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9:46 AM 9/24/2019
Senate panel delays confirmation hearing for ex-Rep. Issa, citing FBI background check
Senate panel delays confirmation hearing for ex-Rep. Issa, citing FBI background check
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Tue, 24 Sep 2019 08:56:43 -0400
“I’m not talking about a nominee’s favorite color or where they had dinner,” Menendez (N.J.) said. “I’m talking about serious issues that go to credibility and suitability for these positions.”
Senate panel headed for clash over several diplomatic and development nominees The panel did move forward with hearings on three other Trump nominees, two of which have sparked some degree of controversy: Marshall Billingslea, nominated to serve as undersecretary of state for civilian security, democracy and human rights, faced questions about his record as a Pentagon official in the George W. Bush administration, in which he was involved in the approval of the use of torture techniques against military detainees. Michael Pack, who is nominated to become chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, was pressed on his association with Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House strategist and populist firebrand, and whether he would seek to impose his conservative views on the journalists he would manage at Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Televisión Martí and other overseas media networks. Issa, however, did not give an opening statement, let alone answer questions. After conferring privately with Menendez and Issa, Committee Chairman James E. Risch (R-Idaho) announced the postponement after panel members objected to moving forward with the hearing. “We’re going to get this file open so that all of you can have a chance to review that file and people to ask questions intelligently,” he said. Issa, who is considering a bid for a House seat, said in an interview that he was willing to answer any questions about the matter in public Thursday and suggested that Democrats were only interested in delaying his confirmation. “The reality is that, as far as I know, what Senator Menendez is referring to, I’m substantially certain, is all available on my Wikipedia,” he said. “It’s clear that his goal is to stop me from serving the president.” Issa said the only issue Menendez raised in their private conversation “had to do with allegations of activity of mine when I was 17” when he was an Army private. “He’s not making allegations during my 18 years as a member of the House or anything else that was done as an adult,” he added. Juan Pachón, a spokesman for Menendez, declined to comment on Issa’s claim. Past media accounts have detailed questions about Issa’s military record, including a demotion and an allegation of car theft that did not result in prosecution. He has also faced scrutiny for another incident in his past, a 1982 fire that destroyed a business owned by Issa that was investigated as a possible arson. Issa, 65, came to national prominence by funding the 2003 drive to recall California Gov. Gray Davis (D). The effort succeeded in ousting Davis, but voters elected Arnold Schwarzenegger, not Issa, to replace him. Later, Issa drew headlines as chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee during the Obama administration. While his nomination remains in limbo, Issa has openly floated a possible run for the House seat now held by Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.). Hunter, who represents a neighboring San Diego County district to the one Issa previously represented until January, is facing a federal indictment on numerous campaign finance violations. The candidate filing deadline is Dec. 6; Issa has told reporters he would run for the House if he is not confirmed to the trade post by early November. Risch on Thursday did not lay out a timeline for rescheduling Issa’s hearing, nor a vote on his nomination. “I commit to this committee, there’ll be no vote on Mr. Issa until the White House has agreed to allow you all to see that,” he said, referring to the FBI report. Billingslea, meanwhile, faced bipartisan scrutiny of his Bush administration record, with Menendez and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) raising concerns that he had advocated for so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” as a senior adviser to then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Menendez pointed to a 2003 memo to Rumsfeld in which Billingslea called several of those techniques “not controversial” despite later being banned by Congress. Billingslea said the techniques were not illegal at the time and that because he was “not an expert on interrogation” he had to rely on other Pentagon officials’ judgment. “I never supported any measure that was remotely, possibly determined to be illegal by the lawyers,” he said. Paul countered that there were, in fact, disputes inside the Pentagon as to whether the recommended techniques were legal: “At the time, you did agree to these things, and I think that’s an important fact.” