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Is Obama's Iran Strategy Working?
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- President Barack Obama came into office planning a two-track strategy on Iran: The promise of high-level political engagement combined with tough economic sanctions. His plan was that the sanctions would deter bad behavior -- specifically, the ongoing nuclear program -- while the potential for engagement would encourage good behavior. Has it worked? Yes and no, Obama told a recent gathering of national security reporters. Here's what he said and how observers are parsing his successes and failures on Iran. Is Time Right for Engagement? The Washington Post's David Ignatius writes, ...
The Case for Intelligence Contractors
By not in system - AOL News(July 20) -- The Washington Post's groundbreaking investigation, "Top Secret America," already has national security writers questioning the nature of our post-Sept. 11 national security structure. The ongoing, multipart story today examines the breadth and depth of "National Security Inc.," the sprawling and secretive world of private, for-profit intelligence contracting. It warns that the tangled web of corporate spies and intelligence workers is incredibly inefficient, floods the intelligence system with so much analysis that the most valuable work gets lost, and produces such a tangled web ...
Why the Post Story Terrifies the Intel Community
By not in system - AOL News(July 19) -- The U.S. intelligence community is bracing for a Washington Post story published today. The story, largely reported by Pulitzer Prize-winner Dana Priest, details the billions of dollars of intelligence contracts fielded out to private companies. Both the State Department and the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which oversees all intelligence agencies, have sent out internal memos regarding the story. Here's what we know about the story, what we know about private intelligence contracting, and how intelligence agencies are responding. Likely Conclusions of the ...
Obama on Immigration Reform: Top 3 Most Striking Statements
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsPresident Barack Obama's speech today on the need for comprehensive immigration reform legislation is attracting much attention, and not simply because so many observers thought the issue had been all but tabled for the year. Indeed, pundits are already poring over the president's ambitious call to action, which would include clamping down on businesses that hire illegal immigrants, creating a new "pathway" to citizenship for illegal immigrants who come forward and register, and granting permanent residency to those illegal immigrants who graduate high school and are of "good moral ...
Opinion Roundup: Russian Spy Story 'Like a Blast From the Past'
By not in system - AOL News(June 29) -- The news that 10 people were charged with being Russian spies sparked plenty of commentary on the Web. AOL News gathered up some of the perspectives. Deep Cover The spies were so deeply embedded in the United States (and each other) that many of them were paired off to have children and live as yuppie families. They even did their information exchanges using wirelessly networked laptops at coffeehouses. If only the 11 spies had grown fat and covered themselves in tattoos and constantly threatened to kill the president and blow up Congress, nobody would've ever noticed them. -- ...
David Frum Attacks Me (Now I Can Die a Happy Man)
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyThe debate over the heart and soul of conservatism continues, and the latest skirmish is apparently between neoconservative David Frum and yours truly. Frum, it seems, was offended by my recent comments about conservatism on Bloggingheads, an online talk show where bloggers debate the issues of the day. My intent was to respond to an e-mailer, who had asked me my definition of what constitutes a conservative. Interestingly, I don't think I even mentioned Frum in this particular segment, though I have certainly mentioned him in the past. For those unfamiliar with Bloggingheads, it should be ...
Britney, Paris, Miley, and Meghan
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyShe's the biggest celebrity in the world...but is she ready to lead? Everyone wants to talk to her, and if they can't do that, they talk about her. Let's face it, Meghan McCain is everywhere -- and I doubt she's going away any time soon. That's quite an impressive accomplishment, especially considering she was soundly defeated by Sasha and Malia in last year's race for first daughter (I kid, I kid...). Yet she has managed to break free from her father and establish herself as an independent national figure -- notifying the world that she is a very savvy and intelligent young lady. Yet, I can't ...
McCain Tricked Robert Novak?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyLast night I brought you word of Robert Novak's supposed scoop that John McCain would announce his VP choice this week. Novak himself knew that such an announcement would help take some of the wind from Barack Obama's overseas sails, but what he didn't know, and is now a tad upset over, is that the McCain team used him to forward a rumor that is, apparently, not true. From Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:Robert Novak told Fox News that his report yesterday about Sen John McCain naming his running mate this week may have been "a dodge" by the campaign to steal some attention from Sen. Barack ...
Bill Kristol, New York Times Hack, UPDATE
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn his short tenure at The New York Times, neo-conservative commentator Bill Kristol has treated readers to his own brand of particularly stodgy, past the sell-by-date punditry. This week's attempted hatchet job on Barack Obama is just the latest Kristol-clear example of journalistic standards gone awry. The piece contends that, for all of Obama's skill as a campaigner, the Illinois senator has been less than forthcoming about whether or not he actually attended a now-famous sermon in which Jeremiah Wright blasted the United States. ...
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