Egypt Working Group Warned Administration on Egypt Crisis Months Ago

Laura Rozen, posting at her Politico blog, states that contrary to a popular belief amongst commentators that, “no one had seen it coming,” several former US officials and scholars have been warning the administration for months about the possibility of the end of the Mubarak era and the instability that would accompany it.  Referencing one of her own posts from September, she highlights how experts on the issue such as Michele Dunne from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Brookings Intitution’s Robert Kagan, both co-chairs of the Working Group in Egypt, had been pushing the administration to insist on election monitors for the then looming Egyptian parliamentary elections in November and prepare for the “looming end” of Mubarak’s rule.  According to Rozen, Dunne, Kagan, Elliott Abrams, and Marc Lynch have been invited to the White House to discuss the crisis.