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…nce may have led to the neglect of its second mission: protecting the integrity of the channels through which the White House, government agencies and military units send information. This task had been made vastly more difficult by the proliferation of computer networks, texting...

…ffat was complaining, mind you: The perks were surely better than when he visited President George W. Bush at the White House in 2008. It was not without reason, he explained, that Iranian soft power was trumping American hard power in Iraq. More recently, three Iranian intelli...

…w with author. 261 When I had been investigating: Edward Jay Epstein, The Annals of Unsolved Crime (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2013), 209-40. 262 “I don’t know him”: Lugovoy, interview with author. 264 It was rare: The vast majority of the fifteen American defectors to the Sovi...

… Danny to the luxurious New York City apartment of William Paley, the founder of CBS. Hillis lived then in a ramshackle house close to campus at MIT. He drove a surplus fire truck to work most days.1%° Faced with the urbane, powerful 81- year old founder of the largest radio and...

…n is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. From 2009 to 2012 he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. From 2013 to 2014, he served on President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communication Technologie...

…ecision to fire Comey, was helping to unravel tt. The president, along with his family, stood on one side of the White House divide, while the staff—mouths agape, disbelieving and speechless—stood on the other. But the president seemed also to want it known that he, aroused and...

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…164 billion under management) and owner of the New Jersey Devils and the Philadelphia 76ers. What goes on at Epstein’s house confirms everyone’s worst fears about power and the powerful: they are all in a secret and shared conversation. The world runs on insider information. And...

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…t the next plane to Hong Kong and arrived there on June 11— the same day that Snowden texted Greenwald he was in a safe house and before Snowden’s explosive interview with Lam. Harrison had her own connections in Hong Kong. Her two younger sisters, Kate and Alexandra, lived there...

…ly idea what they were doing, and then you saw ’em all crying and weeping that night on November 8.” Back in the White House, Jared Kushner, watching the proceedings casually and then more attentively, suddenly felt a rising anger. Thin-skinned, defensive, on guard, he perceived...

And now Kochavi has purchased the services of President Obama’s former White House counsel, Ruemmler, whose name was once on the shortlist<http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ruemmler-attorney-general-nixed- 20141024-story.html> for US attorney general. It’s a fair question to as...

…te change is inescapable and by going back to our old way of doing things, it will merely come all the quicker all best HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033227

… speak the creating of little torture pockets around the world as justified by Obama's desire to close Gitmo. The White House reports (2/23/16): "We'll continue to securely and responsibly transfer to other countries the 35 detainees already approved for transfer. This process in...

… by a half-dozen intelligence agencies and criminal organizations. It’s like discovering a closet full of spies in your house, each being careful not to step on the other’s toes as they watch and listen to your life. Why is my computer so slow, a government official in a Eurasian...