Epstein Secrets

y were going to take difficult steps toward peace, his release could make those steps more politically sustainable -- and Presidents starting with Clinton would consider these requests -- I heard the intelligence community make arguments for holding him that made little sense: If we released him to Is

H. W Bush, special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton, and special assistant to President Obama from 2

doing what he wants to do. F. Gregory Gause III is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Brookings Doha Center. NYT Follow the Money Thomas L. Friedman April 1, 2014 -- If you follow the debates about Ukraine, you can see three trends: those who use the c

toward East Asia; this is not a secret; Hillary Clinton wrote about that. There is a transformation that

s earliest days, and the reports that extremists are surfacing in Syria only play into the official narrative, said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. "This drip, drip, drip of extremists across the border . . . there are signs the regime is aiding and abetting it," Shaikh said. "And it

d Bank. It was a justifiable move, given America's difficulties in holding onto the bank's presidency. But it would also have removed Rice, perhaps Clinton's likeliest successor at this point, from the race. Hadley is taking the route above party politics. He's serving on Clinton's policy advisory boar

on. "A lot of these groups are now having to do this difficult dance and straddle these two constituencies," Shadi Hamid, research director at the Brookings Doha Center, said of Hamas and other Islamist organizations in the region. "That leads to considerable policy incoherence." Where that is heading is unclear, a