Epstein Secrets

licy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His new book, Can America Have Another Great President?, will be published by Random House in 2012. Ted Galen Carpenter: President Obama has amassed a decidedly mixed record on foreign policy. He can boast of several worthwhile achieveme

e creation of the G- 20 as a permanent leaders' forum, thereby broadening the circles of decision to include many non-Western powers; the killing of Osama bin Laden and the decimation of al Qaeda; the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and a firm commitment to withdraw from Afghanistan; the elevation of develo

Drumheller, interview with author. 153 As Snowden acknowledges: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” 154 “absence of evidence”: Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Random House, 1980), 49. 154 “The greatest trick”: Cherkashin, interview with author. The quotation from The Usual Suspects was adopted by the movie from Charle

and other Internet messaging, which by 2013 had largely replaced telephone calls. In addition, terrorist organi- zations, after the tracking down of Osama bin Laden in 2011, had become fully aware of the vulnerability of telephoning overseas. So although the NSA could cite a handful of early successes that “215”

s gun-shy about using ground troops to kill Osama bin Laden, arguing that Obama should opt for an airstrike i

n Washington and a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. His most recent book is Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Random House, 2010). HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032203