From the New York Times: The F.B.I. is investigating a Pentagon official on suspicion of passing secrets to Israel, government officials said on Friday. The espionage investigation has focused on an official who works in the office of Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy, officials who have been briefed about the investigation [...]
Reuters: – The FBI believes Israel has a spy at the very highest level of the Pentagon who may have sought to influence U.S. policy on Iran and Iraq, CBS News reported on Friday. The Israeli embassy immediately denied the report. “The FBI has a full-fledged espionage investigation under way and is about to … [...]
I hadn’t even originally planned on doing a blog entry this week, but I can’t pass up a chance like this: Timeline on Jonathan “call me Jack” Idema: July 7: Three Americans and four Afghans arrested for operating private prison July 8:One of these men is identified as Jack Idema. An early report from Afghan [...]
THE UNPOLITICAL ANIMAL: How political science understands voters The most widely known fact about George H. W. Bush in the 1992 election was that he hated broccoli. Eighty-six per cent of likely voters in that election knew that the Bushes’ dog’s name was Millie; only fifteen per cent knew that Bush and Clinton both favored [...]
NPR‘s All Things Considered recently completed a six-part series on the relationship between the West and Middle East. On top of being a good historical overview, the series essentially demonstrates the ill-effects of “blowback.” The last part of the series concludes that American intervention is to blame for Islamic terrorism targeting the US. Below are [...]
When I put up my last post, I was worried that the punchline – a reference to Rush Limbaugh’s comparison of Abu Ghraib torture to fraternity pranks – might be a little overplayed. Thank God for torture prober James Schlesinger, who again invoked this appalling analogy at today’s press conference: “There was sadism on the [...]
