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I’m at the Brookings Institution, where Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is presenting the Obama administration’s agenda for next week’s United Nation’s General Assembly session, the administration’s first. How will the administration handle Iranian “President” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Manhattan, and his agreement to move ahead with nuclear diplomacy? How to handle Libyan dictator [...]

As first reported by Laura Rozen, the White House announced that Lee Feinstein from the Brookings Institution, an early and enthusiastic Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter, has been nominated to be ambassador to Poland. Poland can be reassured that its U.S. ambassador has the trust of the secretary of state.

NPR’s report this morning that the Brookings Institution’s Benjamin Wittes has proposed what’s expected to be a highly influential plan for “preventive detention” — which could lock up “dangerous” terror suspects potentially forever without charge or trial — gives even more urgency to the question that Spencer raised here more than a month ago.
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