Epstein Secrets

," the senior official said. "I would guess that President Clinton views that as a compliment." Spiegel Was Yasser

n "Game Change," their account of the 2008 race. "He thought that Obama might actually believe that Reagan's tenure had been superior to his own." Bill Clinton's attacks hurt Hillary as much as they did Obama. The Times denounced Clinton's fairy-tale comment as a "bizarre and rambling attack" and as exemplif

More than anyone, he pushed Hillary to take the job of Secretary of State. "President Clinton was a big supporter of the idea," an intimate of the Clintons told me. "He advocated very strongly for it and arguably was the tie-breaking reason she took the job." For one thing, having his spouse in that po

ome polonium in the past. Another question is: Why is all of this coming out now, eight years after Arafat's death and six years after the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB agent and Kremlin opponent, who became the first well- known victim of a polonium poisoning attack? The Search for the Truth Suha

ut Romney has his work cut out for him on foreign policy." Nancy E. Soderberg, a national security aide and United Nations diplomat under President Bill Clinton, says it is "par for the course" that an incumbent has to address international challenges while the challenger has a free ride. But for all the at

and United Nations diplomat under President Bill Clinton, says it is "par for the course" that an incumben

oss of the Yukos oil company, the killing of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working for William Browder, a foreign investor, or the murder in London of Alexander Litvinenko, a former security official. In cases like these it is right to try to identify the individuals involved so as to deny them visas and freeze their

ated into reports (which had a distinctive blue stripe to signify their impor- tance) that had been provided to Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Even more shocking, in tracing the path of this disinformation, the inspector general found that the “senior CIA @ officers responsible for these r

9780451494566_2p_all_r.indd 215 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019703 216 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS tions to private companies, but the Clinton administration in 1996 had privatized background checks for government employees requiring security clearances. The idea, backed by Vice President Al

f the former KGB officer | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 265 @ 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019753 266 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Alexander Litvinenko, I had interviewed Andrei Lugovoy. A former KGB officer assigned to protecting the Kremlin’s top members in the 1990s, Lugovoy later opened his own s

come up during Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to Cairo this weekend, EFTA00701840 pa

arched for at a laboratory, explaining why nobody noticed it back in 2004. Two years after Arafat's death, Russian dissident and former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in London by Russian agents using this same poison. It took him three weeks to die from polonium. As in Arafat's case, his doctors at

come up during Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to Cairo this weekend, particularly beca

rched for at a laboratory, explaining why nobody noticed it back in 2004. Two years after Arafat's death, Russian dissident and former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in London by Russian agents using this same poison. It took him three weeks to die from polonium. As in Arafat's case, his doctors at