A small meeting I hosted on Thursday with former National Security Advisors Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski to inaugurate the launch of a suite of new foreign policy programs at the New America Foundation continues to draw attention.
This requires Quick Time to watch, but we have just posted a streaming video link to the lunch meeting I chaired yesterday with former National Security Advisors Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski. You can watch the program here.
A short while ago, reporters asked President Bush for a reaction to comments made at the foreign policy luncheon I organized yesterday in the Senate with former National Security Advisors Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
My lawyer friend BG, whom I hope will one day be a Senator from a red state, sent this interesting note on the legal precedent of Congress’s right to know the content of Gonzales’s secret memos: The following is from a 1941 opinion issued by Robert Jackson when he was Attorney General.
Tomorrow (Thursday), I have organized a meeting in the U.S. Senate for an eclectic group of foreign policy thinkers, writers, and activists.
Last night, I read through an interesting set of papers prepared by the left-lurching Institute for Policy Studies. One of the papers, the titles of which I don’t have with me here at my neighborhood Starbucks (but will post later), was about the “true costs of the Iraq War.
Iraq Prime Minister Allawi knows his town and cautioned a handful of red and blue state senators to move out of harm’s way near the window of his own office. This appeared in today’s Washington Times: Nowhere is safe Sen.
I can think of dozens of highly placed Republicans who could have been constructive participants in the secret Kofi Annan counseling session. Warren Hoge disclosed the December 5 meeting today in a New York Times report. If anyone hears who leaked the story to him, let me know.
Frank Rich captures the point I have been trying for some time to make.