Word: watchdogging
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...action. Instead, it is likely to accelerate its own diplomatic efforts - ?playing games,? Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called it on Sunday, after Iran offered to restore the IAEA's right to conduct snap inspections at sites not designated as part of the nuclear program, which would give the watchdog the ability to follow intelligence leads on suspected illegal nuclear activity. But "playing games" may actually be effective, for if Iran uses the deadlock to advance new compromise proposals of its own, differences between the U.S. and some of its allies could be exacerbated...
With the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog having reported on Friday that Iran has failed to meet a Security Council demand to cease uranium enrichment, the Islamic Republic ought to be feeling the heat. But if it is, Tehran certainly isn't showing...
Ahead of this week's U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to abandon its nuclear activities and an expected report from nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, U.S. officials have been mapping a plan to hit the defiant regime. But the attacks will be financial, not military. The U.S. and its European allies will ask the council next month for a resolution that would pave the way for political and economic sanctions. If, as expected, Russia and China threaten a veto or stall, the U.S. intends to work outside the U.N. to isolate Tehran "diplomatically and economically," Under Secretary of State Nicholas...
McCarthy was assigned to the office of CIA inspector general John Helgerson. If the allegations against her prove true, they will be especially embarrassing to the I.G., who is the agency's in-house watchdog. For McCarthy, the ramifications could go beyond losing her job. The Justice Department is pursuing an investigation into leaks about the CIA's secret detention network and could fold McCarthy's case into that inquiry. A law-enforcement official says Justice was contacted by the CIA about this case late last week...
...significance of Iran's enrichment announcement, and Tehran's next moves, may not quite match Ahmadinejad's sanguine rhetoric. Iran's enrichment experiment was in defiance of U.N. demands, but it has not ended cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the IAEA - in fact, IAEA inspectors are currently in Iran taking samples to verify Iran's enrichment claims...