Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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The Washington Post’s Dana Priest reports that government officials confirmed the classified “major funding acquisition program” to which Senator Rockefeller objected was the next stealth reconnaissance satellite in the MISTY program (MISTY-3). This blog has covered the MISTY program in…
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A careful reader observes that Selig Harrison’s article in Foreign Affairs was advertising for Ending the North Korea Nuclear Crisis, “the report of a high-level Task Force on U.S./Korea Policy [associated with the Center for International Policy] presenting important new…
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The Federation of American Scientists Secrecy Project has the collected statements relating to continued funding for a classified program opposed by Senator Rockefeller. Among the statements is an e-mail from his press office that Senator Rockefeller’s statement “was fully vetted…
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Apparently a judge believes no one with relatives in China should hold a security clearance. (Previous rulings to this effect have been upheld on appeals, see here and here.) Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough approve. Gertz and Scarborough report that…
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The program is not some space weapon. Rockefeller has backed off the “dangerous” comment. “He was referring to the fact that it was a misallocation of funds,” his spokeswoman Wendy Morigi told AP. That still leaves the question of its…
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Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) recently refused to support the intelligence bill due to his “strenuous objection—shared by many in our committee—to a particular major funding acquisition program that I believe is totally unjustified and very wasteful and dangerous to national…
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A North Korean poster from the UCLA Asia Institute. Sig Harrison has a review of intelligence assessments about North Korea’s uranium enrichment program in Foreign Affairs which concludes “those assessments were exaggerated and blurred the important distinction between weapons-grade uranium…
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The EU and China are finishing a summit meeting in The Hague. Most of the attention has focused on China’s efforts to lift a post-Tiananmen arms embargo. Xinhua has a very different emphasis, however, noting that the the summit has…
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Jeffrey Lewis is a Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a staff member at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D. in Policy Studies (International Security and Economic Policy) from…
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There’s just one? Yeah, but it’s a doozy. Holding court on the O’Reilly Factor, Captain Loofah turned surprisingly tough, asking if anyone warned Rumsfeld that Iraq might turn out to be a gigantic shit sandwich. Rumsfeld replied: We, you can…
