The transcription process for this event that has received a lot of attention in the media as well as my attention in entries below was complicated by the fact that the New America Foundation (in which I have a fairly substantial role) has unbelievably low quality recording and taping equipment.

Here is the last part of Maureen Dowd’s New York Times piece today, “Defining Victory Down,” that lashes the Bush administration for its imperviousness to feedback. Again, the Thursday forum that we hosted with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft gets a lot of play: The arrogant Bush war council never admits a mistake.

Brent Scowcroft’s comments last Thursday at the inaugural meeting of my new foreign policy project, New Solarium Project on U.S. Foreign Policy, have really riled up those who are gambling that Iraq’s January 30th elections are going to usher in an era of stable governance and democracy for Iraqis.

A small meeting I hosted on Thursday with former National Security Advisors Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski to inaugurate the launch of a suite of new foreign policy programs at the New America Foundation continues to draw attention.

This requires Quick Time to watch, but we have just posted a streaming video link to the lunch meeting I chaired yesterday with former National Security Advisors Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski. You can watch the program here.

A short while ago, reporters asked President Bush for a reaction to comments made at the foreign policy luncheon I organized yesterday in the Senate with former National Security Advisors Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski.

My lawyer friend BG, whom I hope will one day be a Senator from a red state, sent this interesting note on the legal precedent of Congress’s right to know the content of Gonzales’s secret memos: The following is from a 1941 opinion issued by Robert Jackson when he was Attorney General.

Tomorrow (Thursday), I have organized a meeting in the U.S. Senate for an eclectic group of foreign policy thinkers, writers, and activists.

Last night, I read through an interesting set of papers prepared by the left-lurching Institute for Policy Studies. One of the papers, the titles of which I don’t have with me here at my neighborhood Starbucks (but will post later), was about the “true costs of the Iraq War.

Iraq Prime Minister Allawi knows his town and cautioned a handful of red and blue state senators to move out of harm’s way near the window of his own office. This appeared in today’s Washington Times: Nowhere is safe Sen.