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WASHINGTON — A former Se- cret Service agent, with a back- ground investigating the Gam- bino crime family, is serving as the chief of security for Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Envi- ronmental Protection Agency, and has helped build an unusual and costly protective apparatus around him. The agent, Pasquale Perrotta, has clashed — at least once physi- cally — with top E.P.A. officials who challenged Mr. Pruitt’s spending, and has steered at least one E.P.A. security contract to a business associate, according to interviews with current and for- mer senior agency officials. Officially, Mr. Perrotta leads Mr. Pruitt’s protective detail, but he plays a far larger role at the E.P.A., offering security justifications for management, personnel and spending decisions, said the offi- cials, who were not authorized to speak publicly and feared retribu- tion. Mr. Perrotta’s outsize influ- ence has placed him at the center of inquiries by the E.P.A. inspector general’s office into excessive spending and possible violations of contracting rules by Mr. Pruitt’s administration, according to the senior officials. When Mr. Pruitt and his team became convinced that his office might have been bugged by envi- ronmentalists or disgruntled ca- reer employees, Mr. Perrotta rec- ommended that a sweep for sur- veillance devices be conducted by a company owned by Edwin Stein- metz, who is listed as a vice presi- dent at a security firm Mr. Perrot- ta’s operates on the side, the sen- ior officials said. Mr. Perrotta also used agency funds to hire Italy- based private security guards to protect Mr. Pruitt during a trip to Italy, they said. In addition, Mr. Perrotta played E.P.A. ‘Sheriff’ Indulged Pruitt As Security Spending Mounted This article is by Kenneth P. Vogel, Eric Lipton and Lisa Friedman. Pasquale Perrotta ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Continued on Page A16 U(DF463D)X+#!,!,!=!{ Protests against austerity in school funding threaten to wrest Republicans’ grip on some states. PAGE A12 NATIONAL A12-19 Teacher Revolts Imperil G.O.P. The endorsement for governor from the progressive Working Families Party is said to be up for grabs. PAGE A20 NEW YORK A20-23 First Test for Cuomo and Nixon After another losing season under Jeff Hornacek, the Knicks seek a new leader for the 12th time in 17 years. PAGE B10 Knicks Fire the Head Coach David Brooks PAGE A27 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 Gen. Khalifa Hifter, who controls most of eastern Libya and wants to expand his power, has allowed the C.I.A. to establish a base in Benghazi. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-11 A Libyan Woos Washington WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sought on Thursday to slow down an immi- nent strike on Syria, reflecting mounting concerns at the Penta- gon that a concerted bombing campaign could escalate into a wider conflict between Russia, Iran and the West. During a closed-door White House meeting, officials said Mr. Mattis pushed for more evidence of President Bashar al-Assad’s role in a suspected chemical at- tack last weekend that would as- sure the world that military action was necessary. Despite the caution, two De- fense Department officials pre- dicted it would be difficult to pull back from punishing airstrikes, given President Trump’s threat on Twitter a day earlier of American missiles that “will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart.’” Mr. Mattis publicly raised the warning on Thursday morning, telling the House Armed Services Committee that retaliation must be balanced against the threat of a wider war. “We are trying to stop the murder of innocent people. But on a strategic level, it’s how do we keep this from escalating out of control — if you get my drift on that,” he said. Hours later, after detailing his concerns at the White House, the president’s top national security advisers ended an afternoon meeting without a decision to at- tack, said Sarah Huckabee Sand- ers, the press secretary. Diplomatic efforts continued deep into the evening, with Mr. Trump agreeing in a phone call with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain that “it was vital that the use of chemical weapons did not go unchallenged,” Downing Street said in a statement. The two lead- ers committed to “keep working PENTAGON URGES GREATER CAUTION FOR SYRIA STRIKE WIDER CONFLICT