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“It’s not just about the mom.” »P.13

POLITICS

Sinema
and Manchin
Know What
They Are Doing

Business-friendly Democrats don’t need to worry about reelection
when they can have lucrative second careers as lobbyists

%,// &/$5.ʔ&4 52// &$//ʔ*(7 7< &+,3 6202'(9,//$ʔ*(7 7< 723 5,*+7 /(9 5$',1ʔ*(7 7< it’s a core principle of economics that nancial interest in protecting the fossil fuel indus-

people do what they are incentivized to do. try, he’s also worked diligently to deny new Medicare

That may be why Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sine- dental benefits that seniors in his state desperately

ma of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia need. Manchin has been on a fundraising tear this

haven’t hesitated to oppose popular progressive year, despite stating recently that he hasn’t decided

policies in their own party’s spending bill: They whether he’ll run for reelection in 2024.

can bet on getting a payoff in the end. To understand what’s in it for conservative

During the fight over Democrats’ social spending Democratic senators who play the party’s villain

reconciliation bill, Sinema, for example, has played role, look at those who came before them: Many of

a prominent—albeit silent—role in watering down those who do big business’ bidding and then either

the party’s plan to allow Medicare to negotiate pre- fail to win reelection or retire quickly end up scor-

scription drug prices. She’s also helped gut Demo- ing lucrative careers on K Street. It’s the ultimate

crats’ plan to expand Medicare benefits, nixed tax win-win situation.

hikes on the wealthy and corpora- All of the former Democratic sen-

tions and pushed to make the overall ators who publicly opposed a public

bill smaller. While Sinema isn’t up for B Y health insurance option during the

reelection until 2024, she is polling Obama administration, for exam-

terribly and already facing the threat ANDREW PEREZ ple, ended up joining the influence

of a well-financed primary challenge. and industry. They became lobbyists or

While Manchin has a personal fi- WALKER BRAGMAN corporate consultants, or found work

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at corporate-funded think tanks, ac- at law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hau- Democrats’ sweeping voting rights & / 2 & . : , 6 ( ) 5 2 0 7 2 3 $ / ' 5 $ * 2 ʔ % / 2 2 0 % ( 5 * ʔ * ( 7 7 < % , / / & / $ 5 . ʔ & 4 5 2 / / & $ / / ʔ * ( 7 7 < ' : , * + 7 1 $ ' , * ʔ * ( 7 7 <
cording to a review by The Daily Post- er & Feld in 2019 shortly after he lost and democracy reform legislation,
er, a reader-supported investigative his seat. The firm said he would “ad- the For The People Act, would crack
journalism organization, of publicly vise clients in the financial services, down on shadow lobbying. However,
available records. defense and health care industries, Manchin opposed the bill this year,
among others, on a host of policy after sponsoring it in 2019. Manchin
Today, with Democrats in control matters.” Donnelly said in a state- has instead helped craft an alter-
of Washington, corporate America ment that he was looking forward to native voting rights bill that would
has been relying on some of these for- “putting my legislative skills to work leave the shadow lobbying loophole
mer Democratic senators-turned-in- on behalf of many of Akin Gump’s in place—an indication he might be
fluence peddlers to help limit Presi- clients.” In October, the White House keeping his job options open.
dent Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” announced that Biden will nominate
agenda bill and make sure lawmakers Donnelly to serve as ambassador to Former Colleagues
don’t pass anything that could threat- the Vatican.
en anyone’s profits. many of the democratic lawmak-
In May, following his 2020 elec- ers who played the agenda spoilers
It’s easy to imagine Sinema and tion loss, former Alabama Demo- when Barack Obama was president
Manchin joining their ranks. In fact, cratic Senator Doug Jones joined law have become professional influence
statistically speaking, it would be firm Arent Fox LLP as counsel. The peddlers. That’s true for every former
more surprising if they didn’t. firm said he planned to “advise cli- Democratic senator who publicly
ents across a wide variety of public opposed efforts to include a gov-
Shadow Lobbying policy issues and legal matters” and ernment health insurance plan, or a
would “focus particularly on issues in “public option,” in the party’s Afford-
most lawmakers take a spin the national security, health care and able Care Act (ACA).
through Washington’s proverbial “re- financial services industries.”
volving door” when they leave office Former Senator Joe Lieberman, the
and quickly start cashing in on their Shortly after taking office, Biden Connecticut Democrat-turned-inde-
connections. In May 2019, the watch- issued an executive order gesturing pendent, was the most visible oppo-
dog group Public Citizen reported at the shadow lobbying problem—de- nent of the public option in 2009 and
that nearly 60 percent of “recently re- manding that administration appoin- 2010. He retired in 2013 and began
tired or defeated U.S. lawmakers now tees agree that for one year they won’t working for the law firm Kasowitz
working outside politics have landed “materially assist others in making Benson Torres LLP several months
jobs influencing federal policy.” communications or appearances” later.
that they would be prohibited from
Federal ethics rules require for- making under ethics rules. The order, Lieberman doesn’t usually register
mer senators to undergo a two-year of course, won’t affect the legislative to lobby, but his firm biography says
“cooling-off ” period before lobbying branch’s revolving door. he “assists corporate clients on home-
their old colleagues, but there are land and national security, defense,
easy ways to evade post-employment DaebgmeeBconaocdrmraawapcestrkhipepcoMOosrlpaioibdalwlefanaeermmyynssetsoaawdihfkowhattenhhevaraneeessl health, energy, environmental poli-
restrictions and earn a quick buck LQʀXHQFH SHGGOHUV cy and intellectual property matters.”
serving corporate interests.
He is also the founding chairman
After leaving the government, sen- of No Labels, a dark money group for
ators often first take jobs as strategic Wall Street and GOP billionaires that
advisors or partners at corporate lob- has been working to block the Dem-
bying firms and help advise clients ocrats’ reconciliation bill. The group
and devise the firms’ influence strat- has showered praise on Sinema for
egies—without making any direct stalling the legislation, while Lieber-
contacts that would require them to man recently led a media campaign
register as lobbyists. This is known as for his new book on the virtues of
the “shadow lobbying” loophole. “centrism” where he routinely touted
Manchin and called on Democratic
Former Senator Joe Donnelly, a leaders to “accommodate” him.
conservative Democrat from Indiana,
for example, was named as a partner

