The Military Can’t Legally Curb a President s Access to Nuclear Codes, Experts Say
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley (right). (Photos: AP and U.S. Army)
8 Jan 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley Friday morning to discuss what she described as necessary precautions to prevent an unhinged president from accessing nuclear codes.
But experts and officials said there’s no place in the system for the military or Congress to intervene in a sitting president’s access to the nuclear arsenal. The situation of this unhinged president could not be more dangerous, and we must do everything that we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy, Pelosi, a California Democrat, said Friday in a circulated letter.
US President-elect Joe Biden Names Two Indian-Americans in National Security Council
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US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday named Indian-American Sumona Guha as senior director for South Asia and Tarun Chhabra as senior director for Technology and National Security, as he announced several key appointments to the National Security Council of the White House. Guha was co-chair of the South Asia foreign policy working group on the Biden-Harris campaign, and serves on the transition s State Department Agency Review Team.
Currently senior vice president at Albright Stonebridge Group, she previously served in the State Department as a foreign service officer and later, on the Secretary of State s policy planning staff where she focused on South Asia. During the Obama-Biden administration, she was special advisor for national security affairs to then Vice President Biden. Guha is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and Georgetown University.
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Jan 07, 2021
Not In The Middle East Or Latin America: The Capitol Storming Was All-American
The reality is the use of violent force and intimidation for political gain has always been part of the U.S. narrative.
Americans and viewers around the globe watched in astonishment as hundreds of supporters of outgoing President Donald Trumpstormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in an effort to derail the joint congressional session in which the 2020 presidential election results were to be formally certified.
Rioters chanting pro-Trump slogans broke through barricades, scaled walls, forcibly entered the legislative chambers and posed behind the empty desks in lawmakers’ offices. While some journalists and staffers were evacuated, others remained trapped in the lockdown, live-tweeting the chaos that unfolded in the nation’s capital. At least four people died and dozens of police officers were injured.
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Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Anu Bradford – Henry L. Moses professor of law and international organization and director of the European Legal Studies Center at Columbia Law School; nonresident scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and author of “The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World” (Oxford University Press 2020)
– looks at how the EU and China are competing to set global standards for emerging tech.
Briefly explain the “Brussels Effect” and its implications for Europe’s digital single market.