FEARED U.S. Lining Up Allies — Worries That Trump Won’t Back Down This article is by Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Peter Baker. Continued on Page A11 WASHINGTON — President Trump, in a sharp reversal, told a gathering of farm-state lawmak- ers and governors on Thursday morning that the United States was looking into rejoining a multi- country trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal he pulled out of days after assuming the presidency. Mr. Trump’s reconsideration of an agreement he once denounced as a “rape of our country” caught even his closest advisers by sur- prise and came as his administra- tion faces stiff pushback from Re- publican lawmakers, farmers and other businesses concerned that the president’s threat of tariffs and other trade barriers will hurt them economically. Larry Kudlow, Mr. Trump’s top economic adviser, said in an inter- view on Thursday with The New York Times that the request to re- visit the deal was somewhat spon- taneous. “This whole trade thing has exploded,” Mr. Kudlow said. “There’s no deadline. We’ll pull a team together, but we haven’t even done — I mean, it just hap- pened a couple hours ago.” Then late Thursday, Mr. Trump appeared to shift gears again, say- ing in a Twitter post at 11:15 p.m. that he would consider re-enter- ing the agreement only if it were “substantially better” than the deal offered to President Barack Obama. “We already have BILAT- ERAL deals with six of the eleven nations in TPP,” he wrote, “and are working to make a deal with the biggest of those nations, Japan, who has hit us hard on trade for years!” Mr. Trump’s decision to throw out the Trans-Pacific Partnership President Trump spoke of a possible reversal for the United States on the Trans-Pacific Partnership at the White House on Thursday. DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Trump Weighs Rejoining Accord With Pacific Rim in About-Face By ANA SWANSON Continued on Page A9 WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump asked Director James B. Comey of the F.B.I. to investigate and knock down a lurid but unver- ified report that placed Mr. Trump years earlier in a Moscow hotel suite with prostitutes, explaining to Mr. Comey that the fantastic story was untrue and was painful and distressing to his wife, Mela- nia Trump. Mr. Comey describes two Janu- ary 2017 conversations between himself and Mr. Trump in “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,” Mr. Comey’s new memoir, which is set to be re- leased Tuesday. The New York Times acquired a copy of the book before its release, and accounts of the exchange appeared in reports by several other news organiza- tions on Thursday evening. By Mr. Comey’s accounts, Mr. Trump, then the president-elect, disputed the so-called Steele dossier, a document compiled by a former British intelligence officer that detailed an allegation in which Mr. Trump watched prosti- tutes urinate on each other. Mr. Comey writes that Mr. Trump in- Visceral Details, and Grim View Of President, in Comey Memoir By MICHAEL D. SHEAR Continued on Page A18 In 2015, when they unveiled the city’s plan to battle opioid-related deaths, Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, said that from that day on, New York- ers would be able to get the over- dose-reversing drug naloxone at participating pharmacies without a prescription. “Anyone who fears they will one day find their child, spouse or sib- ling collapsed on the floor and not breathing now has the power to walk into a neighborhood phar- macy and purchase the medica- tion that can reverse that night- mare,” Ms. McCray said, with the mayor by her side. But three years later, an exami- nation by The New York Times has found that of the 720 pharma- cies on the city’s list of locations that provide the drug, only about a third actually had it and would dis- pense it without a prescription. The list is used on the city’s web- site, the NYC Health Map, the Stop OD NYC app and when someone calls 311. Phone calls placed to every pharmacy on the list last month found compliance with the pro- Plan to Make Overdose Drug Accessible Falters By ANNIE CORREAL Beth Kennedy was surprised by the high price of naloxone for her daughter Leilani Dochylo. RYAN CHRISTOPHER JONES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A23 Horse and human, gliding like ballroom dancers. The key? “You have to find the music that your horse likes.” PAGE B9 SPORTSFRIDAY