In October, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the Peace Prize for 2005 was to be shared, in two equal parts, between the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director-general, Mohamed ElBaradei, "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being...
If Santa has been keeping a list, Secretary of State Condi Rice will be lucky to find even a lump of coal in her Christmas stocking. Where on the list to begin? On the Korean peninsula, where the South Korean National Security Council rebuffed Washington's contingency...
According to the highly influential "experts" at the Heritage Foundation – who have apparently never bothered to read the Iranian Note Verbale [.pdf] to the International Atomic Energy Agency of Aug. 1, 2005 – "Iran remains a dangerous revolutionary power...
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States – which was required, inter alia, to recommend actions the federal government should take to prevent future attacks – issued its final report 18 months ago. Its members have now issued an ad...
Last month the New York Times reported that unnamed senior "intelligence officials" had told them that – as part of a campaign to increase international pressure on Iran – they had "briefed" International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed...
The November report [.pdf] of Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency begins by noting that the Board had adopted a resolution in September in which, inter alia, it "urged" the Islamic Republic of Iran to...
Maybe you thought that when President Bush declared war on terror it was just a euphemism. Wrong! By that declaration, Bush made himself commander in chief of our armed forces, which he is – under the Constitution – only "in time of war." Once...
On June 10, 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft called a press conference in Moscow to announce that Abdullah al-Muhajir – AKA Jose Padilla – had been arrested more than a month earlier at O'Hare International Airport by the FBI on a "material...
According to Bob Woodward, we're not to worry: "When the story comes out I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter. And that somebody learned that Joe Wilson's wife had worked at the CIA and helped him get this job...
A year ago, Colin Powell – then secretary of state – told reporters about new, scary intelligence on Iran. Something about Iran having a "nuke-capable" ballistic missile that could threaten "our allies." Several "U.S. officials"...
