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…When he, like Shimon, asked what I thought the government should do next, I was straightforward: “Do your best to bring things to an end as soon as you can.” I said that Halutz and the other generals would be caught up in the operational details, which made his role and that of t...

…was one of these women. If Greenberg knew about their affair, he did not seem to care. Then again, Greenberg had other things on his mind. The Rea- gan era, when deregulation kicked into high gear, was still on the horizon. But there was already a decreasing amount of gov- ernme...

…cated signals collection and decryption unit, to the operational units like Sayeret Matkal. It was what was at stake if things went wrong: success or failure in war, and the life or death of thousands of men on the battlefield. It was a price we’d paid painfully in 1973. And now...

…uter science professors might write dozens of research articles. But the system must build up its ability to prove such things incrementally, step by step. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013239

…being sure. He did say he viewed me as the natural next-in-line. But I still felt hesitant. “T want you to consider two things,” I said. The first was a formal decision that Dan would have only a single deputy during his time as chief-of-staff. He said yes to that. Yet the second...

…al to international hands. This is all sensible but probably not attainable. While the United Nations does a number of things quite well, it is not very adept or courageous when it comes to sensitive political matters and national prerogatives. Take, for example, the curious fac...

…ms, most recently pledging $100,000 in 2014. ° In April 2011, you told the Daily Beast: “As a scientist | always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I’ve never seen anything else, so as a scientist, my presumption is that what...

…may lead to a government shutdown. It’s called the Export-Import Bank. And for years, it was a bank that helped finance things that other banks wouldn’t do. And what’s happening over time is that it’s metastasized to be a cheap form of financing to General Electric and to Boeing...

…k it really behooves all of us to really take a hard look and make sure that we are reinvesting that back into positive things. But also to make sure that we understand that we're at the very beginning stages of a global conflict, and if we do not bind together as partners with o...

… et al, climate change deniers to the last, but climate change is inescapable and by going back to our old way of doing things, it will merely come all the quicker all best HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033227

…being shy and I was like oh, 1 don't know. And then he would Itke change the subject and he started talking about other things. And then when we were done he said that if hike [wanted to come back and do more then he would like pay me more and then T would have tof talk to Hale...

… helpful as Obama. And yes, Israel did face an array of security challenges. A nuclear-armed Iran would undeniably make things worse. But far from being under existential threat, we 428 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011899

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…a force before 1948. Lacking the intellectual depth and subtlety of Jabotsinky —a liberal intellectual who, among other things, translated Dante into Hebrew — Begin drew his political strength from his powerful oratory, and a refusal to countenance any compromise in securing what...