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) asked Billingslea how he would have credibility as the top State Department deputy on human rights matters given his involvement in the approval of torture methods. “We have to talk to our counterparts about the fact that we are a nation of laws, and we learn from our mistakes, and we evolve,” Billingslea replied. “And therefore we will expect that other countries understand this and learn with us on these matters.” Pack addressed questions from Democrats about his background — particularly about his dealings with Bannon, who served as an executive producer of two documentary films that Pack produced and directed. Pack also praised Bannon in a March 2017 op-ed, calling him “among other things, a successful conservative documentary filmmaker, a rare achievement.” “How can we expect someone who has publicly embraced his role as a conservative documentarian to steward an agency that is charged with supporting independent, politically unmotivated press?” Menendez asked. Pack told the panel that he would be able to set his personal views aside to honor the traditional independence of the agency’s journalists and pointed to his track record, including his time as an executive at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the former U.S. Information Agency. “Their independence is the bedrock of the institution,” he said. “I guess it comes down to the need to say no when you get a call from somebody, a political person, telling a journalist what to do.” “Are you capable of saying no?” Menendez asked. “I think so,” Pack said. “I have said no before.” Read more at PowerPost | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:59:48 -0400 Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. U.S.-UKRAINE RELATIONS U.S. President Trump ordered his staff to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Ukraine days before he allegedly tried to pressure the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his son. According to three senior administration officials, Trump in July asked his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to withhold $391m in military aid that Congress had approved for Ukraine, triggering further questions about the July 25 telephone conversation that Trump held with Zelensky; the phone call is said to be the subject of an intelligence community whistleblower complaint which the White House is refusing to release to Congress. Maggie Haberman, Nicholas Fandos, Michael Crowley and Kenneth P. Vogel report at the New York Times. Administration officials denied there was a quid pro quo, rejecting any links between Trump holding back the funds and pressing Zelensky into investigating the Bidens, after questions were raised over whether the U.S. president sought to leverage congressionally approved aid to damage a political opponent. One official said that Trump’s decision to block the aid was based on his concerns about there being “a lot of corruption in Ukraine.” Karoun Demirjian, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Carol D. Leonnig report at the Washington Post. Trump also dismissed accusations he had offered aid to Ukraine only if it investigated his political rival Biden. “I did not ask for — I did not make a statement that you have to do this or I’m not gonna give you aid … I wouldn’t do that … I wouldn’t do that,” Trump told reporters yesterday at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Caitlin Oprysko reports at POLITICO. Trump tried to shift the controversy toward Biden during his first full day at the U.N. annual gathering of world leaders, accusing the former vice president, without evidence, of engaging in corruption in Ukraine. In a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda, Trump asserted that if Biden were a Republican, the news media would have him in “the electric chair by right now.” Anne Gearan, Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker report at the Washington Post. Three House committees yesterday threatened to subpoena Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to force him to hand over documents related to communications between Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Ukrainian officials. Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), and Foreign Affairs Chair Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said Pompeo must inform their committees by Thursday as to whether he plans to follow their requests, or face subpoenas. Olivia Beavers reports at the Hill. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) yesterday called on Republicans to investigate a whistleblower complaint at the centre of a dispute between Congress and the Director of National Intelligence (D.N.I.), including issuing a subpoena to compel the administration to turn over the complaint and demanding a transcript of Trump’s July 25 call with Zelenskiy. “It is the Senate’s duty … to take this national security matter seriously and investigate now … Senate Republicans have the sole power and the overwhelming responsibility to see that it does,” Schumer said, speaking on the Senate floor. Reuters reports. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) yesterday warned the Trump administration against releasing the transcript of the Trump-Ukraine call, saying it would set a “very dangerous precedent.” “I think it’s going to really harm any president, whether it’s this president or a future president’s ability to talk to world leaders candidly,” Johnson told reporters, adding “this is not something that Congress necessarily has to have its hands on.” Jordain Carney reports at the Hill. Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee will receive a briefing this week from acting U.S. Director of National Intelligence (D.N.I.) Joseph Maguire and Intelligence Community Inspector General (I.C. I.G.) Michael Atkinson on the Ukraine-related whistleblower complaint, a Senate aide said. Reuters reports. U.S.