Epstein Secrets

so raises more alarm about his second-term choice=. John Kerry, Chuck Hagel and John Brennan all lack the independent standing of Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Panetta and former =eneral Petraeus. They aren't likely to challenge Mr. Obama with views he d=esn't want to hear. U.S. military actio= other than drone war

confirmed that last year the President personally killed a plan supported by his main sec=rity advisers to arm the Syrian rebels. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chief= General Martin Dempsey didn't elaborate on the President's reasons for ki=ling the proposal. But the two senior off

alfields=- wnnis:NOAVSYND&Ir=-Iang2a> , in a windowless office in the White House, and Brennan kn=w the world of intelligence and terrorism. He knew the Arabian Peninsula, =s he had served as an intelligence officer in Saudi Arabia -- a country wh=re secrets and things unacknowledged are the coin of the realm. Togeth

hat killed bin Laden, and U.S. officials boast of eliminating two more of Al Qaeda's top operatives in Pakistan in recent months. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has called drones "the only game in town," and President Obama recently dismissed concerns about civilian casualties, insisting that he is not orde

lrahman had been accompanying a cousin when a drone obliterated him and seven others. The suspected target of the killing — a member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — is reportedly still alive; it's unclear whether he was even there when the strike took place. The news devastated the family. "My wife weeps eve

ilation" before Israeli politicians, for the sake of their credibility at home and abroad, have no choice but to act. Al-Monitor Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said explicitly in Israel this month that the US will use all means to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. And certainly many in the Israeli

st in seeing al Assad survive, the United States did not. Washington's primary interest lay in blocking Iran and keeping it from posing a threat to the Arabian Peninsula. The United States saw Syria, particularly after the uprising, as an Iranian puppet. While the United States was delighted to see Iran face a reve