He was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Near East and South Asia at the Pentagon and a senior advisor at NATO in Brussels. In January 2009, President Barack Obama asked Riedel to chair a review of American policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, the results of which the..…
But Mike Carpenter, a former Russia specialist at the Pentagon under President Barack Obama, said that seems unlikely – about “as discreet as sending (Secretary of State) Mike Pompeo to meet with an informant on a sensitive issue.” . ..…
Congress and Obama also supplemented the official military budget with generous appropriations for Pentagon's off-budget Overseas Contingency Operations fund. ..…
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