{"id":1753096,"date":"2022-11-28T05:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T10:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753096"},"modified":"2022-11-28T05:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T10:18:32","slug":"atlantic-council-helps-oil-rich-gulf-nation-peddle-influence-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atlantic-council-helps-oil-rich-gulf-nation-peddle-influence-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Council Helps Oil-Rich Gulf Nation Peddle Influence in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fatlantic-council-helps-oil-rich-gulf-nation-peddle-influence-in-washington%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753096&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The think tank hosted a junket in Abu Dhabi where congressional aides met with UAE donors<\/p>\n<p>    Atlantic Council President Frederick Kempe (Photo by Bryan Bedder\/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 November 28, 2022 5:00 am  <\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Council last month organized a junket last month for senior congressional staffers and officials in an oppressive Gulf monarchy\u2014the United Arab Emirates\u2014the latest example of the Beltway think tank peddling influence for one of its foreign donors.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/disclosures-clerk.house.gov\/gtimages\/ST\/2022\/500025418.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records<\/a> reviewed by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, the Atlantic Council shelled out $45,000 to host 10 House and Senate staffers in Abu Dhabi from Oct. 1 to Oct. 8. Think tank officials organized a series of briefings with Emirati officials and business leaders to tout the Arab country\u2019s &#8220;impressive&#8221; green energy industry and to push for a stronger U.S.-UAE relationship, according to an itinerary of the trip. They also convened briefings with two advisers to White House climate czar John Kerry to discuss &#8220;what the Administration is doing on international collaboration in climate change efforts, particularly with the UAE,&#8221; the itinerary reads.<\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates has a documented record of human rights abuses, including &#8220;torture in detention; arbitrary arrest and detention [and] undue restrictions on free expression and the press,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices\/united-arab-emirates\/\">according<\/a> to the State Department. Human rights groups have accused UAE-backed forces of committing torture and sexual assault against detainees in Yemen. It is unclear whether the junket gave Americans the opportunity to press their Emirati hosts on these issues.<\/p>\n<p>As foreign governments have ramped up their giving to Beltway think tanks, the junket shows the sorts of things they are getting for their donations: access, on their own turf, to influential Beltway insiders who have the ears of some of the country&#8217;s most powerful lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Council invited a mix of Democrat and Republican staffers on House and Senate committees that oversee energy, climate, and appropriations issues and &#8220;play an instrumental role in driving American energy policy and international engagement,&#8221; according to an invitation sent to congressional aides. The aim of the trip, according to the Atlantic Council, was &#8220;to strengthen the US-UAE energy relationship&#8221; and provide an &#8220;opportunity to learn more about the impressive advancement in energy of one of our key allies in the Gulf.&#8221; The UAE has touted its commitment to reaching &#8220;net zero&#8221; carbon emissions by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic Council organized a junket last month for senior congressional staffers and officials in the United Arab Emirates, the latest example of the Beltway think tank peddling influence for one of its foreign donors.<br \/>\nThe post Atlantic Council Helps Oil-Rich Gulf Nation Peddle Influence in Washington appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1753099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}