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…ence, if only as part of the decision-making process on all major security questions, making policy was for our elected government. My main focus was on how to improve the military’s fitness to respond. I’d lived through, and more recently fought in, all of Israel’s wars. I felt...

…o: How is it that the media has been almost wholly unaware of someone who is suddenly among the most powerful people in government?—tried to trace his steps in Hollywood and largely failed to find him. The Washington Post traced his many addresses to no clear conclusion, except a...

…s at Birth partnership, launched in 2011, which includes USAid, Norway, Grand Challenges Canada, backed by the Canadian government, the UK's Department for International Development, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In October, the Mo Ibrahim foundation will announce its...

… about Ukrainian security methods that American officials had obtained during bilateral exchange programs with the Kyiv government. !% To further bolster the case for the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian propaganda machinery devoted great energy to demonstrating the fascist natu...

…77. But he got only 44 seats, to the Likud’s 41. After weeks of horse-trading with smaller parties, he could not form a government. Neither could Shamir. The result, for the first time in peacetime, was a national-unity coalition, including both main parties. Peres would be Prime...

…35 detainees already approved for transfer. This process involves extensive and careful coordination across our federal government to ensure that our national security interests are met when an individual is transferred to another country. We insist, for example, that foreign cou...

…xplains the procedural process underlying an indictment and places the defendant on notice of the general nature of the government's criminal investigation. See U.S. Dep't of Justice, Title 9: U.S. Attorneys' Criminal Resource Manual § 160, [hereinafter Criminal Resource Manual]...

… 4MM elderly) Americans (16% of population) received an average of $4,684 in tax-payer funded payments from the federal government for healthcare in 2009. For context, $6,872 in healthcare benefits is 13% of average annual per-capita income for Americans. e When Medicaid was cre...

…t a concerted plan to reflate their economy through monetary, fiscal and structural measures. The strong control of the government and its high approval rating are steadily raising the chance of success. We stay overweight Japanese equities and grow wary of the short yen trade, a...

…could see the disbelief in their eyes. By then, however, I realized that under the multiple demands of a senior role in government, you really could fail to notice events that others viewed as crucial to their reputations or careers. To reassure them I truly hadn’t noticed, I’d t...

…ine,” Los Angeles Times, December 11, 2010 “Snowden also sent Greenwald...”—Greenwald. No Place to Hide, op. cit, p.2 “Government’s increasing powers of...’”—Glenn Greenwald, “U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border,” Sa/on, April 8, 2012 “Sprawling, unaccountable Surveil...

Hannah Dreier of ProPublica won a Hillman Prize for reporting that showed how the government’s bungled crackdown on MS-13 has torn apart the lives of Latino immigrants. The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer, who has emerged as a defining voice of the Trump era, won for his essays on racism...

…soldier. I’d never had a burning desire to be a politician. Though I believed that what I'd attempted, and achieved, in government would prove to have safeguarded and strengthened Israel, I knew that important challenges and decisions still lay ahead. So did our unfulfilled dream...

…houts loudest is the one who wins.” —Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, September 2005 “We have sympathy with [Arab governments] because they did not read warnings that they should have read. That things were changing because of the wishes of their people, and because of mach...

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