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BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians len" the democratic revolution from the Polish people by failing to carry out a proper purge of communists and their collaborators." PiS even initiated a cam- paign to sully the reputation of Lech W...

Middle East Affairs, and four years later the United Nations envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte. “Why are you so strident,” Shamir asked me, only half-jokingly, after ’'d insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. “It’s because I’ve read th...

Entitlement Spending: Observation from Previous Slide e Clearly, lower interest rates have allowed Americans to borrow more and save less. But given the high correlation between rising entitlement income for beneficiaries and declining savings rates, one might also wonder if Ame...

…orfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Criminal Division (AFMLS) e Counterterrorism Section, Criminal Division (CTS) e National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) e Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division (OIA) U.S. State Department e Bureau of Economic and Business A...

…uses law merely to justify political instructions from the ex- ecutive branch, making a mockery of due process and international conceptions of the rule of law. 4. History revised: A number of countries have un- dertaken a refashioning of history to buttress the legitimacy and a...

… begin arriving. As we weighed our final decision, I held a series of high-level meetings in Washington: with Panetta, national security adviser Tom Donilon, Hillary Clinton, and President Obama himself. Though not explicitly saying we were ready to attack, I left no doubt that...

…ddressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Ambassador Jeffrey, a former assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor, is author of the new Institute study Moving to Decision: U.S. Policy toward Iran. Ambassador Pickering served in numerous key posts a...

… time he arrived © in Moscow, it had evolved, deliberately or not, but necessarily, into © a mission of disclosing key national secrets to a foreign power. In the end, such conjectures about Snowden’s motives matter less than that he was helped, consciously or not, by others wit...

…r broader range of sectors in Western societies, ranging from think tanks, universities, and media to state, local, and national government institutions. China seeks to promote views sympathetic to the Chinese Government, policies, society, and culture; suppress alternative views...

…he most important part of the story. The NSA, after all, furnishes communications intelligence to the © president, his national security advisers, and the Department of © Defense, intelligence that is supposedly derived from secret sources in adversary nations. If these adversar...

…information, the anti- American hothouse created by WeChat’s “news channels” leads to a type of resentful pro- Chinese nationalism that is ripe for exploitation by the Chinese government. WeChat may be no more slanted in its treatment of information than American media that ser...

…in, and photographed underage females in sexually explicit poses and kept child pornography on her computer; (b) it was national news when Clinton traveled with Epstein aboard Epstein's private plane to Africa and the news articles classified Clinton as Epstein's friend. (c) the...

…ddressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Ambassador Jeffrey, a former assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor, is author of the new Institute study Moving to Decision: U.S. Policy toward Iran. Ambassador Pickering served in numerous key posts a...

…: Gellman, “Edward Snowden, After Months of NSA Revelations, Says His Mission’s Accomplished.” By 1914, the U.S. Army: National Security Agency, Pearl Harbor Review: The Black Chamber, NSA, 2009, https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage /center_cryptologic_history/pearl_ha...

…egration of the Syrian army and the emergence of armed groups beyond the control of either the government or the Syrian National Council, the opposition’s umbrella organization. That could lead to violence spilling into neighboring countries, especially Iraq and Lebanon. Rather...