The Washington Post reports that Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz was fed a forged “Defense Intelligence Agency” document claiming that military analyst and Code Names author Bill Arkin was an Iraqi spy. In the course of following up the story, the Defense Department apparently told Gertz the document was not authentic. Larry DiRita told the …
Common Aero Vehicle
by | 2005-03-18 | 2 Comments
Walter Pincus penned a story on the Common Aero Vehicle in the Washington Post the other day. The gist was: The Pentagon is working to develop a suborbital space capsule within the next five years that would be launched from the United States and could deliver conventional weapons anywhere in the world within two hours, …
MDA R2s Hung Up
by | 2005-03-17 | No Comments
Bear with me for a minute. Go to the DOD Comptroller’s FY 2006 PBR website, click “Defense_Wide Budget Documentation” and mouse over “RDT&E.” You are now looking at the detailed summaries (R2s if you know the lingo) from the President’s Budget Request (and you thought PBR only referred to a watery domestic). These summaries contain …
Bolton Iraq Wankery
by | 2005-03-16 | No Comments
You’ve likely noticed that the office of Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) released a letter describing State Department efforts to “conceal unclassified information about the role of John Bolton … in the creation of a [December 2002] fact sheet distributed to the United Nations that falsely claimed Iraq had sought uranium from Niger.” That fact sheet, …
