Over the weekend, Andy Revkin posted a very smart memo to the President-Elect from a group of “specialists on climate, energy, and technology policy,” who have decided to write under the nom de plume “Justinian” reveal their identities in a few weeks.
A bit more than a decade ago, I received a briefing at Sandia National Weapons Laboratories on a few of their private-public partnerships, or CRADAs (Cooperative Research and Development Agreements). Intel had a CRADA with Sandia and Los Alamos Labs on developing extreme ultra-violet lithography. Many other top tier firms did too.
A senior Obama campaign official shared with The Washington Note that in July 2008, the McCain and Obama camps began to work secretly behind the scenes to assemble large rosters of potential personnel for the administration that only one of the candidates would lead.
This is the segment I did last night on Countdown with David Shuster standing in for Keith Olbermann. I’m back in the U.S. and can report that enthusiasm for Barack Obama throughout Europe is off the charts.
Just arrived in Washington from Barcelona. And now I’m off to chat with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s Countdown tonight. We will be discussing themes from this article on President-elect Obama’s plans for Hillary Clinton.
Some might recall that Hillary Clinton, who good money suggests will officialy secure the position atop the State Department soon, once remarked that Putin ‘doesn’t have a soul.’ This bridge will will require some maintenance work in early 2009.
I’m flying back from Spain. We’ll have much to discuss after I arrive back home.
I will be back to Washington on Friday after an excellent program in Madrid with the Spain- based alums of the London School of Economics. I am now in Barcelona.
Bashar al-Assad’s regime finds itself dealing with an interesting mix of press in the lame duck days. Today’s papers report re-established intelligence ties between British and Syrian agencies; they come as British FM David Miliband makes a landmark visit to Damascus, in which he met with President Assad.
Today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt who is also Chairman of the Board of Directors at the New America Foundation (where I work) will give a speech and answer questions at an event organized by my organization and which I will stream live here at The Washington Note from 1:00 pm til 2:30 pm EST.
