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<title><![CDATA[Nancy Youssef - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19326.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Nancy Youssef]]></description><category domain="19326">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a naval aviator, Alvin Holsey trained to conduct missions that required precise targeting. For years, his job was to fly helicopters over potential targets and, using radar and other detectors, assess whether they posed a threat to the United States; if so, he had to determine whether...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hospitalization Deepens Mystery of Sec Def's Absence]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His No. 2 at the Pentagon didn't learn of his hospital stay until days after he was admitted.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Hillary Clinton Got Wrong About the World]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As DNC 2016 begins, many of Secretary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s signature causes are now a problem for candidate Hillary.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is This Game Over for Assad's Enemies?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/06/is-this-game-over-for-assad-s-enemies.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Aleppo falls, the Syrian war could quickly turn in President Bashar al-Assad'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??s favor'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??and spell the end for the rebel bid for freedom.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress: Bowe Bergdahl Swap Was FUBAR]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/07/congress-bowe-bergdahl-swap-was-fubar.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new congressional report is critical of the Obama administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to trade five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. And the report ascribes a political motivation to the prisoner swap, according to two sources familiar with the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did CENTCOM Cover Up Cooked ISIS Intel?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/23/analysts-accuse-centcom-of-covering-up-cooked-isis-intelligence.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In July, a group of intelligence analysts at the U.S. military'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Central Command accused their bosses of distorting and selectively editing intelligence reports about the fight against ISIS in order to portray that campaign as more successful than it really was. As a result of those...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Libya Post-War Plan Was 'Play It By Ear']]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/20/hillary-s-libya-post-war-plan-was-play-it-by-ear-gates-says.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Hillary Clinton appears before Congress'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s special committee on Benghazi Thursday, she'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll likely be asked all the wrong questions.Clinton will be peppered with queries about why she kept a private email server, what caused the 2012 attacks on the U.S. special consulate in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WH Thinks Syria Policy Working Like a Charm]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/07/obama-official-says-putin-s-new-war-is-a-sign-of-american-success.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Russian airstrikes on Syria are a sign that U.S. policy is working, a senior State Department official told shocked Syrian-American advocates in a private meeting on Monday.The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Russians wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have to help Assad if we didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t weaken him,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' U.S. special envoy for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The ISIS Intel the Military Dumbed Down]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/20/exclusive-this-is-the-isis-intel-the-u-s-military-dumbed-down.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senior intelligence officials at the U.S. military'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Central Command demanded significant alterations to analysts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' reports that questioned whether airstrikes against the so-called Islamic State widely known as ISIS were damaging the group'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s finances and its ability to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spies: Obama's Brass Pushed Us to Downplay ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/26/spies-obama-s-brass-pressured-us-to-downplay-isis-threat.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senior military and intelligence officials have inappropriately pressured U.S. terrorism analysts to alter their assessments about the strength of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, three sources familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast. Analysts have been pushed to portray the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Plan to Save Iraq: Tear It Apart]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/10/obama-s-new-plan-to-save-iraq-tear-it-apart.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s decision to send another 450 troops to Iraq is the latest example of a strategy mired in double paradox. The U.S. wants to save a unified Iraq'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'by strengthening the ethnic and religious militias that could tear the country apart. And to pull it off, Washington...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's New ISIS Plan: Nothing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/29/team-obama-shrugs-at-isis-victories.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The self-proclaimed Islamic State has claimed a major provincial capital in Iraq and taken over another strategically key city in Syria. In response, the Obama administration plans to do'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'well, not much of anything new.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everything the WH Said About Bergdahl Was Wrong]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/25/everything-the-white-house-told-you-about-bowe-bergdahl-was-wrong.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The soldier whose service Susan Rice, U.S. national security advisor, once characterized as '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'honorable'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and whose release came at the price for five prisoners could now himself end up in an American himself prison for life. The prison exchange that some political operatives thought...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pentagon Doubts Its Own ISIS War Plan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/20/pentagon-doubts-its-own-isis-war-plan.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Won't Back Egypt Against ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/18/u-s-won-t-back-egypt-s-attacks-on-isis.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nancy Youssef</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration was given multiple chances Wednesday to endorse a long-time ally'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s airstrikes on America'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s biggest enemy at the moment, the so-called Islamic State. Over and over again, Obama's aides declined to back Egypt'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s military operation against ISIS. It'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s another sign...]]></description>
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