I like the folks at US News & World Report but they just sent me a disconcerting political news swipe at sponsored Congressional travel and the Aspen Institute.
My discussion today with New Yorker correspondent Jane Mayer on her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, is one hour and eight minutes long and will air at 2:52 am EST this morning (Wednesday) on C-Span 2.
Washington Post national security columnist David Ignatius in an article a few years ago branded Cheney chief of staff and legal consiglieri David Addington as “Cheney’s Cheney.
New Yorker Washington correspondent Jane Mayer will discuss her book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, with me live this morning between 9:30 am and 11:00 am EST.
(Lynne and Dick Cheney hold Samuel David Cheney, the son of Mary Cheney and her wife, Heather Poe) John McCain needs to come spend some time in my neighborhood in Dupont Circle in Washington.
Barack Obama has an important op-ed today in the New York Times titled “My Plan for Iraq.” It’s a useful portal into the current thinking in ObamaLand on America’s Iraq policy and continues to emphasize both his opposition in 2002 to the Iraq War and his intention to “end the conflict.
A while back, I spoke at an interesting program on the politics and ethics of blogging at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs organized by well known Japan hand Devin Stewart who runs the program and blog titled Policy Innovations.
I’ve just read 520 pages of a 544 page paperback on the flight back from China. If you are interested in sampling the seismic political and cultural shifts in China over the last century, I can’t think of a better book I have read.
See my note below. I will be hosting a live streaming discussion with New Yorker Washington Correspondent Jane Mayer on her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.
Tuesday morning, between 9:30 am and 11:00 am EST, I am hosting a conversation at the New America Foundation with New Yorker Washington correspondent Jane Mayer about her news-busting new book on the torture-promoting War Council ecosystem that Vice President Cheney and one of his most tenacious consigliari, David Addington, constructed after 9-11.
