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kgap Romney blasts Obama s confused foreign policy vision in speech to veterans - Jeaoneuntor - 12-03-2024 Mhbu Former CIA analyst talks about escaping war-torn Libya - transcript DES MOINES-- The chairman of Ron Paulrsquo 2012 presidential bid was sentenced Tuesday to probation and home confinement ratherthan prison, and two other top aides were awaiting their s stanley cups entences for a schemeto cover up campaign payments to a former Iowa state senator who agreed to endorsetheir boss.Although prosecutors were seeking more than two years infederal prison, Jesse Benton was sentenced to two yearsrsquo; probation and sixmonths of home confinement, along with commu stanley cup nity service and a $10,000 fine. Hewas convicted of conspiracy, causing false campaign contribution reports to befiled to the Federal Election Commission and participating in a false statementscheme.Judge James Jarvey called the crimes serious and said Bentontook advantage of the system designed to ensure transparency in how campaignsare financed. Therersquo nothing like prison time to deter white collaractivity,stanley mug Jarvey said, before announcing that he thought the lesserpunishment was enough of a deterrent in Bentonrsquo case.Prior to the sentencing announcement, Benton told the judgehe had endured years of sleepless nights and public humiliation. He said hiscareer is ruined and that he was forced to place his home on the market aftergoing into debt. A steep price has been paid, he said.Benton and his attorney declined to comment as they left thecourthouse.The campaignrsquo manager, John Tate, and deputy managerDimitri Kes Dasr McCain Suggests Reviving Just Say No AP CBS News Following the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., on Friday, both President Obama and his GOP competitor Mitt Romney called for a reprieve from politics. But now that the weekend is over, the campaigns are back to the dirty business of undercutting one another.Friday s tragedy, which left 12 people dead, 58 injured and the nation stunned, spurred some temporary shows of civility from the presidential campaigns, but there s little to suggest the tenor of the 2012 election will change permanently. In contrast to last year s mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, where Democratic stanley portugal Rep. Gabby Giffords was shot, Washington has so far reacted to the Colorado shooting with more calls for gun control than for civility. And with billions on the table this election season to spend against each other, it s unlikely the candidates or their supporters will be willing to hold their punches.Mr. Obama s campaign was the first to publicly break the peace Monday with a tweet attacking Romney on a series of issues: Tax returns. Bundlers. Bain. MA records now key docs from Olympics. When it comes to secrecy, Mitt takes the gold! Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod tweeted, l stanley trinkflaschen inking to a story from ABC News. Later in the afternoon, the president s campaign held a conference call with re stanley en mexico porters, calling Romney s upcoming trip overseas one long photo-op and fundraising tour. The public remark came af pxxf Why Elizabeth Warren didn t run for president - Jeaoneuntor - 12-03-2024 Gywq In a rebuke to Trump, House votes to end support for Yemen war President Trump said in a tweet on Tuesday he has authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. The president said the punishment is up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran s Memorial Preservation act or such other laws that may be pertinent. In a second tweet, he said the action is taken effective immediately, but may also be used retroactively for destruction or vandalism already caused. It is unclear, however, what Mr. Trump s authorization means. The Veterans Memorial Preservation and Recognition A stanley cup ctwas enacted in 2003, making attempts to damage or destroy statues or monuments that commemorate the service of those in the armed forced punishable by up to a decade in prison. I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per stanley cup the Veteranrsquo Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent.....mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump June 23, 2020 Mr. Trump s tweets come after monuments across the country, many of them of statues of Confederate soldiers, have been vandalized or toppled in recent weeks. In one of the latest cases, protesters tried to pull down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson near the White House on Monday night before they we stanley puodelis re dispersed by police Zynz Independent Group Bankrolls Spot Pushing Success Of Iraq Surge Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Joe Burbank Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that fellow Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain owes the public and his most recent accuser, Sharon Bialek, an answer to her charges that he made an unwanted and aggressive sexual overture to her 14 years ago. I think when you move from anonymity to a person standing up in that setting, clearly Herman Cain has