salon.com - 1/12/2009
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[updated below -- Update II (Obama's prior NIE statement)] Regarding Barack Obama's statements about Iran yesterday during his ABC News interview, Charles Davis makes an excellent point (h/t Jonathan Schwarz ): President-elect Barack Obama in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos: Iran ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/7/2009
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
Transition officials confirm that President-elect Obama has asked
Dennis Ross , Richard Haass , and Richard Holbrooke...
, to serve as his chief emissaries to world hot spots. It's expected that Ross will get the Iran portfolio, that Holbrooke, the ...
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Ross, Holbrooke, Haass To Serve As Envoys
longwarjournal.org - 1/16/2009
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longwarjournal.org —
Osama bin Laden’s son and three other senior
al Qaeda members living in Iran have been designated...
as terrorists by the US Department of the Treasury. Sa'ad bin Laden, Mustafa Hamid, Muhammad Rab'a al Sayid al Bahtiti, and Ali Saleh Husain have ...
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US sanctions senior al Qaeda members sheltering in Iran
nationalinterest.org - 1/8/2009
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nationalinterest.org —
by Richard Perle 01.06.2009 FOR EIGHT years George
W. Bush pulled the levers of government—sometimes frantically—never realizing...
that they were disconnected from the machinery and the exertion was largely futile. As a result, the foreign and security ...
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That Iran NIE? Oh, We All Just Ignore It
Newshoggers.com —
... "We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program." Since then every major Western media outlet and political leader, especially including Barack Obama, has done their level best to ignore that finding - well, after the wingnuts got over crowing about ...
In which Vastleft apologizes for being prematurely correct
Corrente —
... and they have continued to build their nuclear weapons program, wreak havoc in Iraq, and support terror."
This is impressive. Not only does she ratify the unproven GOP talking point that Iran is wreaking havoc in Iraq (a neo-con claim which alternates rapidly with the claim that all the havoc in Iraq is from Al-Qaeda), she purports that Iran has an ongoing nuclear-weapons program. I don't believe that even the Bushies have made this claim...
Glenn Greenwald, January 12, 2009:
So what's the justification for Obama's ...
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Once Upon a Time... —
Sigh. Sigh. I refuse to go through all this again. I last addressed the issue of "intelligence" in detail in December 2007: "Played for Fools Yet Again: About that Iran 'Intelligence' Report." I will provide you this excerpt: Let us start with the most crucial point. The reaction from all quarters to the NIE relies on several interrelated central assumptions, ones that are regarded as so unquestionably true that no one thinks they need to be stated: that major policy decisions, including decisions of war and peace, are based ...
Politicizing Intelligence
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Panetta's testimony isn't the first time Obama has indicated that he discounts the 2007 NIE. In December 2007, he appeared to believe the report, saying, "By reporting that Iran halted its nuclear weapon development program four years ago because of international pressure, the new National Intelligence Estimate makes a compelling case for less saber-rattling and more direct diplomacy." But just last month, Obama told ABC News that Iran is "pursuing a nuclear weapon" (as early as his June 2008 AIPAC speech, Obama ...
How I Wrote 1,000 Columns for Antiwar.com
Antiwar.com Original —
... [.pdf] with the news that the Iranians gave up their nuclear weapons program in 2003, a fact our president seems to have forgotten, if we take seriously his many statements claiming Iran is intent on building nukes. We have been down this road before, and it’s hard to believe that the American people are going to be taken in again. Will they? Not if we at Antiwar.com can help it. Yes, you knew this column was going to degenerate into a fundraising pitch, now didn’t you? Well, what of it? We are hopelessly outspent in this vital battle for public opinion, and – like all ...
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America Said NO
righttruth.typepad.com 1/14/2009 — But the tense exchanges also prompted the White House to step up intelligence-sharing with Israel and brief Israeli officials on new American efforts to subtly sabotage Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, a major covert program that Mr. Bush is about to ...
Obama says ready to talk to Iran
reuters.com 1/28/2009 — DUBAI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said America was prepared to extend a hand of peace to Iran if it "unclenched its fist" and that the time was ripe for Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace negotiations. Choosing an Arab station for his ...
Obama on a Nuclear Iran: Yes They Can?
weeklystandard.com 1/27/2009 — From Obama's interview with Al-Arabiya :
Q Will the United States ever live with a nuclear Iran? And if not, how far are you going in the direction of preventing it?
THE PRESIDENT: You know, I said during the campaign that it is very important ...
But, but . . . We've DONE All That
corner.nationalreview.com 1/29/2009 — I'll keep this short, in the interests of my impressive blood pressure. There are two "stories" about Iran/U.S. relations bubbling around. One has to do with direct talks, the other with Ahmadinejad's demand that we apologize for our many past ...
The business of princes
pajamasmedia.com 1/7/2009 — Kathryn Jean Lopez at the National Review cites a former CIA person who thinks Leon Panetta is a good appointment for DCI simply because he’s an outsider to the agency and would be in a position to break its culture. Panetta wouldn’t be ...
We must talk Iran out of the bomb
theglobeandmail.com 12/24/2008 — When Barack Obama takes office in January, he will be greeted by many difficult challenges, beginning with the acute economic crisis. But he will not have the luxury of focusing on this exclusively. He will also have to contend with an array of ...
President Neophyte On Iran During The Fear Speech
stoptheaclu.com 2/10/2009 — So, how does Barry want to deal with Iran? Let's go to the transcript, which CNN scrubbed of all the um's and ah's and big pauses, sounding like a single dad trying to explain the birds and the bees to his daughter
Question: Thank you, Mr. President. ...
In New Year's message, Obama reaches out to Iran
thecable.foreignpolicy.com 3/20/2009 — As American audiences tuned into his appearance on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno," President Obama tonight issued a notable video message aimed at the Iranian people and their leaders on the occasion of Nowruz, t he traditional New Year's ...
Clinton outlines approach to Iran —
First Read 1/13/2009
From NBC's Libby Leist In the first round of questions with Sen. Kerry , Sen. Clinton has given a rough outline of how the Obama administration will approach Iran. "We are not taking any option off the table at all, ...
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