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 making a special guest appearance here at Arms Control Wonk. You may know him from …
IC: Iran Stopped Nuke Program in Fall 2003
by | 2007-12-03 | 18 Comments
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. …
