![Bipartisan Support in Congress to Reform Government Watchdog Privileges]()
by Jonathan Lehrfeld | Oct 21, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — In a rare moment of bipartisan support, Democrats and Republicans agreed with the Justice Department’s top watchdog about expanding the privileges of government oversight officials. “I think it would be an extremely important change and helpful to us in...
![Senate Considers Chris Magnus for Border Control Commissioner]()
by Courtney Degen | Oct 19, 2021 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Senators grilled Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus about his views on immigration enforcement and enacting COVID-19 measures as they considered his nomination for Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday. In a Senate Committee on...
![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...
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...
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...
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...