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BUSINESS AS USUAL LLP in 2015 after losing her reelec-
Clockwise from top: House tion race. Landrieu has been lobby-
ing on behalf of Enterprise Products
Speaker Nancy Pelosi Operating LLC, a pipeline firm, over
signing a resolution to a provision in Biden’s budget that
continue funding the federal would raise taxes on publicly traded
government; former Senator fossil fuel partnerships.
Joe Donnelly, President
Biden’s pick to serve as Former Arkansas Senator Mark
ambassador to the Vatican; Pryor, a conservative Democrat who
helped negotiate a watered-down
and the U.S. Capitol. public option proposal before the
party dropped the idea altogether,
became a partner at the law firm
Venable LLP months after he lost
his seat. Pryor is now a shareholder
at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.
The firm describes him as “D.C.’s
go-to lobbyist to get things done,”
and says he “earned a reputation
on Capitol Hill as a ‘voice of rea-
son.’” Pryor has been lobbying on
Democrats’ reconciliation bill for
the American Petroleum Institute,
electric utility Duke Energy, AT&T
and General Motors.

Former Senator Blanche Lincoln, CVS Health, FedEx, Lockheed Martin, ‘My Door is Open’
Democrat of Arkansas, a public Home Depot and Walt Disney.
option opponent who lost in 2010, max baucus, a montana democrat
quickly joined a lobbying firm before “As Congress navigates the question who chaired the powerful Senate fi-
launching her own outfit, the Lincoln of how to fund the worthy goal of re- nance committee for much of the
Policy Group, a few years later. Once pairing our infrastructure, I strongly Obama era, led the process of writ-
a proponent of allowing Medicare to urge my former colleagues to avoid ing the ACA and helped keep a public
negotiate drug prices, she has been raising the corporate rate,” Lincoln option out of the bill. He later served
lobbying for Pfizer on “issues related wrote in an op-ed this summer. “Any as Obama’s ambassador to China.
to drug pricing.” increase would blunt the trajectory
of our country’s economic recovery Baucus now has a consulting firm,
Lincoln has also led the fight and serve as a barrier to the critical the Baucus Group. It’s not clear who
against Democrats’ plan to undo some goal of Building Back Better.” his clients are, but the firm’s web-
of the GOP’s 2017 tax cuts and raise site does feature a picture of Baucus
the corporate tax rate as an adviser for Another public option opponent, saying: “My door is open.” In recent
the RATE Coalition. The group’s mem- formerer Senator Mary Landrieu, months, he has spoken against efforts
bers include companies like AT&T, Democrat of Louisiana, took a job at by Democrats to close two different
the lobbying firm Van Ness Feldman tax loopholes for the wealthy in order
to fund their reconciliation bill.

Former Nebraska Senator Ben Nel-
son, a Democrat who prominently
opposed a public option, immediate-
ly joined a public affairs firm after re-
tiring in 2013 and also launched his
own consulting company. The public

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affairs firm, Agenda Global, lists sev- that Democrats would likely have to “That’s a daunting number.”
eral fossil fuel clients on its website, scale back their reconciliation bill, Kent Conrad, a former North Da-
including Chevron and ConocoPhil- warning that their social spend-
lips. The firm also says it represents ing proposal was too large. “I don’t kota senator who also opposed the
“doctors, private insurance companies know that anybody has the political public option, retired in 2013. He
and university research hospitals to strength to get $3.5 trillion, so I sus- went on to become a senior fellow at
ensure that their respective interests pect there will be some negotiating the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think
are heard.” along the way to come up with an- tank whose donors include corpo-
other number or maybe in steps over rate lobbying groups, fossil fuel com-
Nelson’s own company, Heart- the next three or four years,” he said. panies, health insurers, drugmakers,
land Strategy Group, describes defense contractors and big banks.
itself as “a full-service consulting, Twrbcasehcanuitnorodsierrsirtneeieenhreqewgesslunelsohuic’cneocbtkirKditiloadhyoSntedeibtvroinrniefrgedageiulttp.o
issue management and advocacy Corporate records show Conrad
firm” that represents “corporate, also signed onto the paperwork for
nonprofit, political and trade asso- Dakota Strategies LLC, a consult-
ciation clients.” Heartland Strategy ing firm led by his wife, who was a
Group says its clients have included longtime lobbyist for Major League
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Nebras- Baseball and the Children’s Hospital
ka, tobacco company Altria and TC Association. Conrad is also a board
Energy, the oil and gas company member at the Committee for a Re-
that sought to build the Keystone sponsible Federal Budget, a pro-aus-
XL pipeline. terity think tank that’s received
funding from conservative billion-
In September, Nelson told The Hill aire Charles Koch’s family founda-
tion, the Koch Network’s Americans
for Prosperity Foundation, and the
foundation led by Walmart heir Car-
rie Walton Penner.

