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1/ NEWS: Responding to my questioning today at the Foreign Relations Committee, the top Iran expert at State, Brian Hook, confirmed for the first time that he met twice with Rudy Giuliani about a Giuliani client who wanted to avoid prosecution for evading Iran sanctions.
2/ In and of itself this isn't extraordinary. But there is also reporting that Trump personally intervened with Hook's then boss, Sec. Tillerson, to get the Giuliani client off the hook, despite solid evidence that the guy violated Iran sanctions.
3/ Trump's choice of Giuliani's personal interests over national security interests is damning. Especially because Giuliani claims to be acting as Trump's lawyer for free. So maybe the compensation comes another way.
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Today I'll be asking questions at the nomination hearing of our new Amb. to Russia.

Probably a good day to run down the mindblowingly long list of ways that Trump's foreign policy has been one giant wet kiss to Russia.

Hard to fit it all in one thread, but let's give it a shot!
May 2016: Announces his support for Brexit. Who benefits from a weaker EU? Russia.
May 2016: Questions U.S. commitment to NATO (aka the defense pact that prevents against Russian aggression).
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1/ Quick important thread: For months I and others have warned State Dept that their diplomatic pull out in Iraq was going to have grave consequences for US security.

They didn’t listen, and now events are spiraling.
2/ I know all eyes are on Syria right now, but we shouldn't take our eye off the ball in Iraq.

The reports over the last few weeks of Iraqi security forces violently targeting protestors are deeply alarming.
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3/ Brutal suppression of protests has killed 149 people and wounded 6,000. That's the highest # killed in demonstrations since immediately after the 2003 invasion.

Democratic countries don't turn their weapons on peaceful protesters.
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1 / THREAD: Syria is a case study in how obsolete our foreign policy toolkit has become. Our only options today are troops or sanctions.

As we rightly eviscerate Trump for abandoning the Kurds, we must also work to make sure the next president has more options.

Let me explain.
2 / The vast majority of our national security budget goes to the military and intel. We're talking over $600 billion year.

To put that in perspective, we spend 20 times as much on the military and intel agencies as we do on diplomacy, democracy promotion and smart power.
3 / The problem? Most of the threats we face abroad are no longer conventional military threats. Syria, at it's heart, is a political, not military, quagmire.

But we could only deploy 20 year old soldiers there, when we needed a massive diplomatic and political investment.
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