Writing on ACW 2004–2021 · 161 posts
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The Senate Intel Committee’s Iraq investigation came up today on Meet the Press. It seems that Roberts has now said publicly that he will do as he promised a while back – investigate the Exec. Branch’s use of the intel…
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Although the Robb-Silberman report didn’t get into the question of Bush administration officials’ statements RE: Iraq’s supposed WMD, the Senate Intelligence Committee is supposed to be looking into the question. Supposed to be. Apparently, there’s a bit of controversy about…
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My colleague Wade Boese has a great article in the Prospect online. Check it out.
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Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball, who also wrote the Bolton/Cuba story referenced in my last post, has another piece about the MEK/NCRI’s role in revealing Iran’s nuclear programs. (See also ACW 24 October 2004) Most of you probably know that the NCRI…
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Interesting. Apparently some Senate staffers are looking into whether Bolton was involved in pressuring intel analysts about their assessments of Cuba’s BW program. Jeffrey wrote about this a while ago. Relevant excerpts from the SSCI report included.
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At least some Iranian officials appear somewhat skeptical of the Bush administration’s limited incentives for Tehran to comply with the EU3’s negotiating demands. Senior Iranian negotiator Sirus Naseri told Iranian state television 15 March: As far as America is concerned,…
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Larry Niksch (right) from CRS recently published an interesting summary of the relevant intel in the Chosun Ilbo. Niksch mentions a pair of 1993 Russian intel reports that point toward a North Korean HEU program: There are also assessments from…
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You’ve likely noticed that the office of Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) released a letter describing State Department efforts to “conceal unclassified information about the role of John Bolton … in the creation of a [December 2002] fact sheet distributed to…
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Will someone in the press please, for the love of God, notice that Bush’s description of Washington’s Iran diplomacy does not constitute anything anyone could reasonably call “success”? Bush told an audience on Friday that: we [the US and the…
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On the Tehran. Woo hoo! Note to SecState Rice: Making token gestures to support the EU3-Iran negotiations is only a really, really, weak beginning of a coherent Iran policy. Look, Iran is being asked to do something that’s not legally…
