Former Congressman and almost presidential candidate Dave McCurdy has just been announced as the new President & CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. How times have changed.
Today, while Flynt Leverett was speaking at a program I was chairing at the New America Foundation, White House spokesman Tony Snow was fielding a question on Flynt Leverett’s charge that the White House was politicizing the “secrets clearing” process and punishing policy critics who had previously worked with classified policy material.
(New America Foundation Middle East and Energy Policy expert Flynt Leverett; photo credit:
My colleague Flynt Leverett will be speaking on the subject, “Dealing with Tehran,” at a New America Foundation/American Strategy Program on Monday, 12:15 pm EST. I will be moderating the meeting and offering comments as well. This meeting is open to the public and RSVPs should go to wu@newamerica.net.
I would rather have Lincoln Chafee on board our team as a Distinguished Scholar at the New America Foundation, but Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies beat us. (We have Gary Hart with us.
(Close aide to Saudi National Security Advisor Bandar bin Sultan, Rihab Massoud) The escalating tension between Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the current Saudi National Security Advisor and former Saudi Ambassador to the United States, and Prince Turki al-Faisal, who only this this week resigned his position as Saudi Ambassador in Washington, is taking some new…
(Steve Clemons and Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Prince Turki al-Faisal) This is bad news. There has been no formal announcement by the Saudi government yet — but sources have reported that HRH Prince Turki al-Faisal has resigned his job as Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the US.
OK — I am off to former Oklahoma Congressman and Electronics Industry Alliance President Dave McCurdy‘s home for his annual, awesome holiday party. But TIVO is set for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart who will have Senator Lincoln Chafee on tonight.
Barack Obama is sizzling — and now he’s flirting with New Hampshire. There is no doubt about it — and it looks like what was a Mark Warner-Hillary Rodham Clinton battle will increasingly look like a primary battle between Hillary and Barack Obama.
One of the things that most impressed me when I was in the UAE this past week was the sensible, informed perspective that every single government official I met had. There was no anti-Israel jingoism among government elites, though i can’t say the same about people in the private sector.
