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…e terrorists who in the past had been protected. On the contrary, a principal purpose of my chapter is to show that 1. one purpose of protecting these individuals had been to protect a valued intelligence connection (the "al-Qaeda connection," if you will); 2. one major intenti...

…ressed last year have been borne out, and are getting much worse (I spent the weekend reading legal documents on a Eurozone break-up, just in case). Like Don Quixote, Europe went on its journey for all the wrong reasons, adopting a half-pregnant monetary union to support a politi...

…, he has visited almost every provincial region and spoken with people from all walks of life, including some who have gone on to become State lead- ers. “Tt’s been a great gift to my life to be able to learn so much about Chi- na’s rich civilization, political theo- ries and th...

…down in Tripoli giving press interviews denying that rebels are taking over Eastern Libya. Oil prices are shooting over one hundred dollars a barrel. The US government is on the verge of a shut down. These are not the top secret opening lines to Aaron Sorkin’s new script, but the...

…down in Tripoli giving press interviews denying that rebels are taking over Eastern Libya. Oil prices are shooting over one hundred dollars a barrel. The US government is on the verge of a shut down. These are not the top secret opening lines to Aaron Sorkin's new script, but the...

…nce: — High I read what his ghost-writer said about him. Pretty scary. Reminds me of something I was told by Jon Snow, one of England's most sensible newsmen. He was with the press entourage accompanying Tony Blair on his visit to Saudi Arabia, and walking around one of the pala...

…down in Tripoli giving press interviews denying that rebels are taking over Eastern Libya. Oil prices are shooting over one hundred dollars a barrel. The US government is on the verge of a shut down. These are not the top secret opening lines to Aaron Sorkin's new script, but the...

…it informed a think tank that it had landed on a list making it difficult to get visas. A senior Chinese official told one think-tank analyst that responsibility for reviewing visa requests has shifted from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Ministry of Public Security, thus...

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…e to appear on a weekly television interview program called Moked. It was hosted by Nissim Mishal: brash, incisive, and one of Israel’s best-known broadcast journalists. I pointed out to the Rabin aide that I’d never done anything like this before. But he insisted it would go wel...

…e forces of Sunni moderation that Riyadh wants to lead. Iran, too, was starting to see a compelling case for action as one Western-backed regime after another appeared to be on the ropes. It ramped up its rhetoric and began using state media and the regional Arab-language satell...

But there were times of crisis, and high tension, as well. Only five months after the election, Rabin and I faced one of the most painful periods during my entire time as chief of staff. It began with the gruesome death of five Sayeret Matkal soldiers during a training exercise i...

…nce. They’ re like a mad beehive, spouting campaign buzz words at me. But | will mever drop out of this race. | would sooner give to the media my tape of our one- night stand in my hotel room at the governors’ conference last February. McCAIN: If you were to do that, | would rel...

…to know each other well, having first met when he was in charge of the CIA at the start of the Obama administration. In one of our early meetings at CIA headquarters in Langley, there had been a small bunch of grapes on his desk and I plucked a few in my mouth with obvious enjoym...

Tunisia. Arafat himself left on August 30. Still, as the evacuation proceeded, another one of Arik’s central aims in Big Pines was also achieved. On August 23, the Lebanese parliament elected Bashir Gemayel as the country’s new president. During the several weeks that followed,...