Tsarnaev Snafus: Nearly 12 Years After 9/11, Boston Bombings Highlight Intelligence Holes
Senators say “stonewalling” and “stovepipes” blocked information sharing between and within law enforcement and intelligence …
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How Barack Obama Brought Turkey and Israel Back Together
Obama pushed for normalization of relations during his trip to Israel, capping years of work by U.S. diplomats to bring the two U.S. allies back together
John Kerry Drops Into Iraqi Tumult Ten Years After Invasion
Kerry visits Baghdad to mark the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion and to push Baghdad not to help Iran arm Syria’s Assad.
Obama in Israel: Running to Stay Put
President Barack Obama heads to Israel, Palestine, and Jordan for the first foreign trip of his second term…
Syria
After Assad: What’s Next for the Future of Syria?
With the assassinations last week the regime’s intelligence chief and the defense and interior ministers, the appeal of becoming Target Number One is dwindling. “There’s really no one in the regime that the opposition would …
Syria
Washington: Time To Dump Bashar, Moscow
The U.S. and Russia have been sparring all week over competing United Nations Security Council resolutions on Syria. The U.S. would like a mandate under Chapter 7 of UN law to intervene more robustly in what the Red Cross and …
Syria
The Rebels: We Need Intel More Than Arms
It took Twitter five years to hire a Washington lobbyist. That was quick compared to Apple, which took 25 years to begin paying someone to represent its interests in the capital.
Violence had been raging in Syria for 14 months …
