Results for “National Security”

…ons of American Oil Policy” from the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army. The piece outlines 4 pillars to U.S. national interests: defense of the homeland, promotion of U.S. democratic values, creation of a favorable world order, and enhancement of the nation’s economic...

…handle, many new in human history. How do you care for 800 million aging people? Though China will pass the US in total national income in coming years, the country may never pass America in per-capita income. With an aging, 1.4 billion person population the challenges of distrib...

… Kong authority would be expected by the US to take Snowden into custody. But Hong Kong was not entirely independent in national security issues. China had the final say in any extradition decision. In fact, China had explicitly been given the right of vetoing any extraditions fo...

…g to the Mueller indictment, began on the 7th day of the Trump administration. Three days prior to this, on January 24, National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, lied to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian Ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. These were contacts, directed by an un...

…n’s move from Hong Kong to Mos- cow, or what intelligence services call an “exfiltration,” I was told by a presidential national security staff adviser that the government acted to protect the intelligence sources used by the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI to track Snowden’s movements...

… case—including personnel, timing, methods and the absence of evidence—that Crossfire was initiated for political, not national-security, purposes. It was initiated in defiance of a longstanding Justice Department presumption against investigating campaigns in an election year....

…rism expert of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization. Over a leisurely coffee in the bar of the Hotel National, he told me that many “walk-ins” who contacted Soviet officials in his time were emotionally disturbed, but all of them had to be assessed for possible...

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16 Advisors: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon. On the issues: Afghanistan/Pakistan: "We have put al Qaeda on a path to defeat," Obama announced last June, noting that the 33,000 "surge" troops he sent...

…merica’s long-term health, an imperfect fix that corrects course is better than those that now have us hurtling toward national bankruptcy. And if no candidate secures 270 electoral votes in 2020? The House of Representatives would choose the next president. In 2016, reports su...

… ebullience. After one dinner, when I’d been placed between the Palestinian leader and Chelsea Clinton, the President’s National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, asked me why, rather than talking to Arafat, I’d spent almost the entire time chatting with Chelsea. My response was on...

…k to cover their tracks in the affair even before the Aeroflot plane carrying Snowden touched down at Sheremetyevo International Airport on June 23, 2013. If any false flag operations had been used to trick, mislead, or otherwise induce Snowden to come to Hong Kong, they would be...

…ks, and they show every sign of getting more, not less, serious. The “Arab Spring” has morphed into an Islamic winter. National frontiers that were put in place by British and French diplomats after the fall of the Ottoman Empire are vanishing. Centuries-old conflicts between tr...

… proven less than durable. Once the leading members who founded such groups leave Congress, interest usually wanes. The National People’s Congress became even more active in supporting the growing number of congressional staff delegations to China during this period. In 2018, th...

…r his return to the United States, and Interpol would issue a red alert to all its mem- bers. Because his case involved national security secrets, he had also to consider that the Hong Kong court could deny him any use of the Internet until his extradition case was settled. If Sn...