Highlights: Bill Clinton’s testimony about Epstein ties concludes after more than 6 hours
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are renewing calls for President Donald Trump to testify about Jeffrey Epstein as former President Bill Clinton is deposed in New York. “We’re talking to the wrong president today,” said Rep. Suhas Subramanyam. (AP Video: Ted Shaffrey)
Former President Bill Clinton finished his testimony before members of Congress for their investigation over convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The closed-door deposition ended after more than six hours of questioning from lawmakers about his connections to the disgraced financier.
“I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,” the former Democratic president said in an opening statement he shared on social media at the outset of the deposition.
The deposition in Chappaqua, New York, marks the first time a former president has been compelled to testify to Congress.
It comes a day after Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sat for her own deposition, where she told lawmakers that she had no knowledge of how Epstein had sexually abused underage girls and had no recollection of even meeting him.
Neither Clinton has been accused of any wrongdoing.
FORWARD: THE IRANIAN-AMERICAN WAR – A MILITARY DISASTER IN THE MAKING
Today in the midst of the opening salvos of a new war in the Middle East, it is appropriate to not only analyze the current situation (we will publish a number of Special Reports as the War develops) but republish the Special Report originally. published on September 30, 2025. That Report discussed the Military’s current contempt for President Trump’s judgement as Commander in Chief. I believe it is important background and puts this new War in context.
This new conflict is nothing less than the LBJ Vietnam War on steroids without boots on the ground, and no plausible path to defeat this Iranian Regime without them. There is no question, based on the past century and a quarter of American military experience, that boots on the ground, either ours or theirs, such as convincing the Iranian Army to smash the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and then setting up a new secular government, can achieve Trump’s proclaimed objective: destroy the current Islamic Republic. That appears far from doable, and would probably result in a massive civil war between Islamic zealots and the secular civil society.
Meanwhile the Persian Gulf oil shipments have been disrupted threatening an huge increase in oil prices according to the New York Times. All tanker oil traffic is avoiding the Strait of Hormuz. The owners of oil tankers and their insurance companies fear the destruction of their ships, Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC) each one costing $130 million. This, in effect, closes the Strait. On top of this, while Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Commander in Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard guard and two other members of the National Defense Council have been killed, ten other key members of the Islamic Military establishment, including the Commander in Chief of the Army remain very much alive, according to the Times, quoting Israeli and U.S. sources.
The Military leadership, including the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, argued strongly against the launching of a massive air war because a Regime Change is not a military objective that an air war can achieve. Without an achievable objective the Military is wasting its resources, weapons and billions of dollars of expense to move carriers, planes and personnel, not to mention the inevitable casualties such a war will incur. This advice is similar to the advice the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the theater commander William Westmorland gave President Lyndon Johnson in 1966: the North Vietnam invasion of South Vietnam could not be broken from the air. Their only recommendation to win the war was a combined arms ground invasion advancing toward Hanoi and the North’s major port of Haiphong. Johnson rejected the Generals’ advice for fear of bringing China into the war, as happened in Korea. The war lasted another seven years.
As China, Russia and United States weild military power, here is a reminder of a quote of Dwight D Eisenhower:
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1953 address emphasized that military expenditures detract from vital social services, warning of the moral and economic consequences of excessive militarization. His message urged a balance between security and investment in human welfare amidst global challenges.
Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers.
In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917
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