Chris Weigant | Posted April 2, 2008 | Politics
General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will be back in front of Congress next week (scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday), to give their half-yearly report on what is going on in Iraq. So today, as a public service, I'd like to provide the questions I feel would be a...
Tim Dickinson | Posted March 11, 2008 | Politics
An exhaustive Pentagon review has established definitively that there was no pre-war operational link between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Al Qaeda.
So here's the question for Hillary Clinton. In the senator's war-authorization speech in October 2002, she claimed this:
Saddam "has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to...
Kevin Hench | Posted March 7, 2008 | Politics
1. When did Sen. Clinton cross the Commander-in-Chief threshold?
2. Was it before or after October 11, 2002 when she flunked the biggest foreign policy test of her career and voted to authorize the war in Iraq?
3. How can a candidate claim to be ready on Day...
Alan Dershowitz | Posted March 4, 2008 | Politics
Anyone who doubts that Iran is determined to develop deliverable nuclear weapons should not be in a position of decision making or influence. The evidence is as clear as can be, despite the "fog of peace" artificially constructed by the recent National Intelligence Estimate issued by our government's collective intelligence...
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted February 28, 2008 | Politics
Although the recently published National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) has changed the nature of the international discussion about Iran's nuclear ambition, it has not answered with certainty the question of Iran's ultimate intention to acquire nuclear weapons. Whereas the NIE suggests there is "high probability" that Iran has frozen its nuclear...
NY Times | DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD | February 8, 2008 09:06 AM
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AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR and SEBASTIAN ABBOT | January 8, 2008 05:34 PM
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Robert J. Elisberg | Posted December 18, 2007 | Politics
I know that President Bush has taken a bit of criticism lately for several challenges in the White House, and to be honest the intense attacks have been terribly unfair. People don't understand the intricacies that go into running a nation. People don't understand how much the president works during...
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Robert J. Elisberg | Posted December 11, 2007 | Politics
As the timetable of White House statements about Iran's nuclear capability fall through the rabbit hole into Wonderland, the lies are piling up faster than they can be shoveled away. Atop the pile has been Vice President Dick Cheney, leading the fear of Iran's "fairly robust new nuclear program" -...
Craig Unger | Posted December 9, 2007 | Politics
Intelligence failures, intelligence failures. The United States spends more than $40 billion a year on intelligence, but, gosh darn it, we just can't seem to get it right. The latest fiasco, of course, concerns the now infamous National Intelligence Estimate about Iran which concludes that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons...
Gary Hart | Posted December 7, 2007 | Politics
Throughout most of the Cold War any challenge to the proposition that "the Russians are coming and they're 30 feet tall" was met with derision and outrage by the Right. As a veteran of both the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, I saw repeated rejection of any intelligence estimate...
Political Radar | Jan Simmonds | December 7, 2007 10:18 AM
Washington Post | Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler | December 7, 2007 09:21 AM
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
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Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | April 4, 2008 09:40 AM