B8-12 The Art of Dressage Freestyle The “Daily Show” alumnus Wyatt Cenac explains why he might not always be right on his new late-night comedy series on HBO. PAGE C4 WEEKEND ARTS C1-22 Seeing Late-Night Differently While anger at Facebook simmers, it’s a new and happy day for the community of privacy researchers and developers, whose warnings about online informa- tion have long gone unheeded. PAGE B1 BUSINESS DAY B1-7 Cambridge Analytica’s Winners Economic pressures and an extremely tight housing market are fueling a drive by tenants’ rights organizers at the state and city levels to petition for ballot initiatives on rent controls. PAGE B1 A California Housing Fight A high-end East Side apartment. A brazen theft. Organized crime. Decades later, a lost painting is found. PAGE A20 Twisted Tale of Stolen Chagall Local police can’t be forced to work with immigration agents in order to get federal funding, a judge ruled. PAGE A14 Immigration Ruling Aids Cities A REVIEW In “A Higher Loyalty,” James Comey gives gripping ac- counts of talks with the president, Michiko Kakutani writes. PAGE A19 WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to pardon I. Lewis Libby Jr., who as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted of perjury in connection with the leak of a C.I.A. officer’s identity, a person familiar with the decision said on Thursday. Mr. Libby’s case has long been a cause for conservatives who maintained that he was a victim of a special prosecutor run amok, an argument that may have res- onated with the president. Mr. Trump has repeatedly complain- ed that the special counsel investi- gation into possible cooperation between his campaign and Russia in 2016 has gone too far and amounts to an unfair “witch hunt.” Mr. Libby, who goes by Scooter, was convicted of four felonies in 2007 for perjury before a grand jury, lying to F.B.I. investigators and obstruction of justice during an investigation into the disclo- sure of the work of Valerie Plame Wilson, a C.I.A. officer. President George W. Bush commuted Mr. Libby’s 30-month prison sentence but refused to grant him a full par- don despite the strenuous re- quests of Mr. Cheney, a decision that soured the relationship be- tween the two men. A pardon of Mr. Libby would paradoxically put Mr. Trump in the position of absolving one of the chief architects of the Iraq war, which Mr. Trump has denounced as a catastrophic miscalculation. It also would mean he was forgiv- ing a former official who was con- victed in a case involving leaks de- spite Mr. Trump’s repeated in- veighing against those who dis- close information to reporters. Critics of Mr. Trump quickly in- terpreted the prospective pardon as a signal by the president that he would protect those who refuse to turn on their bosses, as Mr. Libby was presumed not to have be- trayed Mr. Cheney. Mr. Trump has not ruled out pardons in the Rus- sia investigation. Mr. Trump has shown no partic- ular interest in Mr. Libby’s case before. In 2015, during his cam- paign for the White House, Mr. Trump was asked if he would par- Plan to Pardon Aide Convicted In C.I.A. Leak Libby Case Was Cause for Conservatives By PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN Continued on Page A18 VOL. CLXVII . . . No. 57,931 © 2018 The New York Times Company FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018 BEIJING — In an elegantly fur- nished back room at a conference in eastern China in December, a member of the Chinese leadership asked American tech executives for help. The official, Wang Huning, a Communist Party strategist who has spent much of his career siz- ing up the United States as a geo- political rival, wanted to know whether President Trump was se- rious about a trade war with China — and whether his American vis- itors could serve as a channel of communication to the White House. He has not been alone. For the past few months, some of the most powerful men in China — allies of President Xi Jinping with longstanding ties and deep experience with the United States — have been casting about for a better understanding of Mr. Trump and how to respond to his combative trade agenda, accord- ing to several people they have consulted. 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Page 1: FOR SYRIA STRIKE GREATER CAUTION · and distressing to his wife, Mela-nia Trump. Mr. Comey describes two Janu-ary 2017 conversations between himself and Mr. Trump in A Higher Loyalty:

