Epstein Secrets

remy Bash, as his chief of staff -- and Bash followed his boss when Panetta made the switch to the Pentagon in 2011. A lawyer by training, Bash was Al Gore's legal advisor during his 2000 presidential bid (a role immortalized by the made-for-TV movie Recount), where he became close friends with fellow Go

's legal advisor during his 2000 presidential bid (a role immortalized by the made-for-TV movie Recount), where he became close friends with fellow Gore campaigners Philippe Reines and Andrew Shapiro, now both in top roles at the State Department, as well as Rajiv Shah, the current USAID administra

list, we have included only individuals with a reasonably clear party affiliation, regardless of the authority their office gives them (sorry Gen. Petraeus) -- and, of course, many of those with extraordinary influence aren't in government at all. Here, then, is the FP 50, Democrat edition -- the behin

ake drones feasible. "We were building smaller engines and guidance systems, and we were upgrading our communication and computing abilities," says Goure. The first use of modern drones came during the Vietnam War, when the Pentagon tested unmanned aerial vehicles for what the military called ISR: i

e on the same side here, trying to make the country safe." At the center of the debate was Obama's newly appointed CIA chief, Gen. David Petraeus. Petraeus sided with the White House, recognizing the need to strike a balance between maintaining a strong relationship with Pakistan and aggressively pursu

use asthma." Steve King (R - Iowa) In 2010 he said that the fact that it was a snowy day in America meant that "the liberals, environmentalists and Al Gores of the world were wrong on science." In response to the bombing of the Boston Marathon, King speculated that the bombers were probably Saudi nationa

uring the awkward play-on-words "General Betray Us." George W. Bush himself pilloried MoveOn and the Senate voted to condemn the ad while lionizing Petraeus (a love affair that came to an end last year). With the IRS and AP stories, any cursory glimpse at the news will prove that Democrats -- even libera

a, 78 Glover Park Group, 203 Goldman Sachs, 55—56, 81-82, 119, 143-49, 174, 179, 184, 270, 305 Goldman Sachs Foundation, 82 Goldwater, Barry, 127 Gore, Al, 123 Gorka, Sebastian, 129 Gorsuch, Neil, 85-87, 133 Grimm, Michael, 310 Guardian, 276 Guilfoyle, Kimberly, 223, 272-73, 284 H-1B visas, 36

nistan commander who became Obama’s CIA director before resigning in a scandal involving a love affair and the mishandling of classified information. Petraeus and now McMaster represented a kind of business-as-usual approach in Afghanistan and the Middle East. A stubborn McMaster kept proposing to the presi