Nation Topics - US Intelligence | The Nation

In Washington, it's hardly without precedent for a presidential appointee to swear one thing before a Senate confirmation committee and then, once ensconced in the sought-after post, do another.

Neocons isolate State Department experts, with disastrous results.

Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government positions to influence the Bush Administration's decision to go to war in Iraq?

Conspiracy theories are hard to kill.

The little error that we may have made
In picking out a country to invade
Was understandable. The names, of course,
Are close, and when you make a show of force

While George W. Bush has been President, we've had two of the biggest intelligence screw-ups in US history.

Before, incompetence and sloth; after, lies and the wrong war.

The "war on terrorism" is in trouble, and at the very moment the Bush Administration needs it most--election season. George W.

The quest for homeland security is heading, in ad hoc fashion, toward the quasi militarization of everyday life.

Seymour Hersh has been much more right than not in his reporting on the current Administration.