Copyright 2010 Judith Miller Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:40:01 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Judith Miller :: Writings http://www.judithmiller.com judymillerfreespeech@yahoo.com (Judith Miller) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.judithmiller.com/7867/iraq-war-ends Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST The American fast-food chains are long gone from Camp Ramadi in Anbar Province. So, too, are the Iraqi souvenir stores near the "D-Fac" - that's army talk for "Dining Facility." This camp, a flat, forsaken military base in a scorching desert on the... http://www.judithmiller.com/7860/israel-wont-strike-iran Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST History sometimes repeats itself in the Middle East, but not always. Twice before, Israel has attacked Arab nuclear reactors before they were loaded with the fuel rods that could have produced plutonium Pu 239 for an atomic bomb. Both strikes against... http://www.judithmiller.com/7842/robert-gates-legacy Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST It will be a long goodbye. Robert Gates confirmed today that he intends to leave his post as Secretary of Defense – at the end of 2011. That is no surprise. The only Bush hold-over in the Obama Cabinet, Gates always vowed to quit before the end of... http://www.judithmiller.com/7802/iraq-oil-curse Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST BAGHDAD — Since America toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has had three free-wheeling, relatively fraud-free national elections. Its military has been reconstituted, its soldiers and some of its police retrained. The infrastructure has been partially... http://www.judithmiller.com/7791/justice-department-serious-about-terror Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST This was no "one off," as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano so memorably described the young bomber who nearly blew up his plane over Detroit last Christmas. This was a "network," a "deadly pipeline," said Attorney General Eric Holder as he... http://www.judithmiller.com/7750/the-shield-we-need Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST The war on terrorism has been anything but quiet lately here on its western front. The Washington Post concluded in a seminal investigation this week that the top-secret world the government has created in response to 9/11 has become so secretive and... http://www.judithmiller.com/7656/russian-spy-story Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST Maybe Russia's leaders forgot to push the "reset" button. Just days after President Obama treated Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to cheeseburgers at Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia, hailing the improved relationship with Moscow as one of his... http://www.judithmiller.com/7641/mcchrystal-afghanistan-war-strategy Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST Here's some required reading from the military's Manual of Courts-Martial: "888. ART. 88 Contempt Toward Officials: Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the... http://www.judithmiller.com/7636/white-house-fight-against-terror-a-war Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST The U.S. Supreme Court and Faisal Shahzad, the naturalized Pakistani-American who tried to blow up his SUV in Times Square earlier this year, may not agree on much. But in separate statements Monday, both seemed to come to a similar conclusion about the... http://www.judithmiller.com/7627/terror-target-manhattan Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST What rankles Raymond W. Kelly? Two things, he tells me as we sip lukewarm coffee in his conference room on the 14th floor of One Police Plaza, the dilapidated police headquarters overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge. The first, New York's police commissioner... http://www.judithmiller.com/7623/obama-declares-war-on-oil Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST The president has it wrong. The BP oil spill is not, as he implied in last night's speech, a new 9/11. Oil is not "assaulting our shores and our citizens," and we're not waging a "battle" against it. The oil catastrophe cannot and should not be compared... http://www.judithmiller.com/7595/newyorkistan Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST They had ambitious dreams, these guys. They would astonish the world, making it big by killing lots of American soldiers overseas in Somalia or at home in America. Worst case: they would die as holy warriors and become, if not rich, famous. "My soul... http://www.judithmiller.com/7573/helen-thomas-hypocrisy Mon, 7 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST "Blessed are the peacemakers," if you can find any in the Middle East. They seem to be in short supply these days. One place not to look is on the Gaza flotilla. According to a radio communication the IDF released over the weekend, when Israeli warships... http://www.judithmiller.com/7554/turkey-turns-against-america Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:00:00 EST Visiting the White House six months ago, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara aspires to build a "model partnership" with Washington. Really? Erodgan has been leading the chorus to condemn Israel in the wake of Monday's botched... http://www.judithmiller.com/7531/obama-security-strategy-gulf-oil-spill Fri, 28 May 2010 09:00:00 EST President Obama issued his vision of how best to protect American national security on Thursday, and the nation yawned. Despite the drum roll – the president's "curtain raiser" speech at West Point on the strategy's themes and priorities – the unveiling...