Yesterday’s New York Times story on Sen. Obama’s foreign policy advisers does not bode well for the Obama campaign or his administration, if elected. Most of the people mentioned in the story are very bright, but few have any record of serious strategic thought (Philip Gordon, Ivo Daalder, and Michael McFaul being clear exceptions). [...]
Entries from July 2008
2 July 2008
Annals of Not Understanding Funding
Seymour Hersh’s 7 July New Yorker article is unclear on whether the activities in the president’s intelligence finding on Iran were authorized and appropriated by the H.R. 3222 (specifically sec. 8084), or whether the Congress was simply briefed on the intelligence finding.
If only the latter, he is wrong to write that: “Late last year, Congress [...]
