Epstein Secrets

ant that the USSC was constrained by not one, but two, local "chief of mission" authorities in the field -- the Consulate General in Jerusalem and the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, whose own relations were fraught with petty intrigues and turf battles. The Dayton mission was further hobbled by the diplomatic mis

n 2007, no U.S. funds were allocated to the mission. The USSC also answered to the more risk- averse and top-down State Department, rather than the Defense Department. Furthermore, falling under the State Department's control meant that the USSC was constrained by not one, but two, local "chief of mission" autho

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

facing the United States. Gert Berthold, a forensic accountant who served on a military task force in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012, analyzed 3,000 Defense Department contracts worth $106 billion. He said they calculated that about 40 percent of the money ended up in the pockets of insurgents, criminal syndicates

President Joe Biden even before the July phone call that has led to impeachment hearings in Washington." According to the AP, in May, "officials at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, including then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch," were told Zelensky Vas seeking advice on how to navigate the difficult position he was in,"

have little effect on ISIS's ability to reconstitute.'" CQ Roll Call (11/19, Donnelly, 154K) adds that the audit "was produced by Glenn Fine, the Defense Department inspector general, who is the lead IG for overseeing U.S. military operations in Syria and Iraq." The DIA "also told Fine that ISIS 'probably will