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...other times, though, your vitriol just seems uninformed, malicious and disproportionate. You seem to believe that since I'm not a lock-step liberal - and we can talk about what a liberal actually is some other time - I'm some sort of creepy, covert conservative. Of course, most conservatives consider me a liberal. I call myself a moderate - a radical or flaming moderate, take your pick - because in this witlessly overheated political environment, you've got to call yourself something. But the conservatives do have a point: I disagree with Ronald Reagan's famous formulation, "Government is part...
...nearly a year about intelligence leaks to the press, CIA Director Porter Goss last week fingered his first alleged media mole. The agency fired a senior analyst for allegedly discussing secret information with the press, including the Washington Post's Dana Priest, whose story on a network of covert CIA prisons for suspected terrorists was informed by this source and won a Pulitzer Prize last week. CIA spokesmen refused to name the analyst, but other officials confirm that she is Mary McCarthy, a CIA veteran who served on the National Security Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush...
...under international scrutiny, the small research facility that completed this week's experiment. The U.S. and Europe have flatly rejected that proposal, because they had hoped to deny Iran the means of attaining even the know-how to enrich uranium for fear that this would be used in a covert bomb program. Now, Iran appears to have already achieved that milestone - even though it remains years away from being able to manufacture its own reactor fuel on an industrial scale or create bomb material - which could render that objection moot...
...Touting evidence to help convince wavering allies that Iran is engaged in a covert bomb program also carries its own risks: The evidence is mostly circumstantial, much of it resting on the contents of a stolen Iranian laptop computer. And considering how things turned out when the U.S. made its case in the security council about Iraqi WMDs in the run-up to the war, Washington's credibility on these issues isn't exactly strong. Moreover, nothing will weaken diplomatic support for U.S. positions on Iran faster than associating them with the Bush administration's well-known appetite for regime...
...weeks to pursue its own efforts to find a negotiated solution. Russia, which has helped Iran develop nuclear reactors, proposes enriching uranium for those reactors on Russian soil-a proposal that would eliminate the need for Iran to maintain its own enrichment facilities, which would be essential to any covert effort to create weapons-grade nuclear material...