on Capitol Hill to oppose the talks, but none of his objections were persuasive. There is no evidence that Iran is bent on conflict. New York Times columnist Roger

U.S. intelligence official who said: "Mossad does not disagree with the U.S. on the weapons program." In January 2012 James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, told the Senate: "We assess Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons, in part by developing various nuclear capabilities that be

enamed." According to the New York Times, Trump asked Inhofe, "We're gonna keep the name of Robert E. Lee?" Inhofe was at "an Italian restaurant on Capitol Hill, when he took the call on Wednesday." Inhofe replied, "Just trust me. I'll make it happen." Inhofe "put the president on speakerphone, which allowed

mary source for the Steele dossier." The senators sent letters "to the Justice Department, FBI, State Department, CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence seeking records about surveillance activities against the Trump campaign and other related issues." The letter to DOJ and the FBI "seeks records of

GOP Convention "Because Of The Virus Situation." The Washington Post (7/6, Sonmez, 14.2M) reports Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) has become the first Capitol Hill Republican to announce he will skip this year's party convention due to coronavirus concerns. The 86-year-old Grassley told reporters, "I'm not goin

149590 Politico (7/6, Bertrand, 4.29M) reports under the headline "Trump's Intel Briefer Breaks Her Silence" that senior Office of the Director of National Intelligence official Beth Sanner, "in rare public remarks" at an event hosted by the Intelligence & National Security Alliance on Monday, discussed "what she's

be discredited immediately, leaked that she had been leaking and hence had to be pushed out. On Sunday evening, Walsh had dinner with Bannon in his Capitol Hill redoubt, the Breitbart Embassy, during which, to no avail, he implored her to stay. On Monday she sorted out the details with Priebus—she would leave

ing else. When the meeting ended, Priebus and Bannon thought they had bought some breathing room. Later that day, Sally Yates and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Crime and Terrorism subcommittee— and were greeted by a series of furious tweets from