The chairmen of the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight Committee have opened an investigation of President Trump’s efforts to enlist the Ukraine government in his re-election campaign. The chief target, the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Buzzfeed has the details of how two men working for Giuliani sought “information that could be weaponized in the...
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Pro-War Engel Take Chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee
I paused over describing Rep. Eliot Engel, the new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee as “pro-war.” Was it fair. As I studied his record, I realized the epithet was not inaccurate, indeed. “pro-war” captures something essential about Engle’s policy positions. Engel not only favored launching the most disastrously failed war in American history–Iraq...