Tag: White House
Stevenson’s army, May 19
– WH vs CDC
– Pompeo vs State IG
– Trump vs US warriors in Afghanistan
– Trump vs WHO
– China hawks vs truth
Also note: Dexter Filkins on the twilight of the Iranian revolution
Think tank analysis of the disinformation war by Russia, China, Iran
In an article on the Flynn case, note this historical reminder: The idea that federal prosecution is exclusively an executive-branch concern is not accurate. The public prosecutor was generally a far less significant government figure throughout the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries than it is today, and most definitely not seen as an inherent bearer of executive power in 1789. The British common-law tradition was one of private prosecution. Although a variety of public prosecutors appeared during the colonial period, private prosecution in the United States persisted throughout much of the 19th century. The early version of the public prosecutor in the United States was considered a judicial officer. In Joan Jacoby’s 1980 The American Prosecutor: A Search for Identity, still a leading history of American prosecutors, she explains: “At the beginning of the nineteenth century in America, the district attorney was viewed as a minor figure in the court, an adjunct to the judge. His position was primarily judicial, and perhaps only quasi-executive.”
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, May 18
– I strongly favor a rapid development of an effective and safe vaccine against Covid-19. We all do. But I’m not persuaded that the White House is doing that. On Friday the president announced Operation Warp Speed. He named the head of the Army Materiel Command as “chief operating officer” and a former top official at GlaxoSmithKline as “chief advisor.” HHS put out a press release promising major activities. But I can’t find anywhere an executive order empowering this WH committee to give orders or allocate funds or do the things an executive agency needs to do. Government needs execution and execution relies on authorities.
– NYT has more on the Pompeo activities that triggered an IG investigation by the now-fired State Dept IG.
– Space Command launches a bidding war for its new HQ. [I’ll bet AF gets the announcement out before Nov 3]
– Politico tells what life is like at WH nowadays because of the coronavirus.
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, March 7
The Saudi crown prince has arrested his chief rivals and charged them with treason.
Pres. Trump has named Cong. Mark Meadows as his new chief of staff. [Not “acting”]
Coronavirus blame game: countries are blaming their rivals for the epidemic.
WaPo says CIA & NSA clashed over the purchased of a Swiss crypto machine company.
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. If you want to get it directly, 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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