Epstein Secrets

The former private-practice lawyer now serves as Secretary Clinton's right-hand woman in Foggy Bottom, where she ov

an Center for Middle East Policy in 2002, has remained a steadfast supporter of the Democratic Party, personally donating thousands of dollars for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid and recently shelling out $1 million to super PACs supporting Obama. 17. Jeremy Bash When Leon Panetta became CIA director

t, Hillary Clinton, who, Obama argued, was too polarizing to get anything done in Washington. Obama soon added a harsher note to the argument: that Hillary, perhaps like her finger-wagging husband, was untrustworthy. On November 10, 2007, Obama's advisers, in a private memo before a pivotal speech in

ress he must find solace in the often limited powers of his office. EFTA00712766 With many of Obama's senior political advisers—Axelrod, Messina, Robert Gibbs, Stephanie Cutter, Ben LaBolt—now in Chicago working on his reelection campaign, the Administration in Washington has taken on the aura of a Clinto

everyone — Iran, Russia. Cuba, Syria, even Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secre- tary of State Hillary Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: "a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions." What's the issue

all settlement activity. As Secre- tary of State Hillary Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: "a st

"the important step forward' of Netanyahu's support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Pal- estinian conflict. White House press sec- retary Robert Gibbs reiter- ated Obama's commitment to a two-state solution that 'can and must ensure both Israel's security and the fulfillment of the Palestin- ian

the eighties. In the Beast, on the way to Johnson's house, Obama told me, "Magic has become a good friend. I always tease him—I think he supported Hillary the first time around, in '08." "He campaigned for her in Iowa!" Josh Earnest, a press spokesman, said, still sounding chagrined. "Yeah, but we h

West," Fareed Zakaria, a writer on foreign policy whom Obama reads and consults, says. Anne-Marie Slaughter, who worked at the State Department as Hillary Clinton's director of policy planning, says, "Obama has a real understanding of the limits of our power. It's not that the United States is in decline; it's

long history with the Obamas and her easy access to the living quarters of the White House, she is the Night Stalker. Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, David Plouffe, and many others in the Administration have clashed with her. They are gone. She remains—a constant presence, at meetings, at meals,