CQ’s Tim Stark reports that new Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell has canceled the Misty “stealth” satellite. Patrick Radden Keefe—who wrote the awesome CHATTER—has the details over at Danger Room. The cancellation of the Misty stealthsat—which, let’s face it, wasn’t particularly stealthy—leaves the United States dependent on the Future Imagery Architecture to replace the …
100 Kilos of LEU?
by | 2007-06-22 | 9 Comments
The Iranian Students News Agency (via AFP and Reuters) reported that Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi said Iran “currently [has] 3,000 operational centrifuges and [has] delivered more than 100 kilogrammes of enriched uranium to warehouses.” Then the Interior Ministry denied the statement: Public relations of Iran’s Interior Ministry in a fax Friday denied some quotations …
Russia Goodbye
by | 2007-06-22 | No Comments
This is it. My last day in Moscow. Some last notes from the motherland? Well, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke at the Carnegie Moscow Center yesterday. I spent the morning worrying about how not to get him stuck in the elevator and making small talk with the security people. More details on Lavrov’s talk – …
Frickin' Extend START Already
by | 2007-06-21 | 11 Comments
Jonathan Landay pens a great story about the internal debate between Administration officials seeking a looser START inspections regime and intelligence agencies who kinda like the data they get: Alarmed by the stress on the limited fleet of U.S. spy satellites, however, U.S. intelligence agencies oppose weakening the on-site inspections and other means that give …
