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…e of this point—and for him the strategic importance. If you didn’t want to find yourself getting wrung out in front of Congress, your career and your net worth in jeopardy, be careful who you spoke to. More to the point: you must not under any circumstances speak to Jared and Iv...

…e for most of the past two years, due to cuts in the defence budget, and the possibility of even more stringent ones if Congress fails to agree on raising the US debt ceiling. The Iranian nuclear programme remains a priority in Washington, but the carrier decision indicates a le...

…remember, Dubai in 2006 bought US port operations and found itself vilified as a terrorist logistics center. Members of Congress now in the Obama administration -- among them the senator who is now president -- joined the Dubai-bashing. Well, it may turn out that this "terrorist...

…ng arc of concern in the list of presidential foreign-policy worries. In 2009, in Obama's address to a joint session of Congress (a speech some regard as a SOTU), Iran wasn't even mentioned. In the 2010 SOTU, Obama threatened that if Iran ignored its international obligations, th...

…peech at Huntsville for Strange, 303-4 speech to Boy Scouts, 284 speech to CIA, 48-51, 65 speech to joint session of Congress, 147-50 staff doubts about, 186, 232-33, 242-43, 304-5 staff infighting and, 122-23 Syria and, 183-84, 188-93 tax reform and, 224 tax returns and, 18...

… an American ... I never feel like less of an American than when idealistic teenagers call for gun control, and I know Congress won't let it happen. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026788

…s release of NSA documents. In defending Snowden, it questions the truthfulness of any government official or member of Congress who discloses information contradicting Snowden’s claims or show- ing that there was some benefit to the multibillion-dollar intelli- gence system that...

…vanced degrees of college graduates.” The plan envisions that ratings will be tied to student aid formulas by 2018, if Congress agrees. That is a big if. It’s also a year after Obama’s term ends. There is nothing in the plan that would force states to give more funding to publi...

… to what was originally sought by President Obama, and is going to face a tough challenge being approved by a skeptical Congress, which is in fact proposing to impose new sanctions on Iran. Nigeria’s elections ended today easing the political tension, with the ex-military ruler...

…ntly higher than other businesses. Despite official prohibition, federal policies and laws recently passed by the U.S. Congress have carved out a limited space in which the state-legal cannabis industry has managed to thrive. Enforce- ment policies published by the U.S. Departme...

… from these unwanted facts by the Free Press: not reported. There is an organization called US intelligence. They brief Congress regularly on the international security situation, all quite public. On Iran, they point out that it has very limited military power, even by regional...

… a [*932] victim can provide a basis for recalculating the Guidelines or departing or varying *°° from the Guidelines. Congress intended the victim's right to be heard to be construed broadly, as Senator Feinstein stated: "The victim of crime, or their counsel, should be able to...

160 National Intelligence justified the secret intelligence budget by saying in an open session of Congress, “We are bolstering our support for clandestine SIGINT [signal intelligence] capabilities to collect against high priority targets, including foreign leadership targets,”...

…nderfunded pension liabilities that can bankrupt companies, USA Inc.’s underfunded liabilities are not legal contracts. Congress has the authority to change the level and conditions for Social Security and Medicare benefits; the federal government, together with the states, can a...

… family, . are no longer very useful. In politics the USA meant the white house. now there is pentagon. cia, state, and congress in addition, each feels empowered to act more independantly. stock market even in tech, needs bio tech, consuner tech. infrastrucrue tech. etc. same wi...