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Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say
By TRIP GABRIELNOV. 17, 2015
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AIDE: CARSON NEEDS FOREIGN POLICY HELP
A top adviser to Ben Carson on terrorism and national security claimed that the candidate needs a lot more information on the Middle East. “Nobody has been able to sit down with him and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East,” former CIA agent Duane R. Clarridge told The New York Times. The campaign shared segments from a calamitous foreign policy interview from this past weekend on Facebook, despite insider conversations about its failure. Additionally, Clarridge said Carson needs weekly conference calls to "make him smart" on foreign policy.
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Mr. Clarridge, who contacted Mr. Carson nearly two years ago to offer his services without pay, has helped the candidate prepare for debates. But the briefings do not always seem to sink in, Mr. Clarridge acknowledged. After Mr. Carson struggled on “Fox News Sunday” to say whom he would call first to form a coalition against the Islamic State, Mr. Clarridge called Mr. Williams, the candidate’s top adviser, in frustration. “We need to have a conference call once a week where his guys roll out the subjects they think will be out there, and we can make him smart,” Mr. Clarridge said he told Mr. Williams.
Mr. Williams, one of Mr. Carson’s closest friends, who does not have an official role in the campaign, also lamented the Fox News interview.
“He’s been briefed on it so many times,” he said. “I guess he just froze.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/us/politics/ben-carson-is-struggling-to-grasp-foreign-policy-advisers-say.html?via=newsletter&source=CSPMedition&_r=0
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