[3][4][5][6] Kyle Parker (congressional staffer), the senior Senate adviser on the Commission, was the subject of the investigation, which looked into his frequent trips to Ukraine's war zones and his acknowledgement that he provided $30,000 in sniper gear to its military.
The thesis, entitled "How Presidential Campaign Decisions on Foreign Policy Positions and Advisers are Made and Can Reshape International Relations: A Bush 2000 Case Study" remains under embargo.
Schrage later wrote an article entitled "The Spies who Hijacked America" which outlined a conspiracy theory asserting that Halper and other UK-based officials formed a secret "Cambridge Four" that "undermined democracy and the US-UK relationship".
[20][21] Several months into his assignment, Schrage succeeded Elizabeth Verville as Co-Chair of the U.S. delegation to the G8 Anti-Crime and Terrorism Group.
[22] In this role, in coordination with INL program officer Maren Brooks[23][24] he co-led working level delegations from the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury, and co-chaired a U.S. meeting of the Crime and Terrorism group with U.S. allies in 2004.
[32][33] His work focused on international economic, security, politics, and strategic issues in the wake of the global financial crisis, and his comments appeared in major media television and newspaper pieces.
During the time Schrage was his chief of staff, Senator Brown won praise for his bipartisanship and held some of the strongest approval ratings or any U.S.