WASHINGTON — A former Se-cret Service agent, with a back-ground investigating the Gam-bino crime family, is serving as thechief of security for Scott Pruitt,the administrator of the Envi-ronmental Protection Agency, andhas helped build an unusual andcostly protective apparatusaround him.

The agent, Pasquale Perrotta,has clashed — at least once physi-cally — with top E.P.A. officialswho challenged Mr. Pruitt’sspending, and has steered at leastone E.P.A. security contract to abusiness associate, according tointerviews with current and for-mer senior agency officials.

Officially, Mr. Perrotta leads Mr.Pruitt’s protective detail, but heplays a far larger role at the E.P.A.,offering security justifications formanagement, personnel andspending decisions, said the offi-cials, who were not authorized tospeak publicly and feared retribu-tion. Mr. Perrotta’s outsize influ-ence has placed him at the centerof inquiries by the E.P.A. inspectorgeneral’s office into excessivespending and possible violationsof contracting rules by Mr. Pruitt’sadministration, according to thesenior officials.

When Mr. Pruitt and his team

became convinced that his officemight have been bugged by envi-ronmentalists or disgruntled ca-reer employees, Mr. Perrotta rec-ommended that a sweep for sur-veillance devices be conducted bya company owned by Edwin Stein-metz, who is listed as a vice presi-dent at a security firm Mr. Perrot-ta’s operates on the side, the sen-ior officials said. Mr. Perrotta alsoused agency funds to hire Italy-based private security guards toprotect Mr. Pruitt during a trip toItaly, they said.

In addition, Mr. Perrotta played

E.P.A. ‘Sheriff’ Indulged PruittAs Security Spending Mounted

This article is by Kenneth P. Vogel,Eric Lipton and Lisa Friedman.

Pasquale PerrottaENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Continued on Page A16

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Protests against austerity in schoolfunding threaten to wrest Republicans’grip on some states. PAGE A12

NATIONAL A12-19

Teacher Revolts Imperil G.O.P.The endorsement for governor from theprogressive Working Families Party issaid to be up for grabs. PAGE A20

NEW YORK A20-23

First Test for Cuomo and Nixon

After another losing season under JeffHornacek, the Knicks seek a new leaderfor the 12th time in 17 years. PAGE B10

Knicks Fire the Head Coach

David Brooks PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

Gen. Khalifa Hifter, who controls mostof eastern Libya and wants to expandhis power, has allowed the C.I.A. toestablish a base in Benghazi. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-11

A Libyan Woos Washington

WASHINGTON — DefenseSecretary Jim Mattis sought onThursday to slow down an immi-nent strike on Syria, reflectingmounting concerns at the Penta-gon that a concerted bombingcampaign could escalate into awider conflict between Russia,Iran and the West.

During a closed-door WhiteHouse meeting, officials said Mr.Mattis pushed for more evidenceof President Bashar al-Assad’srole in a suspected chemical at-tack last weekend that would as-sure the world that military actionwas necessary.

Despite the caution, two De-fense Department officials pre-dicted it would be difficult to pullback from punishing airstrikes,given President Trump’s threat onTwitter a day earlier of Americanmissiles that “will be coming, niceand new and ‘smart.’”

Mr. Mattis publicly raised thewarning on Thursday morning,telling the House Armed ServicesCommittee that retaliation mustbe balanced against the threat of awider war. “We are trying to stopthe murder of innocent people.But on a strategic level, it’s how dowe keep this from escalating out ofcontrol — if you get my drift onthat,” he said.

Hours later, after detailing hisconcerns at the White House, thepresident’s top national securityadvisers ended an afternoonmeeting without a decision to at-tack, said Sarah Huckabee Sand-ers, the press secretary.

Diplomatic efforts continueddeep into the evening, with Mr.Trump agreeing in a phone callwith Prime Minister Theresa Mayof Britain that “it was vital that theuse of chemical weapons did notgo unchallenged,” Downing Streetsaid in a statement. The two lead-ers committed to “keep working

PENTAGON URGESGREATER CAUTIONFOR SYRIA STRIKE

WIDER CONFLICT FEARED

U.S. Lining Up Allies —Worries That Trump

Won’t Back Down

This article is by Helene Cooper,Thomas Gibbons-Neff and PeterBaker.

Continued on Page A11

WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump, in a sharp reversal, told agathering of farm-state lawmak-ers and governors on Thursdaymorning that the United Stateswas looking into rejoining a multi-country trade agreement knownas the Trans-Pacific Partnership,a deal he pulled out of days afterassuming the presidency.

