William J. Burns

And so that's the first time that I saw energy issues becoming so central to a bilateral diplomatic relationship.

I continued that work through my five years in Delhi and three years at the International Atomic Energy Agency, where, again, I was working in the footsteps of giants like Bill Burns and Nick Burns as we sought to build multilateral support around that.

I continued my work on India and got my first exposure to energy issues in Central Asia as PDAS.

Then I went to Ukraine as ambassador.

I mean, let's get real.

The Biden administration had Mr. Burns as the CIA director, and that dude had Jeffrey Epstein as his fucking life coach.

So you wanna talk about ties? What about Bill Richardson? There's plenty of blame to go around, like I always say, but real leadership starts with looking inward, right? What did we do wrong? How can we change things? How can I be better? But instead, we get more excuses about other people and what other people didn't do.

Well, I was yelling and screaming about them too.

Netanyahu afirmó que, según su evaluación, Hamás tenía la intención de operar en Cisjordania y le aseguró a Bin Zayed que Israel estaba preparado para cualquier escenario.

El reportaje dice además que el líder emirata le transmitió la conversación que mantuvo con Netanyahu al entonces director de la CIA, William J.

The report also says that the emirate transmitted to him the conversation he had with Netanyahu to the then director of the CIA, William J.

El reportaje dice además que el líder emirata le transmitió la conversación que mantuvo con Netanyahu al entonces director de la CIA, William J. Burns.

Burns.

Burns.

Let's say President Biden.

You know that we learned that Director of CIA William Burns visited Moscow right before Russia attacked Ukraine.

Why? Because this conversation came up recently when John Ratcliffe, current CIA director, visited Moscow.

Everybody was wondering why it happened.

They told them to cease and desist, and they even went to one of the masterminds of the operations directly, to a four-star general, and they got him to commit in writing to the CIA that he would not go ahead with the project to blow up Nord Stream, which he did, and he went ahead anyway, as, as is the custom with the Ukrainians when, when the Americans are trying to ban them from doing something.

And, you know, at that time, the priority for William Burns, who was the director of the CIA, uh, given to him by President Biden, then President of the United States, was to get the Germans on board to take up more responsibility for, for supporting Ukraine.

The idea was that the Germans should shoulder much more of the burden of propping up the Ukrainian battle of survival.

And William Burns believed that if the, there would be a news story that Ukraine is trying to destroy the pipelines, that would make it very difficult for any German government to release kind of billions in funding and send weapons, et cetera, because of the public pressure.

So in his mind, and in, in the mind of the administration, this was a bad thing.

It wasn't worth it, and they did everything they could to stop it.

He only wants war and the elimination of Hamas.

William J. Burns is quoted as drawing the core divide sharply, with Hamas seeking a permanent end and Netanyahu only considering a temporary pause.

And we should widen the lens here to the West Bank, where even Mike Huckabee admitted that settlers are intimidating Palestinians.

He said, there may be a few hundred that are responsible, but that is a few hundred too many.

And so then, according to the report, he didn't even update the heads of Israel's security establishment about that conversation.

And reportedly, Bin Zayed, he was so startled by Netanyahu's lax attitude that he expressed concerns to the CIA director, William J. Burns, Now with all this, a key thing is that Netanyahu is calling the whole story an absolute lie, saying that he never spoke to bin Zayed at the time and never received any warning.

And he went to his office, adding, if there was any relevant information, it was passed through intelligence channels between the two countries.

And then later, he had him claiming that his security forces found no record of the call and he even vowed to sue Haaretz for libel.