Epstein Secrets

Power initiative, an effort to streamline Pentagon acquisitions while introducing more competition for defense contracts. Carter has tried to make Lockheed Martin pay for some of the overruns associated with the fighter, which has complicated the EFTA00712778 effort to trim the department's budget. At a tim

the popular former President Dwight D. Eisenhower into his publicity schemes, which frustrated Ike, who complained to aides about being used. After Johnson left office, Richard Nixon cultivated him carefully, even sending weekly EFTA00712757 national-security briefings to his ranch, in Stonewall, Tex

Taiwan Arms Sales. The Washington Post (7/14, Fifield, 14.2M) reports that on Tuesday, China "said...that it would impose unspecified sanctions on Lockheed Martin, the gargantuan American defense contractor, in retaliation for the Trump administration's decision to continue supplying arms to Taiwan." Beijing "

nst her; the charges include transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, conspiracy and perjury." USA Today (7/14, Johnson, 10.31M) reports, "Maxwell's attorneys were set to argue for her release on a $5 million bond, secured by properties in the U.S. and Great Britain.

could drop on local residents." However, the source "said Japan has not cancelled the $1 billion contract for the defense system's radars, built by Lockheed Martin, and is mulling a technical assessment from the US government that makes recommendations on using other sites that would eliminate the safety issues

sident's extraordinary move Friday evening to grant clemency to Stone just days before he was due to report to prison." Similarly, USA Today (7/11, Johnson, 10.31M) reports Mueller "defend[ed] the prosecution of Roger Stone and the larger investigation into Russia interference in the 2016 election, sayi