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Benjamin Haas

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Benjamin Haas is Advocacy Counsel at Human Rights First. Previously, he was an intelligence officer in the Army and was deployed to Afghanistan twice. He is a graduate of West Point and Stanford Law School. He has written extensively on national security issues, with publications in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Politico, USA Today, CNN, The Guardian, and other outlets. You can follow him on Twitter (@BenjaminEHaas).

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Police and military personnel in full riot gear stand blocking protestors at a demonstration protesting the Mount Rushmore National Monument and the visit of US President Donald Trump.
Fort Bragg Air Assault School
U.S. Army Fort Benning sign reading, "Welcome to Fort Benning Home of the Maneuver Center"
Asylum seekers wait for news outside El Chaparral port of entry on the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on March 19, 2020. It is raining and some carry umbrellas.
U.S. Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Marshall Billingslea speaks during an Organization of American States meeting on state corruption and human rights violations in Venezuela at the organization's headquarters March 01, 2019 in Washington, DC.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch (R-ID) (L) and ranking member Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
A hand holds a blue highlighter as they highlight words and phrases of a blurry document.
The number 30 on a calendar is surrounded by a big red box.
A soldier sits in an U.S. Army helicopter as it flies outside of Camp Shorab on a flight to Camp Post on September 11, 2017 at Camp Shorab in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
A Coalition member hangs an 81-millimeter mortar prior to launching it at a known ISIS location near the Iraqi-Syrian border, May 13, 2018.
Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, DC, October 23, 2019 as US Vice President Mike Pence and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo look on.
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