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…) Client Alert: Status of the New DOL Fiduciary Rule (continued from page 1) a better commission for the adviser. The Obama administration found that conflicted advice cost savers about $17 billion a year based on a 2015 report. To be clear, the Rule applies only to retire- men...

…h journalism or politics—to sit at their tables. This had resulted in a notable Trump humiliation when, in 2011, Barack Obama singled out Trump for particular mockery. In Trump lore, this was the insult that pushed him to make the 2016 run. Not long after the Trump team’s arriva...

…e of emergency that was declared on September the 14th, 2001. And it's still enforced. It has to be renewed every year. Obama did it every year just as George Bush renewed it every year. What are the roots of this? Well there are the legitimate roots that go back to fear of an a...

…[email protected]> wrote: Steve Bannon Feb 24 (1 day ago) https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/23/susan-rice-lawyer-obama-administration-classified-intelligence- michael-flynn-trump-423437 do you think Bill Clinton would like to join you me ehud and steve.? could be very fun...

…White House officials were pushing too hard in public statements for Mubarak to resign, Hillary complained to President Obama, who was unmoved. Yet on the big picture, especially the need to isolate the menacing regime in Tehran, the president and his secretary of state fully agr...

…ster dimension once Snowden put himself and his fate in the hands of the Russian authorities in Moscow. Even though the Obama Administration decided against revealing the extent of Russian intelligence service's participation in Snowden’s move from Hong Kong to Moscow, or what in...

…s on their number. (Given Russia’s strong interest in limiting strategic weapons, it is difficult to understand why the Obama administration did not insist on some limits on short- range nuclear weapons as a condition for the New START Treaty. Unused leverage is a squandered oppo...

…crossfire and more focused on the legacy of his own tenure, which bridged the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He is determined to define his own legacy as Pentagon boss, and eager to push back against one of the more vocal criticisms of his tenure: the belief amo...

…twork a terrorist organization, making membership a crime under Turkish law. Mr. Erdogan’s government has pressed the Obama administration since the coup to extradite Mr. Gulen, arguing that pursuing the imam is part of the broader campaign against terrorism. At times, the Turk...

…ional chess, involving both an internal debate among Israel’s political and military leadership and discussions with an Obama administration whose priority remained to negotiate an end to Iran’s nuclear program. On major security decisions in Israel, two ministers always mattered...

…Tehran announced that it will join talks on February 26 in Kazakhstan. The negotiations will be a serious test for the Obama administration and for John Kerry, the new secretary of state. Previous rounds have all faltered because neither side was willing to make HOUSE_OVERSIGHT...

…ntain healthcare costs and improve the overall quality of care and wellness. For example, on March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which Congress modified pursuant to the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 20...

15 The contradictions and anomalies of U.S. foreign policy have also been on stark display in the Obama administration's differing responses to Qaddafi's and Assad's repression of their own people. Beating up Qaddafi proved doable and necessary to prevent what was viewed as pote...

…e of emergency that was declared on September the 14th, 2001. And it’s still enforced. It has to be renewed every year. Obama did it every year just as George Bush renewed it every year. What are the roots of this? Well there are the legitimate roots that go back to fear of an a...

…network a terrorist organization, making membership a crime under Turkish law. Mr. Erdogan's government has pressed the Obama administration since the coup to extradite Mr. Gulen, arguing that pursuing the imam is part of the broader campaign against terrorism. At times, the Turk...