More on Iran
Michael Roston notes that, during his time at RANSAC, he sat in on a briefing from someone from Livermore who made the case that the Bushehr is not suitable for a nuclear weapons program. That technical fact leads to a…
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National Labs Suspending Work on Iran?
I hear the Secretary of Energy has halted all work at the national laboratories on Iran. Why? There is no public explanation, but speculation centers on the role of DOE analysts in making the Administration look liars on the issue…
Military Intelligence
Bill Gertz has a story about a National Security Agency employee, Russ Tice, recently terminated after a pair of psychiatric evaluations found him “mentally unbalanced.” Defense officials are telling the Washington Times that Tice is being persecuted for reporting suspicions…
Bashing ElBaradei
One of the competing narratives being pushed by the Bush Administration on the HDX/RDX story is the “jilted Mohamed” hypothesis. “Bush administration officials suspect political motivation behind a letter focused on the disappearance of 377 tons of explosives sent yesterday…
Rumsfeld On Missile Defense
Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Seventh Annual Space and Missile Defense Conference are now available from the Department of Defense. CDI’s Victoria Samson, who attended the gathering, noticed a mildly Orwellian editorial decision: One part of…
Secretary Rumsfeld meet Dr. Freud
While criticizing missile defense opponents, Secretary Rumsfeld invoked a favorite platitude–“weakness is provocative”–and, apparently inadvertantly, implied the President’s policy in Iraq has weakened the country and encouraged terrorist attacks: “History has taught us that weakness is provocative,” Rumsfeld said. “To…
Porter Goss, Crazy Man
Michael Levi recently pointed out a disturbing episode when Porter Goss’ partisanship interfered with his professional judgment: The congressman’s more disturbing remarks in that half-hour June call with the press addressed North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Goss said, “Clearly not…
Cunnningham on hold
Senator John Kyl (R-AZ) is reportedly waging a quiet campaign to press the Bush Administration to withdraw the US signature from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The Washington Post’s “In the Loop” and the Los Angeles Times are…
Dick
The only way for us to deal with people that you can’t negotiate with — there’s no arms control treaty here at the end of the day that guarantees our security. There’s no way to appease these people and have…
Doug Feith & the Paranoid Style
You know your career is in the tubes when you make a derisive footnote in a bipartisan report investigating the worst attack on American soil. That’s exactly where Douglas J. “Spanky” Feith finds himself. A footnote (n. 75, p.559) in…