(post-2007 Australian American Leadership Dialogue Dinner: Anne Keating, Anne Wexler, Steve Clemons, Lesley Russell, Bruce Wolpe, Former Prime Minister Paul Keating; photo credit: Ambassador Joe Duffey) A number of readers have been asking me how a typical day of mine in blogland and the the world of think tanks goes in Washington.
Streaming Video by Ustream.TV The subject is national security intelligence and information gaps. I’ll be hosting Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) for a talk on legislation that he and Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) have offered to help address some of the structural problems in national intelligence.
Note to Obama Spokesman Bill Burton and Campaign Director David Axelrod: This is probably not a good thing to repeat. Reflects hubris.
I’m up in Ottawa today speaking for the Canadian government’s “Deputy Ministers’ Retreat” along with former Ambassador and Under Secretary of State Thomas Pickering, Brookings governance policy czar Thomas Mann, and AEI’s trade guru Claude Barfield.
Patrick Doherty is the Deputy Director of the American Strategy Program at The New America Foundation, and the Director of our US-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative. The New America Foundation and Terror Free Tomorrow will release the results of a Pakistani, pre-election public opinion poll today at New America at 12:15.
I read this today and boy, it seemed familiar. . . and then I remembered I posted this yesterday on Douglas Feith, Lawrence Wilkerson and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. I’m sure it’s just coincidence. . .
Friday (tomorrow), I will be speaking at the Deputy Ministers’ Retreat in Ottawa, Canada. It’s all off the record though. Then back to DC. From June 29 – July 2, I will be in Beijing. July 3 – July 4, in Guilin, China. July 5-6, Xian. July 7- 9, Shanghai July 10-13, Hong Kong.
I’ll be moderating a session with Senator Russ Feingold on Monday, 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm EST on America’s “National Security Intelligence Deficit.” You can watch live streaming of the event here at The Washington Note. For more on the substance of the event, read Andrew Lebovich.
In light of the September 11 attacks, the incorrect reports of Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and the current debate over Iran’s nuclear weapons, the American intelligence community has received an incredible amount of scrutiny in recent years.