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The most fascinating aspect of the story about the contractor fired for something she wrote on her blog on Intelink is that Intelink has blogs. That wasn’t the case in March 2005 when Kris Alexander—an intelligence officer in the US…
Friend of Wonk Jofi Joseph has a great op-ed in Defense News, arguing that the Administration should admit that the US-India nuclear deal trades nonproliferation interests for a strategic partnership with India, and accept Congressional efforts to limit the nonproliferation…
I was pleased to be quoted in a recent edition of The Economist (“Out of their silos,” June 8, 2006) saying “Chinese leaders are less worried about a pre-emptive strike by the Americans than about an accidental or unauthorised launch…
The White House has announced its intention to nominate John Rood as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Proliferation. (The Arizona Republic has a full writeup.) Of course, you may remember Rood from his starring turn in Dafna…
Okay folks, we are back. If I could trouble you, oh friends of wonk, please pass the word around. Send e-mails, bring it up over white russians, what-have-you. Friend of Wonk Allen Thomson wins a prize for big catch—the Missile…
Greg here – I apologize to everyone for the extended outage. We had a series of badly timed events which all occurred about six hours before I sailed away to Bermuda for seven unplugged days. We’re back online now and…
Friend of Wonk Jacqueline Shire sends this dispatch from the UN Security Council as the members-states consider what to do about North Korea: Eloise at the Security Council I’ve often wished that Kay Thompson were alive so that she and…
So who looks more foolish here? A. Kim Jong-Il for staging a July 4th fireworks display that blew up in his face; B. William Perry and Ash Carter for hyperventilating that we had to blow up this missile on the…
CNN is quoting “a senior State Department official” as saying North Korea conducted “an apparently unsuccessful test” of the Taepodong 2 “that failed in flight.” Can’t wait for the details. (I guess this means the Dear Leader isn’t watching the…
How did they do it? How exactly did Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Hadley and other senior officials get the intelligence agencies to twist the evidence to fit their war plans? Larry Wilkerson knows. And now he’s talking. Testifying before The Senate…
