Bush Administration

Defying expectations and overturning pollsters’ predictions that had underestimated the “red wave,” Donald Trump is preparing to cross the threshold of the White House for a second time.

If Joe Biden‘s pick, Kamala Harris, wins the election, she will likely staff her staff with her closest advisers as well as key cabinet members.

Regardless of whether Democrats retain power in the Senate or Republicans take it, 59-year-old Harris will have to figure out which people to keep from the Biden administration.

In 2008, in a video sent around the world by the Pan-Macedonian Association of America, then president Nina Gatzoulis thanked about-to-be-elected Barack Obama for his original co-sponsorship of Senate Resolution 300 (S.Res.300) in the 110th Congress. S.Res. 300, authored by Senator Robert Menendez, became the basis for Greek-American advocacy on the Macedonian issue since then.

Calls are growing for President Trump to “clean house” at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, after a series of leaks aimed at embarrassing and undermining the president sprung from the White House this week.

The retirement of the antiquated Predator drone MQ-1, which is to be withdrawn from service in July and replaced by the more capable MQ-9 Reaper, is giving military analysts an opportunity to review the mixed history of a weapon that has long been associated with low-cost war, a sense of disembodiment from conflict, and for inflicting a high number of civilian casualties.

According to sources, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former Bush administration official Elaine Chao as his transportation secretary, a position likely to take on tremendous importance in light of Trump’s intention to invest billions in rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure.

-We are in a world war but very few Americans recognize it. (Page 2) 

-This administration has forbidden us from describing our enemies properly and clearly: They are Radical Islamists. (Page 3) 

-We cannot afford to be gulled by foreign countries that publicly declare their friendship but then work with our enemies. (Page 9)  

The CIA declassified a letter Dec. 11 that suggests US intelligence had grave doubts about part of the case made by former president George W. Bush's White House to justify the war in Iraq.
      

UN expects U.S. to investigate officials who ordered crimes

GENEVA -- A UN official has said that the Unites States has a legal obligation to prosecute U.S. officials who ordered crimes, including torture, against detainees.

Ben Emerson, UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism has called for prosecution of those responsible for torturing terrorism suspects.

"It has taken four years since the report was finalised to reach this point," said Emmerson in a statement, released by the UN news centre.