Epstein Secrets

lic enemy; they expected nothing of him. But Priebus and Spicer HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020089 they regarded as functionaries, and their job was to support the White House’s goals, which included their goals and interests. Spicer, ever ridiculed in the media for his cockamamie defense of the White House and a seeming dum

ce his exit from the White House six weeks before—he was on a crash all-sushi diet. “That building,” said his friend David Bossie, speaking about all White Houses but especially the Trump White House, “takes perfectly healthy people and turns them into old, unhealthy people.” But Bannon, who Bossie had declared

nistan commander who became Obama’s CIA director before resigning in a scandal involving a love affair and the mishandling of classified information. Petraeus and now McMaster represented a kind of business-as-usual approach in Afghanistan and the Middle East. A stubborn McMaster kept proposing to the presi

"The CIA is laughing at you guys," he told the assembled human rights lawyers. "You're worried about international law, and the CIA is laughing." A White House official I spoke with is even more dismissive. "If Anwar al-Awlaki is your poster boy for why we shouldn't do drone strikes," the official tells me

e on the same side here, trying to make the country safe." At the center of the debate was Obama's newly appointed CIA chief, Gen. David Petraeus. Petraeus sided with the White House, recognizing the need to strike a balance between maintaining a strong relationship with Pakistan and aggressively pursu

ppointing a director to coordinate the federal response to gun violence." A Washington Post (4/17, Olorunnipa, Sotomayor, 10.52M) analysis describes the White House as under "growing pressure to act," even as "the routine has become so predictable that some gun-control activists see the familiarity of tragedy as

went against the Pentagon and the opinions of former generals like David Petraeus and Joseph Dunford." Blinken said, "I have great respect for Gen. Petraeus, Gen. Dunford, and others, but we had a very deliberate and fully informed process leading up to the decision by the President." The Washington Pos

pointing a director to coordinate the federal response to gun violence." A Washington Post (4/17, Olorunnipa, Sotomayor, 10.52M) analysis describes the White House as under "growing pressure to act," even as "the routine has become so predictable that some gun-control activists see the familiarity of tragedy as

went against the Pentagon and the opinions of former generals like David Petraeus and Joseph Dunford." Blinken said, "I have great respect for Gen. Petraeus, Gen. Dunford, and others, but we had a very deliberate and fully informed process leading up to the decision by the President." The Washington Pos

o senior officials acknowledged under questioning on Thursday from Senator John McC=in that they had supported the Petraeus-Clinton plan. On Friday White Hou=e spokesman Jay Carney <http://topics.wsj.com/person/C/Jay-Carney/6498> was typically dodgy and wouldn't confirm the news. But he =id volunteer a ro

r ki=ling the proposal. But the two senior officials acknowledged under questioning on Thursday from Senator John McC=in that they had supported the Petraeus-Clinton plan. On Friday White Hou=e spokesman Jay Carney <http://topics.wsj.com/person/C/Jay-Carney/6498> was typically dodgy and wouldn't confirm