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 …
Young, Right-Wing and Stupid in Iraq
by | 2004-05-14 | No Comments
I know better than to read the National Review, but this quote in an article on “Gen X in the Green Zone” contains a remarkably stupid comment from Michael Ledeen/’s daughter in defense of the vast number of kids who got jobs with the CPA in Iraq based soley on their ideological affinities: [Simone] Ledeen, …
