A Curate’s Egg (Good in Parts)
via Lobe Log by Peter Jenkins Last week, while visiting Israel and Jordan, President Barak Obama publicly emphasised that there is still time to resolve the nuclear dispute without resorting to force...
View ArticleDiplomacy is Still Washington’s Best Option for Iran
via Lobe Log by Jasmin Ramsey Two conversations are presently occurring in Washington about Iran. Hawks and hardliners are searching for new ways to force the Obama administration to tighten or impose...
View ArticlePRISMatic Global Surveillance
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches...
View ArticleHow Booz Allen Made the Revolving Door Redundant
by Pratap Chaterjee via IPS News Edward Snowden, a low-level employee of Booz Allen Hamilton who blew the whistle on the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), unexpectedly exposed a powerful and...
View ArticleProPublica and the Fear Campaign Against Iran
via LobeLog by Jim Lobe Last Thursday, the highly respected, non-profit investigative news agency ProPublica featured a 2,400-word article, “The Terror Threat and Iran’s Inroads in Latin America”, by...
View ArticleProPublica’s Response To My Post On Rotella’s Iran in LatAm Work
via LobeLog by Jim Lobe Following the publication last month of my post, “ProPublica and the Fear Campaign Against Iran”, I sent an email message to Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica’s editor-in-chief,...
View ArticleBeware Ilan Berman’s Citations of U.S. Officials on Iran
via LobeLog by Jim Lobe In critiquing Sebastian Rotella’s recent ProPublica report about alleged Iranian/Hezbollah activities in Latin America, I came across a surprising discovery. As readers of this...
View ArticleMy Long, Long-Delayed Response to ProPublica
via LobeLog by Jim Lobe As readers of this blog know, I’ve had a series of exchanges with editors at ProPublica regarding my critique of an article published July 11 and entitled “The Terror Threat and...
View ArticleISIS and the Politics of Surprise
by Paul Pillar The recent burst of recriminations about what the U.S. intelligence community did or did not tell the president of the United States in advance about the rise of the extremist group...
View ArticleThe National Effort at Self-Exoneration on Torture
by Paul R. Pillar The nation’s current attempt at catharsis through a gargantuan report prepared by the Democratic staff of a Senate committee exhibits some familiar patterns. Most of them involve...
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