Mr. Trump’s reconsideration ofan agreement he once denouncedas a “rape of our country” caughteven his closest advisers by sur-prise and came as his administra-tion faces stiff pushback from Re-publican lawmakers, farmers andother businesses concerned thatthe president’s threat of tariffsand other trade barriers will hurtthem economically.

Larry Kudlow, Mr. Trump’s topeconomic adviser, said in an inter-view on Thursday with The NewYork Times that the request to re-

visit the deal was somewhat spon-taneous. “This whole trade thinghas exploded,” Mr. Kudlow said.“There’s no deadline. We’ll pull ateam together, but we haven’teven done — I mean, it just hap-pened a couple hours ago.”

Then late Thursday, Mr. Trumpappeared to shift gears again, say-ing in a Twitter post at 11:15 p.m.that he would consider re-enter-ing the agreement only if it were“substantially better” than thedeal offered to President BarackObama. “We already have BILAT-ERAL deals with six of the elevennations in TPP,” he wrote, “and areworking to make a deal with thebiggest of those nations, Japan,who has hit us hard on trade foryears!”

Mr. Trump’s decision to throwout the Trans-Pacific Partnership

President Trump spoke of a possible reversal for the United States on the Trans-Pacific Partnership at the White House on Thursday.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Trump Weighs Rejoining AccordWith Pacific Rim in About-Face

By ANA SWANSON

Continued on Page A9

WASHINGTON — Donald J.Trump asked Director James B.Comey of the F.B.I. to investigateand knock down a lurid but unver-ified report that placed Mr. Trumpyears earlier in a Moscow hotelsuite with prostitutes, explainingto Mr. Comey that the fantasticstory was untrue and was painfuland distressing to his wife, Mela-nia Trump.

Mr. Comey describes two Janu-ary 2017 conversations betweenhimself and Mr. Trump in “AHigher Loyalty: Truth, Lies andLeadership,” Mr. Comey’s newmemoir, which is set to be re-

leased Tuesday. The New YorkTimes acquired a copy of the bookbefore its release, and accounts ofthe exchange appeared in reportsby several other news organiza-tions on Thursday evening.

By Mr. Comey’s accounts, Mr.Trump, then the president-elect,disputed the so-called Steeledossier, a document compiled by aformer British intelligence officerthat detailed an allegation inwhich Mr. Trump watched prosti-tutes urinate on each other. Mr.Comey writes that Mr. Trump in-

Visceral Details, and Grim ViewOf President, in Comey Memoir

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Continued on Page A18

In 2015, when they unveiled thecity’s plan to battle opioid-relateddeaths, Mayor Bill de Blasio andhis wife, Chirlane McCray, saidthat from that day on, New York-ers would be able to get the over-dose-reversing drug naloxone atparticipating pharmacies withouta prescription.

“Anyone who fears they will oneday find their child, spouse or sib-ling collapsed on the floor and notbreathing now has the power towalk into a neighborhood phar-macy and purchase the medica-tion that can reverse that night-mare,” Ms. McCray said, with themayor by her side.

But three years later, an exami-nation by The New York Timeshas found that of the 720 pharma-

cies on the city’s list of locationsthat provide the drug, only about athird actually had it and would dis-pense it without a prescription.The list is used on the city’s web-site, the NYC Health Map, theStop OD NYC app and whensomeone calls 311.

