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Washington Notes, Steve Clemons

Why the Defense Budget is Much Bigger Than You Think

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Bush White House, CIA Tried to Dig Up Dirt on a Blogger

Posted 8 months, 1 week ago

While I am deeply disturbed by former CIA analyst Glenn Carle‘s recent revelations that there was a White House-directed appeal to the CIA to dig up dirt on my friend and blogging comrade Juan Cole, I am not surprised at all by this news.

The George W. Bush administration ignored the…

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Why Dominique Strauss-Kahn Matters

Posted 9 months, 1 week ago

If Dominique Strauss-Kahn is found guilty, it will be a loss for the world.

Thanks to recently returned Embassy Minister of Finance, Jean-Francois Boittin, I met Dominique Strauss-Kahn for a one-on-one meeting in 1998. Boittin, working single-handedly to correct my over-familiarity with Asia…

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The Man Who Was Telling Us How to Catch Bin Laden From Day One

Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Peter Bergen Was Right About the Hunt for Bin Laden All Along

In December 2004, I worked with Peter Bergen and Karen Greenberg in organizing a major conference in the US Senate titled “Al Qaeda 2.0″. Bergen, probably the world’s most famous al Qaeda and bin Laden tracker, had arranged one of…

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