Wednesday , 17 December 2025

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‘Loyalty to president’ versus sense of right and wrong

If President Trump ordered a senior government official to support the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller, how should that person respond? Adm. Mike Rogers, head of the National Security Agency, answered my question about that onstage last week at the Aspen Security Forum. He began with the usual caveat that he wouldn’t answer a hypothetical, but then offered a …

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Macron should call Drahi’s bluff

Tycoon Patrick Drahi has been telling everyone lately that he’s going to spend about 15 billion euros ($17.6 billion) building a national fiber broadband network in France. What’s more, he says his local operator SFR Group SA will have it done by 2025 and won’t take the public subsidies used by his rivals. If he follows through on the big …

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Don’t succumb to crazy White House fatigue

That was fun. Just 240 or so hours ago, Anthony Scaramucci, absent relevant experience and credentials, became the White House communications director. It was a palace coup that also forced the departures of press secretary Sean Spicer and chief of staff Reince Priebus from the administration of President Donald Trump, and appeared to leave Steve Bannon’s future in doubt as …

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