Thread by @DavidCranmerUn1

Victoria Nuland Can’t Keep Her Steele Story Straight

She admitted that during the waning days of the 2016 election, the Obama State Department hosted ex-British-spy Christopher Steele to give a secret briefing to select staff on his anti-Trump dossier. washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standar…

This was not information that had been offered up voluntarily by any of Steele’s friends at the State Department. For example, it seems likely that then-special envoy Jonathan Winer knew about the Steele briefing that has now been revealed.

And yet when he penned a self-justificatory op-ed in the Washington Post about his Steele ties, any mention of the briefing is strangely missing. Winer admitted to meeting one-on-one with Steele to see the dossier; he admitted to writing up a two-page condensed version of

Steele’s opus and giving it to Nuland; he admitted to meeting his old friend (and Clinton crony) Sidney Blumenthal who showed him dossier-like materials from notorious Clinton crank Cody Shearer.

Then he asked Nuland: “Did you have any role in that briefing?” (Note that Burr did not ask whether there was a briefing, he built the existence of the briefing into the structure of the question, leaving Nuland no room to deny it.)
What she did deny was participating in the

briefing—but she had trouble keeping her story straight. Asked if she had any role, Nuland told the committee “I did not. I actively chose not to be part of that briefing.”

Jonathan Winer is the State Department’s Special Envoy for Libya and Senior Advisor for MEK Resettlement.

At the State Department, Mr. Winer is responsible for developing, coordinating, and implementing U.S. policy on Libya, as well as resettling Iranian persons found to be in need of international protection out of Iraq.

He was previously U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state

for international law enforcement, where he was one of the architects of U.S. international policies and strategies on promoting and harmonizing financial transparency, as well as on cross-border law enforcement issues such as cybercrime, small arms trafficking, illegal

immigration, and money laundering. He initiated the establishment of International Law Enforcement Academies in Bangkok and Gaborone and served as the first General Secretary of the Global Forum on Corruption. Mr. Winer previously served for 10 years as counsel and principal

legislative assistant to then-U.S. Senator John F. Kerry. In November 1999, Mr. Winer received a distinguished honor award from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for his service at the State Department. The award stated that "he created the capacity of the Department and

the U.S. government to deal with international crime and criminal justice as important foreign policy functions," and that "the scope and significance of his achievements are virtually unprecedented for any single official."

On January 5, 2021, it was reported that President-elect Joe Biden would nominate Nuland to serve as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under Secretary-designate Antony Blinken.On February 13, 2021, her nomination was formally submitted to the Senate for confirmation.

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Planning Staff. His father, historian Donald Kagan, a Sterling Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Yale University and a specialist in the history of the Peloponnesian War, is of Lithuanian Jewish descent.[8] His brother, Frederick, is a military historian and author.

Kagan has a BA in history (1980) from Yale, where in 1979 he had been Editor in Chief of the Yale Political Monthly, a periodical he is credited with reviving. Kagan has a BA in history (1980) from Yale, where in 1979 he had been Editor in Chief of the Yale Political Monthly, a

periodical he is credited with reviving. The Chairperson of Carnegie's Board of Trustees is former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker,[6] and the organization's President is former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns,[7] who has been nominated to lead the.

Central Intelligence Agency From 1998 until August, 2010, Kagan was a Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was appointed senior fellow in the Center on United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution in September 2010.

earlier tenants are better known: According to the new book High Rise Low Down, the penthouse is known as the “J.F.K. Suite” in honor of the President who hosted Marilyn Monroe there. Car man Henry Ford II (“Hank the Deuce”) and I-banker god Henry Kravis came afterward.

The firm was founded in 1976 by Jerome Kohlberg Jr., and cousins Henry Kravis and George R. Roberts, all of whom had previously worked together at Bear Stearns, where they completed some of the earliest leveraged buyout transactions.

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (/ˈɛpstiːn/ EP-steen;[3] January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and convicted sex offender.[4][5] He began his professional life as a teacher, but then switched to the banking and finance sector in various roles, working at

Bear Stearns before forming his own firm.