Epstein Secrets

virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media than any White House in recent memory. In the beginning, I sought a level of formal access to this White House, something of a fly-on- the-wall status. The president himself encouraged this idea. But, given the many fiefdoms in the Trump White House that came

heeding Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s prescription that “this president will sign whatever is put in front of him,” while also taking advantage of the White House’s lack of political and legislative experience and outsourcing as much policy as possible to Capitol Hill. In the early weeks of the administration, P

om he had never met before, for positions whose importance Trump did not particularly understand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the president-elect’s lack of immediate focus on a White House structure that could serve and protect him. He tried to impres

cific ideas about how to turn his themes and vitriol into policy, nor a team that could reasonably unite behind him. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019969 In most White Houses, policy and action flow down, with staff trying to implement what the president wants—or, at the very least, what the chief of staff says the preside

g Page, and the FBI would say that it believed Russian intelligence had targeted Page in an effort to turn him.) ¢ Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency—fired by Obama for unclear reasons—who had yet to emerge as Trump’s key foreign policy counselor and future National Security Advisor, but who was ac

v. City of New York, "a case involving a New York City gun control law, saying the GOP- appointed majority is too tainted to deliver a valid ruling." Whitehouse argued, "The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it. Perhaps the court can heal itself before the public demands it be 'restructured in o

several news outlets May 23, accusing all of defaming her over contacts she had in February 2014 with Michael Flynn, who then served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency." Gowdy: Strzok Named Wrong Person As Defendant In Lawsuit. The Washington Examiner (8/13, Chaitin, 448K) reports former South Carolina Republican

ague: The official White House Twitter account attacked a current White House official in the middle of that official's testimony before Congress: The White House's director of social media also attacked Vindman from his government account, prompting this observation from a Post colleague: The president's son a

abroad,' the quarterly report from the lead inspector general on the U.S. military campaign against ISIS stated. The report cited information from the Defense Intelligence Agency. ... 'In the longer term, ISIS will probably seek to regain control of some Syrian population centers and expand its global footprint, the DIA said

d phone, using artificial intelligence to imitate Wiles's voice and making requests that appeared to be official. The article noted that the FBI and White House are looking into the matter, with the FBI stating that they do not believe a foreign nation is involved and are working to determine the goal and id

s Out of Frustration With Trump Politico (05/29, Bianco) reported that the Department of Justice has accused Nathan Villas Laatsch, an employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), of attempting to leak classified documents to a foreign government due to his frustration with President Donald Trump. Laatsch, who worked in