By Larry Johnson on Nov 14, 2008 in Barack Obama, CIA, Cofer Black, Commander in Chief, Current Affairs, George Bush, George Tenet, India, Iraq, Jami Miscik, Jihadists, John Brennan, Kashmir, National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC), National Defense, National Security, Pakistan, Philip Zelikow, State Department, Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC), counterterrorism | 207 Comments
(Bumped up from yesterday by Bronwyn’s Harbor. Hey, Josh Marshall, since you’re not content being a leading liberal blog owner so now you’re hangin’ with all of Barack Obama’s friends like Bernardine Dohrn — and we dig it because, well, you were never the cool kid in class, but now you see a chance, and [...]
By Larry Johnson on Nov 5, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Chicago politics, Colin Powell, Current Affairs, Dick Cheney, George Bush, John Kerry, National Security, Obama Administration, State Department | 90 Comments
(bumped up by NoQuarter)
Barack Obama’s mantra of change sounds eloquent on the campaign trail, but as we have pointed out repeatedly there is an enormous gulf between what he says and what he does. It is one thing, for example, to tout womens’ rights. But those exhortations ring hollow when we learn that [...]
By NoQuarter on Mar 21, 2008 in Barack Obama, Larry Johnson, State Department | 27 Comments
UPDATE: (From Larry Johnson) Just got off the phone with an old boss and friend who had been a senior official in the Passport office. … SEE THE REST OF LARRY’s 12:30 p.m. Friday update at the end of this story.
(Earlier) BREAKING: Hillary Clinton’s passport was breached in 2007, CNN reports. Adds Mark Halperin [...]
By NoQuarter on Jan 18, 2008 in Current Affairs, Presidential Candidates, State Department | 111 Comments
UPDATE: Steve Clemons has written an important piece on the departure of the State Dept.’s Nicholas Burns, “Filling the Void After Nick Burns Departs: For Two Years, Burns was the Anti-Bolton to John Bolton’s Bolton. Snippet:
R. Nicholas “Nick” Burns is a stunningly effective diplomat. There is Dean Acheson DNA in the kind of work [...]
