The National Security Archive has obtained (through FOIA) Intelligence and Analysis on Iraq: Issues for the Intelligence Community, the third of the three reviews into the Iraq WMD debacle led by former CIA Deputy Director Richard Kerr: The report, from July 2004, is the third of three prepared by a group of intelligence experts led …
The Admiral
by | 2005-10-13 | 3 Comments
Listen to “The Admiral” from the At Action Park LP. Some large portion of my mis-spent youth in Illinois was soundtracked by minimalist post-punk Chicago noise-rockers Shellac. Central to Shellac’s seminal first LP, At Action Park, was the magisterial “The Admiral”—a sea shanty of sorts about either a twisted sailor with an improbably large mustache …
My Lil' PONI
by | 2005-10-12 | 2 Comments
I attended the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues breakfast with General John Gordon, former NNSA Administrator. Everything was off-the-record, but General Gordon did mention a few stories that were in his 2001 congressional testimony, which can be shared. Arguing about the decline in US nuclear weapons infrastructure, General Gordon told the Senate: I tend to …
MI5 Document on Proliferation
by | 2005-10-11 | 1 Comment
The Guardian reports that a 2003 MI5 document, Companies and Organisations of Proliferation Concern, identifies more than 360 private companies, university departments and government organisations in eight countries as having “procured goods and/or technology for weapons of mass destruction programmes.” The 17-page document identifies 95 Pakistani organisations and government bodies, including the Pakistan high commission …
