Obama’s Team Doesn’t Buy the 2007 NIE on Iran’s Nuclear Program
The New York Times reports:
Mr. Obama’s top advisers say they no longer believe the key finding of a much disputed National Intelligence Estimate about Iran, published a year before President George W. Bush left office, which said that Iranian scientists ended all work on designing a nuclear warhead in late 2003.
After reviewing new documents that [...]
Did They Work?
That question has been among the most hotly disputed issues at the center of the continuing controversy over the CIA’s interrogation of suspected terrorists. The report released Monday from the former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson should end the debate.
Throughout his report, Helgerson goes out of his way to avoid expressing an [...]
Coming Soon: Higher Taxes
Tim Geithner and Alan Greenspan were on ABC’s This Week this morning; both talked about the need to bring down the federal deficit, which is soaring to unprecedented levels under President Obama. Here is George Stephanopoulos’s exchange with Geithner:
GEITHNER: … Remember the critical thing is people understand that when we have recovery established, [...]
Free Speech: Threat, or Menace?
This is more or less an open thread. I solicit your opinions in the comments; don’t disappoint me!
Resolved: There is no general “right” to nonverbal “speech,” and indeed, some should be banned.
Pro
Freedom of speech has always historically meant the freedom to express ideas in words; the modern fancy that any action whatsoever can be [...]
Is this visit really necessary?
President Obama is in Moscow. He has already met with President Medvedev and will soon met with Prime Minister Putin, who is probably the “power behind the throne.” As David Ignatius has noted, Obama screwed up before he even arrived in Russia when he contrasted his “very good relationship” with Medvedev with [...]