to answer the charges, he has to explain what happened. I think that s unavoidable, Gingrich said. He both owes her that, but he also owes the American people t stanley tazas hat. ... He has to have an answer and it had better be accurate, because if it s not stanley cups accurate, it won t survive 24 hours. Gingrich s comments came during an interview with ABC News and Yahoo News. His appraisal of Cain s predicament was the most of pointed of the candidates interviewed by the two news organizations over the course of the day on Tuesday. Minutes before Gingrich s interview, Cain appeared in his own online session with ABC and Yahooand denied even recognizing Bialek and said she is lying about the charges. Gingrich also discussed his own campaign, recalling the group of aides who des stanley cups uk erted him over the summer. I brought in traditional consultants and it didn t work, Gingrich said of the group. They wanted to run a traditional campaign. plzx Column: Look Across The Pond For A Better Tuition Model - Jeaoneuntor - 12-04-2024 Cbcs Romney adviser: 23 million reasons to vote for Mitt The following is a transcript of an interview with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan that aired on Nov. 12, 2023.MARGARET BRENNAN: We re joined now by White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Jake, welcome back to the program. The fighting seems very intense in and around Gaza. Doctors Without Borders has c stanley cups uk alled on the Israeli government to, quote, end its unrelenting assault on Gaza s health system. Does the U.S. believe that this is an accurate description of what s happening Is the U.S. telling Israel not to hit hospitals NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JAKE SULLIVAN: Well, Margaret, without getting into intelligence information, we can just look at the open source reporting that Hamas is using hospitals, as it uses many oth stanley drinking cup er civilian facilities, for command and control, for weapons storage, to house its fighters. And this is a violation of the laws of war. That being said, Margaret, the United States does not want to see firefights in hospitals, where innocent people, patients receiving medical care, are caught in the crossfire, and we ve stanley cup had active consultations with the Israeli Defense Forces on this. In fact, just yesterday, the Israeli Defense Forces themselves said that they- on the record, publicly, said that they are looking for ways to be able to ensure the safety and security of individual patients in those hospitals, while they also try to figure out a way to deal with the fact that Hamas is operating in a way that s outside the bound- bounds of an Cuff Pompeo defends Trump plan to send to troops to southern border JERUSALEM - Israel s prime minister gave a cool reception to President Obama s Mideast policy speech, warning that a withdrawal from the West Bank would leave Israel vulnerable to attack and setting up what could be a tense meeting Friday at the White House.In his speech, Obama endorsed the Palestinian position on the borders of their future state, saying it should be based on Israel s lines before the 1967 Mideast war. Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in the fighting, and the Palestinians claim those areas for their state.Obama s Mideast speech full text Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas planned to convene a meeting with senior officials as soon as possible to decide on t stanley cup he next steps, said Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.Abbas is determined to give President Obama s effort and that of the international comm botella stanley unity the chance they deserve, Erekat said. Video: Obama s Middle East speech in fullObama: America s future bound to Middle EastObama to Syria s Assad: Democracy or leaveThe U.S., the international community and even past Israeli governments have endorsed a settlement based on the 1967 lines, but Obama was far more explicit than in the past. His position appeared to put him at odds with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has not accepted the concept.Reacting to Obama s speech, Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a full withdrawal from the West Bank, saying the 19 stanley kaffeebecher 67 lines were indefens oygi What About Bob GOP Mum On Barr - Jeaoneuntor - 12-04-2024 Eqgg A Problem with Palin s Property Taxes A multi-year U.S. intelligence review has deemed it very unlikely that a foreign adversary is behind the mysterious neurological symptoms known as Havana Syndrome that have been reported by more than a thousand American officials since 2016, significantly undermining a theory shared by some victims and lawmakers that U.S. personnel were being targeted by a hostile government.The unclassified assessment, released Wednesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ODNI , reflected the views of seven agencies that participated in the inquiry. Most [intelligence community] agencies have concluded that it is very unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible for the reported AHIs, the assessment said, using an abbreviation for Anomalous Health Incid stanley