And Then There Were 60. . .Arlen Specter Joins Democrats
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Wow. The Democrats — if they ever bring in Al Franken — will control 60 seats in the US Senate fair and square.
By Steve Clemons
Commission on Accountability Should Be Part of Our Response to America’s Torture Nightmare
I have had a couple of overwhelming weeks and haven’t been able to post until now what I would have preferred on this debate about George W. Bush administration torture policy accountability.
The Washington Note in “State of Play”
The Washington Note‘s actual image has made it on to Rachel Maddow’s terrific MSNBC show, been highlighted on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, and has popped up on Wolf Blitzer’s The Situation Room on CNN, and George StephanopoulosThis Week. . .but there is a new first for TWN.
US-Saudi Relations in a World Without Equilibrium
On Monday, 27 April, I will be co-chairing a major national policy forum on US-Saudi economic and strategic perspectives on the Middle East and global economic and security system. We have quite a line-up which I’ll share below.
Tear Down This Wall
(Matt Wuerker, Politico, reprinted with permission) Matt Wuerker, who was just announced yesterday as a Pulitzer finalist, did this great sketch of the Cuba embargo “wall” that America has built around itself. It’s brilliant. Enjoy Matt’s “Wuerking Drawings” at Politico.
State Department Policy Planning Chief to Speak at US-Saudi Forum
Anne-Marie Slaughter had one of the coolest jobs that met at the nexus of public policy and academia. She was Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
The View from Carson City: An Eagle at Washoe Lake
A loyal TWN reader sent in these pics he took yesterday of a pretty handsome bald eagle. They were taken at Washoe Lake in Carson City, Nevada — a place I hang out from time to time.
Hugo Chavez’s Grip-and-Grin with Barack Obama
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Barack Obama continues to throw off his political rivals by doing the unexpected — and posturing with a handshake and smile does much to win hearts and minds around the world regardless of how troublesome Hugo Chavez is.
MEDIA ALERT: Keith Olbermann’s Countdown on Obama & Hugo Chavez
Tonight at about 8:15 pm EST, I will be discussing with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s Countdown all the ballyhoo about Barack Obama’s suprisingly bright moments with Venezuela President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad & Tobago.
Jane Harman is Going to Have Bad Day
Representative Jane Harman denies that she agreed to lobby on behalf of two AIPAC employees facing espionage-related charges in exchanging for AIPAC lobbying Nancy Pelosi to allow Harman to assume the chair of the House Intelligence Committee.