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Chinese military foot-dragging this month led the Pentagon to postpone the next round of high-level talks that would have included discussion of Beijing's promise to create a military hot line to the U.S. The Defense Consultative Talks were to be followed by detailed discussions on an offer from Chinese President Hu Jintao to President Bush in Australia to set up the military communications link between the Pentagon and China's military, something the Chinese military has refused to do for the past several years, defense officials said. "The PRC was unable to confirm the September 6 to 7 dates within a...

On Great (Fox News), Bill Gertz said he is coming out with an article that U.S. intelligence stands behind assessment that the Russian GRU moved weapons out of Iraq in the time leading up to the war. He also said it would take weeks for the story to develop.

Bill Gertz of the Washington Times is one of America’s most respected reporters on intelligence and national security matters. His new book, Breakdown—How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11, will be released this week by Regnery Publishing, a sister company of Human Events. (Gertz previously authored the 1999 bestseller, Betrayal—How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security, also a Regnery book.) On August 20, Human Events Editor Terence P. Jeffrey interviewed Gertz about some of the many revelations in Breakdown. Human Events: In your reporting, did you discover how many CIA-recruited spies the United States had in Iraq back in...