How to Read Gates’s Shift on the Wars
The Push of Conscience and Secretary Clinton
America’s Stay-at-Home Ex-President
Excusing Torture at ‘Justice’
On Sunday, I attended an informal talk given in a parish hall by the Justice Department's Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights. His topic: “The way his work for justice is defined by his faith.” During the Q&A after his talk, I had a chance to...
Obama Should Read WikiLeaks on Afghanistan
Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can get a better grasp on the futility of his Afghan War strategy. For instance, if Secretary...
Thoughts at the White House Fence
“Show me your company, and I'll tell you who you are,” my grandmother would often say with a light Irish lilt but a heavy emphasis, an admonition about taking care in choosing what company you keep. On Thursday, I could sense her smiling down through the snow as I...
What’s Behind the War on WikiLeaks
NYT Stokes Fear of Iran
US Intelligence Thwarted Attack on Iran
Why should George W. Bush have been “angry” to learn in late 2007 of the “high-confidence” unanimous judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon four years earlier? Seems to me he might have said “Hot Dog!” rather...