In July, Conrad wrote a column de-
manding Democrats constrain their
ability to spend money.

“As a former chairman of the Sen-
ate Budget Committee, I am uniquely
familiar with budget reconciliation,”
he wrote. “I have seen it used wisely,
and I have seen it used recklessly, and
I urge the Senate to reinstate the rule
we put in place in 2007: the ‘Conrad
Rule,’ which prevents any reconcilia-
tion bill from increasing the deficit.”

Ơ Andrew Perez is senior editor for
and Walker Bragman is a reporter for
THE DAILY POSTER, a reader-supported

investigtive journalism organization:

dailyposter.com.

PUBLIC SPEAKER Then-Senator Kent $/(; :21*ʔ*(77<
Conrad talking to the press in 2012. After
retirement, he became a senior fellow
at a corporate sponsored think tank.

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We’re Not
Getting Free
Community College

Here’s how to support workers equitably

president biden recently the pandemic has exacerbated these

announced that after negotia- disparities; according to data from

tions with moderate Democrats, his the National Student Clearinghouse,

Build Back Better Act would no longer enrollment among Black students in

include 12 weeks of paid family and two- and four-year colleges fell by 10

medical leave and free community percent in the spring of 2021, double

college. While this was disappointing, the national average.

all hope is not lost for workers; the We can’t keep perpetuating the

new plan still includes $40 billion to same structures and hoping for better

make higher education and training results. Building back better requires

more affordable, including expanded ensuring that our education systems &/2&.:,6( )520 723 /()7 *(7 7< 52%(572 6&+0,'7ʔ$)3ʔ*(7 7 < 6 ( 5 * , 2 ) /25(6ʔ%/2 20%(5*ʔ*(7 7< *(7 7<

Pell Grants and critical deliver on economic

investments in skills- opportunity for all.

based training, support B Y Below are a few insights

services and America’s from the research to

workforce development ANGELA JACKSON help us get there.

infrastructure. and First, short-term

These investments RACHEL LIPSON training needs to con-

will have a sizable impact, nect directly to good

especially if educational institutions jobs. Prior studies show that learn- toward such programs.
Second, we need to address the
and training providers remember and-earn programs that link training
social determinants of working and
workers of color and others who are to good-paying work opportunities— learning. There are a number of essen-
tial conditions that help to determine
too often left behind. like, for example, apprenticeships— employment outcomes, including
housing, transportation, childcare
America needs this focus urgently. provide high return on investment, and access to health care. Research
reveals that these factors are espe-
A recent analysis of enrollment data whereas the results for “stand-alone” cially critical for success on the job
for low-income workers of color, who
from 40 states found that Black and short-term training programs are are less likely to have affordable access
to support services in their neighbor-
Latinx students were more likely to much more mixed. hoods.

wind up in programs oriented toward If we want to create clear pathways The new Build Back Better frame-
work includes investments in afford-
lower-paying fields like hospitality, into family-sustaining careers, we able health care and housing, as well

whereas white students were more need to vet training programs for NOVEMBER 26, 2021

likely to enroll in STEM and IT. Black outcomes like job quality and upward

Americans also remain underrepre- mobility. Policymakers can help by dis-

sented in registered apprenticeship continuing short-term programs with

programs, traditionally one of the questionable labor market value, and

most proven pathways to good-pay- interrupting the systems that tend to

ing jobs without a college degree. And channel low-income students of color

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LEARNING Clockwise from top left:
masked in a lecture hall; President
Biden; practicing parallel parking at
Iowa Central Community College in
Fort Dodge, IA; heading to school.

as a provision for universal pre-K that We need a sustainable short-term Finally, to hold institutions
will go a long way to supporting work- training strategy for the long-term accountable for success, we need bet-
ing families. But it would be a real future of work. Research shows that ter and more intentional data track-
game-changer for learners if Congress the jobs that are growing fastest will ing by race and by socioeconomic
ever decides to allocate the $62 billion require both technical and social status. Too few public and private
proposed in President Biden’s Amer- skills. To date, too few programs cover funders have mandated, collected or
ican Families plan to fund childcare, both—but these dual capabilities are shared data on participation in edu-
emergency aid grants, mental health a requirement for future-ready jobs. cation and training programs by race
support and other wraparound ser- and class. They also too rarely connect
vices at community colleges. Few Wtffsouruaertsiutnnthraieeneiengoldaofsbnawtlrgeoa-rtstkeehgr.omyrt-term to administrative data sources that
short-term training programs provide would help all stakeholders under-
these supports to their learners. stand the longer-term outcomes.

