State Department doctored video to hide Iran deal

Part of a video of a State Department press briefing addressing secret talks between the U.S. and Iran was deliberately deleted before it was posted online, an investigation by the department’s legal adviser found Wednesday. State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters Wednesday that an unknown U.S. official made a request over the phone to […]

Obama’s Former Middle East Adviser: We Should Have Bombed Assad

A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with Philip Gordon, who held the Middle East portfolio at the National Security Council from 2013 to 2015 (and before that, served as assistant secretary of state for European affairs) about my Atlantic article, “The Obama Doctrine.” The piece tried to explain how the president understands the […]

Iran Versus USA: Who Got Outfoxed?

Perhaps it is wrong to see the recent Iran deal as a zero sum game in which one side bested the other, but one can still wonder what the post-career memoirs will look like from across both sides of the table…