My own views were captured in this lead editorial today in the Philadelphia Inquirer, but I think that this roster of benchmarks that CSIS’s Anthony Cordesman sent TWN is extremely useful. It ought to become the “mantra card” for serious political opponents of this administration’s Cheney-led national security team.

The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s lead editorial today reflects many of the themes that TWN has been developing on the blog and at the New America Foundation where I work.

Here is what I wrote Richard Armitage and the Plame Case in November 2005: Could this insider source be Stephen Hadley? Seems odd to me. To many, Hadley still ranks fairly high as Bob Woodward’s source — and at least to my knowledge — Hadley has only “hinted” that he was not Woodward’s source.

Up at Pocantico this evening at the home and estate of the Rockefeller clan to discuss U.S. foreign policy options. The op-ed I wrote for a Japanese paper, the Daily Yomiuri, two posts below is getting a surprising amount of attention internationally. I’ve had lots of email responses. But let me leave you with this….

Finally, people are beginning to see that there is a serious gap between Condi Rice and John Bolton. Anne-Marie Slaughter sums up the state of affairs regarding America’s stance towards the new Human Rights Council beautifully.

I scribbled the following piece when in Jerusalem and sent to friends in Tokyo to consider publishing. It has just appeared in Japan’s largest English language daily, the Daily Yomiuri. Daily Yomiuri — March 18, 2006 Time for Bush to Turn Realist by Steven Clemons The various denominations that have demarcated the U.S.

I had a great evening speaking to members of the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations last night and even ran into a high school pal of James Woolsey, also from Tulsa, who has some of the same concerns I do about our former CIA Director who has benefited too much financially in my view from…

Monday night, March 20, 6:30 p.m. arrive; 7:00 p.m. screening. E Street Cinemas — 555 11th Street NW — Washington, DC 8:30 pm short discussion with Our Brand is Crisis Director Rachel Boynton. I will be moderating the discussion and introducing the film.

Apologies to the many New Yorkers who have written about meeting up. There has been some uncertainty about my flight plans — now mostly resolved. I get into JFK Airport today at 3:30 pm and am then heading into Manhattan to meet Josh Marshall.

Ehud Olmert, acting Prime Minister of Israel and the head of the new Ariel Sharon-created Kadima party, just scored big in Israel with the mostly bloodless seizure in Jericho of six Palestinian prisoners who were allegedly involved in the murder of an Israeli cabinet minister in 2001.