Third, job training must focus on President Biden’s racial equity exec-
economic resiliency. If we direct work- utive order is a good first step toward
ers toward training for jobs that they using data and evidence to under-
will lose to automation, then we’re stand the reach of various training
just kicking the can down the road. programs. But we need more data
and more accountability to move the
needle on racial equity in job training.

While higher education and
training has served as the ultimate
upward social elevator, our current
approach isn’t lifting up all Ameri-
cans equally. To change course, we
need first to reverse decades of
underinvestment in job training;
then we also need to expand the
types of training we invest in; finally,
we need to use proven strategies to
advance equity in education, train-
ing and workforce development.

Ơ Rachel Lipson is director of Har-
vard University’s Project on Workforce,
an interdisciplinary initiative focused
on policy and research at the intersec-
tion of education and labor markets.
Dr. Angela Jackson is a managing
partner at New Profit, where she leads
the venture philanthropy organiza-
tion’s investments around the “future
of work” and economic mobility. The
views in this article are the writers’ own.

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How I Became One of
37,000 Homeless Veterans

Service in the Navy was supposed to guarantee a good civilian
job later and access to needed medical care. It didn’t

in 2006, i served as a u.s. navy drawal from the anti-anxiety med- unique. On a single night in January
IT specialist aiding my ship’s ications I wasn’t getting from the
mission of finding and neutralizing Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). 2020, 37,252 veterans were victims of
pirates off the coast of Somalia. Two Between childhood trauma and my
years later, I was homeless, stand- four years in the service, I relied on homelessness. And the VA processes
ing in a line in Gainesville, Florida, medications such as clonazepam for
that twisted around the block so I anxiety and Zoloft for PTSD, but the about 80 percent of veteran prescrip-
could donate blood in exchange for VA delivered my medication through
20 bucks. the mail, and I hadn’t had a stable tions by mail, so when a veteran loses
Many of the men waiting with home for some time—I was couch
me looked almost as bad as I did— surfing, car snoozing or sleeping in their home, they often lose access to
all of us homeless and hungry. My the back of the restaurant where I
hair was matted, crusted from dan- worked. With no permanent address, the medications their life depends on.
druff, and my eyes were bloodshot. my meds never found me.
My fingers tingled because of with- Veterans bear the physical and
Sadly, my situation was far from
mental scars of military service, yet

when they return home,

many of us face a soci-

B Y ety ill-equipped to offer
proper care. Instead,

ALEX MILLER once a year, our country
celebrates Veterans Day
@oneheart1city

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tive. I applied to IBM, Google, Apple access to medications, just trying to
with parades, services and department and 50 other companies. I got one or stay alive. For the first three years, I
store sales. But homeless veterans two interviews, but neither led to a job. lived in the South—Virginia, Florida,
don’t need discounts; we need a sys- Alabama—mostly couch surfing. I
tem that protects them. I’m not the only one who has never grappled with layers of complex psy-
seen this “military preference” play chological trauma and distress, but
We need a comprehensive out in the job hunt. The truth hurts: I wasn’t getting properly diagnosed;
approach, one that ensures access to That preference is a myth. Companies the mental health treatment options
jobs, housing, medication and treat- often don’t hire vets. They worry about in the South are very limited. Worse,
ments that holistically address their whether or not we’ll be able to settle like so many vets, I didn’t know about
needs. Instead, many veterans who into normal jobs along with other the benefits I was entitled to because
leave the tangle of war end up on stereotypes—that we all wear foil hats the VA didn’t tell me. I spent years
America’s streets, still fighting daily and fall back into flashbacks of war. wrangling with the callous bureau-
for their survival. cracy of the VA: dropped calls, rude
Three months after I left the Navy, I receptionists, misinformation about
This was the fate I was trying to ended up a broken, broke man. I had benefits. On top of that, I faced the
escape when I left the projects on to leave my apartment in Virginia daily indignities of joblessness, home-
Chicago’s South Side. I came from because of an eviction notice, a car I lessness and racism. As a Black man in
the Robert Taylor Homes, infamous couldn’t afford, jobs I couldn’t get. I the South, I felt smothered. I needed
for their brutality, murder, rape and was embarrassed. to get out. So when a friend in New
drugs. On 9/11, I got swept up in the York City offered me a place to stay, I
patriotism that gripped the nation. I’d go on to spend the next five saw my opportunity for a fresh start.
At 15, I vowed to join the military to A home. Treatment. A new beginning.
serve my country, knowing if I died, at REALITY Opposite: A homeless
least it wouldn’t be on the streets. At encampment for veterans in Brentwood, But he didn’t tell me the offer was
18, I enlisted in the Navy. I spent four California; author Miller. Below: Secretary
years traveling the world engaged in of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough and
goodwill missions, intelligence gather- White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
ing and assistance with other military
branches.

But this regimented life wore on me.
I saw firsthand the misuse of Ameri-
can military power, our imperialist
treatment of developing countries
and the harm we inflicted on vulner-
able people. It triggered a crisis of
conscience and more trauma in my
already depleted body. I was ready to
return to civilian life.

