Epstein Secrets

torture, the surprising liberalism of generals, and the stupidity of the civilian-military bureaucracy. Then it was on to the looming appointment of Michael Flynn—a favorite Trump general who’d been the opening act at many Trump rallies—as the National Security Advisor. “He’s fine. He’s not Jim Mattis and he’s

r. Bolton was an Ailes favorite, too. “He’s a bomb thrower,” said Ailes. “And a strange little fucker. But you need him. Who else is good on Israel? Flynn is a little nutty on Iran. Tillerson”—the secretary of state designate—“just knows oil.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019885 “Bolton’s mustache is a problem,” s

the National Security Advisor. “Yes,” she said, “General Flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president.”

cting AG job needed someone with Senate confirmation. And even though she seemed to see herself as something of a prisoner held in hostile territory, Yates accepted the job. Given this context, the curious information she presented to White House counsel Don McGahn during the administration’s first week

White House in its assessment of the Yates message ended up seeing this as less a problem with an always hard-to-handle Flynn than as a problem with Yates, even as a threat from her: the Justice Department, with its vast staff of career and Obama-inclined prosecutors, had ears on the Trump team. 7 OK O

And, just as basically: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If Trump had one fixed point of reference in the Middle East, it was—mostly courtesy of Michael Flynn’s tutoring —that Iran was the bad guy. Hence everybody opposed to Iran was a pretty good guy. After the election, MBS had reached out to Kushner. In t

o, for the most part, were skilled in the new army jargon of PowerPoint, data dumps, and McKinsey-like presentations. One of the things that endeared Flynn to the president was that Flynn, quite the conspiracist and drama queen, had a vivid storytelling sense. By the time of the Syrian attack on Khan Sh

itutions. To Trump, he was just up against Sally Yates, who was, he steamed, “such a cunt.” HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020045 Since her firing on January 30, Yates had remained suspiciously quiet. When journalists approached her, she, or her intermediaries, explained that per her lawyers she was shut down on all

mp believed, of a sustained and well-organized media rollout for her. (His press view was confirmed later in May by a lavish, hagiographic profile of Yates in the New Yorker. “How long do you think she was planning this?” he asked, rhetorically. “You know she was. It’s her payday.”) “Yates is only famous

against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn despite his guilty plea have commanded more nati

Trump's decision to commute Roger Stone's prison sentence and "the Department of Justice dropping its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn despite his guilty plea have commanded more national attention. But outspoken critics, including Cohen and celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti, may

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn despite his guilty plea have commanded more nati

Trump's decision to commute Roger Stone's prison sentence and "the Department of Justice dropping its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn despite his guilty plea have commanded more national attention. But outspoken critics, including Cohen and celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti, may

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. Counter-Intelligence • DOJ Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

Trump's decision to commute Roger Stone's prison sentence and "the Department of Justice dropping its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn despite his guilty plea have commanded more national attention. But outspoken critics, including Cohen and celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti, may

against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn despite his guilty plea have commanded more nati

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

said, "So, we caught President Obama and Biden spying on the campaign. Biden was even saying using the Logan Act which is exactly what they used on Flynn. ... I caught them and we caught them spying, using the intelligence apparatus of our country to spy on an opponent or the opposing party's campaig

in's plans to interfere in the 2016 presidential election." The Times says Yates "will be in a tight spot...forced to square her 2017 testimony that Michael Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia with new revelations that the probe was an FBI setup targeting the Trump White House." SSCI Approves Final Russia Re

or the FBI's search for collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin's plans to interfere in the 2016 presidential election." The Times says Yates "will be in a tight spot...forced to square her 2017 testimony that Michael Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia with new revelations that the prob

Trump's decision to commute Roger Stone's prison sentence and "the Department of Justice dropping its case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn despite his guilty plea have commanded more national attention. But outspoken critics, including Cohen and celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti, may

against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn despite his guilty plea have commanded more nati

f Travers Says Cutbacks Raise Risk Of New Terrorist Attacks. COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE • DO) Prepared For More Mueller Declassifications. • Graham Says Yates, Comey, McCabe Will Be Called To Testify Before Election. • Op-Ed: Mainstream Media Fails To Provide Complete Story On Russia Probe. • Steele Text

disciplined man in politics. It was clear where Mueller and his team were going, said Bannon: they would trace a money trail through Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, and Jared Kushner and roll one or all of them on the president. It's Shakespearean, he said, enumerating the bad advice from his fam

and, 169-70, 211-15, 217-18, 232-33, 245-46, 261 CPAC and, 126-34 eve of inauguration and, 4-10 first weeks of presidency and, 52-55, 60-65, 67-70 Flynn and, 95, 103, 106 immigration and, 61-65, 77, 113 inauguration and, 42-43, 148 influence of, 70, 85, 108-10, 188 isolationism of, 227 Israel and

orld Bank, 257 World Wrestling Entertainment, 22 Wynn, Steve, 30 Xi Jinping, 193, 228, 258 Yaffa, Joshua, 154 Yahoo! News, 37 Yanukovych, Viktor, 101 Yates, Sally, 94-96, 98, 104, 214-16 Yemen, 6 Yiannopoulos, Milo, 128-28, 138 Zhukova, Dasha, 80 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020140 Zucker, Jeff, 92 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT

Goldman), Politico (07/01, Pellish), Roll Call (07/01, Tarinelli), UPI (07/01, Heuer), Washington Examiner (07/01, O'Keefe), Washington Post (07/01, Flynn, Cox, et al.), and Washington Times (07/01, Ferrechio). FBI Arrests Two Chinese Citizens Accused of Spying on U.S. Navy The Associated Press (07/0

wrote in a letter to Grassley that one reason for not releasing the report was that "the reporting will contradict Director Wray's testimony," and Yates also explained that the recall of the original reporting document was "abnormal" and met with disagreement by those in the Albany office. Senator Gr