The anonymous “Mr. Smith” from the Bolton hearings, if I understand Senators Kerry and Lugar correctly, is Fulton Armstrong, National Intelligence Officer for Latin America since June 2000. Here is Armstrong’s bio from an archived copy of the NIC website (as of December 2003): Fulton Armstrong National Intelligence Officer for Latin America Fulton T. Armstrong …
More on the XSS-11
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Spaceflight Now has a longer article on the XSS-11, which the Air Force successfully launched today at 9:35 am EDT. Colonel Richard White, commander of Space and Missile System Center’s Detachment 12, stated “We can say categorically, there’s nothing that ejects out of the satellite.” That is welcome news and, apparently, a change from the …
Bolton Misleads about UN Inspections
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One of the Senators (Hegel, I think) asked Bolton a few minutes ago during the SFRC hearing why the United States didn’t listen to UNMOVIC and the IAEA when they said Iraq didn’t have WMD. During the course of his answer, Bolton said that the Bush administration had not disputed the IAEA’s claim that Iraq …
XSS-11 Launch Today, Monday, 11 April 2005
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The Experimental Spacecraft System (XSS)-11 is scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force base between 6:34 to 7 am PDT (9:34-10:00 am EDT) today (Monday, April 11). (More) The XSS-11 (right) was scheduled to launch in mid-March, before a problem with the Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket delayed the launch. XSS-11 is the second in a …
