WASHINGTON, D.C.— U.S. Representative Austin Scott (GA-08), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), yesterday led a bipartisan panel discussion titled “A Conversation on Great-Power Competition in Africa” at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as part of HPSCI’s Beyond the SCIF series.

“If you look at the number of coups that are occurring right now...It’s disappointing to me that we missed any of the signs that there could have been,” Scott said during the panel. “So, from an intelligence standpoint, we have to backtrack from where we are and say, ‘What did we miss, and where should we have picked up that there was the potential for this?’”

Other panel participants included Rep. Jimmy Panetta (CA-19); Dr. Kori Schake, Senior Fellow and director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at AEI; Katherine Zimmerman, a Fellow at AEI, and Ambassador J. Peter Pham, Ph.D., Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council; Former U.S. Special Envoy for the Sahel Region of Africa; and Former U.S. Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes.

The full panel discussion can be found here.

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