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Two issues with @GSAEmily deserve attention NOW.
Issue-1: With @Transition46 announcing senior official posts, a key part of Presidential Transition Act comes to head.
Need for expedited background investigations/clearances. THAT is what 9/11 Commission warned about.
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Issue-1: With @Transition46 announcing senior official posts, a key part of Presidential Transition Act comes to head.
Need for expedited background investigations/clearances. THAT is what 9/11 Commission warned about.
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2. @kateashaw1 and I wrote about 9/11 Commission warnings and Presidential Transition Act provisions here👇
It's grossly unacceptable to delay with very significant risk to national security.
Senators should be asked about this, not just intel briefings
justsecurity.org/73317/the-gsas…
It's grossly unacceptable to delay with very significant risk to national security.
Senators should be asked about this, not just intel briefings
justsecurity.org/73317/the-gsas…
3. Presidential Transition Act:
"The President-elect should submit...the names of candidates for high level national security positions...AS SOON AS POSSIBLE after the date of the general elections"
Biden has done and is doing that.
"The President-elect should submit...the names of candidates for high level national security positions...AS SOON AS POSSIBLE after the date of the general elections"
Biden has done and is doing that.
With NYT scoop on Trump's having eyed options to strike Iran, and may yet strike "Iranian assets and allies"
@EricSchmittNYT @maggieNYT @SangerNYT @helenecooper @jakesNYT report
Here are two significant legal issues...
First, just published.👇
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justsecurity.org/73412/revisiti…
@EricSchmittNYT @maggieNYT @SangerNYT @helenecooper @jakesNYT report
Here are two significant legal issues...
First, just published.👇
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justsecurity.org/73412/revisiti…
2. Author of that @just_security article, Brian Finucane, is attorney-adviser in Dept of State, writing in his personal capacity.
He dissects flaws in 1989 OLC Opinion (written by Bill Barr at the time) that would allow POTUS to unilaterally use force in violation of UN Charter.
He dissects flaws in 1989 OLC Opinion (written by Bill Barr at the time) that would allow POTUS to unilaterally use force in violation of UN Charter.
3. Finucane's longer law review article on the topic @Cornell_L_Rev is here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
