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November 30, 2010
WikiLeaks Doc: Catch and Release in Afghanistan
A cable released by WikiLeaks that is available on the New York Times's...
November 30, 2010
Aum Shinrikyo
Outline: Leadership: Shoko Asahara Aum Shinrikyo's Ideology Aum Shinrikyo's Scope and Structure Indoctrina...
November 30, 2010
Holland: Gas Companies Refuse to Fuel Iranian FM’s Plane
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki dropped his planned visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday because US sanctions meant his Iran Air plane might be refused fuel. "Mr. Mottaki canc...
November 30, 2010
Is There a Right to Know?
Why redact anything? That is the question that springs to mind in reading the self-justification offered by the New York Times for lending its megaphone to Wikileaks. The paper is now pu...
November 30, 2010
WikiLeaks Has Succeeded Only in Reinforcing a Culture of Secrecy
Regrettably, Pete, it looks like the answer is never (as Jennifer has noted). This, just in from the Guardian — a veritable barometer of the liberal mindset, at least as far as Europe goes....
November 30, 2010
The Art and Romance of the Diplomatic Cable
With Wikileaks's most recent release of official U.S. documents, I experienced again one of the best things about having left government service: I don’t have to read State Department...
November 30, 2010
El Baradei Versus The Pharaoh
November 28, over 40 million Egyptians were called upon to cast votes to elect their next parliament. This was only the first round of elections, but independent observers maintain that turnout w...
November 29, 2010
According to WikiLeaks, Israel Was Right
Berlin - Never mind the Fleet Street-style diplomatic chitchat about European leaders; the most interesting thing to come from the latest WikiLeaks round is Arab world leaders' bein...
November 29, 2010
Cablegate? I Kinda Like It, Actually
Shortly before I went to work at the State Department, back in the last century, I asked Henry Kissinger for advice, and he had quite a bit of it. One terse statement has stayed with me: "the onl...
November 29, 2010
WikiLeaks Docs on Obama’s Gitmo Diplomacy
The press has highlighted several documents from the latest WikiLeaks cache that deal with the Obama administration's attempts to close Guantanamo. The administration can't close Gitmo...
November 28, 2010
Julian Assange’s Narrative Shouldn’t be the Media’s
The world is once again anticipating a massive leak of classified documents by WikiLeaks. The U.S. State Department is so concerned that it has published a letter addressed to the head of WikiLea...
November 27, 2010
Into Thin Airwaves
Back in January 2010, Secretary of State Clinton gave a pay-any-price, bear-any-burden address calling for the liberation of the global Internet. The price Washington was willing to pay? It promi...
November 25, 2010
A Day To Be Thankful
Once a year, we Americans set aside a day for a feast of thanksgiving. It is worth remembering -- and, may I suggest, taking time to discuss with the family and friends gathered at the Thanksgivi...
November 25, 2010
Palestinian Youth Reveal Their Fanaticism With Every Tweet
Hamas recently launched an initiative to “intensify its use of the Internet for spreading Islamic values and religion,” Israeli security services reported last month. The Palestinian...
November 25, 2010
From North Korea, Lessons About Syria
Commenting on North Korea’s newly revealed uranium enrichment facility, and its subsequent unprovoked shelling of the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, former US president Jimmy Carter off...
November 24, 2010
TSA Is Terrible
More years ago than I care to remember, I prosecuted some violent drug dealers. During the trial, we got some reliable information that their associates were transferring contraband to them in pr...
November 23, 2010
Lame Duck Is The Wrong Place for New START
The Obama administration has earned a bad rap for ramming legislation through Congress without sufficient oversight, Republican buy-in, or support from the American people. The White House rushed...
November 22, 2010
North Korea and the Audacity of Nuclear Extortion
If they gave prizes for the art of nuclear blackmail, North Korea's Kim Jong Il would right now be hoisting his trophy for lifetime achievement. Call it the Plutonium-Uranium-Switcheroo Shak...
November 21, 2010
NATO Considering Peacekeeping Force in Middle East
Speaking at a press conference in Lisbon during NATO's summit, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen...
November 21, 2010
Holder’s Sham Trial
“By prosecuting Ahmed Ghailani in federal court,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a May 21, 2009, statement, “we will ensure that he finally answers for his alleged role in...
November 19, 2010
Germany: EU Iran Sanctions Don’t Prohibit Hamburg Bank
BERLIN – The German government last week denied that German authorities plan to pull the plug on the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank (Europaeisch- Iranische Handelsbank). Speaking during an...
November 18, 2010
Smearing America in Defense of A Terrorist
In response to the Ghailani verdict, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the...
November 18, 2010
Slow START
You don't need to be in the Tea Party to believe that members of Congress ought to read and understand bills before signing them into law. I think it's fair to say that in t...
November 18, 2010
How to Reform Islam
I have often argued that one of the redemptive graces of Western civilization is self-criticism, a deeply ingrained habit that has enabled Western man to reflect, to adjust, to improve his belief...
November 18, 2010
Germany Outsources Its Israel Hatred Now
The Mayor of Frankfurt Petra Roth's decision to invite hardcore anti-Israeli academic Alfred Grosser to deliver the keynote speech at last week's commemoration of Kristallnacht, a wave...