tumblers ents, the Biden administration s term for the phenomenon. It noted that different agencies had varying levels of confidence in the finding. Five of them found that stanley cup usa available intelligence consistently points against the involvement of US adversaries in causing the reported incidents, according to the assessment. FILE: HAVANA, CUBA - JANUARY 04: A view of the US Embassy on the day of its reopening for visa and consular services in Havana, Cuba on January 4, 2023. stanley mug Yander Zamora/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Most [intelligence community] agencies judge it is very unlikely Iemi Obama tightens oil sanctions on Iran By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blogMy Creat stanley botella ors Syndicate column this week is a little history lesson on--you guessed it--the Great Depression.On Facebook You can keep up with Thomas Jefferson Street blog postings through Facebook s Networked Blogs. --Read more by Michael Barone.--Read more from the Thomas Jefferson Street blog. --Read more about the Great Depression.By Michael Barone stanley cup ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bffce5a0-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-bffc stanley canada e5a0-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-bffce5a0-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; daqr U.S. to empower asylum officials to reject more migrants earlier in process - Jeaoneuntor - 12-04-2024 Sljm The Debate And Polls Show Sarah Pain Is The Anti-Hillary Washington ndash; An alleged member of the Patriot Boys militia group, Lucas Denney, has now pleaded guilty to one felony stanley cup count of assaulting and impeding law enforcement officers with a long pole and large tube on January 6, 2021, after prosecutors acknowledged they had made an unintentional procedural error in forgetting to formally indict him as required stanley cup by law. Lucas Denney near Washington Monument, January 6, 2021. Government exhibit In December 2021, 41-year-old Denney, of Texas, was accused of multiple felonies in a criminal complaint, a charging document that does not require the consent of a grand jury. He was arrested and detained and has been in jail since December.After the filing of a criminal complaint, a grand jury has 40 days to bring a formal indictment. Prosecutors in Denney s case did not indict him until March 7, 2021, months after the complaint against him. They charged him on a single count of assaulting or impeding officers with a dangerous or deadly weapon. His defense team filed an emergency motion to release him from jail because prosecutors had failed to indict him within the legal timeframe; prosecutors agreed that they had erred.Denney opted to take advantage of the Justice Department s procedural error and plead guilty to the single-count indictment. He admitted h stanley shop e had made his way through the Kheo White House directs Pentagon to let troops use force when necessary at border President Obama will hold a primetime news conference tonight on his sixty-fourth day in office. The event will be live at 8 p.m. ET from t stanley spain he East Room of the White House on CBS television and on CBSNews.In the morning, Mr. Obama will be joined by Congressional leaders and middle school students in the Roosevelt Room to congratulate the astronauts on the International Sp stanley cup ace Station and the Space Shuttle Discovery. Later in the morning, Mr. Obama will then hold a one-on-one meeting with Australian Prime Minister Rudd in the Oval Office. Here s the full schedule from the White House all times Eastern :9:40AM: President Obama makes call to NASA astronauts 10:15AM: President Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing11:00AM: President Obama holds meeting with Australian Prime Minister Rudd12:45PM: President Obama receives the Economic Daily Briefing3:00PM: President Obama meets with senior advisers 8:01:30PM: President Obama holds news conference ponent--type-recirculation .i stanley cups uk tem:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d179b286-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-d179b286-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d179b286-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Kevin Hechtkopf jpvk Poll: Most Back Gays Serving Openly in Military - Jeaoneuntor - 12-04-2024 Kdfi How many delegates does New Hampshire have for the 2024 primary and how are they awarded The National Archives and Records Administration NARA publicly refuted the falsehood that has been promoted by former President Donald Trump that former presidents have taken presidential records with them when they leave office or stored them in substandard conditions. Reports that stanley cup indicate or imply that those Presidential records were in the possession of the former Presidents or their representatives, after they left office, or that the records were housed in substandard conditions, are false and misleading, NARA said Tuesday in an unusual statement.Trump, who has been fighting with the government over records he took from the White House to his Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, on Sunday