What is Wrong with Arafat’s Picture?
Source: Palestinian National Authority (Washington, D.C.): The editorial page of today's Wall Street Journal features a map to which the...
Year: 2002
House Armed Services Committee Needs to Restore, Strengthen Pentagon Role in Critical Export Control Decisions
(Washington, D.C.): Late today, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is expected to consider an amendment offered by its chairman,...
The Saudi Scam II: Krauthammer Warns Against Bid to Spring Arafat While He Continues to Foment Terror
(Washington, D.C.): In a characteristically brilliant essay in today's Washington Post, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer describes the near-term objective of...
Dangers of the Saudi peace proposal
Saudi Arabia says it’s offering an initiative for peace with Israel. Crown Prince Abdullah presented no actual proposal – just...
The Saudi ‘Deus ex Machiavelli‘
(Washington, D.C.): On occasion, theatrical productions of the ancient Greeks would end with a god being lowered onto the stage...
Careless talk threatens survival of US government after catastrophic WMD attack
The ability of the US government to survive a catastrophic terrorist attack was severely degraded March 1. The Washington Post...
Loose Lips’: U.S. Capabilities Vital to War on Terror Being Jeopardized by Dangerous Disclosures
(Washington, D.C.): Today's Washington Post features a front page news article disclosing the existence of what it ominously calls a...
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...
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...