Epstein Secrets

succeeding Mr. Blinken as Mr. Obama's deputy national security adviser. She, too, is a former aide to Mr. Biden, serving as deputy chief counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2007 to 2008 while Mr. Biden was chairman. Ms. Haines also served as counsel to Mt Obama's National Security Council, helping him navigate leg

(11/23, 14.2M) reports Virginia woman Amanda Robinson "pleaded guilty Monday to aiming a laser pointer at a police aircraft during the protest of a Confederate memorial in Richmond in the spring, authorities said." Robinson "traveled to the Robert E. Lee Monument traffic circle in Richmond, where she direct

rop Resistance To State Dept. Nominees. Bloomberg (7/10, Wadhams, Flatley, 4.73M) reports Secretary of State Pompeo "is refusing to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unless it holds hearings on five senior State Department nominees, including the administration's new ambassador to Ukraine, in what Democrats call

oric on race and cultural heritage." According to the Times, "The discomfort was palpable even among voters who also dislike the recent toppling of Confederate statues or who say they agree with some of Mr. Trump's policies." the Times adds, "As the president increasingly stakes his candidacy on a message o

gton seemed to be holding its breath. On the evening before Trump was sworn in, Bob Corker, the Republican senator from Tennessee and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, opened his remarks as the featured speaker at a gathering at the Jefferson Hotel with the existential question, “Where are things going?” He paused

was that his big project was the career of Jeff Sessions—“Beauregard,” Sessions’s middle name, in Bannon’s affectionate moniker and evocation of the Confederate general—among the least mainstream and most peculiar people in the Senate, whom Bannon tried to promote to run for president in 2012. Donald Trump w