Exclusive: Official Washington is giving a big thumb down to President Obama’s performance in 2013. But his diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East and even some of his troubles with Obamacare and the NSA could ultimately make the year a historic…
Category: The Bush-43 Administration
A History of False Fear
Truman’s True Warning on the CIA
Snowden’s Leaks Doom NSA’s Snooping
NYT Replays Its Iraq Fiasco in Syria
Exclusive: Much like the Iraq WMD fiasco in 2002-03, the New York Times has taken sides in the conflict in Syria and is ignoring evidence that undercuts its indictment of the Assad regime as the guilty party in the Aug. 21 Sarin attack outside Damascus,…
Judge Leon’s Dirty Climb to the Bench
Latin America Finds Its Footing
Wisdom in Restraint on Syria
Obama Urged to Fire DNI Clapper
Itching for Confrontation with Iran
The neocons along with their allies in Congress and on the Washington Post’s op-ed page remain determined to sabotage a diplomatic rapprochement with Iran, demanding that its leaders be confronted, not engaged, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar notes.