Epstein Secrets

worked his way up through the intelligence community as the first career officer to become CIA director. Take, for instance, his decision to court Hillary Clinton when she took over as secretary of state in 2009. One of the few senior Bush holdovers in the new Obama administration, Gates was keenly aware of

work out EFTA_R1_02029850 EFTA02690083 21 differences between their departments, and working with a younger generation, the two have bonded. "Hillary and I call ourselves the Old Folks Caucus," Gates quips. "And I must say, it's the first time in my life I've worked for a president who was 20 yea

iddle East these dictators remain the exception to the rule, and this is why quasi monarchies of the iron-fisted Assad or the crazed and tyrannical Qaddafi are now under assault. THE PLACE where benevolent autocracy has struck deep and has systematic roots is Asia. Any discussion of whether and how de

required to hold the state together. To be sure, Egypt's Mubarak and Tunisia's Ben Ali neither ran police states on the terrifying scale of Libya's Qaddafi and Syria's Assad nor stifled economic progress with such alacrity. But while Mubarak and Ben Ali left their countries in conditions suitable for t

ialine.org> Sent: Tue Jul 12 04:21:07 2011 Subject: The Media Line MidEast Daily U.S. Protests Attack on Damascus Embassy U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad no longer has legitimacy" as a leader interested in reform as Washington formally protested an a

tack on Damascus Embassy U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that Syrian President Bashar

dafi could see their forces "exhausted" within three months. Calls for a diplomatic resolution have grown as rebel fighters have failed to oust Al- Qaddafi after months of fighting. Their advance towards Tripoli stalled on Monday as shelling by forces loyal to Al-Qaddafi killed eight and injured 25. I

onsible administration officials do their best to dispute this notion. "We are not even imagining abandoning Afghanistan," says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But it doesn't take much imagination for others: frightened shopkeepers and women in Kabul, hedging Pakistani security officials, determined Talib

abandoning Afghanistan," says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But it doesn't take much imagination fo

ominated regime has lost control over significant territory, its co-optation strategy so far has headed off the rapid internal atrophy that brought Qaddafi to his knees last October (although it has not stopped recent high- level defections). However, the Damascus blast that killed Assad's defense mini

eet Journal The Risk of Exaggerating the China Threat Michael Eastman Article 6. NYT NATO After Libya Editorial Article 7. Newsweek The Next Hillary; Handicapping the race for secretary of state Leslie H. Gelb ArItcic I. EFTA00660282 The Washington Post In Gaza, Hamas rule has not turned ou

presence and star power of most Foggy Bottom occupants--Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and Condi Rice, for example. And they certainly don't rival Hillary Clinton, who is determined both to stay until January and not be a lame duck. Doubt not that she has the will, standing abroad, and popularity at home to w

There was the good King Hussein, the wily but indispensable Arafat, the enigmatic yet much-courted Assad, the cruel Saddam, the crazy (like a fox) Qaddafi, and the plodding but reliable Mubarak. The United States built its policies on these men and their regimes without much regard to broader politica

aylight; the day after Davis was released, the CIA drone strikes began again. Munter, according to U.S. officials, complained to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and senior military officials about the drone program, and his concerns were brought to the White House. At issue was a particularly deadly drone s

U.S. officials, complained to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and senior military officials about the

rones, the way you went after terrorists was you sent your troops," says Goure. "You sent your Navy, you sent your Marines, like Reagan going after Qaddafi in the Eighties. You bombed their camp. Now you have drones that can be operated by the military or the CIA from thousands of miles away." The low

gitimacy to lead, so we believe he must go. We're working with the international community to try to achieve that outcome," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle agreed, saying "His time is over. He must go." Both Clinton and the representatives of Li

to achieve that outcome," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters. German Foreign Minister

and urged Israel to ease its blockade of Gaza and to allow Palestinian security forces to expand their role in the West Bank. World Powers Call on Qaddafi to Step Down A gathering of some 40 nations and institutions meeting in London on Tuesday on the Libyan crisis put pressure on the country's leade

heir bottom line: Start transferring responsibility for the war to where it practically and ultimately belongs, to the Afghans. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn't settled on a formula but tends to share Pentagon concerns about withdrawing too quickly and reopening doors for a Taliban surge. She is like

tely belongs, to the Afghans. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn't settled on a formula but tends to

Erdogan was one of the first world leaders to call on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down, yet one of the last to ask the same of Libya's Qaddafi. In Syria, meanwhile, the Turkish government remains unable to let go of Bashar al-Assad: It has condemned the violence but not the perpetrator. T

EFTA_R1_02032788 EFTA02691171 10 Ankle 2. The Daily Beast Jews Won't Fail Obama Zev Chafets July 2, 2011 -- On Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the United States is opening a dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood. This news coincided with a spate of media speculation about a

July 2, 2011 -- On Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the United States is open

by aggressive men. Libya, in its civil war, has women far more prominent as victims than as leaders. Iman al-Obeidi, who complained of gang rape by Qaddafi soldiers, was then forcibly abducted by agents of the government from a hotel lobby where she was meeting with journalists.[21] After release from

to catch up with the upheaval. "In too many places, in too many ways, the region's foundations are sinking into the sand," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed in Qatar in mid-January 2011, as the storm was breaking out. The Arab landscape lent her remarks ample confirmation; what she omitted w

sinking into the sand," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed in Qatar in mid-January 2011,

of Arab rulers," Muammar al-Qaddafi. For four tormenting decades, Libyans had been at the mercy of this prison warden, part tyrant, part buffoon. Qaddafi had eviscerated his country, the richest in Africa yet with an abysmally impoverished EFTA_R1_00234071 EFTA01845125 population. In the interwar

own, and basic EFTA_R1_02205137 EFTA02721217 order has largely returned. The mission has been lauded by such leaders as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. But it is perhaps the opi

auded by such leaders as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Pa

hrain. It was only Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi's downfall that Saudi Arabia welcomed. Saudi-Syrian relations had been quite problematic under Qaddafi, who was once even accused of trying to assassinate Saudi King Abdullah. Turkey, of course, took the opposite tack, supporting all the uprisings,