Ben Freeman
@BenFreemanDC
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Director, Democratizing Foreign Policy @quincyinst @RStatecraft - foreign influence, #FARA, money in politics.
Washington, D.C.
Joined May 2011
All this foreign influence news is really getting in the way of the writing I need to do on foreign influence.
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RT @nick_clevelands: This move is good news for 1. Lobbyists 2. Foreign governments 3. Corrupt officials like Gold Bar Bob But it's bad…
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RT @ChuckGrassley: I will be doing oversight of recent memo & continue my work to tighten foreign agent registration thru law TRANSPARENCY…
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"If the Trump Administration wants to live up to its slogan of putting 'America First' the very least they can do is defend America from foreign meddling." -@nick_clevelands & I in @RStatecraft on the new DOJ guidelines that cripple #FARA
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RT @KelleyBVlahos: Foreign agents lead to foreign entanglements. Ironic shot of Bondi in front of George Washington. My colleague @nick_cle…
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RT @RStatecraft: In one of her first official acts, AG Pam Bondi guts enforcement of foreign agent registration act, which has actually bee…
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RT @nick_clevelands: Overnight, Trump AG Pam Bondi nuked the Foreign Agents Registration Act. It is no longer enforcing criminal charges un…
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RT @KelleyBVlahos: COIN didn't work then and it won't work now. Ask Dave Petraeus how this ends. Just say no. Retired Navy Capt. Steve…
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Breaking news: a dark money think tank dedicated to maintaining dark money at think tanks is mad we want to end dark money think tanks.
As James Madison wrote to Thomas Jefferson, “Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger real or pretended from abroad.”
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@RCK52 Agreed. A key difference: Quincy discloses those like-minded donors and AEI does not. Transparency is key for meaningful foreign policy debates and restoring public trust in expertise/government.
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For more on think tank funding, check out our new report here: And publicly available/searchable database of think tank funding:
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RT @RStatecraft: NEW @BenFreemanDC : That is why we’re starting this column: the #LobbyHorse. We’ll track the trojan horse that is the mone…
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Introducing the Lobby Horse, a new @RStatecraft column from me and the Democratizing Foreign Policy team @QuincyInst. As I write in this inaugural piece, "We’ll track the trojan horse that is the money behind U.S. foreign policy."
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RT @EliClifton: Lockheed’s CEO boasted to investors about the incredible “value” to U.S. taxpayers provided by the $1.7 trillion F-35 progr…
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After being sentenced to prison for 11 years for bribery, Menendez goes full Trump. Calls the case a "witch hunt," and says President Trump was right, "This [justice] system is rotten to the core."
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RT @KelleyBVlahos: Congrats to @dandcaldwell & @mpdimino for their appointments to critical DoD roles in new admin! They've contrib importa…
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What a Looming $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget Means for Jobs @tkbarnes via @inkstickmedia pours some cold water (read: facts) on the myth that more defense $ = more jobs: "Despite perpetually increasing defense budgets, the industry has hemorrhaged jobs."
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RT @rtiron: NEW: Shock waves rocked the defense industry today when it found out the Pentagon is halting new contract awards and solicitati…
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