Tag: Intelligence
Stevenson’s army, August 30
-WaPo says Ukraine has been using decoys to attract some Russian missiles.
-Le Monde says Russians are tuning out Moscow TV
– Former lawyer for NSA explains damage from Trump classification practices.
-Axios says Mossad chief is coming to DC with views on Iran nuclear deal.
– Retiring AP reporter tells how Congress has changed.
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Stevenson’s army, August 27
Daniel Levy is President of the US Middle East Project, where you can find his full statement of August 25:
– NYT says Ukrainian civilian leaders want an offensive to break out of the current stalemate but military want to delay until new weapons are in hand.-
– WaPo has journal of Russian officer who has turned against the war.
– NYT has more background about US military in Syria.
– NYT explains concerns over humint information in Trump documents.
– NYT also has good chronology of the case.
– Fascinating annotated version of the FBI documents are in both NYT and in WaPo.
– In FP, Matthew Kroenig says IR theory predicts a great power war.
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Stevenson’s army, August 23
– Retiring Sen. Pat Leahy [D-VT] laments changes in politics and the Senate. A GOP friend of mine chatted with him in Nov., 2020 and reported he said, “We don’t talk to each other any more.”
-A new NBC poll has a lot of surprises; one is that “threats to democracy” is now the “most important issue facing the country,” ahead of jobs and the cost of living. [Scroll to the end]
– FP says most of Indo-Pacific sides with Beijing.
– FP says Poland and Hungary have a falling out.
– NYT says Ukraine is siphoning humanitarian aid from other countries.
– Politico has more details on classified materials at Mar-a-Lago.
– Politico also reports WH is at odds with intelligence community over reducing classifications.
– WaPo has a friendly profile of SecState Blinken.
– A California prof says VP Pence had no authority to summon troops to protect Capitol.
– Fearing attacks in civilian areas, US warns Americans to leave Ukraine.
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Stevenson’s army, August 19
This somehow went unpublished Friday (it is August after all):
– WaPo has a second major story on Ukraine war, today how Russian intelligence fell short.
– Here are links to a summary article, and a summary of the first story.
– WSJ says Wagner group plays key role in Ukraine.
– FP says Congress and administration fight over Egypt aid.
– WSJ says China & Russia plan military exercises.
– I now have a link to the House HFAC GOP staff report on Afghanistan.
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Stevenson’s army, August 16
– WaPo has a major story with the tick-tock of US efforts pre-invasion to convince Zelensky and others of the coming Russian invasion. It reminds me of Henry Kissinger’s complaint to the intelligence community after a surprise –“You warned me, but you didn’t convince me.”
– Cong. McCaul still hasn’t released the GOP staff report on problems during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. I’d like to see and send a copy, but it isn’t available to the public. Nevertheless, a WH rebuttal is available; here it is.
– Here’s another critique of the bungled withdrawal.
– NYT reports the French are pulling out of Mali after 9 years.
– CNN notes that over a million people have Top Secret clearances.
– At the Atlantic, Tom Nichols sees a new kind of political violence.
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Stevenson’s army, August 13
– It’s clear that Donald Trump had an arrogant disregard of the Presidential Records Act and an overweening indifference toward safeguarding classified documents. What isn’t clear is whether he will be prosecuted for violations of law. Charlie Savage describes the laws mentioned in the FBI search warrant.
– Dan Froomkin, a media critic, wants us to learn about “stochastic terrorism,” the statistical likelihood that people will act violently if provoked by commentators. It looks like that’s what happened in Ohio.
– I’ve been reading Dana Milbank’s new book on how the GOP embraced nastiness as a way to win elections [which, sadly, worked]. I’d seen that work in congressional campaigns, but I was shocked to be reminded that right-wing commentators urged violence long before the Trump years — in the 1990s against Clinton policies and in the early Obama years. The language was as bad as any nowadays — but today there’s Fox News and social media to amplify the calls for violence.
My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).
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