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Source: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/iran-at-saban/posts/2013/11/18-us-relations-allies-free-fall-doran
U.S. Relations with Allies in Free Fall
(Brookings Institution) Michael Doran - Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations last week, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, complained bitterly about the White House's deep aversion to working with Congress. The Obama administration, he said, "figure[s] out the policy...then they come tell us what it is." A senior official from a European country recently said that President Obama "does not do consultation, and he doesn't do discussion with allies. He reports, and he describes his analytical process." The writer, a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, served as a deputy assistant secretary of defense and a senior director at the National Security Council.