Epstein Secrets

f the bag when it comes to the question of Iran enriching uranium for its nuclear program, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to force President Obama to declare his red lines. The Bush Administration had drawn a red line at Iran "mastering the technology of enrichment" —

y of its peaceful intent, it could exercise all the rights of a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty — which would include enriching uranium. Netanyahu insisted that Obama draw his red line, and the President did so — at weaponization of nuclear material by Iran. The zero-enrichment demand was unte

conversation; until they were ready to do what we asked on that front, we refused to talk to them about anything else — even Afghanistan, on which the Bush Administration had actually engaged fairly productively with Tehran for a time, or on the issue of human rights. There's no way for the parties to avoid the nucle

from Damascus, however. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long used the claim that Hamas is Iran's pro

e a matter of some contention within Hamas' ranks. Don't expect Israel's leaders to cheer Hamas' departure from Damascus, however. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long used the claim that Hamas is Iran's proxy as Exhibit A in making his case that Israel can't be expected to make territorial compromises w

acy wasn't exactly an ideological soulmate of the Sunni Islamist Palestinian movement founded in the 1980s by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. But when the Bush Administration — desperate to reverse the results of the 2006 Palestinian legislative election that had made Hamas the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority

clients has been executed. 10 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017097 4.2.12 WC: 191694 Among the people I have advised are President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayu and President Moshe Katsav of Israel, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Senator Alan Cranston, the Deputy Secretary General of the United Natio

ntroversy. When I espoused the need for “torture warrants” to cabin the widespread use of extreme methods of interrogation, such as waterboarding, by the Bush Administration, I was accused of being an apologist for torture. When I have sought to learn the actual criteria by which students are admitted pursuant to affirmat

sion of threat we face comes from violence. While the Bush administration helped initiate this thinking, the Obama administ

Ruth Wisse and others have described and, as Bibi Netanyahu made clear, the ONLY state truly at issue here ha

l as Ruth Wisse and others have described and, as Bibi Netanyahu made clear, the ONLY state truly at iss

sion of threat we face comes from violence. While the Bush administration helped initiate this thinking, the Obama administ

Ruth Wisse and others have described and, as Bibi Netanyahu made clear, the ONLY state truly at issue here ha

l as Ruth Wisse and others have described and, as Bibi Netanyahu made clear, the ONLY state truly at iss