Destroying the Presumption of Regularity

Paul Rosenzweig, lawfareblog.com

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My GWU [George Washington University] colleague Henry Farrell and his co-author Abraham Newman have speculated, in the Washington Post, that the real reason for the device ban was in retaliation for unfair subsidies provided to the Gulf airlines by their governments. ...

To be clear, the authors have no evidence to support their speculation. And, to be equally clear, in the absence of evidence, I think the speculation is ill-founded. But I also confess to having much the same thoughts myself. And the mere fact that I did, and that serious observers like Farrell can entertain these thoughts, is a true measure of the damage that President Trump has done to public diplomacy. When the President is obsessed with the idea that his predecessor ordered that he be wiretapped, despite all the evidence to the contrary, we begin to doubt the veracity of even his most important pronouncements. And that can't be a good thing. ...

Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company and a Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. ...