November 18, 2010
Journalists Keep The Hezbollah Myth Alive
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah’s speech last week, in which he rehashed an old conspiracy theory featuring former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, offered an opportunity...
November 18, 2010
NATO Going Cold Turkey?
More evidence that NATO is in trouble has come alive as the alliance prepares for its summit this weekend. As reported in several news sources, Turkey has gotten its way, and NATO officialdom wil...
November 18, 2010
Justice Was Not Done
Critics of the Obama administration’s use of the civilian courts to try enemy combatants in wartime – and I am one – understandably point to Wednesday’s stunning verdict i...
November 17, 2010
Bush Says Schröder Betrayed Him on Iraq
Berlin - No real surprise here: Former president George W. Bush's discloses in his new memoirthat former c...
November 17, 2010
The Blind Who Will Not See: The President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Iranian Death Spiral
I sometimes wonder where some of our smartest people get their ideas. Take Defense Secretary Bob Gates, for example. Discussing the possibility of military action against Iranian nuclear weapons...
November 17, 2010
Bush Says Schröder Betrayed Him on Iraq
Berlin - No real surprise here: Former president George W. Bush's discloses in his new memoirthat for...
November 17, 2010
Report: Joint Iran-Egypt Bank Used to Bypass Sanctions
Financial ties between Egypt and Iran have recently improved as a result of the Misr Iran Development Bank (MIDB), jointly owned by the two countries, the Atlantic Mont...
November 17, 2010
From Al Qaeda Recruit to Millionaire?
Is the British government preparing to make one of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s alleged co-conspirators a millionaire? The Washington Post reports on the British payouts to former Gitmo detaine...
November 17, 2010
Ghailani Verdict A Miscarriage of Justice
A New York jury delivered a stunning verdict Wednesday. Ahmed Ghailani, an al Qaeda terrorist who conspired to blow up American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, was acquitted of more than...
November 16, 2010
Iran: The Looming Crisis
Since Iran's illicit nuclear program was first exposed to a stunned world in 2002, Tehran has defied the international community and continued to pursue its nuclear goals. What drives this seemingly a...
November 16, 2010
British Pay Jihadists to Tell Tall Tales of Torture
The UK government has decided to award seven former Guantanamo detainees millions of dollars in an out-of-court settlement, according to multiple press accounts. Why? The ex-Gitmo detainees claim...
November 16, 2010
US Predators Hit A Taliban Camp in North Waziristan
US Predators struck again in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today, killing 20 "militants" at a camp on the border with Afghanistan. Unmanned Predato...
November 16, 2010
Texans Uneasy Over Chinese Oil Investment in Lone Star State
The mainstream news has been relatively quiet in the last month about a recent and significant Chinese investment in South Texas oil. But Tom Pauken, chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, has...
November 16, 2010
Obama Caves on Civilian Trial for KSM
Let’s review the state of play, shall we? Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama blasted the Bush administration’s decision to treat al-Qaeda terro...
November 15, 2010
How Egypt Is Helping Iran to Circumvent Sanctions
If you ever find yourself in downtown Tehran, it's hard to miss the five-story-tall mural commemorating Khaled al-Islambouli, the man who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in October 1981...
November 15, 2010
That Treasured German-Iranian Friendship
Germany has a bizarre way of working through its history. While the government, rhetorically at least, opposes Iran's nuclear weapons program as a threat to Israel's security, members of its parlia...
November 15, 2010
Egypt Helping Iran to Circumvent Sanctions
If you ever find yourself in downtown Tehran, it's hard to miss the five-story-tall mural commemorating Khaled al-Islambouli, the man who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Octob...
November 15, 2010
Mullah Omar Rejects Reports of Peace Talks, Highlights Taliban Strategy
The Taliban's top leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan today denied reports of ongoing negotiations with the Afghan government, and claimed instead that Western intelligence agencies are attem...
November 15, 2010
The Deepening Mysteries of U.N. Financial Disclosure
When the new U.S. Congress convenes in January, there may be revived interest in oversight of a runaway United Nations. The U.N. system is fueled by billions every year in U.S. tax dollars, but h...
November 13, 2010
Obama Knocks Israel in a Budding Sharia State
In fine Alinskyite tradition, Pres. Barack Obama is ready to say anything at any moment if it seems expedient. So it was that he spoke some months back of the “unbreakable bond of friendshi...
November 12, 2010
Bush vs. Schröder
Observers of U.S.-German relations were probably not startled by former President Bush's disclosure in his memoi...
November 12, 2010
Israeli Ambassador Says Germans May Close Iranian EIH Bank
BERLIN – Israel has asked "the German government on all levels to close" the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank, Ambassador to Germany Yoram Ben-Ze'ev said in response to a Jerusalem Post query on We...
November 12, 2010
Panel Expected to Push Obama on Iran Sanctions
Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who will wield the gavel because of their victory in last week's elections, will seek to hold the Obama administration's feet to the fire on the...
November 12, 2010
Ex-Gitmo Detainee Plotted Against Saudi Kingdom
In October, the Yemeni government offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Ahmed Abdel Aziz al Jasser, a Saudi national. According to Agence France Presse, Yemen's i...
November 12, 2010
Arming the Kingdom
With the election behind us, and representatives still celebrating (or not) back in their home states, time is running out to affect a foreign policy matter that will have lasting implications on...
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