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… Bashar al-Assad. In any other presidency, such an atrocity would command a considered and, ideally, skillful response. Obama’s consideration had in fact been less than skillful in proclaiming the use of chemical weapons as a red line—and then allowing it to be crossed. Almost n...

…  • Leaders • Kathryn Ruemmler Kathryn is an attorney who formerly served as White House Counsel to President Barack Obama. She previously worked as Principal Deputy White House Counsel. Former federal prosecutor who helped lead the government’s case against the former executi...

…e are far less clear. This curious aspect of secret work was part of the advice given © to a White House lawyer in the Obama administration seeking a © position with the NSA in 2012, who was told that among the advan- tages of working for a super-secret agency was that if one er...

…it with food and medical aid, but refraining from military intervention and from providing the rebels with weapons. The Obama administration claimed that the US would not intervene unless it had strong evidence of chemical weapons used by the Assad regime. In June 2013, Washingto...

…el for his past comments and positions on Iran. In conjunction with Israel-friendly members of Congress, they’ve warned Obama to rein Hagel in so as not to send a dovish signal to Tehran. Robert Satloff, executive direction of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)...

…haring logistics, the United States was in deep now, on a course that no one could predict. Madam Secretary For Barack Obama, the Arab Spring and its aftermath will shape just one critical piece of his record. But, for Hillary Clinton, the swirling challenges of the region are l...

…etailed investigation. ‘Jeffrey's craw: Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell, right, pictured with President Barack Obama and But he also took his defence very seriously indeed. Epstein engaged his friend, the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz — whose celebrity clients h...

…, 2014 at 10:19 am — Log in to Reply Well, LOFL , He alone Literally “Stained the Oval Office with his very own DNA” ! Obama is shurely DEFACATING ON IT as we speak, AS WELL AS THE CONSTITUTION .And then.......... We the People are idley standing by and watching him destroy Ame...

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… Peace Prize Committee, who offers an affable, but general scathing, critique of U.S. diplomacy (and a brief defense of Obama’s Peace Prize award) and to whom Epstein offers a ride back to Europe on his jet. The next morning, it’s Ehud Barack, the former Israeli Prime Minister a...

… regime” and “do what is necessary to prevent” Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon — but he offered no specifics. Mr. Obama pressed his case for reform of immigration laws and for action to slow global warming — and, in especially moving terms, tougher gun laws. In each case, t...

…ic adversity 06/15/09 OMB's “Analytical Perspectives” and Treasury Department’s “Green Book” offer 2009-05 insights on Obama tax proposals and outline of estate and gift tax proposals: consistent values, modifying rules on valuation discounts and minimum 10-year terms for GRATs;...

… WashingtonPost.com<http://WashingtonPost.com> Copyright 2013 The Washington Post May 22, 2013 Section: in-the-loop Obama nominee Penny Pritzker's $80 million mistake President Obama's billionaire nominee to head the Commerce Department, Penny Prizker, understated her incom...

26 “happy to note” that Mr. Obama has failed to close the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as he had pledged. Mr. Cheney’s long struggle with heart disease is a recurring theme in the book. He discloses that he wrote a letter of resignation, dated March 28, 2001, and told an aid...

Hey, these things happen: Penny Pritzker, President Obama's nominee to lead the Commerce Department, understated her income by some $80 million and had to file a correction to her government-filed disclosures, Bloomberg is reporting. That might sound like a lot of money, but it...