CAP has an interesting panel on US policy toward Iran up. Not sure if I will make it over there, but you should. Nuclear Meltdown: Rebuilding a Coherent Policy Towards Iran A book discussion with Barbara Slavin and Trita Parsi…
As much as I hate to say this, folks are misreading the most recent NIE. Yes it says that Iran halted its clandestine weapons program, at least for a time, in fall 2003. And, yes that suggests that Iran’s leaders…
Well, the right has begun to push back against the NIE on Iran. The New York Times and Washington Post — Administration cheerleaders during the run-up to the Iraq War — lent their pages to conservative assaults on the NIE…
Experimenting with the new media — here is a little blurb from the Drogin event yesterday. I will let you know when we have something from the Iran NIE event with Steve and Flynt.
Tomorrow, the New America Foundation is going to host U.S. Iran Policy After the NIE with yours truly, Steve Clemons and Flynt Leverett To help with coverage, friend of wonk James Acton of King’s College London is going to be…
Apparently, the much anticipated NIE on Iran’s nuclear programs is coming out any day now. Walter Pincus went over to lunch at the Wilson Center, where McConnell dropped that the NIE will be done by the end of the month:…
This is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, better known as Curveball, getting down at an Iraqi wedding in 1993. The 60 Minutes segment tonight, if you saw it after the Patriots-Colts game, was a fine introduction to Curveball and that damned wall.…
As you may know, I have long argued that Conventional Trident is mildly pointless —I gave a talk to the National Academies of Science panel on global strike to that effect, based in part on a detailed case study of…
CQ’s Tim Stark reports that new Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has canceled the Misty “stealth” satellite. Patrick Radden Keefe—who wrote the awesome CHATTER—has the details over at Danger Room. The cancellation of the Misty stealthsat—which, let’s face it,…
In January, David Albright and Paul Brannan released satellite images demonstrating that Pakistan had resumed construction at a facility near Pakistan’s Chasma reactor. The facility is basically a set of empty buildings, but the story is how they came to…
