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Business as Usual With Saudi Arabia Is Good for Business Biden missed an opportunity to hold MBS truly accountable. Consultants linked to Bidenworld have advised Saudi Arabia about MBS’s most ostentatious vanity project. It’s only taken six weeks for major conflicts of interest to arise for President Biden. Days after Secretary of State Tony Blinken let the Saudi crown prince off the hook for butchering a journalist, Blinken’s former colleagues in the private sector have reaped millions of dollars in contracts from Mohammed bin Salman. The timing is bad for accountability, but...

Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House. Days after winning the November election, Joe Biden announced the names of those staffing his transition. Big Tech landed prominent spots. Among the hundreds of personnel on the agency review teams serving the president-elect, there was one from Uber, two from Amazon, and one from Google. And then there were two people from Rebellion Defense, a shadowy defense startup. The announcement sent Washington insiders scrambling to...

How to Counter the Secretary of Sabotage Secretary of State Pompeo is setting political traps in his final days, but an emboldened Biden can avoid them. Hani Mohammed/AP Photo The deadliest emergency will be in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been waging a brutal war. The craziest thing Mike Pompeo did this past week wasn’t even touting links between Al-Qaeda and Iran. As President Donald Trump rages his way out the door, his sabotage-minded secretary of state has worked hard to ensure that Biden’s foreign-policy options will be limited long after Trump i...

Joe Biden's Transition Is 'Much Better' Than Barack Obama's, Author Says Author Matt Stoller argued on Monday that Joe Biden's transition has been significantly better than Barack Obama's after his 2008 electoral victory. "The Biden transition - though incredibly cringe - is so so much better than what Obama put together," he tweeted. "To be clear, I'm not praising Biden, I'm pointing out how awful Obama actually was. Biden's people are either corrupt shallow hacks or well-meaning technocrats, whereas Obama mostly chose actively malevolent con artists."Stoller's comments were in response ...

11:23 A.M. EST MR. VASQUEZ: Hey. Good morning, everybody. We have another historic day today, another breakthrough. I have with me Senior Advisor to the President, Jared Kushner, who will speak to you today on their good news regarding Morocco. He will give some brief remarks, and then we’ll take a couple of questions on this topic. This call will be on the record. And with that, I will turn it over to Jared. MR. KUSHNER: Thank you very much, Eddie. And thank you all for joining us. Very, very pleased today to be talking to you all about the agreement that’s been reached today betwe...