-UKRAINE RELATIONS: OPINION AND ANALYSIS U.S. President Trump “may have the right to withhold communications with foreign leaders from lawmakers and the public as classified or otherwise privileged … but in this case — when Trump is said to have pressed Ukrainian president [Volodymyr Zelensky] about investigating the son of former vice president Joe Biden, one of his political rivals — he could be misusing his authority to cover up personal wrongdoing.” Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett sum up legal analysts’ comments at the Washington Post. An analysis of Trump’s rhetoric about his July conversation with Zelensky is provided by Philip Bump at the Washington Post. “The president’s tactic of redirecting accusations of misconduct back at his accuser is childish, petty … and surprisingly effective,” Tom McCarthy argues at the Guardian, noting that “the big question attached to Trump’s tactic is whether it will generate enough talk about ‘Biden’ and ‘corruption’ to dilute the reported new evidence of Trump’s corruption, as laid out in the whistleblower complaint.” “Through the Mueller investigation, Trump should have learned the legal risks of seeking foreign support for his election efforts … instead, he seems only to have learned that he can get away with it.” Paul Seamus Ryan at Just Security comments that if the allegations that Trump repeatedly pressured Zelensky to investigate Biden and his son are true, “it looks like Trump has violated federal campaign finance laws.” “The man who once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan without consequence seems to be testing whether he can do the political equivalent,” Peter Baker argues at the New York Times, suggesting that “the president has grown even more defiant” since Mueller’s investigation. TRUMP AND CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATIONS: OPINION AND ANALYSIS “House Democrats are so frustrated with President Trump’s administration and his allies blocking their investigative efforts that some have seriously encouraged invoking a long-dormant power Congress has to jail or fine uncooperative witnesses,” Amber Phillips at the Washington Post takes a look at inherent contempt, noting “if past is any precedent, Congress could have a hard time starting to use it again.” “Trump is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s worst nightmare — he keeps almost self-impeaching,” Stephen Collinson writes in an analysis at CNN. If Trump had threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine in order to force it to help him in the election — that would be an impeachable offense, seven freshman Democrats who are also veterans of the military and defense and intelligence agencies warn in an op-ed at the Washington Post. “A formal impeachment process would … give new weight to Democratic claims when they go to court to enforce subpoenas or pry loose documents the administration is trying to hide [and] it would show that Democrats are serious when they say that Trump’s behavior is intolerable,” Michelle Goldberg argues at the New York Times. IMMIGRATION The Trump administration will no longer permit migrant families apprehended at the border to enter the U.S. under the immigration policy commonly known as “catch and release,” Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan announced yesterday. The Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) said that a new policy will be instituted next week as the result of the “combined impact” of existing initiatives that will end the practice of detaining migrant families before releasing them into the U.S. while they wait for their claims to be decided. Richard Gonzales reports at NPR. The policy change is a significant expansion of the government’s “Remain in Mexico” program, which has so far sent back about 47,000 immigrants to wait in Mexican cities for their U.S. immigration hearing dates, and is part of the Trump Administration’s strategy to “mitigate the loopholes that act as a ‘pull factor’ for family units seeking to cross illegally at the Southwest border,” according to the statement. Michelle Hackman reports at the Wall Street Journal. IRAN Britain, France and Germany joined the U.S. yesterday in blaming Iran for an attack on Saudi oil facilities on Sept. 14, saying it was “clear” Iran was responsible and that there was “no other plausible explanation.” In a joint statement, the three governments urged Iran to “refrain from choosing provocation and escalation” and called on the country to agree to negotiations on its nuclear and missile programs as well as regional security issues. Laurence Norman and Michael R. Gordon report at the Wall Street Journal. Iran rejected the fresh accusations and denied any part in the Saudi oil attacks. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pointed to claims of responsibility by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, insisting “if Iran were behind this attack, nothing would have been left of this refinery.” Edith M. Lederer and Jill Lawless report at the AP. Iran also ruled out the possibility of negotiating a new deal with major powers, saying that European partners have failed to fulfill their commitments under the 2015 nuclear pact. “E3’s paralysis in fulfilling their obligations [without] U.S. permission has been clear since May 2018 … no new deal before compliance [with the] current one,” Zarif said in a message sent on Twitter. The BBC reports. French President Emmanuel Macron said he would meet separately with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and U.S. President Trump at the U.N. summit in a diplomatic effort to