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...Plame and Wilson, an ex-diplomat, allege a "conspiracy" among top White House officials to punish them after Wilson exposed flaws in pre-Iraq-war intelligence. They say exposing Plame as a CIA agent jeopardized their safety and invaded their privacy...
...became his lover and Keyser was caught lying to hide the affair--and hoarding classified documents in his suburban Washington home. Facing kail and with his marriage threatened, Keyser cut a deal, promising to tell all he knew about Taiwan's intelligence operations. But then the tale of the diplomat, his spook paramour and his wife--also a spy--got even weirder...
...Mideast crisis did, however, help Putin deflect attention away from his WTO embarrassment. "The tension could be felt in the air even as Bush and Putin were giving their joint press conference," said a Russian diplomat, "all their show of camaraderie notwithstanding." The diplomat cited the WTO talks with the U.S. that had fallen flat the very same morning as the primary source of this sudden tension. "Instead of a long-promised reward, Putin got a slap," he said...
...natural gas wealth will restore its global standing may have taken the edge off Putin's sense of frustration. "Putin is obsessed with ending his presidency [his term formally ends in 2008] at the pinnacle of world glory, with ensuring his place in history," the Russian diplomat says. But he is not guided by a strategic vision. "There is only the vision of his grandeur, which is illusionary, and which is fraught with bad risks and dire consequences for Russia," the diplomat concludes...
...threat of international sanctions, which could have terrible consequences for Iran's oily economy. But it is also clear now that a major consequence of George W. Bush's disastrous foreign policy has been an emboldened Iran. The U.S. "has been Iran's very best friend," a diplomat from a predominantly Sunni nation told me recently. "You have eliminated its enemies, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein. You have even reduced yourselves as a threat to Iran because you have spent so much blood and treasure in Iraq...