Unchastened by the catastrophe of the Iraq war or the setback delivered to the White House and Republicans in the midterm elections in part as a result of it, Iran hawks have organized new efforts to promote U.S. support for regime change in Tehran. Among the latest efforts is the creation earlier this month of […]
Laura Rozen
Laura Rozen is a Prospect senior correspondent and a national security correspondent for The Washington Monthly.
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“T+1”: OR HOW…
“T+1”: OR HOW A BIPARTISAN IRAQ STRATEGY MIGHT EMERGE. From the proverbial well-informed correspondent: The story in the NYT today about Gates bringing in old advisors and critics of Rummy/Iraq policy and cleaning out the ‘E Ring’ seems to be more evidence that the administration is using the [Gates] nomination to signal and provide a […]
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Crossed Lines?
E-mails recently forwarded to the Justice Department by a government watchdog group describe alleged efforts by staff of Congressman Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania to call Navy employees for information and negative statements about his Democratic opponent, retired Rear Admiral Joe Sestak. Two e-mails that were forwarded to the Sestak campaign by one current and one […]
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Curt’s New Hurt
“Weldon’s day off to a bad start, then gets progressively worse,” is how Pennsylvania Congressman Curt Weldon’s hometown paper, the Delaware County Daily Times, put it in a headline yesterday. Indeed. Even as Weldon was denying the existence of an FBI investigation into whether he used his influence as a congressman to help out his […]
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�TALENTED FABRICATOR� GHORBANIFAR ENLISTS CHENEY.
�TALENTED FABRICATOR� GHORBANIFAR ENLISTS CHENEY. We knew that Iran Contra arms dealer and info. peddler Manucher Ghorbanifar had managed to meet with Pentagon officials and with Congressman Curt Weldon in his quest to get back on the U.S. payroll as an intelligence asset in the wake of 9/11. We did not know that vice president […]
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THE �ESSENTIAL DILEMMA� RAISED BY THE NIE.
THE �ESSENTIAL DILEMMA� RAISED BY THE NIE. A contact familiar with the April NIE on terrorism says that buried in the discussion of the report so far is this dilemma: �The report notes that �victory� in Iraq would be a blow to the jihadists, and that failure (especially if it led to the establishment of […]
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Anger Mismanagement
The House of Representatives of our era doesn’t lack for camp spectacle. There’s Indiana’s Dan Burton, who shot at melons in his backyard to “prove” that the Clintons had Vince Foster murdered. Tom Tancredo of Colorado once advocated that America “take out” Muslim holy sites. The list goes on. But that list, lengthy as it […]
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Phase II.
Phase II. As General Peter Pace and General John Abizaid told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday that Iraq was on the verge of civil war, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Pat Roberts was complaining to The New York Times that the White House was obstructing the declassification of two new sections […]
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Contra Iran
Magnus Ranstorp is among the world’s leading experts on Hezbollah. Advisor to governments, former director of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and currently chief scientist on asymmetric threats at Sweden’s National Defense College, Ranstorp has interviewed hundreds of members of Hezbollah, Hamas, and […]
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IRANIAN OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS…
IRANIAN OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS SPURN INVITATION TO WHITE HOUSE. Leading Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji is sitting on something many people would only dream of: a personal invitation to the White House today to meet with top U.S. officials overseeing the United States policy toward Iran, including the National Security Council�s Elliot Abrams and State Department�s Iran […]