A Faulty Intelligence Report Lives On
The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear weapons program lives on in the imagination of some government officials. At the end of a...
National Intelligence Estimate
Obfuscating Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program
During an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer shortly before the Super Bowl on February 5, President Obama was asked about Iran’s nuclear weapons program and the possibility of an Israeli...
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Al Qaeda Round-Up, 2012
As we enter a new year, I wanted to outline the contours of, and analyze, a few issues that are likely to feature prominently in the fight between the U.S. and al Qaeda in 2012....
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Iran’s Nuclear Surge Capacity
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s comments concerning Iran’s nuclear program have caused quite a stir. In an interview aired on Monday, CBS News’s Scott Pelley...
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Obama’s Iran Failure
Israel turns up the heat.
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Iranian Nuclear Details Should’ve Been Released Years Ago
A new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) offers a detailed list of evidence in regard to Iran’s clandestine efforts to build a nuclear device and fit it onto long-ran...
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Has Evidence of Iran’s Nuclear Advances Been Withheld?
There are two embarrassing pieces of evidence buried in all the reporting about the IAEA quarterly report on the Iranian program, due to be released later this week. One is the fact that much of...
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What Will Anwar al-Awlaki’s Death Really Mean for al-Qaeda?
The apparent death of Anwar al-Awlaki -- a U.S. citiz...
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Cheney Got It Right on Syrian Nukes
The CIA and Bob Woodward got it wrong.
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Al-Qaeda Isn’t Beaten Yet
Adecade after the 9/11 attacks, U.S. officials are openly declaring that victory over al-Qaeda is imminent. "Al-Qaeda is sort of on the ropes and taking a lot of shots to the body and the head,"...
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Al-Qaeda Is Winning
Their ability to land large-scale attacks like that of September 11 might be eroded, but the group has another strategy.
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A Still-Open Nuclear File
Syria's violations would be grave enough if al-Kibar reflected a Syrian attempt to build nuclear weapons for itself.
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Al-Qaeda on the Brink?
The idea that al-Qaeda is on the brink of collapse has taken hold. On Wednesday, the Washington Post noted that “U.S. counterterrorism officials are increasingly convinced that the killing...
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Too Much Mr. Nice Guy
WASHINGTON — There are three ways in which I believe recent decisions by the Obama administration are, unintentionally, actually fostering the proliferation of nuclear weapons rather than c...
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The CIA and Al-Qaeda
In intelligence it’s not so much what you don’t know as what you won’t know. Al Qaeda was initially formed in 1988, when the Soviet Union announced the humiliating with...
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Are We Safer?
Yes, George W. Bush has made America more secure since 9/11.
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Treachery
The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on prewar statements is a disgrace.
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Lead, Senator
The McCain campaign reassures on surveillance reform, but …
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Soft Foreign Policy Hurts the U.S.
If American diplomacy were delivering on its promises, we'd be heading into boom times for peace and security. Instead, the new year begins with Washington foreign policy increasingly cocoon...
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A Year@War
Successes and setbacks.