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… Al Gore John McCain Mayor Rahm Emanuel Mayor Tom Menino Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Sir Mervyn King Former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers The conversation would be part of a large multiplatform initiative that Harvard Professor Lisa New has under way to bri...

…on a non- prosecution agreement that kept Epstein from spending years behind bars, was tapped by Trump to be U.S. Labor Secretary. During his confirmation hearings in March, Acosta said it was “awful” that convicted sex offender Epstein was allowed to leave the Palm Beach County...

…cit activities are also unmistakable. According to a CIA document, even before Hassan Nasrallah rose to the position of secretary- general in 1992, he was "directly involved in many Hizballah terrorist operations, including hostage taking, airline hijackings, and attacks against...

…e eventually served 13 months in county jail as part of a controversial plea agreement brokered by Trump’s future Labor Secretary Alex Acosta. Trump later put the mansion on the market for $125 million, despite making only minor improvements to the property. It was purchased fo...

…olitically driven by critics who failed to raise significant issues when Acosta was nominated and confirmed as the U.S. secretary of labor in 2017. Sloman’s comments come two weeks after the Justice Department announced it had opened an investigation over whether there was prose...

…merica Is losing its grip John Barry and Tara McKelvey 27 June -- Aboard the Pentagon jet on his last foreign trip as secretary of defense, Robert Gates takes a moment to peer across the American horizon--and the view is dire: the U.S. is in danger of losing its supremacy on th...

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…after opposition from key Democratic senators indicated they would oppose his nomination. Mr Summers, a former Treasury Secretary and senior economic adviser to Barack Obama in his first term, galvanised opposition among left-of-centre Democrats who painted him as symbol of the w...

… Readers will be quite familiar with Starr’s background. Lefkowitz was director of cabinet affairs and deputy executive secretary to the domestic policy council under President George H.W. Bush. Under President George W. Bush, Lefkowitz served as general counsel in the Office of...

…g toward a positive, productive outcome. And | do, | believe the Senate will produce a bill this summer. Tom Price, US secretary of health and human SIRE, quoted by The Hill = Subscriber Tools: Contact Us: Sign Up Manage Subscriptions Advertising - Aaron Kern SmartBrief offers...

…zing a Reuters exposé of slum-like living conditions on U.S military bases, the Miami Herald’s investigation into Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s sweetheart deal with serial sex abuser, Jeffrey Epstein, and NBC News and MSNBC’s reporting on the Trump Administration’s family separat...

…most expensive war on terrorism in human history, the US was uneasily discovering that it was creating more terrorists. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had sketched the nature of this puzzle in an October, 2003 memo with acid clarity. He asked: “Are we capturing, killing or...

… in Ukraine shook Russia... Young people began to discuss and think about Russias direc- tion.” —lvan Mostovich, press secretary of the pro-Kremlin youth organization Nashi, April 2005 “We're only afraid these changes will be cha- otic.... It'll be a banana republic where the o...

…hey are badly misreading Iranian politics. For many observers, however, and for Iran, too, the nomination of Hagel for secretary of defense may be a sign that the White House is beginning to realize that sanctions, and threats of military action, won’t force Iran’s hand. As has...

…ne of prevention, and not one of containment— and the President has made clear that is the policy of our government. As Secretary of Defense, I will make sure the Department is prepared for any contingency.” Satloff's views were echoed by another tough-talking official at WINEP,...