raised incomplete and inaccurate comparisons with his predecessors handling of their records when they left the White House. He said at a rally in Arizona that former President Bill Clinton s records were taken from the White House to a former car dealership in Arkan vaso stanley sas, that former President Barack Obama moved more than 20 truckloads, over 33 million pages stanley cup of documents, both classified and unclassified, to a poorly built and totally unsafe former furniture store located in a rather bad neighborhood in Chicago and George W. Bush stored 68 million pages in a warehouse in Texas. In each of these cases, it was NARA that announced where the presidential records would be processed and stored while the presidential libraries were being built. In Ma Lkcy Donald Trump is no American Idol More than four years after leaving office, former President Bill Clinton has finally paid off his legal bills, reports CBS News Correspondent Bob Fuss.He and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., owed millions to lawyers who defended them during the years-long investigation of Whitewater and other business dealings and helped in the Monica Lewinsky impeachment mess stanley botella . The news was revealed in financial disclosure forms filed by Sen. Clinton that show she and her husband no longer have any legal de stanley thermosflasche bts and are now more than comfortable financially, with millions o stanley canada f dollars in income, mostly from a pair of best-selling memoirs. They are both pleased that it s been paid, said Jim Kennedy, a spokesman for the former president.As expensive as their legal defense was, the documents show their earning ability far outstrips those costs. The couple had asked the government to pay some $3.5 million of their costs, but a court granted them only a tiny fraction in payment, about $85,000.They reported owing $1.7 million to $6.5 million at the end of 2002, and between $500,000 and $1 million to a New York law firm by the end of 2003. A year later, all of those debts have been paid.The president is not required to report the extent of payments from his best-selling autobiography My Life, which has sold more than 2 million copies in the United States and was just released in paperback.Under reporting rules, as a spouse of a senator he qycn Gingrich: Not for us to judge Romney s religion - Jeaoneuntor - 12-04-2024 Psvk Video shows Romney being called traitor by Trump fans while on flight One year ago, President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Actinto law, marking the first major gun legislation in nearly three decades. The law introduced enhanced background checks for gun buyers under 21, closed the boyfriend loophole to prevent convicted domestic abusers from purchasing firearms for five years and allocated $15 billion in funding for issues like school security and mental health.Sens. Chris Murphy D-Conn. , Thom Tillis R-N.C. , John Cornyn R-Texas , and Kyrsten Sinema I-Ariz. played key roles in negotiations that led to thebill s passage.Th stanley botella ey were spurred to consensus after shootings l stanley cup ast year inBuffalo, New York,andUvalde, Texas,left a total of 31 people dead.Sinema said she was inspired to take action after hearing Murphy s impassioned speech to Congress following the Uvalde shooting, as well as seeing Cornyn fly home to Texas tovisit the city. This prompted a lengthy texting chain among the senators, ultimately resulting in the creation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. The Gun Violence Archive has documented 26 mass shootings in the United States this month alone. But Murphy said since the legislation was signed into law, gun stanley quencher violence rates decreased in major American cities in the first five months of 2023. There s no doubt that this bill is saving lives, he said. According to the Justice Department, the measure requiring enhanced background checks for people under 21 has result Gljm Herman Cain reassessing candidacy after affair claim AP LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - At the final debate before many voters head to the polls Tuesday, Arkansas Democratic Senate challenger Bill Halter had one clear message to voters: You can continue with the same Washington policies, or you can vote for change. Halter stanley thermos pictured , the state s lieutenant governor, spent most of the debate trying to paint incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln as a Washington inside stanley website r who s tied at the hip to Wall Street and special interest groups. She has taken $125,000 in cam stanley us paign contributions from those banks and I m going to ask her today to give those contributions back, he said, because it is past time that middle class Arkansas families to have a senator who represents them and not the Chamber of Commerce and not people with $10 million in wealth. Lincoln ignored Halter s call to return the funds and responded by saying she s the only person on the stage who s fought special interest groups, referring to a financial reform bill she s hoping to get through the Senate after the primary. I stood up to special interests and produced