The Crossfire Hurricane Report’s inconvenient findings. New research on how Washington's exaggerated sense of danger harms us all.

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December 12, 2019

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The Crossfire Hurricane Report’s Inconvenient Findings ([link removed] )

Though it does not describe an investigation motivated by political bias, it is a textbook account of confirmation bias that should raise disturbing questions about the adequacy of the FISA process—and not just in this investigation.

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By Julian Sanchez

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High Anxiety: How Washington’s Exaggerated Sense of Danger Harms Us All ([link removed] )

Glaser and Preble argue that threat inflation is pervasive in U.S. foreign policy, explore some historical examples from the early Cold War to today, and explain why it drives so much military activism.

- High Anxiety: How Washington’s Exaggerated Sense of Danger Harms Us All ([link removed] )

By John Glaser and Christopher A. Preble

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