Upcoming Congressional Hearings on ISIL, Iran
The week before Thanksgiving features a few Congressional hearings of note for the Lawfare readership.
Tomorrow at 10:00 AM, there is a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on ways of "countering" the activities of ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
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The week before Thanksgiving features a few Congressional hearings of note for the Lawfare readership.
Tomorrow at 10:00 AM, there is a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on ways of "countering" the activities of ISIL in Iraq and Syria. You can listen to a livecast of the proceedings here.
Also tomorrow from 2:00 to 5:00 PM, the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade will hold a hearing entitled, "Iranian Nuclear Talks: Negotiating a Bad Deal?" The hearing will "examine concerns over the current negotiations and also outline what an acceptable deal might look like." For more information, please click here. Just two days later, the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa follows up the Iran theme with a hearing from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM on "Examining What a Nuclear Iran Deal Means for Global Security."
Finally, on Wednesday from 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM, the House Subcomittee on the Middle East and Africa will hold a hearing entitled, "Next Steps for US Foreign Policy on Syria and Iraq." It is meant to "assess the effectiveness" of US policies towards Syria, Iraq and ISIL and evaluate how Washington's strategic goals "need to change in order to seek progress on these fronts."
Ben Bissell is an analyst at a geopolitical risk consultancy and a Masters student at the London School of Economics. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia with majors in political science and Russian in 2013. He is a former National Security Intern at the Brookings Institution as well as a Henry Luce Scholar, where he was placed at the Population Research Institute in Shanghai, China.
