Columns by Daniel N. Hoffman
Eric Swalwell was reportedly "shocked" when the FBI informed him in 2015 that Christine Fang, a Chinese national who first met him in 2012, was a suspected spy.
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December 31, 2020
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The purpose of intelligence is to detect threats "left of boom" so they can be preempted before they are visited on our shores.
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December 24, 2020
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President-elect Joe Biden's stated aim to embrace the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as long as Tehran also returns to compliance is causing well-justified apprehension.
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December 17, 2020
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Our nation greatly benefits from having a cadre of professionals who do not turn over each time there is a new party in charge of the executive branch.
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December 3, 2020
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The threat of terrorism that is arguably the national security threat with the shortest fuse.
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November 19, 2020
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Let's not forget that just a couple of months ago the Trump administration brokered an unexpected and remarkable diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East.
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November 5, 2020
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Kaitlin Sandeno and I share a mutual understanding and appreciation of what it means to care for a family member undergoing arduous treatment for cancer.
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October 22, 2020
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The Trump administration should be as transparent as possible about the president's illness and recuperation to avoid creating vulnerable attack space for foreign adversaries to sow confusion.
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October 15, 2020
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Last month, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from the Berlin hospital where he was treated for 32 days after being poisoned with the Soviet military-grade nerve agent Novichok while on a trip to Russia's Far East.
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October 8, 2020
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Our hyperpartisan politics creates openings for attack and division, which our adversaries -- Russia in particular -- ruthlessly exploit.
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September 24, 2020
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U.S. lawmakers express grave concern that Omar and Sarah al Jabri were being held against their will to compel their father's return from Canada to Riyadh to face charges of corruption.
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September 10, 2020
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Earlier this month Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced they will normalize diplomatic ties and build a new bilateral relationship, a breakthrough which has the potential to recast the balance of power in the Middle East.
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August 27, 2020
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China has made the control over foreign real estate a central tool in its increasingly aggressive and diverse arsenal.
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August 13, 2020
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Christopher Steele would best serve his own interests -- and the national security of both the U.K. and U.S. -- with a mea culpa admitting his errors of judgment and laying out the multitude of lessons we should learn from his shoddy work product.
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July 30, 2020
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A Taliban bounty plot would be completely consistent with Mr. Putin's cloak-and-dagger approach to tactics and strategy.
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July 16, 2020
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Last month, for the first time ever, the CIA began airing recruitment videos on entertainment, news and lifestyle streaming services. And the clandestine life appears to have its attractions.
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July 2, 2020
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National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien warned last month that America's foreign adversaries will seek to exploit our domestic crises to "sew discord and to try and damage our democracy."
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June 18, 2020
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The Iraqi parliament's approval last month of a new government under Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi was a welcome development for a country devastated by terrorism, decades of violence and corruption.
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June 4, 2020
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The United States needs to take the lead in holding China accountable and countering Mr. Xi's strategy.
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May 21, 2020
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It has taken too many years, but the infamous Steele dossier has been finally and thoroughly discredited, but not before inflicting great harm on our political process.
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May 7, 2020
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