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Henri Féron led this panel discussion on the North Korean Nuclear Crisis with other experts in the field. The event reached full attendance and had over 700 online viewers.

Congress—which represents the interests of the American public —has a responsibility to exercise oversight of arms sales and to ensure accountability. But both Americans and Congress have to start with the facts, and that means having access to detailed data for every type of security assistance program.

Henri Féron led this panel discussion on the North Korean Nuclear Crisis with other experts in the field. The event reached full attendance and had over 700 online viewers.

We begin with House passage of a record high $733 billion defense bill which both the congress and the press are discussing in terms of how amendments by the Democrats are restricting Trump from waging war on Iran while the Republicans decry the politicization of the National Defense Authorization Act, but there is no mention of how much money is being spent and whether we have any real enemies except for China and Russia, neither of whom want a hot war

Ben Freeman spoke on foreign influence in Washington, DC.

The debate over the contours of next year’s budget is in full swing, and as usual one of the biggest items to be determined is how much to spend on the Pentagon. Unfortunately, so far the debate between Capitol Hill and the Executive Branch has been about how much to increase the Pentagon’s already ample budget, not how to streamline it while making our military more effective.

Henri Féron led this panel discussion on the North Korean Nuclear Crisis with other experts in the field. The event reached full attendance and had over 700 online viewers.

Henri Féron led this panel discussion on the North Korean Nuclear Crisis with other experts in the field. The event reached full attendance and had over 700 online viewers.

Henri Féron led this panel discussion on the North Korean Nuclear Crisis with other experts in the field. The event reached full attendance and had over 700 online viewers.

This post provides our data for the month of June 2019. It includes public perceptions of government institutions and of the two major political parties’ handling of national security; the public’s comfort with intelligence authorities; and public perceptions about the president’s handling of key national security issues, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and ongoing military operations.

After the killing in October of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, a handful of lobbying firms and think tanks made a move rare in Washington: They publicly severed ties with Saudi Arabia, swearing off the kingdom’s money.

Like no other time in recent memory, Congress is losing the war for its rightful place in American governance. President Trump’s distaste for the norms that have traditionally limited the authority of his office have battered the separation of powers, a founding principle of American political life and an essential bulwark against presidential overreach. And when it comes to the weighty decision to transfer American weapons beyond our shores, our president has shown that the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches has come to list dangerously to one side.