DACOWITS’ Mission Accomplished, Time to Say Goodbye
(Washington, D.C.): Today marks the deadline for the Pentagon's leadership to decide whether to continue the Defense Advisory Committee on...
Month: February 2002
The Saudi Charm Offensive
(Washington, D.C.): Apparently, it all started with a column by the New York Times' Thomas Friedman in early February urging...
Where’s O.S.I. When We Need It?
(Washington, D.C.): On the same day Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld felt obliged to shut down the Pentagon's recently established Office...
Rumsfeld’s Now Hear This’ on Iraq
(Washington, D.C.): It was easy to see the old naval aviator in Don Rumsfeld as he appeared on the Sunday...
Who’s Disinforming’ Who?
(Washington, D.C.): Last week, the New York Times did a front-page hit piece on the Pentagon's recently established Office of...
Where’s the Outrage?’ Tenet’s Man Can’t Conduct an Independent Intelligence Inquiry
Can House and Senate Intelligence Committees? (Washington, D.C.): There is one word for those who thought the House and Senate...
Cover Up: The Senate-House Investigation into Intelligence Failures to Be Run by George Tenet’s Long-time Subordinate
(Washington, D.C.): So much for a rigorous review of the policy and other failures that contributed to the U.S. intelligence...
Worried About Civilian Casualties in the War on Terror? Don’t Allow Terrorists to Masquerade as Non-Combattants
(Washington, D.C.): The Bush Administration has been roundly assailed at home and abroad over its decision to treat individuals captured...
Post-Mortem on ‘Pearl Harbor II’
(Washington, D.C.): Within the next few days, leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees will set the date for...
Chinese Enron? Bank of China’s Planned New York Stock Exchange Listing Collides with Systemic Corruption Revelations
(Washington, D.C.): A $2-5 billion initial public offering (IPO) and New York and Hong Kong stock exchange listings of the...
Dangerous mixed signals on the ‘Axis of Evil’
What's going on here? In last week's State of the Union address, President Bush solemnly declared: States like and their...