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Madison.com
April 25, 2018
Walter Pincus, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, has examined this period lately with newly declassified documents. Quite interesting to learn is that Eisenhower thought that introducing nuclear weapons would allow removing U.S. troops, thus saving money. The U.S. nuclear weapons were removed inÃâà...
Frederick News Post
April 3, 2018
Several years ago, Walter Pincus, a longtime writer for The Washington Post who I read often, retired and wrote a scathing final column. He took his profession to task by stating in part “facts seem to be taking a back seat to arguments and slogans in what is written and shown.” I think Mr. Etzler's graphic fitsÃâà...
LobeLog
March 24, 2018
[61] Walter Pincus, “Taiwan Paid State Nominee For Papers on U.N. Reentry; Bolton's Objectivity On China Is Questioned,” Washington Post, April 9, 2001. [62] David Corn, “Bush Gives the UN the Finger,” The Nation, March 7, 2005, http://www.thenation.com/blog/156155/bush-gives-un-finger. [63] JohnÃâà...
New York Times
March 19, 2018
As President Trump prepares for a possible meeting with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, many Americans are raising warnings that North Korea has walked away from previous arms agreements. But those skeptics should remember that it was the United States, in 1958, that broke the 1953 KoreanÃâà...
Forward
March 7, 2018
In his recent op ed in these pages, former AIPAC staff member MJ Rosenberg argued that AIPAC should register as a foreign agent. This argument requires a response from an insider. I worked at AIPAC for 25 years and remained a close admirer of the organization after I left in 1997 (Rosenberg's attitudeÃâà...
Mintpress News (blog)
February 12, 2018
As the Washington Post's Walter Pincus reported last year, more than 70 percent of the staff of the Pentagon's newest intelligence unit, Counterintelligence Field Activity, is made up of corporate contractors. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) lawyers revealed at a conference in May that contractors make upÃâà...
Consortium News
February 11, 2018
As the Washington Post's Walter Pincus reported last year, more than 70 percent of the staff of the Pentagon's newest intelligence unit, Counterintelligence Field Activity, is made up of corporate contractors. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) lawyers revealed at a conference in May that contractors make upÃâà...
The Cipher Brief
February 5, 2018
In various and sundry NATO countries, the United States has stationed 200-plus B-61 tactical nuclear bombs, current and older versions of which have dial-a-yield settings that allow various explosive yields, one of which is as low as the equivalent of 300 tons of TNT, or 0.3 kilotons. That was one of my firstÃâà...
The Cipher Brief
January 15, 2018
Walter Pincus Columnist, The Cipher Brief. “We have to deal with North Korea as it is, not as we wish it to be.” Does President Trump understand those words? They were spoken less than two months ago by former Defense Secretary William Perry, who twice conducted negotiations with the North KoreansÃâà...
The Cipher Brief
January 8, 2018
Don't be diverted by gossip and bizarre tweets. The most important record of events shows that President Donald Trump and his allies are taking the U.S. federal government down a road toward authoritarianism, starting with their early attempts to destroy the integrity of the Justice Department, FBI and theÃâà...
The Cipher Brief
January 1, 2018
The Trump administration may open the New Year with a bang – a nuclear bang – with the impending release of its Nuclear Posture Review. One of President Donald Trump's first executive orders, signed a week after he took office, included directing Secretary of Defense James Mattis to “initiate a newÃâà...
The Cipher Brief
October 23, 2017
President Donald Trump has turned his own obviously failed condolence phone call last Tuesday to 24-year-old, Myeshia Johnson, widow of 25-year-old, Army Sgt. La David Johnson, into a political fight between himself and Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL). The feisty, African-American congresswoman,Ãâà...
The Cipher Brief
August 21, 2017
The United States and its allies need to focus first on freezing North Korea's current nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs with a goal of deterring Kim Jong-un from expanding his stockpile and nuclear delivery systems. Denuclearization of North Korea can remain the long-term goal, but the U.S.Ãâà...
Huffington Post
December 3, 2015
After four decades, The Washington Post decided not to renew veteran national security columnist's contract. By Michael Calderone. Charles W. Harrity/ASSOCIATED PRESS. Walter Pincus, in 1971, while working as a government investigator. He returned to the Post four years later and stayed for fourÃâà...
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