Epstein Secrets

arned of 'impending doom' from a potential fourth surge of the pandemic. ... The back-to-back appeals reflected a growing sense of urgency among top White House officials and government scientists that the chance to conquer the pandemic...may slip through its grasp." The Boston Globe (3/29, 1.04M) reports Bi

Is Freed. The AP (3/29, DeBre, Magdy) reports salvage teams on Monday freed the Ever Given, "the colossal container ship stuck for nearly a week in the Suez Canal, ending a crisis that had clogged one of the world's most vital waterways and halted billions of dollars a day in maritime commerce." Reuters (3/29

hen they had concluded that Iran's weapons program was still under way. EFTA00656347 News of the shift would probably leak to the news media, and White House officials feared that the administration would then be accused of suppressing intelligence on Iran, just as it had been criticized for doing on Ira

he historian David Nichols put it, during a "perfect storm." Britain and France had invaded Egypt under the guise of bringing to a halt fighting in the Suez Canal between Egypt and Israel, and the Soviet Union had deemed this the right time to crush a Hungarian bid for freedom. Ours is a different world. Bara

pons attack in the Damascus suburbs that human rights activists claim killed hundreds of civilians, bringing Syria's continuing civil war back onto the White House's foreign policy radar, even as the crisis in Egypt worsens. But the Obama administration should resist the temptation to intervene more forcefully

benefits for U.S. national security, starting with maintaining the Camp David Accords but also including U.S. overflight rights and priority use of the Suez Canal for U.S. warships—both critical elements of America's ability to rapidly project power in the region. At the same time, the army's crackdown on pr