The Wonk Engine is getting some scheduled maintenance this weekend. Additionally, user comments will be disabled for 24 hours or so while we make a transition to a new server (we’re moving from FreeBSD to OpenSolaris for the curious geek among you). All other services should be uninterrupted. Wish me luck. * Update — that …
Michael Allen Tapped for NSC Gig
by | 2007-10-12 | 2 Comments
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 …
Bobby Egan on the North Korean Nuclear Test
by | 2007-10-11 | No Comments
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 …