I left under the impression I could
get any job I wanted. We heard it
often—vets receive preference in the
workforce—and high-skilled IT spe-

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good only for a month. After that, he when we do inquire for help. veteran care. More recently, in 2019,
kicked me out and I began living on Programs do exist, but you have to a whistleblower asserted yet again
the Brooklyn streets in the dead of that the department’s official wait list
winter. I still remember wearing white know somebody. Or you need to call contained just a fraction of the actual
Converse low-tops stuffed with plastic with the dogged persistence of a debt number of veterans waiting for care,
bags on the insides in January, because collector. It’s absurd to expect this which the department denied. That
that was the only footwear I owned. from those of us barely scratching out same year another whistleblower told
The one pair of pants I owned, black our survival. Congress the VA ordered her to sched-
Levis, was never not wet. My thin black ule fake appointments for veterans in
jacket was holding up like rice under a Depressed veterans calling the Vet- order to shorten the wait list. But the
faucet. I would frequently find myself erans Suicide Hotline have had their public shaming didn’t lead to reform.
with my new friend Jeremy, also a calls dropped or gone directly to
Navy vet, drinking 40s on a stoop in voicemail, a failure so rampant that a In recent years, nonprofits have
Brooklyn; if you’re looking for ways to new bill was introduced this year to stepped in to fill in the gaps left by
suppress your PTSD, malt liquor pairs tackle these deficiencies. Veterans are the VA, like Call of Duty Endowment,
well with self-hatred and regret. Inevi- yelled at by VA receptionists, rushed the National Coalition for Homeless
tably, a cop would appear to harass us, through appointments with doctors Veterans and Stackup. These efforts
an experience my fellow homeless vets and, when we find ourselves houseless, offer hope, but I can’t shake the fact
and I grew familiar with, even after we the medications keeping us alive dis- that we have a VA funded by taxpayer
identified ourselves as veterans. appear into the mail or sit unclaimed dollars that is tasked with honoring
in pharmacies. the nation’s veterans with dignified
It wasn’t just cops. Violence stalks care—and it’s failing at this.
homeless veterans at every turn. When Instead of efficiency, scandals rock
I slept in shelters, I was often next to the department. In 2014, a scathing I’m in a better place these days. I
ex-cons with any number of offenses; report showed that the department haven’t been homeless in years. I
according to the Department of Hous- falsified medical waiting lists to cover recently moved into a new apart-
ing and Urban Development over up excessive wait times and delayed ment, and I’ve carved out a nice writ-
50,000 people move directly from ing career. But I’m still healing. With
prison into a shelter every year. swela“f-yIhfsPyatoTtoruSpes’Drudaeip,armlpsnordwoaelkresteilslnligqwygruoefituooth.rrr” the pandemic, access to mental health
continues to be a struggle. Sure, I can
Over time, I figured out how to get my meds now, but with so many $/(; %5$1'21ʔ*(77<
work the VA’s system. I learned how to other vets vying for attention from
be persistent, how to be the squeaki- therapists, I’ve repeatedly been told
est wheel. That helped me access my that there were none available.
GI Bill benefits, which allowed me to
receive the Yellow Ribbon scholarship, So I turn to those in my life for sup-
enroll in classes at the New School and port. My writing group. A few friends.
find an apartment with a new friend. My cat. Eventually, I’ll muster up the
My persistence helped me network energy to make more calls to the VA, to
with other veterans to learn about seek out programs, to fight for my care.
programs, therapies and group ses- But it’s sad it’s come to this. I left the
sions that helped me rebuild my men- military because I was done fighting.
tal health. So many of us veterans are
ignorant about VA programs and ben- Ơ Alex Miller has written for THE NEW
efits because the VA fails to communi-
cate with us, and often stonewalls us YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST,

RESPECT Army Sgt. Brian Pomerville THE BYLINE BIBLE and THE CHICAGO
(left) and his wife Tiffany Lee at a NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDEBOOK. He is
centennial observation at the Tomb working on a memoir. This story was
of the Unknown Soldier Plaza. supported by the journalism non-profit
organization the Economic Hardship
Reporting Project. The views in this
article are the writer’s own.

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ADAPTABLE wenty years after the worst attack ever tems,” “unmanned aircraft systems” or simply, UAS.
Clockwise from top: to occur on U.S. soil, it’s not just large passenger “I kind of wonder what could you do if you had a
Agricultural drones planes that are keeping defense officials and experts couple of small UAS and you flew into a crowded
being tested in Turkey; up at night. They are just as worried about the threat stadium,” the U.S. military official tells Newsweek.
the controls of a police from smaller, readily available unmanned aerial sys- While “no specific knowledge” of an active threat
drone used for security tems capable of carrying deadly payloads. was discussed, the official says “there is concern giv-
at May’s G7 summit in Drones are not tomorrow’s weapons of mass en the proliferation of small, portable drones, that
Cornwall, England; and destruction. The arsenals of the world’s armies are explosive drones could cause a mass casualty event.”
the cloud over lower already full of them. Meanwhile, it is getting eas-
Manhattan following the ier and cheaper to outfit commercially available It wouldn’t be the first time the nation had been
collapse of the World models with a range of weapons, making them caught off guard by a threat looming right in front
Trade Center towers on increasingly tempting options for terrorists and of authorities. “It’s just like I had no specific knowl-
September 11, 2001. other violent non-government groups. edge before 9/11 that people could hijack planes
One U.S. military official who requested anonym- and crash into buildings, but Tom Clancy wrote a
ity paints a potential nightmare picture involving book about it,” the U.S. military official says.
small drones, referred to as “unmanned aerial sys-
When the political thriller Debt of Honor was
released in 1994 depicting a hijacked airliner