the toughest bill of anybody in Washington, she said. Although the tone of the debate was mostly civil, Halter shot first during his opening remarks. AP Sen. Lincoln at left has referred to herself as the rope in a tug-of-war between competing interests Nrnr Juan Williams Firing Leads Palin, Huckabee to Call for Defunding NPR After the plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act failed in the Senate, President Trump began tweeting about changing the rules in the Senate. If Republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the Senate, they must immediately go to a 51 vote majority, not senseless 6 stanley cups 0..., he tweeted. If Republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the Senate, they must immediately go to a 51 vote majority, not senseless 60...mdash; Donald J. T stanley cup rump @realDonaldTrump July 28, 2017 In most cases, legislation requires 60 votes in the Senate for passage, although this was not the case in the vote on the so-called skinny repeal early Friday morning. That amendment was, in fact, one that required only a simple majority of 51 senators to pass. GOP Senators Susan Collins, John McCain and Lisa Murkowski voted no, leaving Republicans short one vote. Mr. Trump then tweeted again, adding, Even though parts of healthcare could pass at 51, some really good things need 60. So many great future bills budgets need 60 votes. ...Even though parts of healthcare could pass at 51, some really good things need 60. So many great future bills budgets need 60 votes....mdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump July 28, 2017 Over the past few days, the Senate parliamentarian provided guidance that parts of the Senate plan to repeal Obamacare would require 60 votes, stanley canada rather than 51, because they did not comply with what s Kyom Poll: Hillary Gains In N.Y. Suburbs Rick Perry. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Texas Gov. Rick Perry s campaign said Tuesday it is filing a lawsuit to get on the ballot in the Virginia primary election after state officials announced last week that he failed to turn in the requisite 10,000 signatures. Virginia ballot access rules are among the most onerous and are particularly problematic in a multi-candidate election, said Perry campaign communications director Ray Sullivan in a statement. We believe that the Virginia provisions unconstitutionally restrict the rights of candidates and voters by severely restricting access to the ballot, and we hope to have those provisions overturned or modified to provide greater ballot access to Virginia voters and the candidates s stanley cup eeking to earn their support. The campaign maintained that it turned in 11,911 signatures by the deadline when reporte stanley water bottle rs inquired about the state s announcement that the campaign had fallen short. Newt G copo stanley ingrich also failed to hand in enough signatures, despite a last-minute push to gather supporters in the state. Only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul have been certified to appear on the ballot in the state s March 6 primary. The Virginia Board of Elections has said the ballot is set barring a court order. Perry s campaign is not the only group seeking to change the state s ru pbub Thompson s Fundraising Is Short Of Goal - Jeaoneuntor - 12-04-2024 Hupm Inside the White House infrastructure meeting that quickly fell apart Federal workers locked out of their jobs in the partial government shutdown are doing more than taking out personal loans or trying to raise funds online. More and more of them stanley cup are looking for a different job altogether.Job searches on Indeed, the hiring website, have increased among workers at the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, three of the largest departments that are un-funded in the current shutdown. TSA workers, many of whom have been calling out sick, are looking for jobs at a 30 percent higher rate than in recent stanley water bottle years. Indeed measured clicks on job posting as an index, where 100 means that a particular group of workers is searching for jobs at the same rate as last year. stanley tumbler Irina Ivanova/CBS MoneyWatch At the IRS, where nearly 46,000 workers have been asked to work without pay for the tax-filing season that begins Jan. 28, job searches started going up dramatically in December. They re now 50 percent higher than they were this time last year. Job searches from workers at Health and Human Services, which houses the Food and Drug Administration and the Indian Health Service, have shot up even more, rising 80 percent over their level this time of year in the last two years. The data don t mean federal workers have found new jobs, cautioned Martha Gimbe Tzid Congress Adjourns Until Sept. 4 The Obama administration is proposing to abolish the beleaguered agency that oversees offshore drilling and replace it with three separate entities.The plan by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar would eliminate the Minerals Management Service and replace it with two bureaus and a revenue stanley mug collection office. The name Minerals Management Service would no longer exist.One bureau would inspect oil rigs and enforce safety regulations, another would oversee development of offshore dr stanley cups uk illing. A third office would collect billions of dollars in royalties for onshore and offshore drilling. 