Epstein Secrets

a list of targets to kill or capture. The panel, which has no paperwork authorizing its existence, is said to involve top counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, who was a staunch advocate of the Bush administration's decision to torture prisoners at Guantanamo. Other U.S. officials familiar with the target

the toll of innocent victims at more than 800. U.S. officials hotly dismiss such figures — "bullshit," one senior administration official told me. Brennan, one of Obama's top counterterrorism advisers, absurdly insisted last June that there hadn't been "a single civilian" killed by drones in the previ

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

ama presidency. From that close call, the president emerged a det=rmined leader in the war on terrorism. Stealth War =/p> He had his trusted =ide, John Brennan <http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=John%20Brennan&=ite=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&out put=xm=_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&ge

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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

icy and legal and other actions that make our ability collectively, internation- ally, to find these terrorists much more challenging. —CIA DIRECTOR JOHN BRENNAN, in response to the Paris terrorist attack, November 2015 Ox THE EVENING of November 13, 2015, nine jihadist terror- ists acting on behalf of ISIS

orists much more challenging. —CIA DIRECTOR JOHN BRENNAN, in response to the Paris terrorist attack, Nove

gence workers found guilty of passing classified information to journalists is the extraordinary case of the ex- CIA director General David Petraeus. Petraeus had given classified information from his personal notebooks to his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell. Although none of this information appea

orists much more challenging.” CIA Director John Brennan in response to the Paris attack, November 2015 I

olicy and legal and other actions that make our ability collectively, internationally, to find these terrorists much more challenging.” CIA Director John Brennan in response to the Paris attack, November 2015 In the evening of November 13, 2015, normal life in Paris was brought to a screeching halt by nine Ji

nce workers found guilty of passing classified information to journalist is the extraordinary case of ex-CIA director General David Petraeus. General Petraeus had given classified information from his personal notebooks to his mistress and biographer, Paula Broadwell. Although none of this information appea

ot until a week later that CIA Director John Owen Brennan and Deputy Director Michael Morell were briefed b

etraeus, then the CIA director, had been caught in a minor sex scandal because his personal emails had been intercepted, Snowden wrote Greenwald that Petraeus would not have been exposed if he had used encryption. Snowden also sent Greenwald instruction on how to install the necessary encryption software an

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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