Epstein Secrets

ly and inadvertently, of course, may have been the development of mass corruption," said Ryan Crocker, who twice served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul, in 2002 and again from 2011 to 2012. "Once it gets to the level I saw, when I was out there, it's somewhere between unbelievably hard and outright

tion lamented the direction that the GOP has taken under his stewardship. "There are no small government conservatives left in Washington," tweeted Joe Scarborough, who represented the Florida Panhandle in Congress as a Republican from 1995 to 2001 and now hosts a morning show on MSNBC. "If Newt Gingrich agre

" -- Former Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said he grew estranged from his American allies during his 10 years in power. Pamela Constable reports from Kabul: "His version of U.S.-Afghan relations during his tenure is sharply at odds with the American version, and he has often depicted himself as the mal

ack Obama, and he signed that legislation. ... Starting over makes no sense to me at all." (Biden will talk health care with "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski in Des Moines today for an interview that will air in the 6 a.m. hour tomorrow on MSNBC.) -- Sanders plans to deliver a detail

veryone else save for Bannon and the president. Powell even helped design a PowerPoint deck that McMaster began using with the president: pictures of Kabul in the 1970s when it still looked something like a modern city. It could be like this again, the president was told, if we are resolute! But even wi

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