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UNITED STATES 17/12/2008 Obama Recruits at Stonebridge Barack Obama is increasingly hiring staffers from the Stonebridge group which advises multinationals and has excellent contacts in China and India. [...]
SERBIA 05/11/2008 New Lobbyist in Washington Represented in the U.S. capital since 2006 by BGR Holding [...]
UNITED STATES 08/10/2008 A Cyber Security Czar If the next U.S. president heeds the advice of a panel of experts he will place the defence of American networks under the authority of a single official. [...]
UNITED STATES 24/09/2008 Crumpton focuses on East Europe The State Department's former counter-terrorism coordinator, Henry Crumpton, has founded his own company. One of its prime operation areas in Eastern Europe. [...]
IRAQ 10/09/2008 Maliki’s Lines Were Tapped Published on Sept. 8, the latest book of Washington Post [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATES 27/08/2008 CIA No Longer Calls The Shots After reigning supreme over American intelligence for nearly 60 years, the CIA lost its clout last month. On July 30, George W. Bush put the seal to an unprecedented overhaul that benefitted the Office of the Director of National Intelligence [. [...]
IRAN 23/07/2008 What Jalil Said in Geneva The meeting between Iranian negotiator Said Jalili and the European Union's top diplomat, Javier Solana, turned into a dialogue of the deaf. Meanwhile, the Israelis are turning up in number in Washington to press for action. [...]
UNITED STATES 23/07/2008 Karen Hughes Under secretary of state for public diplomacy until the end [...]
UNITED STATES 23/07/2008 Ties between Areva's Lobbyists and Obama's Camp The presumed Democrat candidate for the presidency, Senator Barack Obama, [...]
UNITED STATES KOSOVO 26/03/2008 Active Backing for Kosovars Highly active in Pristina, the Bush administration has made arrangements to supply arms to independent Kosovo if the need arises. [...]
UNITED STATES 26/03/2008 New Anti-Terrorist Adviser for Bush The White House has picked Ken Wainstein to replace Fran [...]
LEBANON 26/03/2008 Christian Militia Take on Damascus? In receiving Christian leader Samir Geagea, Washington appears to be preparing for a re-activation of the latter’s militia forces if the Lebanese army crumbles. [...]
UNITED STATES 26/03/2008 Rod Beckstrom A renowned Silicon Valley businessman Rod Beckstrom, has been named [...]
UNITED STATES 27/02/2008 A Banker to Advise IPSA The Canadian-American investigative and security concern IPSA International is the [...]
UNITED STATES 16/01/2008 Good Practices Code for Offsets? As legislation prevents it from backing offsets proposed by U.S. companies, the Bush administration wants to turn that handicap into an advantage by pushing through an international convention on the issue. [...]
Spotlight UNITED STATES 03/01/2008 Conflicting Concepts of Intelligence The first intelligence budget drafted by the Democrat majority in Congress, the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2008, was approved by the House of Representatives on Dec. 13. Without waiting for the Senate to vote on the draft bill in its [. [...]
UNITED STATES 03/01/2008 DNI To Move Home Already located far from the centers of power in Washington, the offices of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) are [...]
UNITED STATES 28/11/2007 U.S. Curries Favor with Azerbaijan The Bush administration has dropped proceedings against an official involved in privatising the oil industry in Azerbaijan, Washington’s new ally against terrorism. [...]
UNITED STATES 14/11/2007 Former CIA Aide Lands Top Pentagon Post As Intelligence Online anticipated in last December (IOL 536), the White House last week nominated Mary Beth Long, a former [...]
UNITED STATES 03/10/2007 Political Sparring Holds Up Appointments The appointments of several leading U.S. intelligence aides have been held up by trials of strength between the Bush administration [...]