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Treasury Official Promotes Unified Response to Sanction Evasions

Treasury Official Promotes Unified Response to Sanction Evasions

by Ariel Gans | Oct 19, 2021 | National Security

WASHINGTON — A high ranking Treasury official told senators on Tuesday that increased cooperation and coordination with U.S. allies will strengthen the U.S. sanction policy. A day after the Biden White House issued its long-awaited sanctions policy review, Deputy...
Lawmakers Question Effectiveness of U.S. Aid to Tunisia as Country’s Democracy Wavers

Lawmakers Question Effectiveness of U.S. Aid to Tunisia as Country’s Democracy Wavers

by Julia Mueller | Oct 14, 2021 | National Security

WASHINGTON — Once an example of democratic success in the Middle East, Tunisia has faltered in the decade since the Arab Spring, experts said at a Thursday hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global...
U.S. Relations with Pakistan Remain Strained, Still Tied to Afghanistan

U.S. Relations with Pakistan Remain Strained, Still Tied to Afghanistan

by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Oct 13, 2021 | National Security

WASHINGTON — Twenty years after 9/11, and two months after the American exit from Afghanistan, the United States’ strategic and often tenuous partnership with Pakistan has come full circle. The military and diplomatic relationship between the two countries “stands at...
Tactical Skills, Patriotic Imagery Make Veterans Ideal Target for Extremist Groups

Tactical Skills, Patriotic Imagery Make Veterans Ideal Target for Extremist Groups

by Julia Shapero | Oct 13, 2021 | National Security

WASHINGTON — Domestic violent extremist groups have found an increasing number of U.S. military veterans receptive to their recruitment efforts, experts warned lawmakers on Wednesday.  “Veterans, along with active duty and reservists, have been involved in...
Navy Nuclear Engineer Accused of Espionage Makes First Appearance in Federal Court

Navy Nuclear Engineer Accused of Espionage Makes First Appearance in Federal Court

by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON — The naval engineer and his wife who allegedly tried to sell U.S. nuclear submarine secrets appeared today for the first time in federal court. Jonathan and Diana Toebee appeared this morning in federal district court in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after...
Justices Zero in on Gitmo Detainment in Torture Case

Justices Zero in on Gitmo Detainment in Torture Case

by Catherine Buchaniec | Oct 6, 2021 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON — As the government fought to shield testimony on the CIA’s use of torture at CIA black sites, it was the rationale for continuing to hold military detainees at Guantanamo Bay that seemed to preoccupy a number of justices during Wednesday’s oral arguments....
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