The Bush Administration announced a surprise push for a new Security Council Resolution by Friday that would extend by one year an exemption from prosecution by the International Criminal Court granted to U.S. personnel (including contractors). “Given the recent revelations from Abu Ghraib prison, the U.S. government has picked one hell of a moment to …
Steve Cambone
by | 2004-05-20 | No Comments
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen A. Cambone has been at the center of the Abu Ghraib controversy, basically being accused in Sy Hersh/’s article of running the special access program. This has led to a minor revival of “how much of a right wing nut is Steve Cambone” stories. For example, Salon carried a …
Space Launches of Concern & Wonk Outage
by | 2004-05-19 | No Comments
Armscontrolwonk.com is going to be a little neglected over the next couple of days due to a strange confluence of events—a headcold, dead logic board in my laptop, a talk I have to give tomorrow at the Stimson Center and an impending trip to the University of Illinois for a workshop on reinventing multilateralism. Here …
Bad Manners At the State Department
by | 2004-05-16 | No Comments
The aide who abruptly ended Colin Powell/’s interview with Tim Russert is a former press flack for Tom DeLay. I knew the right wing had salted the State Department to undermine Powell/’s influence, but this is nuts. An aide to Secretary Powell attempted cut short a taped interview with Tim Russert by moving the camera …
