Gates on the Iran NIE
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…
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Persbo on Disablement
Andreas Persbo has a great post on disabling the North Korean reactor at Yongbyon: It is going to be chilly in North Korea this week. Temperatures at the Yongbyon nuclear complex will hover around zero degrees Celsius, but it will…
Don't Politicize the NIE
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…
Can We Verify NORK Pu Declaration?
Yesterday’s news that Bush wrote to Kim, reminded me of some back-of-the-envelope calculations I did a couple of months ago on verifying North Korean plutonium production. After all, when (I’ll be optimistic and refrain from saying ‘if’) North Korea submits…
Drogin on Curveball
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.
Two cheers for the NIE
First off, let me say hello to the Wonk’s readers. Hello. So, I have to admit, I have slightly mixed feelings about the NIE. Don’t get me wrong. If it results in a ‘surge of diplomacy’ it is certainly a…
More on the Iran NIE
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…
IC: Iran Stopped Nuke Program in Fall 2003
Wow. The IC says Iran suspended its clandestine weapons program in Fall 2003. (The NIE and the DDNI statement) I can’t quite believe the IC agrees with something that Paul Kerr and I have been arguing was possible for years…
Wolfie Is Back
Michael Isikoff in Newsweek reports that Paul Wolfowitz will replace Fred Thompson as Chair of the Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position…
Curveball!
I am so psyched that, tomorrow, we have Bob Drogin coming to talk about his awesome book, Curveball. Wild Pitch: Curveball and Selling the Iraq War In 1999, a mysterious Iraqi applied for political asylum in Munich. The young chemical…