A group of colleagues devoted to Israel-Palestinian issues thinks Jim Jones’ speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is same-ol-blather. Maybe. I don’t. It’s true there’s really nothing here that’s new. And I mean nothing here that’s new — you could see Warren Christopher or Madeleine Albright or Colin [...]

WIth apologies to @takenforaction, this new photo from ISAF’s Flickr pool is LOLworthy. That’s a priceless expression on the Afghan officer seated behind the bottled water.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 320-10 April 21, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Pfc. Charlie C. Antonio, 28, of Kahului, Hawaii, died April 18 in Annassar, Iraq, of injuries suffered in a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 319-10 April 21, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Staff Sgt. James R. Patton, 23, of Fort Benning, Ga., died April 18 in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries sustained as the result of a helicopter crash. He [...]

You guys have fun. I’m gonna try to go to the Nats-Rockies game tonight, which hopefully won’t be rained out. In the meantime, read Jeremy Scahill’s new post about Instinctive Shooting International. Especially if you want to see the antithesis of that profile of Mike Allen. (I have some questions about Blackwater’s bid on this [...]

Just swamped today. Here’s that CYBERCOM/intelligence community/Blair thing I was talking about earlier. It’s about whether CYBERCOM or the CIA has, legally and as a policy matter, authority/responsibility for taking out foreign servers in the event of a cyberattack on U.S. military information infrastructure. (Or, for that matter, in anticipation or preemption of such an [...]

So there wasn’t really much news in today’s Fifth Anniversary of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reception, which I should have figured when learning that the leaders of the entire intelligence community were going to assemble in one place and the press were invited. I’m working on something on U.S. Cyber Command, [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 314-10 April 21, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Michael K. Ingram Jr., 23, of Monroe, Mich., died April 17 in Kandahar, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his dismounted [...]

Back from Liberty Crossing, the home of ODNI somewhere in the wilds of the world. More on that later. For now, as Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair spoke about the next five years’ worth of intelligence reform, here’s news of the departure of a veteran counterterrorism analyst. Phil Mudd confirmed to me he’s left [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 313-10 April 20, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Randolph A. Sigley, 28, of Richmond, Ky., died April 18 in Bagram, Afghanistan. The circumstances of his death are under investigation. He was assigned to the [...]