The Select Committee on Intelligence has just issued a report [pdf] highly critical of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of October 2002, which served as the basis for the "Congressional Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces...
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has concluded that the "key assessments" in the National Intelligence Estimate – which was the basis for the "Congressional Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq" – were...
Mohamed ElBaradei – director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency – was in Israel last week pursuing a nuke-free Middle East. Now, ElBaradei has already certified Iraq to be nuke-free. And Iran. So, isn't the Middle East already nuke-free? Well,...
Mohammed ElBaradei – Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency – was in Israel last week. Pakistan next week? Or maybe India? Or North Korea? All in pursuit of a nuke-free world. But getting rid of nukes is not ElBaradei’s job. True,...
Foreign ministers attending the Asia Regional Forum – hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, in Jakarta, this week – agreed on the need for political reform in Burma and a diplomatic solution to the crisis on the Korean peninsula. Forum...
You remember how King Herod of Judea dealt with a suspected threat to his rule, don’t you? According to Matthew, three Magi – Persian priests – showed up in Jerusalem, and told Herod they had seen a "sign in the heavens" signifying the birth in...
Well, there they go again. The neo-crazy media sycophants are quoting unnamed "Western diplomats" to the effect that Syria is secretly developing nukes. Evidence? Well, it seems someone’s "experimental" sensors may have picked up what may be the acoustic or...
It hasn't been a good week for Undersecretary of State Bolton. Some of the eggs he's laid in the past year or so hatched as turkeys and have come home to roost. Back in October of 2002, one of Bolton's munchkins claimed he had accosted a Democratic People's Republic...
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission – a bipartisan Commission established by Congress in 2000 "to investigate, analyze and provide recommendations to Congress on the economic and national security implications of the U.S.-China relationship"...
You remember the Cox Committee, don't you? It was a bipartisan commission established by Congress in 1998 to look into how a billion or so rice-farmers – aka, the People's Republic of China – had managed to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles as well...
