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The think tanks from which Biden is pulling talent include the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), the RAND Corporation, and CACI International. These are the people and ideologies that we should be afraid of, not endorsing.
These are the same people and same organizations that helped to plan and support the ongoing wars in Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia and elsewhere. How would a Biden foreign police be any different from an Obama foreign policy? How would it be different from a George W. Bush foreign policy? It won't be. Biden has the same advisers.
One Hope
There's no way Trump will be president on Jan. 21, 2021. The American people have spoken and they've chosen Biden. Overall, that's a good thing. Sure, we'll no longer have the day-to-day craziness of a Trump presidency. But I am not at all sanguine that we will see any real improvement, at least in national security and foreign policy.
I do have one hope, though. Trump made some noise early in his administration that he wanted to move the Office of the Pardon Attorney out of the Justice Department and into the White House, where it was originally intended to be. Both Trump and Biden have said that the Pardon Attorney has worked harder over the years to deny people pardons than to recommend them.
That has to change. Trump never got around to it. Maybe Biden will.
In the meantime, there's hope that Trump may use his lame-duck status to thumb his nose at the establishment and pardon journalist Julian Assange, and whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and me.
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