Dan Drezner: Anatomy of a Questioning: "the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that Omar’s line of questioning was spot-on.... If you,,, appoint someone who has a history of lying to Congress about human rights abuses... it is entirely fair to question him about prior acts of bad faith. And it was certainly striking to see someone so 'firmly contemptuous of congressional pressure' become the object of it.... Omar... was fully within her rights to bring up the unsavory and criminal portions of Abrams’s backstory.... The other uncomfortable truth, however, is that while Omar might be right to interrogate Abrams, she is mostly in the wrong about Venezuela...
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