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“THERE IS CONCERN targeting the U.S. Capitol, the concept of an aerial
GIVEN THE PROLIFERATION suicide raid had largely been confined in the na-
tional consciousness to Japanese kamikaze pilots in
OF SMALL, PORTABLE DRONES, World War II. When nearly 3,000 were killed on Sep-
THAT EXPLOSIVE DRONES tember 11, 2001, that memory again became a reality.

COULD CAUSE A Shortly after 9/11, the United States became the
MASS CASUALTY EVENT.” first country to truly weaponize drones, fitting
them with precision missiles that became a staple
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have evolved from high-end military technology to
commercial devices for a variety of industries as
well as hobby items flown by enthusiasts across the
globe and sold by a multitude of companies on the
civilian market. With the explosion of this seem-
ingly innocent innovation has come a rise in nefar-
ious usage that the U.S. military official with whom
Newsweek spoke describes as “an emergent threat”
already demonstrated in several high-profile events.

One such event came on November 7 when
three explosive-laden UAS, believed to be simple
commercially available quadcopter models, target-
ed the residence of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa
al-Kadhimi in an assassination attempt. Kadhimi
lived, but photos of his home revealed the destruc-
tive capabilities of such devices. Kadhimi was not
the first world leader to be preyed upon by bomb-
rigged UAS. In August 2018, two drones carrying ex-
plosives detonated in an apparent attempt to take
out Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during
a military parade in Caracas. Maduro escaped with
his life.

Loitering With Intent

prior to these incidents, militants and militias
had already managed to utilize commercial drones,
giving non-state actors a sort of rudimentary yet
deadly air force to take on better-equipped foes. In
Iraq and Syria, U.S. troops have been targeted from
above by both the Islamic State militant group
(ISIS) and Iran-aligned paramilitary forces.

Highly destructive UAS have seen action on the
battlefield in the form of loitering munitions—so-
called because they “loiter” around the target area
waiting for their victim. They are also widely re-
ferred to as “kamikaze” drones or “suicide” drones,
evoking their self-destructive, single-use nature Last
year, Azerbaijani forces used them to gain a deadly
edge over Armenian rivals during a brief but bloody
war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory.

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POSSIBILITIES “They’re relatively small, inexpensive drones, but they where we will be seeing things is that the amount
Counterclockwise from kind of cross that boundary between a drone and of explosives will get bigger now.”
below: Repairing a drone; guided missile,” the U.S. military official says.
weapons analyst Zachary Small commercial UAS have a unique advantage
That point is echoed by a security official from over traditional aircraft and missile platforms:
Kallenborn; damage Israel, a country that produced some of the loi- They have no launch signature generated by a fi-
caused by drones in tering munitions employed by Azerbaijani forces ery blast but instead take off quietly, making them
a 2018 assassination and which are now a potential concern for Iran as far more difficult to detect. Used in large numbers,
attempt in Caracas on tensions simmer between the neighbors. “This tool known as a swarm, they’re also harder to intercept.
Venezuelan president today is so easy, and small drones, you just really “If you need to intercept a dozen [UAS], an F-16 pay-
Nicolás Maduro; and order them in and you’ve got yourself like a guided load, if it’s only doing air-to-air, would be about
a drone display at the precision missile,” the Israeli security official tells six different air-to-air missiles,” the Israeli official
opening ceremony of the Newsweek. The Israeli official says that even with says. “So that already means that you need a few
2020 Tokyo Olympics. their current destructive potential, the munitions at- airplanes, and you need the time if you’re looking
tached to UAS today are in their relative infancy. No at interception.”
single drone could yet replicate a 9/11-style attack.
Their potential, however, is already rapidly growing. Israel was among the first nations to refine war-
time drone technology, and it continues to field
“They are becoming much more accurate in their various platforms for covert missions. But its ri-
capabilities of navigation,” the official says. “I think vals have also demonstrated early prowess for such
technology, as proven by the Lebanese Hezbollah,
the Palestinian Hamas and their supporter, Iran. GETTY; COURTESY OF ZACHARY KALLENBORN

Iran has developed an extensive arsenal of
drones, including suicide drones capable of flying
further than 1,240 miles. Israel and the U.S. have
both accused Iran of directly supplying UAS tech-
nology to militias across the Middle East, an allega-
tion denied by the Islamic Republic.

“I think Tehran has its own independent defense
program based on its defense needs and can de-
fine its efforts to counter the threats by strength-
ening its defense capabilities,” an Iranian official
tells Newsweek. China has also excelled in UAS tech-
nology and Russia has developed high-end systems
of its own as well.