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Obama announces plan to strike Syria 02:38 Obama will seek congressional approval for Syria strike 04:16 Syria awaits potential U.S. strike 02:46 Ten days ago the world watched in horror as men, women and children were massacred in Syria in the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century, Mr. Obama said, calling the attack an assault on human dignity and saying the U.S. had presented a convincing case that the regime of Ba stanley cups shar Assad was responsible. Qzvr Devil s Bargain : How Steve Bannon helped elect Donald Trump HUCKABEE S BLOOD-LUST ....I hesitate to give too much attention to Mike Huckabee s promote-my-ad-for-free attack, but Michael Crowley raises a good point.About mid-way through the ad, during a litany of accusations against Mitt Romney, Huckabee criticizes his rival with this data point: No executions. Apparently, Huckabee -- you know, the evangelical, pro-life Republican -- is going after Romney for not having stanley becher executed any Americans during his gubernatorial tenure. I realize Republican politics are far more crass than norms should allow, but it s disconcerting to think You didn t kill anyone has suddenly become a criticism in conservative circles.Clearly, the implication is that Romney is somehow soft on crime. But given the Wayne Dumond controversy, this seems like a subject matter Huckabee should want to avoid. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8e4631e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail- starbucks stanley cup recirc-item--id-c8e4631e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inlin stanley cup e-recirc-item--id-c8e4631e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; bnje Richard Lugar Second GOP Senator to Back Kagan - Jeaoneuntor - 12-05-2024 Lhsw U.S. border agents report rise in crossings by families and children as White House warns migrants not to come Washington mdash; The deputy secretary of defense was not told that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized when she assumed some of his duties on Tuesday, two defense officials confirmed to CBS News.Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathl stanley cupe een Hicks was informed of Austin s hospitalization on Thursday, the officials said. Hicks was in Puerto Rico and returned Saturday, according to one of the officials.Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1 due to complications following a minor elective medical procedure, the Pentagon said Friday in its first acknowledgment of the hospitalization. Austin spent time in the ICU, according to an administration official. The White House was also not aware of Austin s status until days after he was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center stanley cup , a Biden administration official told CBS News on Saturday.A defense official said Gen. C. Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was informed that Austin was in the hospital on Jan. 2. Brown, who is the President s principal military adviser, did not inform the White House of Austin s condition. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin walks down the steps of the Pentagon to greet Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu on Dec. 4, 2023, in Arlington, Virginia. Win McNamee/Getty Images stanley bottles One senior defense official learned of Austin s hospital Wnly Wolff says understanding the emperor has no clothes will end Trump s presidency Getty Images/Nicholas Kamm The Great Staff Exodus of 2010 has begun. Even before the traditional post-midterm turnover point, President Obama s kitchen cabinet is in the middle of a significant refurbishment. The staff changes will influence how policy is conceived and executed, and what type of advice the president receives, and takes.First, friends expect chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to decide within the next two weeks about a run for Chicago mayor. Emanuel s allies have taken several polls of Chicago voters, testing potential messages and the popularity of other candidates. Emanuel is aware that his biggest initial obstacl stanley vaso e might be the opposition he engenders from li stanley mug berals who believe his political instincts are at odds with their agenda. If Rahm thinks he can win, he will run, a friend who has discussed the issue with him says.Two people will replace Emanuel: one in the short term -- probably Pete Rouse, Mr. Obama s former Senate chief of staff and currently a senior adviser -- or Tom Donilon, a veteran political and policy hand who runs operations for the National Security Council. Both Donilon and Rouse have expressed misgivings about taking the job permanently, and Mr. Obama will probably ask his interim chief of staff stanley nz to help him select a permanent one.David Axelrod, the adviser most closely identified with Mr. Obama s branding and worldview, also plans to return to Chicago by the |