Phone calls placed to everypharmacy on the list last monthfound compliance with the pro-

Plan to Make Overdose Drug Accessible Falters

By ANNIE CORREAL

Beth Kennedy was surprised by the high price of naloxone for her daughter Leilani Dochylo.RYAN CHRISTOPHER JONES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued on Page A23

Horse and human, gliding like ballroomdancers. The key? “You have to find themusic that your horse likes.” PAGE B9

SPORTSFRIDAY B8-12

The Art of Dressage FreestyleThe “Daily Show” alumnus WyattCenac explains why he might notalways be right on his new late-nightcomedy series on HBO. PAGE C4

WEEKEND ARTS C1-22

Seeing Late-Night Differently

While anger at Facebook simmers, it’s anew and happy day for the communityof privacy researchers and developers,whose warnings about online informa-tion have long gone unheeded. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

Cambridge Analytica’s Winners

Economic pressures and an extremelytight housing market are fueling a driveby tenants’ rights organizers at thestate and city levels to petition for ballotinitiatives on rent controls. PAGE B1

A California Housing Fight

A high-end East Side apartment. Abrazen theft. Organized crime. Decadeslater, a lost painting is found. PAGE A20

Twisted Tale of Stolen ChagallLocal police can’t be forced to workwith immigration agents in order to getfederal funding, a judge ruled. PAGE A14

Immigration Ruling Aids Cities

A REVIEW In “A Higher Loyalty,” James Comey gives gripping ac-counts of talks with the president, Michiko Kakutani writes. PAGE A19

WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump plans to pardon I. LewisLibby Jr., who as chief of staff toVice President Dick Cheney wasconvicted of perjury in connectionwith the leak of a C.I.A. officer’sidentity, a person familiar with thedecision said on Thursday.

Mr. Libby’s case has long been acause for conservatives whomaintained that he was a victim ofa special prosecutor run amok, anargument that may have res-onated with the president. Mr.Trump has repeatedly complain-ed that the special counsel investi-gation into possible cooperationbetween his campaign and Russiain 2016 has gone too far andamounts to an unfair “witch hunt.”

Mr. Libby, who goes by Scooter,was convicted of four felonies in2007 for perjury before a grandjury, lying to F.B.I. investigatorsand obstruction of justice duringan investigation into the disclo-sure of the work of Valerie PlameWilson, a C.I.A. officer. PresidentGeorge W. Bush commuted Mr.Libby’s 30-month prison sentencebut refused to grant him a full par-don despite the strenuous re-quests of Mr. Cheney, a decisionthat soured the relationship be-tween the two men.

A pardon of Mr. Libby wouldparadoxically put Mr. Trump inthe position of absolving one of thechief architects of the Iraq war,which Mr. Trump has denouncedas a catastrophic miscalculation.It also would mean he was forgiv-ing a former official who was con-victed in a case involving leaks de-spite Mr. Trump’s repeated in-veighing against those who dis-close information to reporters.

Critics of Mr. Trump quickly in-terpreted the prospective pardonas a signal by the president that hewould protect those who refuse toturn on their bosses, as Mr. Libbywas presumed not to have be-trayed Mr. Cheney. Mr. Trump hasnot ruled out pardons in the Rus-sia investigation.

Mr. Trump has shown no partic-ular interest in Mr. Libby’s casebefore. In 2015, during his cam-paign for the White House, Mr.Trump was asked if he would par-

Plan to PardonAide Convicted

In C.I.A. Leak

Libby Case Was Causefor Conservatives

By PETER BAKERand MAGGIE HABERMAN

Continued on Page A18

VOL. CLXVII . . . No. 57,931 © 2018 The New York Times Company FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018

BEIJING — In an elegantly fur-nished back room at a conferencein eastern China in December, amember of the Chinese leadershipasked American tech executivesfor help.

The official, Wang Huning, aCommunist Party strategist whohas spent much of his career siz-ing up the United States as a geo-political rival, wanted to knowwhether President Trump was se-rious about a trade war with China— and whether his American vis-itors could serve as a channel ofcommunication to the WhiteHouse.

He has not been alone.For the past few months, some

of the most powerful men in China— allies of President Xi Jinpingwith longstanding ties and deepexperience with the United States— have been casting about for abetter understanding of Mr.Trump and how to respond to hiscombative trade agenda, accord-ing to several people they haveconsulted.

Shifting SignalsOn Trade BaffleChina’s Leaders

By KEITH BRADSHERand JANE PERLEZ

Continued on Page A8

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