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 — that the bureaucratic consolidation undertaken in late 2003 may have choked off the clandestine …
Wolfie Is Back
by | 2007-12-03 | 6 Comments
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 as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to …
Curveball!
by | 2007-12-03 | 1 Comment
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 engineer offered compelling testimony of Saddam Hussein’s secret program to build weapons of mass destruction. …
5 Myths About the Bomb
by | 2007-12-02 | 9 Comments
If you check out today’s Washington Post outlook section, I have an opinion piece on five myths about the bomb. After blogging about the lame myths to be dispelled in the forthcoming Administration white paper on nuclear posture, I thought I could do better.
