SSCI Iraq reports
Two of them are out. There’s one comparing the IC’s prewar assessments with the postwar results on the ground and another about the IC’s use of INC-provided information.
2006
325 posts
Best Option in a Bad Situation
Calling it “the best option in a bad situation,” Geoff Forden and John Thomson have another paper out recommending a multinational nuclear arrangement to resolve the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program: Iran would lease all its enrichment-related equipment and facilities…
UNMOVIC On Hussein's WMD Motives
UNMOVIC released a report a while back describing the commission’s lessons-learned from its work in Iraq. The whole thing is pretty interesting…I would just highlight its explanation for Iraq’s slack cooperation with the inspectors: It would appear that the following…
Random Wonk Shout Out
An idiosyncratic endeavor such as this blog can hardly be expected to produce predictable links or references. Yet even with a healthy expectation of surprise, every now and again, I am shocked to see a very random reference to my…
Feed Updates
For those of you frustrated with the wonk feed lately – I have some good news. We pushed through a major update this weekend that should stabilize a newly validated feed. So please rejoin us. And if you are (still)…
Economics of Energy Independence for Iran
The National Laboratories provide all kinds of support to the nation’s intelligence community. But try getting them to talk about it. When the Albuquerque Journal’s John Fleck tried to write about the support that Los Alamos and Sandia provide, he…
Iran: Department of Chain-Jerking
From the interview Jeffrey quotes in his recent post, are a couple of items worth highlighting. 1. Saidi mentions that Iran might construct HW-moderated power reactors – a claim I don’t recall having seen before. He says: Therefore, unlike in…
Get Enriched or Die Tryin' 2
The phat phont reading “get enriched or die tryin” is 5 Cent by Johan Waldenström . I figured a man as gangsta as Ahmadinejad deserves his own piece. Do we get to call it Pharsi, now? Ahmadinejad is not kidding,…
OSD Policy Reorg
Cross posted at DefenseTech.org So, imagine you are the Rumsfeld Defense Department. You are locked in a “global struggle against violent extremists” “stretching from Indonesia through the Middle East,”. You have 150,000 troops stationed in Iraq as the central front…
IAEA/2006/53
By popular demand, I am telling everyone that ISIS posted the IAEA report: Lots of things causing heartburn, but everyone is pointing to this paragraph noting some HEU particles on some waste containers: 17. The depleted uranium targets which had…