WASHINGTON _ At 8 p.m. the night before special counsel Robert Mueller's report was publicly released, Jared Kushner huddled with two of his top aides in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building _ not to discuss the Russia investigation, but to work on their long-awaited Middle East peace initiative.
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and two senior advisers, Jason Greenblatt and Avi Berkowitz, were preparing the public debut of the most secretive policy plan in the White House. They have staffed up their strategic communications team and are almost settled on a plan of action to inform Israelis, Palestinians and regional governments of its contents.
The expected summertime launch will mark their emergence from a cocoon of strategic silence for more than two years, considered a unique accomplishment among the president's aides who acknowledge their exceptional discipline in an otherwise leaky White House.
