I’ve been writing the same blog post for four days. Time to just publish it. Thanks to McClatchey’s Warren Strobel and a trio of articles by the New York Times’ Helene Cooper (1, 2 and 3), we now know that North Korea has declared that it produced 37 kilograms of plutonium — and denies that …
Swiss Shred Tinner Docs; Khan Talks
by | 2008-05-30 | 18 Comments
I still can’t believe the Swiss shredded the evidence. AP’s Hanspeter Haefliger reports that Swiss authorities, under the supervision of the IAEA, shredded many documents relating to the Urs Tinner-AQ Khan case: The documents formed part of a case against three members of the Tinner family who are suspected of involvement in the nuclear smuggling …
Milbank on Hadley
by | 2008-05-29 | 4 Comments
I dunno, maybe it was the orange hunting vest. Or his comparison of the ex-parrot and the ex-candidate. But I think Dana Milbank, particularly in his columns for Washington Sketch, is the funniest, most insightful chronicler of the tribes of the Potomac. I don’t think Washington has had a columnist like Milbank since Frank Carpenter …
Rapture
by | 2008-05-29 | 10 Comments
Standing on the metro this morning, I noticed the above. I wasn’t really sure whether the artist was warning against the subpop indie rockers or CBGB favs, but the iPod remained dance-punk free for the duration of the ride.
