STREAMING VIDEO OF MEETING WITH BRENT SCOWCROFT AND ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

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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.

AL GONZALES’S SECRET MEMOS “FAIR GAME” BY HISTORICAL STANDARD

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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.

BROADBAND COMPETITION UNWINDING: THE TRUE COST OF A “POLITICS OF DISTRACTION”

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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.

DICK HOLBROOKE: NEXT TIME INVITE A COUPLE OF LIKE-MINDED REPUBLICANS TO THE SECRET MEETING

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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.