Epstein Secrets

s much more horrible that a human being should be violated against his will than that a violent attacker should be killed by his intended victim." HENRY KISSINGER responded to the massacre of the children with a hissing reiteration of his contempt for humane intentions in foreign policy. American action again

y popular uprising against any non-democratic government, including those heretofore considered important in sustaining the international system?" Kissinger does not explain why the Assad regime is a Westphalian necessity, when there is no longer any EFTA_R1_02204197 EFTA02720668 equilibrium in Syria

nt; the building was filled with foreign-policy luminaries. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was climbing up the staircase alone as I descended. Rhodes's windowless office has a large printer marked with a sign that says "Classified." On his desk was a thick briefing book, "The President's Trip to

s." Obama may resist the idealism of a previous generation of interventionists, but his realism, if that's what it is, diverges from the realism of Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft. "It comes from the idea that change is organic and change comes to countries in its own way, modernization comes in its own way

s what it is, diverges from the realism of Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft. "It comes from the idea that

shington was "trapped in very stale narratives." "In the foreign-policy establishment, to be an idealist you have to be for military intervention," Rhodes went on. "In the Democratic Party, these debates were defined in the nineties, and the idealists lined up for military intervention. For the Presid

ongress or even to persons in the executive branch and then to the press. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019914 One of Kushner’s now-frequent wise-men callers was Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who had been a front-row witness when the bureaucracy and intelligence community revolted against Richard Nixon, outlined the kinds of mi

o persons in the executive branch and then to the press. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019914 One of Kushner’s now-frequent wise-men callers was Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who had been a front-row witness when the bureaucracy and intelligence community revolted against Richard Nixon, outlined the kinds of mischief, and

n you are ahead. The Best and the Brightest described the people who should be in power. A college-age Barack Obama was smitten with the book, as was Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton. Halberstam’s book defined the look and feel of White House power. His language, resonant and imposing and, often, boffo pompou

g Jewish, saddling him with an impossible hurdle for being Jewish—and, too, defaulting to the stereotyping belief in the negotiating powers of Jews. “Henry Kissinger says Jared is going to be the new Henry Kissinger,” Trump said more than once, rather a combined compliment and slur. Bannon, meanwhile, did not hes

houses—and keep us out of it); Flynn’s anti-Iranism (of all the world’s perfidy and toxicity, there is none like that of the mullahs); and Kushner’s Kissingerism (not so much Kissingerism as, having no point of view himself, a dutiful attempt to follow the ninety-four-year-old’s advice). But the fundamental p

ved, was a key leaker, if not one of the architects of the Obama administration’s continued effort to connect Trump and his team to Putin and Russia. Rhodes, many in the White House believed, was the deep state. They also believed that every time a leak was credited to “former and current officials,” Rhod

to share nearly no econoic connection. Bringing the countries together demanded heroic diplomacy on both sides, to be sure. To read the transcript of Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai’s first, secret meeting on July 9, 1971 is to regard a masterclass in careful chessboard moves?@5. But the game itself demanded a clea

ides, to be sure. To read the transcript of Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai’s first, secret meeting on July 9,

lating to Affairs in Mashonaland, Matabeleand, and the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Nov 1893, 150 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018382 commander, a blood enemy of Rhodes, had warned Lobengula: “When an Englishman once has your property in his hands, then he is like a monkey that has its hands full of pumpkin seeds - i

emical attack, 183-84, 188-93 Kim Jong-un, 293 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 50-51 Kirk, Russell, 127 Kislyak, Sergey, 95, 106, 151, 154-55, 218, 236 Kissinger, Henry, 41, 77, 142, 145, 193, 226-28 Koch brothers, 178 Kudlow, Larry, 143, 207 Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 294-95 Kurtz, Howard, 217 Kushner, Charlie,

, 253 Republican Party, 2, 18, 30, 40-41, 81, 86, 98, 111-12, 117-21, 128, 161-67, 171-72, 201, 290, 303 fracturing of, 179-80, 253, 283, 306, 309-10 Rhodes, Ben, 41, 154, 159, 185, 215 Rice, Susan, 7, 41, 153 Rometty, Ginni, 88 Rose, Charlie, 309 Rosen, Hillary, 78 Rosenstein, Rod, 212, 214, 216-21, 279

RSIGHT_024980 --- PAGE BREAK --- 24 state requires more than energy, brains, and celebrity. Dean Acheson helped rebuild Europe after World War II. Henry Kissinger, who acted like the secretary of state for Richard Nixon even before he got the job, engineered the opening to China. But does anyone think Colin Pow

n helped rebuild Europe after World War II. Henry Kissinger, who acted like the secretary of state for Richar

x times in a day, and had heard all the questions before. “With each month there’s more wear and tear,” says Jake Sullivan, a young lawyer and former Rhodes scholar, who has emerged as one of her closest advisers. “But she also gets more energized and comfortable.” A half-dozen of her friends agree that t