A NEW IRAN TIMELINE EMERGES. Back in February, U.S. point man on Iran Nick Burns told the Brookings Institution (.pdf): ‘We have got some time” for diplomatic and economic pressure on Iran to show results. Now State department officials are signaling, the window for multilateral diplomacy is “unwinding.” The immediate cause of the change in […]
Laura Rozen
Laura Rozen is a Prospect senior correspondent and a national security correspondent for The Washington Monthly.
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A Faith in Dialogue
TAP talks to a participant in the recent delegation of American Christian leaders who visited Iran — and met with Ahmadinejad.
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Rendition on Trial
TAP talks to a prosecutor in the first-ever trial of those involved in America’s “extraordinary rendition” policy.
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The First Contract
From 1991 to 1993, a young lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve was working as a program manager in a Pentagon intelligence office. His name was Mitchell John Wade. His boss, the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, was Duane P. Andrews. Andrews’s job at the Pentagon was essentially to serve […]
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More to Come?
This writer has reported extensively on a 2001 meeting in Rome between two then-members of the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar, Iranian intelligence operatives, and the Italian intelligence service. Reading the DoD IG (Defense Department Inspector General) report on its investigation into the activities of Feith’s […]
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Hostile Intent
President Bush’s Wednesday address to the nation on his new Iraq strategy delved heavily into an alleged uptick in Iranian support for terrorism and attacks on coalition forces in Iraq, and his plans for confronting it. The speech was followed the next day by the dramatic U.S. raid on an Iranian office in the Iraqi […]
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Gunboat Diplomacy
News reports based on military sources indicating that the United States plans to move a second aircraft carrier and its supporting ships to the Persian Gulf next month, where it will overlap for several months with the USS Eisenhower, have piqued attention (and anxiety) on the Potomac this week: is the Bush administration laying the […]
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Get the Memo
This Wednesday, the day that President Bush was to meet with Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al Maliki in Jordan, The New York Times published a classified memo prepared by National Security advisor Stephen Hadley and his staff, drawn from Hadley’s recent trip to Iraq, that revealed grave doubts about Maliki’s ability and willingness to stem […]
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Get the Memo
This Wednesday, the day that President Bush was to meet with Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al Maliki in Jordan, The New York Times published a classified memo prepared by National Security advisor Stephen Hadley and his staff, drawn from Hadley’s recent trip to Iraq, that revealed grave doubts about Maliki’s ability and willingness to stem […]
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OVERSEEING THE OVERSEERS.
OVERSEEING THE OVERSEERS. One thing you may not know about Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tx), now being considered as a compromise candidate to chair the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), is that he joined his friend and colleague, outgoing congressman Curt Weldon at a meeting with infamous Iran Contra arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar, against […]