Epstein Secrets

g Defense Secretary Miller "capped a stunning rise for Mr. Miller, a former Green Beret officer who 11 months ago was a counterterrorism adviser at the National Security Council and who lacks significant experience managing a sprawling organization." While there, Miller attempted to negotiate with a Somali terrorist group, b

luded-in-annual-u-s-defense-bill-idUSKBN27R2FR> (11/11) reports that "sanctions that could hinder one of Moscow's most important projects in Europe, the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, have been included in the annual U.S. defense policy bill." According to Reuters, the sanctions included in the National Defen

g Defense Secretary Miller "capped a stunning rise for Mr. Miller, a former Green Beret officer who 11 months ago was a counterterrorism adviser at the National Security Council and who lacks significant experience managing a sprawling organization." While there, Miller attempted to negotiate with a Somali terrorist group,

o Russia-Germany Natural Gas Pipeline. Reuters (11/11) reports that "sanctions that could hinder one of Moscow's most important projects in Europe, the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, have been included in the annual U.S. defense policy bill." According to Reuters, the sanctions included in the National Defen

undoing many restrictions that had been in place under prior administrations." Unlike previous limited presidential findings, this one, "driven by the National Security Council and crafted by the CIA, focuses more broadly on a capability: covert action in cyberspace." Zack Dorfman of the Aspen Institute (and an author of t

Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017. The AP (7/15, Lee) says the move "opens the door for US...penalties to be imposed on any...company over the Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream projects, including those that had been working on the pipelines before the passage of CAATSA and had been previously exempted from

st On NSC, Sources Say. Politico (7/10, Lippman, 4.29M) reports the White House "has tapped Ryan Tully to be the top Europe and Russian official on the National Security Council, the fifth person to hold the job in three and a half years, according to two people familiar with his hiring." Politico says Tully, who assumes th

broader policy of confronting Russia throughout the world," which also included sending military equipment to Ukraine, pressuring Germany to cancel the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia, and Trump's "restoration of America's military." In addition, Trump "also pointed to his success in persuading NATO members t

g Defense Secretary Miller "capped a stunning rise for Mr. Miller, a former Green Beret officer who 11 months ago was a counterterrorism adviser at the National Security Council and who lacks significant experience managing a sprawling organization." While there, Miller attempted to negotiate with a Somali terrorist group,

o Russia-Germany Natural Gas Pipeline. Reuters (11/11) reports that "sanctions that could hinder one of Moscow's most important projects in Europe, the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, have been included in the annual U.S. defense policy bill." According to Reuters, the sanctions included in the National Defen