Results for “Washington Institute for Near East Policy”

…t to Kronheim?” Presidents and Prime Ministers come and go. So do Popes. But not Milton Kronheim, who was a fixture of Washington life for more than 60 years. I was privileged to participate in many of their lunches—mostly as a quiet observer—during my clerkship. (When I became...

…narrow affirmative defense for state-law cannabis possession and use charges. Recreational Laws In 2012, Colorado and Washington voters passed the first laws in the United States (and the world) to permit the commercial production and sale of cannabis to adults for recreational...

… it. In a call to Bannon, Trump sought help making his case: “Where does this all end? Are they going to take down the Washington Monument, Mount Rushmore, Mount Vernon?” Bannon—still not receiving his summons to Bedminster—urged this to be the line: the president should condemn...

…al Security Advisor’s antagonists inside the White House as from the Justice Department. On Wednesday, February 8, the Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung came to visit Flynn for what was billed as an off-the-record interview. They met not in his office but in the most ornate room i...

…es had to be lighter and smaller than the ones the United States used against Japan. The Soviets put another wrinkle in Washington's plans when they began to deploy large numbers of their own nuclear weapons. The United States needed to find a way to potentially destroy the Sovie...

…ng been seen by many leaders in the region as the lone bulwark against Israeli and American hegemony. With backing from Washington, Israel has sought to smash Hezbollah (notably through its 2006 invasion of Lebanon) and detach Syria from Iran, a country Israel views as its most d...

…a suck-up. Spicer was stupid (and looks terrible too). Conway was a crybaby. Jared and Ivanka should never have come to Washington. His callers, largely because they found his conversation peculiar, alarming, or completely contrary to reason and common sense, often overrode what...

…ancial difficulties, and he sought to get money from the KGB. On January 14, 1980, he walked into the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C., and asked to see an intelli- gence officer. After he was ushered into a secure debriefing room, he said that he had information that Russia wo...

…me and has been referenced in hundreds of articles in a wide variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Review, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, the Guardian, The Korea Herald, and the Irish Times; and it even drew the attention of...

…roperty, among other things, according to the New York Times. To return the favor, Matthews allegedly bought a condo in Washington, D.C., from Rowland through a straw buyer in 1997 for nearly 20 percent more than what the governor had originally paid. The condo sale and other bus...

…rey E. [[email protected]] Subject: Kuhn Importance: — High Just got to New York - love to meet, brainstorm. From Washington, my inauguration-day commentary and conversation with Chinese experts on Sino-US relations under Trump - https://youtu.be/OGdulpmeVNM?list=PLt-M801W_...

…omatic progress between us and the Palestinians, he could see no way of holding a summit. With Arafat due to see him in Washington in a couple of weeks, he said that I first had to give the Palestinian leader something: the three villages, a prisoner release, or perhaps unfreeze...

… some time back on the clock. The Iran issue always seems urgent, and yet somehow there is always time to deal with it. Washington should acknowledge the obvious, namely, that given Iran's gradualist approach, it HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018198

…a group of national security professionals, as part of a trip organized by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, DC-based think tank. (All of the photos in the body of the article are mine.) We were taken around the construction site by a young Palestinian engi...

…tner. * From 2000 to 2001 she served as Associate Counsel to President Clinton. * She was a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins from 2007 * She serve as principal associate deputy attorney general at the Justice Department. ¢« In 2014 Ruemmle...