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, "If you are going to list the regions Biden sees as a priority, the Middle East is not in the top three. It's Asia- Pacific, then Europe, and then the Western Hemisphere. And that reflects a bipartisan consensus. ... They are just being extremely purposeful to not get dragged into the Middle East." In Third Attack

d not have taken this job if I thought that politics would have any influence over prosecutions and investigations." The AP (2/22, Balsamo, Tucker, Jalonick) says Garland, "among Biden's most widely supported nominees" sought to "assure lawmakers that the Justice Department would remain politically inde

nited States and the leaders of Latin America's drug trade has shifted to this wild stretch of Guatemala, one of the most inhospitable landscapes in the Western Hemisphere." The new route "runs through the largest rainforest in Central America," where "narcotraffickers are burning airstrips...to land planes from South

litical divisions within the country." COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE Intelligence Chiefs Brief "Gang Of Eight" On Russia Bounty Intelligence. The AP (7/2, Jalonick, Daly) reports that CIA Director Haspel and DNI Ratcliffe gave classified briefings Thursday to "congressional leaders who have demanded more answer

Latin America. Josh Rogin writes in the Washington Post (4/22, Rogin, 10.52M) that China is "using vaccine supplies to pressure governments across the Western Hemisphere," and the Biden Administration "ignores China's pernicious vaccine diplomacy in our neighborhood at the peril of the safety and security of the ent

the Senate passed a bill" on Thursday "aimed at protecting Asian-Americans from hate crimes, which have soared during the pandemic." The AP (4/22, Jalonick) describes the vote as "a bipartisan denunciation of such violence during the coronavirus pandemic and a modest step toward legislating in a chambe