The Israeli security official identifies another
trend that could prove deeply problematic to the
safety of the Middle East and beyond, a trend linked
to the U.S.’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. “We do see
a rise in what potentially could come again with the
terror activities and the kind of backing that some
of the terror organizations feel stronger and maybe
even more courageous,” the Israeli security official
says. “This tool of drones can definitely be something
that we might be seeing more.”

‘Highly Effective Delivery Systems’

one man who has written and spoken exten-
sively on the potential impact of drones in the
wrong hands is Zachary Kallenborn. Kallenborn is
a policy fellow at George Mason University’s Schar

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ATTEMPT TO TAKE OUT and Responses to Terrorism. He has also served as
a national security consultant and contributed to
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT the U.S. Army as part of its Mad Scientist initiative
NICOLÁS MADURO on the future of warfare. “Drones are definitely ca-
pable of causing mass casualties,” Kallenborn tells
Newsweek by email.

“Growing drone technology also increasingly
allows drones to be flown autonomously or in
collaborative swarms,” Kallenborn says. “That in-
creases the damage potential significantly. Imag-
ine a terrorist air raid: a group of drones dropping
bombs on a concert or stadium crowd.” Even more
damaging, attackers could vastly multiply casualties
by employing weapons of mass destruction, Kallen-
born warns. “Drones would be highly effective de-
livery systems for chemical, biological, radiological
and nuclear weapons,” he says . “Drones could, say,
spray the agent right over a crowded area.” Kallen-
born adds he is “also quite concerned about drone
attacks on airplanes, because aircraft engines and
wings are not designed to survive drone strikes.”

But he also says that “who the attacker is mat-
ters a lot,” adding that “a big limiter” for worst-case
scenarios “is the ability of terrorists to acquire the
chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear agent,
which they have historically struggled with.” It
would be difficult, he says, for a militant group to
acquire both the material and manpower to fly a
swarm-sized fleet while avoiding detection.

“But that limitation is not an issue for state mili-
taries,” Kallenborn says. “Militaries have the resourc-
es and technology to make truly massive swarms
that could rival the harm of traditional weapons of
mass destruction, including small nuclear weapons.”

Even well-funded militaries face obstacles, how-
ever. “Not only is such a weapon massively powerful,
it would be quite difficult to control,” Kallenborn
says. “If you have 1,000 drones working together
without human control, that’s 1,000 opportuni-
ties for failure. And even more, because in a true
drone swarm, the drones talk [to each other]. As
we’ve seen with COVID vaccine paranoia, misin-
formation can spread easily even among beings far
smarter than an algorithm-guided drone.”

Notwithstanding their operational challenges,

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neuvers. The U.S. military official Newsweek spoke
with is skeptical about drone defense systems being HAS GIVEN BIRTH
acquired by the Department of Defense. TO A BOOMING NEW INDUSTRY

“The DOD is pouring a lot of money and effort OF COUNTER-DRONE TECHNOLOGIES.
into counter-UAS technology, but I think the DOD’s
PR exceeds the actual capability of these devices,”
the official says.

The Pentagon has designated the Army to take
the lead on counter-UAS strategy. Army public
affairs officer Jason Waggoner points to the cre-
ation of a new multi-service Joint C-sUAS Office.
“The JCO is focusing efforts on small-UAS threats
and hazards both at domestic DoD facilities and
abroad,” he says. “While there are some unique as-
pects to the approach the DoD takes in countering
the UAS threat in the homeland, we have the ca-
pabilities needed to protect designated resources
and assets and we are continuously working with
our interagency partners to enhance our abilities
even further.”

Also keeping an eye out for domestic UAS activity
is the Federal Aviation Authority. An FAA spokes-
person says “The FAA is tasked with ensuring the
safety of the National Airspace System (NAS) as well
as people and property on the ground.”

“When criminal activity is suspected, we work with
our federal, state and local law enforcement part-
ners by providing them assistance with their inves-
tigations and prosecutions,” the spokesperson says

One way the FAA is seeking to improve the ability
for authorities to spot UAS is by enforcing remote
identification, through which drones would be re-
quired to provide key information such as identity,
altitude and current location as well as the loca-
tion of its operator and take-off point. “Remote
identification requirements for all UAS operators,
when combined with our current registration re-
quirement, will enable more effective detection
and identification,” the spokesperson says. “This
will also help law enforcement to connect an un-
authorized drone with its operator.”

Defense Tech

the rise of the drone threat has given birth
to a booming new industry of counter-drone
technologies. Among the leading companies is
DroneShield, an Australian firm that has supplied

