By Steve Clemons on Aug 15, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from The Atlantic with the express permission of author Steve Clemons, “the new Washington Editor at Large of The Atlantic and Editor in Chief of the growing, high sizzle events business of the publication called Atlantic LIVE,” continuing as Senior Fellow and Founder of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation (NAF). [...]
By Steve Clemons on Apr 3, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: From Steve Clemons’ fascinating blog, The Washington Note … While growing up on US military bases, one of the perennial radio personalities that the Department of Defense would transmit to us wayward DoD dependents was Paul Harvey and his show, The Rest of the Story. I liked the set up of the program [...]
By Steve Clemons on Feb 27, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
I took this video clip in March 2010 when I visited Tripoli, Libya and was interested in counter-terrorism activities of the Libyan government. When I was there, we were taken to a prison where hundreds of prisoners — most of whom were either Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) members or other young jihadists who wanted [...]
By Steve Clemons on Feb 20, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: From Steve Clemons’ blog, “The Washington Note.” This rich array of the latest on Hillary’s moves includes this thoughtful observation on Steve’s POV: KELEMEN: Clemons says she’s spent much of the first two years on the job trying to wrestle the State Department back into relevance and to elevate issues that she cares [...]
By Steve Clemons on Dec 18, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
* Bumped Up (the repeal has passed in the Senate!) * Editor’s Note: We posted the Senate’s phone number last night, via VoteVets.org: “CALL YOUR SENATORS AT (202) 224-3121 RIGHT NOW.” From Steve Clemons of WashingtonNote.com, who has also just posted “Carl Levin’s Floor Statement on DADT (powerful) at his blog: One of those [gay [...]
By Steve Clemons on Dec 12, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
From my blog, Washington Note. [NQ Editor's Note: SoS Hillary Clinton has been twice to the hospital, yesterday and today.] ……………………………………………. Richard Holbrooke has been one of my most important touch points in Washington and has been a close friend, adviser, and in recent years — a partner in sorting through and discussing in private [...]
By Steve Clemons on Jun 3, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Reprinted with the express permission of Steve Clemons. Originally printed at Huffington Post and Steve Clemons’ blog, The Washington Note. Japan Prime Minister and Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama, whose amazing electoral victory last year unseating the long dominant Liberal Democratic Party, has announced that he is stepping down from his [...]
By Steve Clemons on Feb 11, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
* Bumped Up * From my blog, The Washington Note. ————————————————— (Obama’s Core Team at press conference on Obama administration’s 100th day; photo credit: Bill O’leary, Washington Post) Financial Times Washington Bureau Chief Edward Luce has written a granularly informed insider account about those who hold the keys to the inner most sanctum of Obama [...]
By Steve Clemons on Jan 7, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Reprinted with the express permission of Steve Clemons, The Washington Note blog; Senior Fellow & Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation; and Director of the Japan Policy Research Institute. Now, this has to be one of the strangest round-ups of organizations I have seen in a long time — organizations considered by [...]
By Steve Clemons on Jan 4, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Reprinted from his blog, published December 28, 2009, with the express permission of Steve Clemons, The Washington Note blog; Senior Fellow & Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation; and Director of the Japan Policy Research Institute. Abubakr Al-Qirbi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Yemen, addresses the general debate of [...]
By Steve Clemons on Nov 27, 2009 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Reprinted from my blog, The Washington Note. The White House Office of the Press Secretary A New Way Forward: The President’s Address to the American People on Afghan Strategy Oval Office For Immediate Release — December 2nd8:01 P.M. EDT My fellow Americans, On March 28th, I outlined what I called a “comprehensive, new strategy for [...]
By Steve Clemons on Nov 17, 2009 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Editor’s Note: Reprinted from The Daily Beast with the express permission of Steve Clemons, whose excellent blog is Washington Note. Steve is Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, and you’ll often see his seminars on C-Span. This article has been featured at Memeorandum.com. ………………………………………………….. The White House counsel was done [...]
By Steve Clemons on May 9, 2009 in GLBT, Gay Rights | View Comments
Second Lietenant Sandy Tsao is being discharged from the military for informing her chain of command that she is gay. She wrote in a letter to President Obama that she could not live according to one of the “seven army values” of personal integrity and not be truthful about the issue — even though a [...]
By Steve Clemons on May 9, 2009 in AfPak Border, Afghanistan, Obama Administration, Pakistan, President Barack Obama | View Comments
Published at The Washington Note. ___________________________________________ Quite a number of serious and informed observers predict a spike in mass casualty violence hitting this week in Pakistan. President Obama is about to have both collective and separate meetings with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari — and many believe that Taliban insurgents [...]
By Steve Clemons on May 6, 2009 in 9/11, Al Qaeda, GWOT, Terrorism, Torture | View Comments
Joseph Margulies in the Los Angeles Times offers anyone who wants to defend the Bush administration’s embrace of torture a chilling retort. His bottom line: the administration sold out the values Americans cherish most to torture not a kingpin in the al Qaeda network, but a clerk. Margulies writes:
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