Central Intelligence Agency
Barely Friends, Few Benefits
Liberal Apathy, the National Security Story
Heather Hurlburt is executive director of the National Security Network. She wrote this in response to last week's item about liberal apathy. READ MORE >>
'Top Secret America'—A Bust
Why Wikileaks Still Needs 'The New York Times'
Get Out Yesterday
Operation Sabotage
With Friends Like Us
Japan has a new prime minister, Naoto Kan, but he comes from the same party—the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)—as Yukio Hatoyama, who resigned last Wednesday. He will almost surely want to continue Hatoyama's policies of strengthening Japan’s political democracy and forging an independent foreign policy that is allied with the United States, but not subordinate to it. READ MORE >>
Sestak-Gate Is Getting Dumber
Slate's John Dickerson compares the Obama White House's silence on whether it offered Joe Sestak a job to the Bush administration's silence on the Plame allegation: READ MORE >>
The dispatch is from Reuters. And the dateline is Wonderland. Flush with success in turning Iran away from nukes and Syria away from Tehran, the administration seems to be setting its sights on turning Hezbollah away from Hezbollah. READ MORE >>
Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? No One Really Knows.
Benazir Bhutto was murdered (along with 24 of her nameless countrymen) two-and-a-half years ago. Edward Jay Epstein has discovered that there was actually no proper—and barely an improper—investigation of the slaying. Her crooked and shiftless husband succeeded Musharraf as president, not that she wasn’t crooked herself. But shiftless she was not. Anybody is likely to be assassinated in Pakistan. But this assassination is of greater interest than most. READ MORE >>
