Epstein Secrets

and Pakistan. ... A rising star in the Foreign Service, Holmes had a string of sought-after jobs before landing as the senior political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. In addition to the National Security Council — a high-stress, high-profile plum — Holmes also was picked for a prestigious job working for

ureau of Prisons workers who were supposed to regularly check on millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein the night he hanged himself in his cell. Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky report: "The Page 17444 EFTA00046955 two corrections workers, wnose names nave not men reieasea, tell under suspicion immedia

anscript of his deposition on Monday night. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) BY HOHMANN with Mariana Mara THE BIG IDEA: Holmes, the political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, testified that he "vividly" remembers his July 26 lunch at a restaurant in Kyiv because he'd "never seen anything like this." After or

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the stolen money but also to demonstrate to the Afghan people that no one was above the law. ... For about a year after the scandal became public, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, led by then- Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, made the case a top priority and pressed Karzai to take action, three former officials told gove

partment told Bob Mueller not to answer a wide variety of questions about his Russia investigation when he testifies before lawmakers on Wednesday. Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky report: "Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer said in Monday's letter that he was responding to a request earl

sands of dollars to the Americans, even for legislation they would have backed anyway ... 'People would tell each other, so-and-so has just been to the U.S. Embassy and got this money. They said 'ok now I need to go," the U.S. official said. 'So from the beginning, their experience with democracy was one in whi

dump Trump's nominee for ambassador to Qatar and replace her with someone else in late 2018. Josh Dawsey, Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Devlin Barrett scoop: "Trump had nominated a career Foreign Service officer to ... a key post in a Middle Eastern country with tricky regional relationships, an i