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Stevenson’s army, August 19

State is denying documents to House, not Senate
– SecState Pompeo cancels briefings for HFAC
– I share the basic political science judgment that there are few truly Independent voters; most lean regularly to one party. But there are changeable voters, though few, as WSJ reports.
– Rare good news from Afghanistan: Taliban stopped attacking US troops.

– Administration drops insistence on China, willing to discuss extending New START with Russia.
– WSJ says Xi is purging domestic security forces.

– Now that reporters have had time to review Senate Intell report, here are some key points from NYT and Vox.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to 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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