Epstein Secrets

ton hand who had helped Walter Mondale and John Kerry with the same task. His aura of experience appar

Johnson, who resigned Wednesday from the Obama vice presidential selection committee, is an old Washington hand who had helped Walter Mondale and John Kerry with the same task. His aura of experience apparently was not diminished one whit by the fact that both his candidates lost and that one of them

r the as- sumption that the people involved were so tired that they didn't know what they were doing. Just before the final primaries. I spoke to George McGovern, who is the gold standard when it comes to .disastrous vice presidential selec- tions. If Sen. Obama ever asked hind for advice, Sen. McGovern sai

rge McGovern, who is the gold standard when it comes to .disastrous vice presidential selec- tions. If Sen. Obama ever asked hind for advice, Sen. McGovern said, he'd tell him to avoid exhaustion. EFTA00260089 FRENCH CONNECTION Palm Beachers were well-represented at 'Iliesday night's Wtiite House s

d out that one of her positions clashed with that of then-national security advisor Gen. James Jones, Rice retorted, "I outrank General Jones." 6. John Kerry might have lost his bid for the presidency in 2004 and been passed over in 2008 for the top job at the State Department, but he is a powerful forc

e president's nuclear agreement with Russia through ratification in 2010 -- an arduous process that culminated in an eight-day debate during which Kerry spent some 70 hours on the chamber's floor. And, as "a kind of ex-officio member of Obama's national security team," in the words of FP columnist J

rcraft. It worked; Johnson, who was alienated from his party because of Vietnam, mostly kept quiet during Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, against George McGovern. Ronald Reagan treated the recently disgraced Nixon with deference, which helped start Nixon's late-career return to respectability, but the two me

the information he provided to his successor, Condoleezza Rice. At the time, Berger was also acting as an informal foreign policy advisor to Senator John Kerry during his campaign for the presidency. He quit his advisory role after controversy arose regarding his preparations for testifying before the Sept

n informal foreign policy advisor to Senator John Kerry during his campaign for the presidency. He quit

was a member of the Quill and Dagger society with Paul Wolfowitz and Stephen Hadley. Opposed to the Vietnam War, Berger began working for Senator McGovern's presidential campaign in 1972. While there, he met Bill Clinton, forming a friendship that would last for decades. Berger later urged Clinton to r

ntionally defame Snowden. Secretary of State John Kerry char- acterized him as a coward who should “man u

crets that they had compromised. It is certainly possible that the government put out information to intentionally defame Snowden. Secretary of State John Kerry char- acterized him as a coward who should “man up” by returning to the United States. While one can discount such characterizations against Snowden

former CIA officer Ray McGovern, who had been invited to meet him in Moscow along with three other American whistle-blowers. At that meeting, he told McGovern that he had stored all the NSA data he had taken on external hard drives. Gellman asked about the precise whereabouts of the files, but, as he report