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Steven Clemons

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Steven Craig Clemons, born in Salina, Kansas on 1962 to a military family, his father was a US Air Force counter-intelligence officer[1]. Steven is the executive vice president of the New America Foundation, and the Director of the Japan Policy Research Institute [2]. Clemons is also the former executive vice president of Economic Strategy Institute, former Executive Director of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, and served as Senator Jeff Bingaman's Senior Policy Advisor on Economic and International affairs[3]. He has also served on the Advisory Board to the Center for U.S.-Japan Relations at the RAND Corporation. Earlier in his career, Clemons was the Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California from 1987 to 1994[4].

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Steven C. Clemons

Blogging

Clemons is perhaps best known for his blog thewashingtonnote.com. Which is a moderate-left leaning blog, that focuses on foreign policy issues, as well as general US policy debates. His articles have appeared in top left leaning blogs such as Huffington post[5], and Daily Kos[6], as well as major publications around the country.

Chinagate

Clemons was briefly involved in the Charlie Trie Chinagate scandal [7]. Charles Duncan, Associate Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel at the White House, was alleged to have made false statements to the Chairman of the House Rules Committee. Committee Chairman Burton believed that testimony that Clemons had made (without the benefit of counsel), provided proof that Charles Duncan lied to the committee. Later it was revealed that the junior members of Burton's staff had made a mistake, after Clemons issued a statement saying “the notes have significant inaccuracies and misrepresentations . . . about the important matters which were discussed.”

At the time of these events were occuring, Clemons became involved in a tug-of-war between the House and the Senate, because Representative Dan Burton, based on staffs notes of an interview with Clemons, wanted to force Senator Bingaman to testify in the House Rules committee. This would have been the first time in US history that one chamber of congress had forced a member of the other to testify.[8] Representative Burton relenting to pressure from Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle withdrew his request, but then released his inaccurate notes to the public record.

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