Yochi Dreazen

Foreign editor for Vox

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Managing Editor for News at Foreign Policy magazine and author of The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War; former senior defense correspondent at the National Journal; former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, covering White House foreign policy

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Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn asked for immunity in  exchange  for his testimony.

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