Avatar photoJacoby Claims North Korea Can Arm Taepo Dong 2 With Nuke

Yesterday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) asked the Director of Defense Intelligence (DIA) Agency Admiral Lowell Jacoby whether or not “North Korea has the ability to arm a missile with a nuclear device?” Admiral Jacoby replied: “My assessment is that they have the capability to do that, yes Maam.” Wrong answer, Lowell. As you can …

Avatar photoIAEA Postpones Decision on ElBaradei

As expected, the IAEA met on 27 April 2005 and deferred until June a decision on electing Mohamed ElBaradei to a third term as IAEA Director-General. One diplomat described support for ElBaradei as increasing: Support increased for ElBaradei, said one diplomat, commenting on the closed IAEA meeting only on condition of anonymity. He said 34 …

Avatar photoSteinbruner on Bolton

John Steinbruner argues that John Bolton should be denied confirmation because Bush Administration officials “initiated war against Iraq on the basis of an indictment that … was reasonably known to be false at the time. Bolton is not the most culpable of the officials that did that,” John argues, “but he is among the more flamboyant. If accountability first descends upon him he will have nothing to complain about.”

Avatar photoIraqi WMD Move Themsevles, Maybe to Syria

Headlines in the Washington Post and Times depict polar opposite readings of the Duelfer Report’s passages concerning the possibility that Iraq’s WMD were transfered to Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom.