Avatar photoMichael Allen Tapped for NSC Gig

Al Kamen reports that yet another of Dafna Linzer’s “Brady Bunch” NSC staffers has inherited a good gig as the rats scramble off the sinking ship of state that is the Bush Administration: Arms Control — What, Me Worry? Michael Allen, formerly the senior director for legislative affairs on the National Security Council, has moved …

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Avatar photoBobby Egan on the North Korean Nuclear Test

I did not think it was possible, but Kim Jong Il might not be the most colorful character in the entire saga of US-DPRK relations. For all the Il-iminator’s quirks and foibles, that title clearly belongs Bobby Egan — BBQ hawker and, in his own description, “Kim Jong Il’s guy in New Jersey”. Rebecca Mead …

Avatar photoMission to Moscow

McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay reports that Rice and Gates are headed to Moscow to discuss missile defense deployments in Europe, the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and, my favorite, extending the verification provisions of the START treaty: Bush is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates on a rare joint mission to …