Tag: 2020 Election
Stevenson’s army, August 12
– Politico explains Kamala Harris’ clever campaign for the VP slot.
– State IG report clears Pompeo on arms sales action, but redacted sections raise doubts.
-Berkeley prof sees real strategy in administration moves on technology & China.
– Law prof hits Supreme Court’s “shadow docket.”
– Census count matters to state and local governments.
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Stevenson’s army, August 10
– Senators Cruz and Rubio among those newly sanctioned by China.
– SecDef Esper says US troop numbers in Afghanistan will be below 5,000 by November.
– Lawfare writer says use of IEEPA for TikTok stretches law to breaking point.
– Dan Drezner sees world collapsing around Mike Pompeo.
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Stevenson’s army, August 9
I make a big deal in the spring course about the importance of agency authorities, capabilities, and culture. Previously I’ve noted how many of President Trump’s official documents are little more than press releases, not legally significant actions. That’s abundantly true of the four measures signed Saturday and touted as pandemic relief. Read them for yourself. Only one is called an executive order; the others are memorandums. None adds money to the fight. Instead, the agencies are told to shift money from FEMA, or to use unspent money. Officials are told to “consider” using “existing authorities” to halt evictions and provide help. They could have done that on Friday, too. To get new money, you need a new appropriation under our Constitution; to change an expiring law, you need a new law. I’ve seen good assessments of these new documents by NYT and Vox.
WaPo says Chief of Staff Meadows now spends most staff meetings on political messaging rather than pandemic issues.
FP has an analysis of the new agreement between China and Iran.
Sen. Blumenthal says we need more declassification of intelligence assessments of foreign electoral interference.
SAIS Prof James Mann says Brent Scowcroft didn’t always follow his own model of neutral honest broker.
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Stevenson’s army, August 7
So I’m back from a few days by a river, relaxing and canoeing. What did I miss?
– The Saudis may be developing nuclear capability.
– CIA isn’t helping GOP investigation of the Bidens. But the real issue it seems to me is to preserve exclusive responsiveness to the intelligence committees.
– Congress may block Trump drone sale policy.
– Provocative US official’s visit to Taiwan.
– We are trying to get Syrian oil.
– Esper may move US troops from Germany to Romania, Baltics, Poland.
– New book by CNN reporter says Pentagon withheld military options from Trump.
– Fred Kaplan has a good piece on Hiroshima,
AEI’s Norm Ornstein laments changes in the GOP over the decades.
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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Stevenson’s army, August 1
Please join me in celebrating the anniversary of my home state’s admission to the Union in 1876, just in time to provide 3 electoral votes to the GOP presidential candidate, Rutherford Hayes, who won 185-184.
– NYT has more on the problems in the Postal Service that could mess up the elections.
-GOP speechwriter David Frum tells more about the post-election war game.
-FP reveals Biden has 49 working groups on foreign policy, involving 2000+ people.
-Politico says DOD will play a lead role in vaccine distribution.
– Africom says it’s moving its HQ. Just don’t know where.
– WSJ says Japan is moving toward a “preemptive” [i.e. first] strike option.
– CNAS has a good study on informal tools Congress has to influence defense policy.Conf
– FP says new NDAA has provision to reduce money laundering.
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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