Gaza and Elite Accountability
Connor Echols on a reckoning within the foreign-policy establishment.
Joe Biden with his National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan during a roundtable with Jewish community leaders on October 11, 2023, in Washington, DC.
(Drew Angerer / Getty Images)Many of Joe Biden’s closest advisers are now well ensconced in the sinecures reserved for the elite, working at think tanks, academia, and major media outlets. Normally, they could expect to have future jobs when the Democrats retake the White House. But this cozy situation is being disrupted by ongoing reporting showing the extent of their complicity in the Gaza genocide and other US crimes in the Middle East. I spoke about this with Connor Echols, managing editor of Responsible Statecraft, who wrote an excellent article on the efforts to hold these officials accountable.
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