Whitehouse Sharply Criticizes Bush Administration’s Assertion of Executive Power As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I was given access to those opinions, and spent hours poring over them. Sitting in that secure room, as a lawyer, as a former U.S. Attorney, legal counsel to Rhode Island’s Governor, and State Attorney General, I was […]
Cheney bashes top Democrats Most striking were his virtually taunting remarks of two men he described as friends from his own days in the House: Democratic Reps. John Dingell [MI] and John P. Murtha [PA]. In a 40-minute interview with Politico, he scoffed at the idea of two men who spent years accruing power showing […]
That such a flawed product could emerge after a drawn-out bureaucratic struggle is extremely troubling. This N.I.E. has been in the works for a year – constantly blocked by the Administration and Vice President Cheney. Getting it released has been a constant battle, and was instrumental in John Negroponte’s resignation. Bolton is saying that the […]
U.S. Says Military Notes Led to Shift on Iran American intelligence agencies reversed their view about the status of Iran’s nuclear weapons program after they obtained notes last summer from the deliberations of Iranian military officials involved in the weapons development program, senior intelligence and government officials said on Wednesday. The notes included conversations and […]
I was taking a rest from political writing for a bit, having fun with another project that has to do with maps, and computers, and American Indians who lived in our neck of the woods. But this N.I.E. has pulled me back into the fray. When I think about why, it’s not pretty. I’m furious! […]
Wolfowitz Returns To Bush Administration As WMD Adviser Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that Iraq war architect Paul Wolfowitz has been rewarded with a new position in the Bush administration which will allow him to oversee classified intelligence and inform policies on WMD issues:… Prior to the Iraq war, Wolfowitz established the Office of Special Plans […]
The Roll-Out Goes Flat Ken Silverstein and I have been pointing for the better part of the year to the very strange goings-on surrounding the preparation and issuance of a vital intelligence report on the state of Iran’s nuclear project. The White House, and particularly Vice President Cheney, has been feverishly attempting to stop its […]
And then there’s always John Bolton on Fox News – implying that people in the Intelligence Community have their own agenda and have “politicized this intelligence”…
Neck-Snapping Spin From the President By concluding that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program four years ago, the national intelligence estimate released yesterday undermined a key element of President Bush’s foreign policy. It raised questions about whether the president and vice president knowingly misled the public about the danger posed by Iran. And it added […]