Russ Feingold Streams Live Today at Noon

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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.

Bad Taste

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Note to Obama Spokesman Bill Burton and Campaign Director David Axelrod: This is probably not a good thing to repeat. Reflects hubris.

EVENT TODAY: Pakistan’s Dangerous Turn

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Patrick Doherty is the Deputy Director of the American Strategy Program at The New America Foundation, and the Director of our US-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative. The New America Foundation and Terror Free Tomorrow will release the results of a Pakistani, pre-election public opinion poll today at New America at 12:15.

Al Kamen on Feith

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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. . .

<em>TWN</em> on the Road

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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.

Obama Says No to Public Financing

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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.

Douglas Feith a No Show

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Yesterday, former Defense Department Under Secretary Douglas Feith failed to show up at a Congressional hearing investigating abusive interrogation techniques used on combat detainees because he did not want to appear along side former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson.