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…lities of running the department. She is midway through a five-year plan to increase the size of the State Department’s foreign-service staff by 25 percent and double USAID. And she’s taken a leaf from the Pentagon playbook and launched a “Q.D.D.R.”—Quadrennial Diplomacy and Deve...

Hillary manages to be simultaneously remote from the media (joint press conferences with foreign ministers are limited to two questions for each) and accessible to the public. Unless a crisis obliterates her schedule

…nt was its own capabilities to monitor a Russian target of interest to British intelligence. While the release of these foreign documents might have embarrassed allies of the United States, they exposed no violations of U.S. law by the NSA. It was a legitimate part of the NSA’s j...

…rity Conference. The U.S. offer of direct bilateral talks, he said, "stands, but it must be real and tangible." Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi, who was also at the conference though he refused to meet with U.S. officials, called Mr. Biden's comments "a step forward."...

…eda organizational charges, and the “Golden Chain” list of wealthy donors to the Afghan mujahideen....* The Council on Foreign Relations Studies (“CRS”) produced a report in October 2002 that also made use of the Golden Chain. Relying on the 9/11 Commission report, the CRS repor...

…o explosive documents he asked them to use in their initial stories. One was the now-famous secret order from America’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court requiring Verizon to turn over to the NSA its billing records for its phone users in the U.S. The other was an NSA s...

…ic elites, including many Clinton advisers. Presidential campaigns routinely seek opposition research and interact with foreign powers. The Clinton campaign funded the Steele dossier, whose British author paid Russians to dish anti-Trump dirt. The Podesta Group, led by the brothe...

…hases, parallel to the implementation of the other provisions of the treaty. In our initial meetings in Shepherdstown, Foreign Minister al-Sharaa showed no inclination even to talk about these other issues. So on the second afternoon we were there, I suggested to President Clint...

… valuations ( many )tax filings- disclosures, etc. re grats trusts defect trusts, llcs corps , trustees , partnerships. foreign corps. 100 bank accounts. gift taxes, , loans, notes. payables. expenses. . , insurance.( life , art, split dollar), cashflows, operating biz, , investm...

…ee hundred papers on these subjects and has lectured widely in North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2010 he was noted by Foreign Policy magazine as #49 on its list of the 100 most influential thinkers in the world. Sources, and there sure were a lot of them Annual Energy Outlook...

Robert Gates takes a moment to peer across the American horizon--and the view is dire: the U.S. is in danger of losing its supremacy on the global stage

a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington and a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. His most recent book is Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Random House

Turkey faces three other key foreign policy challenges. First is the continuing division of Cyprus between ethnic Greek and Turkish sectors. Second is the frozen conflict with Armenia

the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether our government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant; American society is the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American...

the problems of American foreign policy become more complex still. We are trying to carry out a vast reordering of global society even as we preserve the stability of the international political order: we are trying to walk blindfolded on a tightrope across Niagara Falls — while...