I wish the liberals would stop their garbage digging. It's really pathetic.
More and more it is clear that Powell went along with opinion at State rather than at the Whote House. It seems clear that State did everythging in its power to thwart the move into Iraq and alllowed state to drag its feet.
I don't believe it. I find it hard to believe that lower level analysts would be briefing a SES level executive on anything.
"Wilkerson told committee aides that Powell — who has not endorsed Bolton for the U.N. job — would "go down to the bowels of the building" "
Sounds very much like the early leaks about Bush officials in the State and/or CIA buildings, often with Cheney as the pursuer.
Wilkerson's a talky guy. Still for me suspect no. 1 as the first leaker to Novak.
Better to overestimate a potential enemy (within reason)than to underestimate him.
"If I saw him in the breakfast bar, he would make a beeline for me."
Well ... did he ever catch up with you? And ... what happened when he did? Did he steal the bacon from your tray? This testimony is absurd.
Ambassador Robert Hutchings was appointed Chairman of the National Intelligence Council in December 2002. Previously, he served as Assistant Dean of Graduate Professional Education at the Woodrow Wilson School, where he also taught international politics.
Earlier, Ambassador Hutchings was Fellow and Director of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His combined academic and diplomatic career has included service as Director for European Affairs with the National Security Council, 1989-92, and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State in 1992 and 1993, with the rank of Ambassador.
He also served two tours in the NIC -- as Director of its Analytic Group and earlier as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Europe. He also served as Deputy Director of Radio Free Europe and on the faculty of the University of Virginia. He has held adjunct appointments at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Ambassador Hutchings is a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States and of the Foundation for a Civil Society, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of International Politics, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1998, the President of Poland awarded him the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contributions to Polish freedom.
Ambassador Hutchings has written numerous books including his most recent one, At the End of the American Century (1998), and American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War (1997), which was published in a German language edition as Als der Kalte Krieg zu Ende War (1999).
Ambassador Hutchings graduated from the United States Naval Academy, and received an M.A. from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
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X + 9/11
By Robert L. Hutchings
July/August 2004
Everything I needed to know about fighting terrorism I learned from George F. Kennan.
George F. Kennan celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this year. The dean of U.S. diplomats is best known for his strategy of containment, which he first articulated in the so-called long telegram that he sent from Moscow in 1946—and soon thereafter unveiled in his 1947 article, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” published under the pseudonym “X.” Several conferences honoring Kennan have praised his enormous contribution to U.S. Cold War strategy, yet the most fitting tribute would be to apply his seminal theories to our present era—to examine the sources of terrorist conduct.
http://foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2584
4.15.05
Robert L. Hutchings, who succeeded Mr. Cohen as head of the intelligence council, said the effects of Mr. Bolton's objections to Mr. Armstrong had lingered as late as last year, when the officer was not included in a briefing team assigned to discuss with other senior officials the result of a new intelligence estimate on Cuba to which Mr. Bolton had objected.
"There was a group of firebrands who we figured would not like the judgment," Mr. Hutchings said in a telephone interview on Friday, making clear that he included Mr. Bolton among that group. "We anticipated that the findings would be unwelcome in some quarters, and we wanted to depersonalize this thing as much as we could, to make clear that it was the assessment of the intelligence community, and not a particular individual." Mr. Hutchings now holds a teaching post at Princeton University.
National Intelligence Council, the CIA director's think tank, which released a report saying that Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of "professionalized" terrorists. NIC Chairman Robert L. Hutchings said that Iraq is "a magnet for international terrorist activity."
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U.S. intelligence officials take look at 2020
The effort, called the National Intelligence Council 2020 Project,
Council Chairman Robert L. Hutchings, in a recent interview at CIA headquarters, said he expects to publish the paper in December 2004, timed between the presidential election and the beginning of either President Bush's second term or a new administration.