WaPo Hearts J.D. Crouch
Peter Baker of the Washington Post fetes Deputy National Security Advisor Jack Dyer (J.D.) Crouch II for not being Doug Feith: “We sort of decided that J.D. was the one we would take a harder view of,” said one Senate…
Category: bush follies
Oh, Steve Rademaker
Steve Rademaker, at the Arms Control Association, whined that arms control advocates treat the Bush Administration unfairly when it comes to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP): And particularly with regard to the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, I have to…
Hands Off My Nukes! Does Rumsfeld Want NNSA?
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could make Caligula (right) blush. Jason Sherman of Inside Defense reports that Undersecretary of Defense Michael Wynne has signed the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the Defense Science Board Nuclear Capabilities Task Force. I notice…
MORONS: DTIC Pulls JEL
Not only did DOD take down the draft doctrine documents after I posted the Doctrine for Joint Nucler Operations, but the entire Joint Electronic Library (JEL). Talk about overkill. This totally encapsulates the Rumsfeld Defense Department: Be an idiot, get…
DTIC Removes Draft Documents
It took about four days, but DTIC removed the Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations and other draft documents from its website. I downloaded the documents, however. Here are the four documents in a single, zipped file.
NSC Shuffle: Luti Takes AC Portfolio
Chris Nelson reports that Bill Luti (pictured with Doug Feith) will replace Frank Miller as Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the new look Bush II NSC staff. Luti is a former aide to Newt Gingrich and…
UNMOVIC Discredited "Curveball" in February 2003
Dafna Linzer—writing the Washington Post—notices that the WMD Commission reveals that UNMOVIC inspections in February 2003 discredited “Curveball”—the defector whose claims about mobile bio-weapons made a liar out of Colin Powell: That Iraq was cooking up biological agents in mobile…
Did the Bush Administration Lie to Allies about North Korea?
These UF6 containers are from Hungary. Remember that allegation that North Korea sold Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6) to Libya? Remember how the IAEA attempted to reproduce the results, finding the evidence inconclusive? Yeah, well, it turns out that the evidence was…
Griffin to Head NASA
Don’t let the “Opie” grin fool you. He’s nuts, too. President Bush will nominate Michael Griffin to succeed Sean O’Keefe as NASA Administrator. Despite drawing bipartisan praise, Griffin’s missile defense background— he served as deputy for technology at the Strategic…
So Long, INF?
SS-20 (left) and Pershing II (right) eliminated under the 1987 INF Treay on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The Financial Times is reporting that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov asked Donald Rumsfeld how the…