A retired four-star US Navy general, John Allen, resigned as president of the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, after launching a federal investigation into whether he had lobbied the government. of the US on behalf of Qatar Trump’s management. Allen wrote in the resignation letter he submitted Sunday, a week after being placed on administrative leave following an Associated Press story about his alleged lobbying, that “even though I’m leaving the establishment with a heavy center, I know it’s more productive for everyone involved. at this time he has not been criminally charged Allen led US combat forces and allied troops in Afghanistan He is accused of having secretly asked the Trump leadership to amend its claim of Qatar in 2017, at a time when other countries of the Gulf, adding Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic relations with Qatar and imposed economic sanctions on the country for alleged Qatari aid to terrorism. It is alleged through the FBI that Allen traveled to Qatar to meet with his most senior officials. sensible to advise on how to influence US policy and get Qatar’s message across to senior government officials. he r at Brookings in 2019, where he began running as a senior fellow in 2017, months after he was named president. An FBI agent said in an affidavit filed in support of a search warrant that there was “substantial evidence” that Allen knowingly violated a foreign lobbying law.
