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6/30/03
Is time ripe for a hit on Iran?
As the U.S. turns up the heat on Iran, officials are pondering how hot they can make it for the oh-so-powerful ayatollahs. Last month, President Bush declared that America and its allies ‘’will not tolerate the construction of a nuclear weapon’’ by Iran. In The Weekly Standard, former CIA spook Reuel Marc Gerecht called a pre-emptive military strike “the only option that offers a good chance of delaying” an Iranian nuke. We learn now that way back in 1996, the Clinton White House secretly considered a similar strike after the Iranian-backed Hezbollah blew up U.S. military barracks in Saudi Arabia. The conclusion then: Given Iran’s extensive terror network, an attack might produce an escalation that would spin out of control. But that may not stop the administration’s hawks today. Says one insider: “Times have changed.”
6/19/03
Fox pundit lashes out at Brit Hume
The resignation of Rand Beers from the National Security Council is giving off plenty of sparks. Just before the Iraq war began, Beers quit as one of the government's top counterterrorism officials. He's now joined John Kerry's presidential campaign and went public this Monday in a Washington Post page-one profile, in which he branded the White House's Iraq policy an "ill-conceived and poorly executed strategy." That, apparently, was too much for Fox News Channel anchor Brit Hume, who on air accused Beers of having falsely testified under oath about Colombian terrorists training at al Qaeda's Afghan camps, reports our David E. Kaplan. Now Hume is the one being attacked–by former Fox analyst Larry Johnson, who served with Beers at the State Department and insists Beers acted with the best intelligence then available. "You impugned Rand's integrity on your show by suggesting that he lied and had to correct his lie," Johnson wrote Hume in an E-mail titled "Reprehensible." He added, "Have you no shame?" In his response, Hume suggested that Johnson be "more careful in writing late-night messages based on what you imagine someone to have said." Johnson replied by citing the transcript and sending the exchange around town. "You are starting to sound like Bill Clinton trying to define 'sex'," wrote Johnson. Read it all here, in reverse order:
6/3/03
The history of Hillary
Preparing for Barbara Walters's weekend interview with Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton, ABC cameras have been walking through the former first lady's
history to illustrate the discussion of Clinton's new book, Living History. The network has filmed in Washington and New York. They also traveled to Illinois and filmed the Chicago suburb where Hillary grew up because the network's archival footage was slim in that department, sources tell our Suzi Parker. Where haven't they been? Arkansas. That's because the network has enough footage from Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign to cover that part of Hillary's life. That was ABC's call: Mrs. Clinton agreed to travel to Arkansas to show the camera crews around before they decided that no more footage was needed.
Even without the cameras, a trip to her former home state would have made
news. Reason: Clinton's not been back in over two years and now represents her new home state of New York. To celebrate her book coming out, TBIB, the Blytheville, Ark., independent book superstore, got her to agree to come back on July 27 and sign copies of Living History.
Link to TBIB.
http://www.tbib.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp;
jsessionid=438C34A44DAD0EC82BB6D7CC34BFFFD2.t1?s=storepicks
Senator Clinton's website.
http://clinton.senate.gov/index.html
ABC's 20/20 promotion of the interview.
http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/2020/
Amazon's link to the new book.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/
-/0743222245/qid=1054667749/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/
102-1828705-9519336?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
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