Epstein Secrets

emocratic National Committee, approached Douglas Band, Clinton's closest political adviser and longtim

arnest late last summer. Patrick Gaspard, the former White House political director, who has moved to the Democratic National Committee, approached Douglas Band, Clinton's closest political adviser and longtime gatekeeper, with some suggestions about how the former President might help with Obama's 2012 ree

nd abandoning a novel, Rhodes gave up a publishing job and moved to Washington to write speeches for Rep. Lee Hamilton, eventually helping to draft the 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group reports. Now advising a president known for his rhetoric, Rhodes -- credited as the lead author of Obama's National Security S

as a sideman or session musician, observing how band leaders operated. During that time he also did a

a truck bomb devastated a building housing U.S. Air Force personnel in the Saudi city of Dhahran. (Although Saudi Hezbollah carried out the attack, the 9/11 Commission noted "signs that al-Qaeda played some role.") That same year, another al-Qaeda fatwa declared, "The latest and the greatest of these [Western] agg

ow, one of the song writers for the Grateful Dead band, was one of its chief financial backers. “The fir

attack in 2001, NSA data had been protected by “stove-piping” that separated NSA’ computers from networks used by other intelligence services. After the 9/11 Commission concluded that part of the reason why US intelligence agencies were unable to “connect the dots” in advance of the attack was because this “stove-pip

t decision as a result of this Circuit’s “mini-en band” process. Because those dismissals were based on

13224. Id. The Golden Chain has been relied upon by the United States as an exhibit in multiple criminal cases. See supra at pp. 54-55 nn.85-86. And, the 9/11 Commission’s Final Report also relied upon the Golden Chain. See supra pp. 25-26 &n.8. These allegations, taken together, detail an extensive relationship betwee

91, 7867. ea JA3827-28, 3866-67, 4465-66. a 9/11 Commission Final Report, pp. 169-170. aa JA3785-86. eet JA3710-14, 3845, 3870-71, 4394-4402. ES 9/11 Commission Monograph on Terrorist Financing, available at www.9-11commission.gov/staff.../911_TerrFin_Monograph.pdf. a JA4394-95, 5982-83, 6212-13. WESTLAW HO