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#21630066 at 2024-09-20 19:59:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26490: USSS DOAR Director of Absolute Retard Edition

Witnesses backed by military, foreign $$ hype war with Iran

It's a lucrative business if you can get it

At a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing on Thursday, witnesses proposed confronting Iran directly by deploying more military capabilities to the Middle East and the authorization of the use of force.

Yet, they conveniently neglected to mention that their employers - which included one Pentagon contractor and several think tanks funded by weapons manufacturers - stand to rake in profits from selling Congress on a military-first approach to Iran.

One of the witnesses of the hearing - billed as "Israel and the Middle East at a Crossroads: How Tehran's Terror Campaigns Threatens the U.S. and our Allies" - was Kirsten Fontenrose. Fontenrose, a former Trump administration official, testified that the U.S. should pass an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), an open-ended congressional resolution that would authorize the president to engage in military action against Iran.

"The U.S. should make it clear to the leadership of Iran's proxy, drone and missile programs that new capabilities now permit the U.S. and partners to dismantle their facilities and chains of command with low to no risk of negative secondary effects," she said. "Though 'AUMF' is a four letter word in Congress, an Authorized Use of Military Force could convey this quickly and clearly."

Fontenrose is the President of Red Six Solutions, a red team defense consulting company and Pentagon contractor that prepares clients for threats against unmanned aerial systems. Its website boasts that its "pilot services include UAS operations, training, airspace coordination, event planning, and data generation with all types of UAS to include swarm, large-scale and turbine aircraft."

According to one of Red Six's partners, the company has explicitly prepared clients to combat threats from Iran.

Fontenrose is also a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council. In a financial conflict of interest document submitted to the subcommittee, Fontenrose disclosed a grant from Norway to the Atlantic Council. Yet, she did not mention the think tank's funding from Gulf countries, despite being required to list all foreign government contributions related to the hearing's content. Through embassies and state-owned companies, the UAE and Saudi Arabia (both have had an adversarial relations with Iran) contributed over $3 million and $300,000 respectively to the Atlantic Council over the past two years based on a review of annual reports.

Elliott Abrams, who was convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra affair, is back on Capitol Hill testifying on - of all things - Iran. During the hearing, Abrams testified that "we have too often been guided by fear of Iran, and have restrained the ability of both our own CENTCOM forces and of our ally Israel in responding to Iranian attacks. It's past time to put those fears behind us."

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/think-tanks-pentagon-contracts/

#21621758 at 2024-09-19 13:48:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #26481: Kamala Campaign Slowly Circling the Drain Edition

10:00 AM EDT
Israel and the Middle East at a Crossroads: How Tehran's Terror Campaign Threatens the U.S. and our Allies
House Foreign Affairs Committee
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WITNESSES:
The Honorable Elliott Abrams
Former Deputy Assistant to the President and
National Security Adviser
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Ms. Kirsten Fontenrose
Former Senior Director for the Gulf
National Security Council
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Ms. Carrie Filipetti
Executive Director
The Vandenberg Coalition
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Mr. Jonathan Lord
Senior Fellow and Director
Middle East Security
Center for a New American Security
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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/117655
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/israel-and-the-middle-east-at-a-crossroads-how-tehrans-terror-campaign-threatens-the-u-s-and-our-allies/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgBKthZSe4

#14083814 at 2021-07-09 00:54:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17821: WE'RE TAKIN BACK Edition

>>14083751

The fake news never ends.
"Kirsten Fontenrose" making shit up.

#3945470 at 2018-11-18 02:02:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5018 Wildfires in California Must be Stopped, Quit Fucking Taxpayers Edition

A top White House official responsible for American policy toward Saudi Arabia–Kirsten Fontenrose–has resigned