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The Hill
April 16, 2018
Welcome to The Hill's inaugural Morning Report, which is replacing The Hill's morning Tipsheet each weekday. This comprehensive morning email, reported by Jonathan Easley and Alexis Simendinger, briefs you on the most important developments in politics and what to look for in the days and weeksÃâà...
Consortium News
April 10, 2018
First-hand recollections of that record include, for example, former State Department officer Greg Thielmann's description of Bolton's performance as one of the most enthusiastic promoters of the Iraq War. The following passage from my 2011 book Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy describes how, evenÃâà...
Conservative Review
March 29, 2018
A shadowy organization that is overtly sympathetic to the Russian government — and which was originally formed by anti-war activists — has emerged as one of the foremost critics of CIA director nominee Gina Haspel. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) — a group made up ofÃâà...
Kashmir Observer
March 28, 2018
Greg Thielmann, a 25-year veteran of the US foreign service, worked closely with him at the State Department in the run-up to the 2003 war. He referred to what he called the Bolton style as "kiss up and kick down". As Thielmann notes: "This included not just disregarding important information, but activelyÃâà...
War Is Boring
March 26, 2018
Greg Thielmann, a top official at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research in the early 2000s, said that just before the war in Iraq, “Bolton seemed to be troubled because INR was not telling him what he wanted to hear.” He soon “surrounded himself with a hand-chosen group of loyalists”Ãâà...
LobeLog
March 24, 2018
John Bolton has a glaring record of extreme and bombastic views and behavior. First-hand recollections of that record include, for example, former State Department officer Greg Thielmann's description of Bolton's performance as one of the most enthusiastic promoters of the Iraq War. The followingÃâà...
LobeLog
March 22, 2018
[Editor's note: With the announcement that John Bolton will replace Gen. H.R. McMaster as Trump's national security adviser, LobeLog is republishing an article authored by Greg Thielmann, a 25-year veteran of the Foreign Service who served two tours in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence andÃâà...
The Hill
March 4, 2018
But Greg Thielmann, a former top U.S. intelligence official at the State Department, said the consequences of Kushner and his staff being kept in the dark on top-secret intelligence could open the door to foreign diplomats taking advantage of their blind spots. Thielmann noted the growing scrutiny Kushner'sÃâà...
Asia Times
February 18, 2018
Greg Thielmann, a nonproliferation specialist on the board of the Washington-based Arms Control Association, noted that President Obama's prior 2010 NPR laid the foundation for reducing the role of nuclear weapons in US defense policy. He also credits Obama for seeking a one-third reduction in USÃâà...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
February 12, 2018
By contrast, Iran's objectives were (and are) more limited and local, as Greg Thielmann recently pointed out on Lobe Log. It wanted to acquire a nuclear weapons capability, but as the US Director of National Intelligence repeatedly testified, had not made the political decision to build nuclear weapons.
LobeLog
January 16, 2018
Greg Thielmann, a board member of the Arms Control Association, is a former office director for Strategic, Proliferation, and Military Affairs in the State Department's intelligence bureau (INR), and a former senior staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Photo: Iran's Khorramshahr missile (WikimediaÃâà...
LobeLog
September 20, 2017
by Gordon Adams I am not a religious person. But as I watched the streaming of the March for Our Lives on Saturday, I was returned to my childhood reading of the Old Testament. These impressive young people were articulating… Continue ReadingÃâà...
Motherboard
June 2, 2017
"Even a successful test will not demonstrate that the system is effective," Greg Thielmann, a former State Department missile expert, told Motherboard on the eve of the interception. The test of the $40-billion Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD, involved two rockets. One, a target that theÃâà...
LobeLog
May 30, 2017
by Greg Thielmann. There has been a blizzard of commentaries in recent months on what U.S. policy should be in the face of North Korea's defiant efforts to develop nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. It is the habit of U.S. government officials to solemnly warn that “all options are on the table” for dealing withÃâà...
LobeLog
February 2, 2017
by Greg Thielmann. Iran's January 29 flight test of a medium-range ballistic missile helped prompt an ominous if ambiguous warning by U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Flynn on February 1: “As of today, we are officially putting Iran on notice.” Since it is facing so many other international crises, it isÃâà...
LobeLog
December 14, 2016
Greg Thielmann is a 25-year veteran of the Foreign Service, serving two tours in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He subsequently worked as a senior staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a senior fellow of the Arms Control Association. Photo of John Bolton by GageÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
September 9, 2016
And Greg Thielmann, he was the director of the Strategic, Proliferation and Military Affairs office at the State Department from 2000-2002. He's now on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association. It's a pro-arms-control advocacy group. And we welcome both of you to the program. Greg ThielmannÃâà...
The National Interest Online
February 7, 2016
Building on the momentum from the successful pursuit of the nuclear deal with Iran, the P5+1 should now combine pressure and diplomacy to deal with Iran's missile program. Missiles became an essential component of Iran's military posture during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, in which Iran receivedÃâà...
