Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Pompeo Says U.S. Remains Committed to Ending Ukraine Corruption

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Categories: ASCF News Emerging Threats Bipartisianship

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Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said the U.S. is committed to supporting Ukraine and stamping out corruption in the country, denying that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani oversaw a shadow foreign policy toward the country.

“The foreign policy we were executing then is the same foreign policy we are executing today,” Pompeo said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday, when asked about Giuliani’s role. He said “Ukraine sits at the edge between democracy and tyranny in the easternmost part of Europe.”

Trump’s policy toward Ukraine and Giuliani’s role is a focus of the current impeachment trial in the Senate. Witnesses testified to House lawmakers in November that Giuliani circumvented the normal policy apparatus to demand that Ukraine investigate Democrat Joe Biden and his son as well as unsupported allegations that Ukraine -- not Russia -- sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

Pompeo said he will visit Ukraine soon. He canceled a trip earlier this month amid tensions with Iran that led to the air strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Pompeo said the Trump administration has done more for Ukraine than the Obama administration did, a reference to Trump’s decision to sell lethal weaponry to the government.

“President Trump has taken actions to counter Russia that President Obama has refused to take,” Pompeo said.

In the interview, Pompeo decried the extent to which Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group, has spread around the world, including in Latin America. He declined to say whether the U.S. would support the new government in Lebanon -- where Hezbollah has long played a role in politics -- after a new cabinet was unveiled Tuesday.

“We’ll have to take a look at it, I don’t know the answer to that yet,” Pompeo said. “We’re prepared to engage, provide support, but only to a government that has committed to reform.”

To contact the reporters on this story: Nick Wadhams in Washington at nwadhams@bloomberg.net;Kevin Cirilli in Washington at kcirilli@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Bill Faries at wfaries@bloomberg.net, Larry Liebert, Justin Blum

Photo: © Reuters FILE: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a joint news conference with Costa Rica's President Carlos Alvarado (not pictured) at the Presidential house in San Jose, Costa Rica January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate

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