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Former Lawmakers Urge Campaign Finance Reform

By | 03.16.10 | 12:26 pm

Ask any lawmaker on Capitol Hill about the worst part of his job and the answer will usually be the same: They all claim to hate the hours a week they spend attending fundraisers or dialing for dollars to see them through the next election.

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9/11 Commissioners Back Blair on Abdulmutallab

By | 01.27.10 | 8:44 am

The Dennis Blair Show continues:

Former Gov. Thomas H. Kean, New Jersey Republican, and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, Indiana Democrat, said U.S. intelligence agencies should have been consulted before the bombing suspect, Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was granted constitutional protections under U.S. law, known as Miranda rights,

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At Least Jami Miscik Gets a Traditionally Powerless Administration Job

By | 12.23.09 | 2:28 pm

In the days after the 2008 election, I fretted over the inclusion of a former senior CIA official named Jami Miscik on the Obama transition team’s intelligence desk. Why? This is why:

Miscik, you see, was head of intelligence analysis during the 2002 turmoil over Iraq’s non-existent weapons of

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The Wise Men Start Rethinking Afghanistan

By | 08.10.09 | 4:26 pm

Via Marc Lynch’s Twitter feed, Lee Hamilton — 9/11 Commissioner, Iraq Study Grouper, former Indiana Congressman, all-around wise man — asks some very fundamental questions about the Afghanistan war:

Strategically, there are two broad and fundamental questions to be answered. First, how will our departure impact our regional

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Obama’s Dinner With His Old Friends And His Potential South Asia Policy

By | 01.16.09 | 10:26 am

On her excellent new Foreign Policy blog, Laura Rozen has a great scoop about a secret dinner last week between President-elect Obama at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars downtown. In attendance were Democratic foreign-policy wise man Lee Hamilton — whom, as Laura notes, has mentored many of More…