Chapter One of the just-completed report [.pdf] by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction purports to be a case study of the intelligence used to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom: "As war loomed,...
On Tuesday, March 29, Syria informed the U.N. that it would withdraw all of its troops from Lebanon before that country holds elections later this spring. The neo-Jacobins are celebrating Syria's eviction from Lebanon as another great victory for democracy and the...
There's that classic line of career advice to the confused young hero of the 1967 film The Graduate: "I want to say one word to you. Just one word… plastics." With the perspective of a few extra decades under our belts (or beltways), that word probably should...
As the U.S. State Department was unveiling its third annual report on "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy" this week, four of the country's best-known legislators came together to introduce a bipartisan bill to boost the promotion of democracy throughout...
Scott Ritter discusses Bush's plan to be ready for war on Iran by June, 2005 on Air America with Charles Goyette. Interview conducted Mar. 31, 2005. Download MP3 Scott Ritter is the former UN Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq, 1991-1998 and author of Frontier Justice:...
The latest commission looking into intelligence failures on Iraq reports a certain consistency in the performance of the intelligence community. We are informed that we also "know disturbingly little about the weapons programs" of other countries – such as Iran....
The report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction begins thusly; "On the brink of war, and in front of the whole world, the United States government asserted that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted...
So many investigations, so little time – that's a major problem these days for anyone intent on keeping up with the various scandals that plague this administration's foreign policy. There's the recently-released 500-page-plus report [.pdf] on how we were...
Events will no doubt present us other crises and opportunities. Lebanon could blow up, something significant might happen in the Palestinian-Israeli situation, the U.S. might bomb Iran, there might be more visible troubles in Colombia, and confrontations over Taiwan...
The presidential Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction released its findings [.pdf] on March 31, and the jury is no longer undecided. The intelligence community was "dead wrong" in almost all of its...
