We looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we’ve come to the conclusion that it is broken, … American Morning.

The president may have made a fatal error in putting nuclear weapons at the heart of improved US-India relations. Lawmakers want the latter, but not at the price of the former. Worse, Indian officials have...

They seem to be in a nuclear game of chicken and both cars are right smack in the middle of the road and heading towards each other in full speed. We don’t know what is...

You no longer heard comments about tyrants and pygmies. It may seem to be a small matter, but it’s very important diplomatically.

The Europeans are worried that the U.S. might actually decouple its strategic interest from the European interest, and that’s something they want to avoid at all cost,

It’s outrageous for American officials to sell out vital national security interests so that some companies can make a buck.

Up until recently, I dismissed talk of military strikes against Iran as posturing or left-wing conspiracy theories. But I recently changed my mind after friends close to the White House and the Pentagon told me...

[While President Bush argues that terrorism, not Russia, is the gravest threat to U.S. security, it was his Administration that thwarted Russia’s desire for both sides to destroy the nuclear warheads that are to be...

In just the past few weeks I’ve been convinced that at least some in the administration have already made up their minds that they would like to launch a military strike against Iran.

They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.

Secretary Rice has implemented a subtle but important shift in U.S. policy. There is no question that the lack of flexibility for the negotiators precluded any possibility of getting a deal for the past three...

The factual debate during the next six months will revolve around the threat assessment.

It is very likely that intelligence officials were pressured by senior administration officials to conform their threat assessments to pre-existing policies.

In the Middle East, it is an untenable position for the next decade to maintain that no Arab nation can have a nuclear weapon but Israel can,

telling Saddam that they were further along than they actually were.

The response in the Muslim world is unpredictable. But if you start seeing women and children pulled out of rubble caused by U.S. bombs, and this is flashed around the world, U.S. embassies could start...

None of them wants to use the United Nations as a staging ground for another military adventure.

The country is five to 10 years away from the ability to enrich uranium for fuel or bombs.

All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.

The real danger is cherry-picking the data to support a preconceived idea and then connecting the dots to form a faulty picture. This is what happened in Iraq.

For months, I have told interviewers that no senior political or military official was seriously considering a military attack on Iran.

We recommend the formation of a senior blue ribbon commission to examine this in an independent, nonpartisan way and make recommendations for how to insulate intelligence assessors from political pressures,

This is the triumph of power politics over non-proliferation.

This could be part of his domestic political calculations. The more he postures as standing up to a US positioning itself for war, the more he consolidates his power.

I believe a military strike would consolidate the hold of the Islamic government, not loosen it.

It is time for Israel to take it’s nuclear weapons out of the basement and put them on the table.

As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can’t be stopped through diplomatic...

I think the Chapter 7 route is dead on arrival. The US can keep talking about it, but our own policies have doomed it.

Don’t panic. The Iranian program is still at the very early stages.

So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.

Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

India got everything and they gave nothing. The president has sold out U.S. national security interests for a handful of mangoes.

Buffeted by political turmoil at home, President Bush sought a foreign affairs victory in India.

Even a limited strike on Iranian targets could have … military or political consequences in Iraq.

We found nothing. There are no large stockpiles of weapons. There hasn’t actually been a find of a single weapon, a single weapons agent, nothing like the programs that the administration believe existed.

We don’t know what to make of these reports coming out from the White House yesterday,

The South Korean disclosure will deflect attention from North Korea and Iran where it belongs,

We exaggerated the threat. We worst-cased it and then acted as if that worst case was the most likely case.

This administration is forced to follow this route because of the failures of Iraq.

The war in Iraq was supposed to be part of the solution to these regimes, but instead … it has seriously handcuffed the US in dealing with Iran.

It is no surprise nations like South Korea are beginning to hedge their bets in light of the North Korean nuclear weapons advances.

If you don’t have the president repeatedly telling his staff that he wants this job done, then the natural bureaucratic barriers ally to slow and eventually block progress…. If you were serious about this, if...