Gordon Prather

Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for national security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Okla. -- ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Without Discrimination

In March, shortly before retiring as Deputy Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Pierre Goldschmidt provided the IAEA Board an update on Iran’s compliance with a) its Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Safeguards agreement [.pdf], b) its voluntary adherence to an Additional Protocol [.pdf], and c) its voluntary suspension – as a confidence-building … Continue reading “Without Discrimination”

Other Parties? Whoops!

Well, Judith Miller is no longer spreading neo-crazy lies and misleading statements on the front page of the New York Times. However, David Sanger is still on the job: "The Bush administration and three European allies have approved a new offer to be made to Iran in a last-ditch effort to head off a confrontation … Continue reading “Other Parties? Whoops!”

Cheney Leaks Again

Last week, Dana Priest revealed in the Washington Post that “the CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al-Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe.” “The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has … Continue reading “Cheney Leaks Again”

Authoritative Misinformation

The Arms Control Association claims that: "Through its public education and media programs and its magazine, Arms Control Today, ACA provides policymakers, the press, and the interested public with authoritative information, analysis, and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues." Authoritative? Then how to explain this recent posting on … Continue reading “Authoritative Misinformation”

Harmful to National Security

President Bush went to Congress in September 2002 seeking “specific statutory authorization” to invade Iraq. Bush based his case on a National Intelligence Estimate of Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs prepared the month before by the Director of Central Intelligence. Tenet’s NIE reportedly contained "slam-dunk" evidence that Saddam had been – among other things … Continue reading “Harmful to National Security”

Clumsy Forgeries, Italian-Style

The March 2005 report of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction contained a scathing chapter on the "intelligence" President Bush used to justify Operation Iraqi Freedom: "As war loomed, the U.S. intelligence community was charged with telling policymakers what it knew about Iraq’s nuclear, biological and … Continue reading “Clumsy Forgeries, Italian-Style”

Historic Opportunity

Last week, James Moore, a former television news correspondent and the co-author of the bestselling Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, wrote an op-ed piece entitled “Fitzgerald’s Historic Opportunity” that appeared originally at HuffingtonPost.com and has since been reposted elsewhere. Quoth James Moore: “Patrick Fitzgerald has before him the most important … Continue reading “Historic Opportunity”

Fixing and Forging

On May 6, 2003, the New York Times published a column by Nicholas Kristof that included the following: "I rejoice in the newfound freedoms in Iraq. But there are indications that the U.S. government souped up intelligence, leaned on spooks to change their conclusions, and concealed contrary information to deceive people at home and around … Continue reading “Fixing and Forging”

Stifling Neo-Crazy Media Sycophants

Judith Miller has just spent 85 days in prison for refusing to tell Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald what her neo-crazy "handlers" in the Bush-Cheney administration told her to do next, following her service as their "embedded" media sycophant in Iraq. That jail-time ought to give pause to the gang of "domestic" neo-crazy media sycophants that have … Continue reading “Stifling Neo-Crazy Media Sycophants”

A Peaceful Kick to the Groin

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has just awarded the nemesis of Bush, Bolton, Sharon and the neocrazies – Mohamed ElBaradei and his staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency – the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes … Continue reading “A Peaceful Kick to the Groin”