I’ve been remiss in posting about the scandal linking the Indian Embassy in Washington to alleged efforts by a company called Cirrus USA to subvert US export control laws in support of India’s missile and aircraft programs. (Good coverage in the Indian press about the arrest and denial of bail.) I eventually laid my hands …
Tenet Memoir A Little Hazy
by | 2007-04-30 | 5 Comments
So, I am reading my copy of George Tenet’s At the Center of the Storm. I turn to the account of the strike on Dora Farm first. Tenet offers the standard account—embellished by an odd new detail here, an occasional defense of his own role there—when Tenet says that “targets were being passed to B-2s …
Shachtman Back In Town, May 3 at Big Hunt
by | 2007-04-27 | 2 Comments
Noah is back on town next week, which means … we get our annual chance to watch him vomit on some unsuspecting intern’s penny loafers! Sorry kid. Welcome to Washington. The impending mayhem—which I believe is the third annual Arms Control Wonk v. Whoever Cut Noah a Check This Month—will happen, as it did last …
Warm Standby On Offer?
by | 2007-04-26 | 8 Comments
Despite White House denials that the U.S. is “considering any proposals that would allow the Iranians to retain any enrichment-related activities,” AP’s George Jahn reports that the United States is considering a “cold standby” proposal for Natanz that would Iran to retain, but not operate, some number of cascades: Recognizing that Iran would never accept …