defuse tensions between Washington and Tehran. Rym Momtaz reports ay POLITICO. Trump said yesterday he would discuss Iran “a bit” during his speech before the U.N. General Assembly today. “A lot of things are happening with respect to Iran … a lot more than you know … I’ll be discussing it a bit tomorrow,” Trump told reporters as he met with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Reuters reports. Iran’s message to the world is “peace and stability,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said upon his arrival in New York, where he will attend the U.N. gathering, state news agency I.R.N.A. reported yesterday. Reuters reports. “The mix of military restraint and sanctions resolve has worked well for Washington so far … but the chances of a military confrontation between Iran and the U.S. are rising, not falling,” Walter Russell Mead warns at the Wall Street Journal. “It appears … that the United States (or its partners) has been playing smart in a long war that it can actually win by continuing to let Iran lose,” Micha’el Tanchum comments at Foreign Policy, wiring that “a spate of mysterious, unattributable attacks against the sophisticated weaponry stored by [Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] I.R.G.C.-backed Shiite militias in Iraq is undermining Iran’s push for regional hegemony.” YEMEN AND The KINGDOM Two dozen largely western countries — including Britain, Germany and Canada — have issued a joint statement slamming Saudi Arabia’s human rights record for alleged use of torture, unlawful detentions and unfair trials of critics, including activists and journalists. The joint statement, which was read out at a meeting of the U.N.’s Human Rights Council in Geneva, marks the second time in six months that the body has condemned the kingdom, after a similar statement in March. Peter Beaumont reports at the Guardian. The unprecedented Open Source Intelligence (O.S.I.N.T.) investigation by investigative journalism organization Bellingcat can contribute to the legal analysis of the Saudi-led coalition’s air war. Ioannis Kalpouzos at Just Security explains how the rich factual data allows for applied and more precise analysis of practices that have been alleged to be unlawful. SYRIA U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced yesterday the formation of a constitutional committee for Syria, a long-awaited step in an effort to reach a political solution to end the more than eight-year war in Syria. In a statement, Guterres said the “Syrian-owned and Syrian-led” constitutional committee will be facilitated by the U.N. in Geneva, adding that it would be convened in the coming weeks. The U.N. News Centre reports. The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini hailed the announcement and said it “gives back hope to the Syrians.” The constitutional committee will be made up of 50 opposition members, 50 representing the government and 50 representing civil society, and follows almost two years of negotiations. AFP reports. U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY U.S. President Trump dodged one of the defining issues of this year’s U.N. General Assembly, paying minimal attention to climate change, which overshadowed the first day of the gathering. Trump attended the climate event for 14 minutes in a surprise visit but did not speak, instead hosting his own summit on the persecution of religious minorities in a conference room. “I believe in clean air and clean water, very simple,” Trump said later yesterday, explaining why he decided to ultimately take part. Seung Min Kim and Anne Gearan report at the Washington Post. U.S. President Trump and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in met yesterday to discuss plans to continue stalled talks between the U.S. and North Korea. “There’s been no nuclear testing at all … and the relationships have been very good … we want to see if we can do something.” Trump told reporters as he met Moon on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. Reuters reports. Latest updates to the U.N. General Assembly are available at Al Jazeera. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS A U.S.-backed raid by Afghan forces against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan Sunday night killed at least 40 civilians, Afghan officials said yesterday. The AP reports. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main opponent Benny Gantz have taken “a significant step” towards forming a unity government, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin stated yesterday, after hosting a nearly two-hour meeting for the two rivals. Isabel Kershner reports at the New York Times. Hong Kong C.E.O. Carrie Lam said today the city’s police force — which is facing allegations of beating protestors and using excessive force in three months of demonstrations — is under “extreme pressure” and noted it would be a “long road towards healing the divisions” in Hong Kong society. Al Jazeera reports. A U.S. Army soldier was charged yesterday with distributing information via social media related to making explosives and weapons of mass destruction. Jarrett William Smith allegedly suggested using a vehicle bomb to attack a major U.S. news network’s headquarters, and also named presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke as a possible target. Hannah Allam reports at NPR. The post The Early Edition: September 24, 2019 appeared first on Just Security. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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