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Daniel Benjamin
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Dir., John Sloan Dickey Center at Dartmouth; fmr Coordinator for Counterterrorism at State; Clinton NSC, ex-Brookings, CSIS, WSJ, TIME.
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Daniel Benjamin
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Exactly right about the IC, and apparently Coats had not made any decision when the story was written. Let's hope he takes the high road. twitter.com/peter_lavoy/st…
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Even so, the former official said, an intelligence assessment that reflects the spy services’ best overall judgment but has no smoking gun could be one the White House could “choose to dismiss,” something he referred to as the “Kavanaugh defense.” nyti.ms/2AgPUUX
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Daniel Benjamin
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What a DNI is not supposed to base assessments on: “Mr. Coats has privately expressed concerns about presenting an appraisal that boxes in Mr. Trump or poses a challenge to the president’s intention to maintain a close relationship with the kingdom.” nyti.ms/2AgPUUX
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Daniel Benjamin
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Why use the Khashoggi murder to launch an investigation of the intel community? Duty to warn q. is important. For the rest, the issue is why the WH embraced MbS despite ample evidence of his recklessness. Policy is the problem, not intel. wapo.st/2pZiDrf?tid=ss…
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David D. Pearce
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As a former US Consul General in Jerusalem, I beg to disagree. This is in fact a major change in policy. It ends independent U.S. representation not only in Jerusalem, but also to the Palestinians twitter.com/secpompeo/stat…
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Foreign Affairs
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MbS has in short order transformed the Saudi government’s modus operandi from deeply ingrained caution to brutal impetuousness. In so doing, writes @Benjamin05055, he has evinced a recklessness that is deeply at odds with U.S. interests.
trib.al/Krishaj
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Hussein Ibish
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If this were just Madawi al-Rasheed's thinking it would not amount to much. But it is not. twitter.com/Benjamin05055/…
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Daniel Benjamin
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A genius so hidden, even he can't find it. twitter.com/mattyglesias/s…
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Daniel Benjamin
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Hard to judge since we don't really know how sentient Salman is. If he's mostly there, this is not beyond imagination. But he advanced MbS as his favorite son, so it won't be easy.
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Daniel Benjamin
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A terrific piece from Madawi al-Rasheed. And, let's not kid ourselves, in the current situation, a brave one. nyti.ms/2AhvJpC
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Daniel Benjamin
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Sorry: A shame it didn't degenerate into fisticuffs.
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Daniel Benjamin
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Really a shame that it degenerate into fisticuffs.
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Daniel Benjamin
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Saudi Arabia today isn't the Saudi Arabia we have known. My take on MbS and the Khashoggi killing. foreignaffairs.com/articles/saudi… via @ForeignAffairs
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Daniel Benjamin
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Ouch. Sorry to hear it. Should we airlift you some cheese from Vermont, home of America's greatest cheesemakers?
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Daniel Benjamin
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Like I was saying, the intel community, despite close ties to Saudi, is not going to make it easy for Trump and Pompeo to bs their way through this. nytimes.com/2018/10/17/wor…
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Daniel Benjamin
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Haven’t the troops given enough? Do they really need to endure a visit from President Logorrhea? twitter.com/AmbGordonGray/…
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Daniel Benjamin
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Good luck. Nothing in the canonical texts. Not even the Apocrypha. Not even the Pseudipigrapha...this all Gospel According to Pat.
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Norman Ornstein
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Why haven't Steyer or Bloomberg sent a couple of hundred thousand dollars to Georgia just to get people to the polls and to make sure they vote, even if provisionally, on Election Day? And then some additional $$ to challenge in courts when Jim Crow officials won't count ballots twitter.com/AriBerman/stat…
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Erin Pelton
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Worth asking: who is the junior partner in this relationship? twitter.com/Benjamin05055/…
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Daniel Benjamin
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'That grip and grin will come back to haunt him': Pompeo takes heat for friendly Saudi sit-down politi.co/2Ag0nzR via @politico
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