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Giuliani-Style 'Shadow' Diplomacy: Par for the Course for U.S. Presidents
https://www.realclearinvestigations..._par_for_the_course_of_us_history_120883.html
October 23, 2019 ~ By Eric Felten
Rudolph Giuliani didn’t hide the fact that he was investigating whether Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Yet most media have treated Giuliani’s efforts as sneaky and suspect because he acted at the personal behest of the president and not as an official representative of the bureaucracy. The New York Times, for example, claimed Giuliani was conducting “a shadow foreign policy campaign.”
In fact, presidents since George Washington have turned to individuals without formal government positions to pursue foreign policy interests and objectives. Private citizens, often acting as special envoys, have helped negotiate issues ranging from trade to war. While critics deride such efforts as “back-door,” “secret,” or “shadow” undertakings, many presidents have found it useful to dispatch people they trust, who can think and operate outside the constraints of official channels in handling delicate matters.
what a president gains in nimbleness and flexibility he loses in organized, consistent policy. Perhaps some wrongdoing will be found to attach to Giuliani in the Kiev controversy. But the bigger problem for the Trump administration is that the president has had so little trust in his official advisers and factotums that he has had to turn to outside loyalists.
Comment:
Great aricle by Eric Felten.... History supports President Trump's actions and use of Mayor Rudy Giuliani. FDR had Harry Hopkins and Woody Wilson had Edward M. House, Clinton used ex Gov. Richardson.
What is irking the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA is that Mr. G has uncovered the corruption within the former administration. Namely Joe Biden and his son and John F Kerry and his family, not to mention their payments through Cyprus.
This has become a double wamy to the PMS/DSA Dems. Trump and Giuliani a deadly duo in darining the swamp.
https://www.realclearinvestigations..._par_for_the_course_of_us_history_120883.html
October 23, 2019 ~ By Eric Felten
Rudolph Giuliani didn’t hide the fact that he was investigating whether Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Yet most media have treated Giuliani’s efforts as sneaky and suspect because he acted at the personal behest of the president and not as an official representative of the bureaucracy. The New York Times, for example, claimed Giuliani was conducting “a shadow foreign policy campaign.”
In fact, presidents since George Washington have turned to individuals without formal government positions to pursue foreign policy interests and objectives. Private citizens, often acting as special envoys, have helped negotiate issues ranging from trade to war. While critics deride such efforts as “back-door,” “secret,” or “shadow” undertakings, many presidents have found it useful to dispatch people they trust, who can think and operate outside the constraints of official channels in handling delicate matters.
what a president gains in nimbleness and flexibility he loses in organized, consistent policy. Perhaps some wrongdoing will be found to attach to Giuliani in the Kiev controversy. But the bigger problem for the Trump administration is that the president has had so little trust in his official advisers and factotums that he has had to turn to outside loyalists.
Comment:
Great aricle by Eric Felten.... History supports President Trump's actions and use of Mayor Rudy Giuliani. FDR had Harry Hopkins and Woody Wilson had Edward M. House, Clinton used ex Gov. Richardson.
What is irking the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA is that Mr. G has uncovered the corruption within the former administration. Namely Joe Biden and his son and John F Kerry and his family, not to mention their payments through Cyprus.
This has become a double wamy to the PMS/DSA Dems. Trump and Giuliani a deadly duo in darining the swamp.
