Nicholas Kristof’s bombshell article yesterday probing into the notes, letters and thinking on Afghanistan by Richard Holbrooke has a number of good journalists, including Politico‘s Ben Smith, scrambling to reassess where one of the Democrat Party’s foreign policy titans really stood on America’s longest war.

Thanks to then Embassy of France to the US Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs, and now recently returned Embassy Minister of Finance, Jean-Francois Boittin, I met Dominique Strauss-Kahn for a one-on-one meeting in 1998.

Ziyad Clot, a French lawyer who advised the Palestinian side in negotiatios with Israel during the Annapolis effort, has announced himself as the whistle-blower and source of the highly controversial “Palestine Papers.” He reports today at Al Jazeera why he did it.

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I have thought for some time now that the Obama administration’s experiment with George Mitchell had failed.

Many thanks to Ambassador Lucky Roosevelt, Chairperson of Blair House Restoration Committee and the former and longest-serving Chief of Protocol for the United States, for inviting me to a terrific semi-annual Blair House “thank you reception” for donors. The event featured Jill Biden and drew many of DC’s elites, particularly from earlier generations.

The one real news and public policy commentary show that Jon Stewart has never been able to credibly spoof is the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

This is a guest post by Caroline Esser, a research associate with the New America Foundation’s Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program.

For those following the evolving challenges in US-Pakistan post-bin Laden relationship, I share a slice of a thought in this clip with Jim Sciutto on ABC’s World News with Diane Sawyer. My basic point is that Pakistan is a nation we can’t extract ourselves from without high costs.

My colleague and former research assistant Brian Till has published a great new book, titled Conversations with Power: What Great Presidents and Prime Ministers Can Teach Us About Leadership. In a few minutes, I’m conducting a conversation with the presidential and prime ministerial conversationalist. Should be fun.