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cutting-edge tools to the likes of NATO military and drones and kinetic systems capable of blasting UAS Counterclockwise from
the United Nations. . out of the sky.”Without dedicated C-UAS system opposite top: A Saudi
for detection and defeat of such UAS,” Vornik says, Arabian oil processing
“Small UAS can be seen as a highly effective and “there would be no warning and no time to react, plant after an attack
cheap platform for surveillance and payload deliv- until it is too late and the damage is done.” by drones in 2019; a
ery,” CEO Oleg Vornik tells Newsweek via email. “A U.S. military Predator
small UAS can easily carry up to a few pounds of As to whether such tools and methods can be drone and the team
weight—this is a lot of explosive or biological or employed before the next attack, he has doubts. responsible for its take
chemical weapons.” “We live in a reactive society,” he says. “Boulders offs and landings in
across the pathways have only started to be placed Kandahar, Afghanistan;
“What’s more,” he adds, “at $1,000–$2,000 per after terrorists used vehicles to bulldoze through and DroneShield
UAS, and swarming technologies available today— crowds, as an example.” CEO Oleg Vornik with
think of giant figures in the sky or fireworks, all one of his company’s
generated by choreographed drones—this can be “We need to be more proactive in setting up UAS anti-drone devices.
easily in hundreds of drones, each carrying a dan- detection and defeat systems across areas where
gerous substance.” large gatherings of people are likely, the high pro-
file places, sort of areas which would be terror
Even if suggested controls were put in place, sweet spots,” Vornik says. “Law enforcement and
he says, the threat would only partially be ad- homeland security personnel need to be trained for
dressed.“UAS can be purchased today in a complete- this threat, much like more conventional attacks.”
ly unrestricted way, being considered toys, essen-
tially. Registration would solve some of the issue,
but consider how many unregistered firearms get
used for terrorism,” Vornik says. “The pilot of the
drone would also be invisible/difficult to catch in
an attack, making it more appealing to use”

In addition to the physical threat, he warns of
potential cyberattacks employing UAS. “Call it a con-
spiracy, but we received reports that the Ever Given
container ship—yes, the one that blocked Suez Ca-
nal and stopped much of sea traffic—was due to a
cyber hacking from a drone, when a request for ran-
som was denied,” Vornik says. “We are now hearing
of this commonly from ship customers, especially
in areas close to the better-known rogue states.”

DroneShield recently released the 6th edition
of its counter-UAS factbook, which details the
scope of potential threats posed by small drones.
The guide covers recent events in drone warfare,
including the 2019 attacks on Saudi Aramco oil
sites, claimed by Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement
but blamed by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. on Iran.
It also gives examples of the latest innovations by
China and Russia, and identifies some of the most
popular heavy-lifting UAS that could be used more
discreetly than their larger cousins.

The report provides potential solutions as well,
including a range of detection capabilities such
as radio frequency, radar, acoustic, optic and
multi-sensor systems. It also lists neutralizing assets
including radio frequency jammers, GPS jammers,
cyber tactics, directed energy attacks, counter-UAS

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Maggiano’s Little Italy +++++ Fuzzy’s Taco Shop +++++ Famous Dave’s ++++
Olive Garden +++++ Moe’s Southwest Grill +++++ Jim ’N Nick’s ++++
Romano’s Macaroni Grill On the Border +++++ Lucille’s Smokehouse BBQ +++++
Spaghetti Warehouse ++++ Pappasito’s Cantina +++++ MISSION BBQ ++++
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Valentino’s ++++ Salsarita’s ++++ Rudy’s Real Texas Bar-B-Q +++++
++++ Taco Bell +++++ Shane’s Rib Shack ++++
7 ( ;ʝ 0 ( ; Taco Bueno Smokey Bones +++++
Abuelo’s ++++ Taco John’s ++++ Sonny’s BBQ ++++
Baja Fresh +++++ Tijuana Flats ++++ Texas Roadhouse +++++
Cafe Rio Uncle Julio’s ++++ Tony Roma’s +++++
California Tortilla ++++ +++++
Cantina Laredo ++++ BBQ +++++
Chevys Fresh Mex ++++ Bennigan’s
Chuy’s ++++ Bill Miller +++++ BURGERS ++++
+++++ ++++ Back Yard Burgers +++++
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Checkers ++++ ++++ Tim Hortons +++++
Chili’s +++++ Raising Cane’s
Cook Out ++++ Zaxby’s
Culver’s +++++
Five Guys +++++
Freddy’s ++++
Hardee’s +++++
In-N-Out Burgers +++++
McDonald’s ++++
Red Robin ++++
Shake Shack +++++
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El Pollo Loco ++++ Bruster’s +++++
Jollibee +++++ Duck Donuts +++++
KFC +++++ Dunkin’ +++++ Carvel ++++
Popeyes +++++
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++++ Krispy Kreme ++++ Culver’s +++++
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sweetFrog +++++ Pei Wei ++++ MOD ++++
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Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe +++++ BJ’s +++++ ++++
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if there’s one word to describe avan jogia, it’s “undefinable.” Were you a fan of the
From acting to writing to art, he refuses to do just one thing. “It probably original video games?
would have been easier for me if I had fully committed myself to one discipline.” I grew up playing the games. My
In terms of acting, Jogia can be seen in the next installment of the Resident Evil mom was a gamer, so I’m second
franchise, Welcome to Raccoon City (in theaters November 24th). “It’s about the generational. My mom just didn’t like
beginnings and how all the myth and the lore of Resident Evil started. It’s cool horror games, so I was like, that’s the
to run around in that world.” A longtime fan of the video games the franchise game that I want to play. [laughs]
is based on, Avan says “it was cool” to see director Johannes Roberts bring that
world back to life. “Horror films evoke a very specific type of feeling in you. Did it feel strange to essentially
We like to get scared. It’s a weird human thing.” In 2019, Jogia released his be in a period piece set in 1998?
first book, Mixed Feelings: Poems and Stories (Andrews McMeel Publishing). They set the movie in the period in
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