(Asst. Secretary of State for East Asia Christopher Hill) Tonight, The Washington Note confirmed that the Bush administration will “ask Congress” to de-list North Korea from America’s “terrorist watch list.” This request will be made on Thursday — if there are no last minute, unexpected interventions.
Senator Russ Feingold‘s blunt and captivating discussion at the New America Foundation yesterday about America’s strategic intelligence deficit can be watched here.
(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.
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.
I agree with Barack Obama’s rejection of public financing in his presidential race because he is right that the ecosystem of campaign finance remains warped and that one side running tied by the rules of public finance and the other side essentially not would produce a disputed, potentially unfair outcome.
