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An undated image released by the U.S. Government shows the suspected Syrian nuclear reactor building under construction in Syria (REUTERS/U.S. Government).

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Lessons of the Syrian Reactor

May 1, 2013, Bruce Riedel

Bruce Riedel writes that while Israel’s covert attack on Syria’s Al Kibar nuclear plant was a strategic success, the U.S. policy process was not. Riedel looks at what happens when the policy-intelligence system breaks down dramatically and publicly.

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    It seems to me that when you want an ambassador, two very important assets are proximity to the president—which [Caroline Kennedy] clearly has—and visibility. There has been a pattern in the past of appointing high-profile people to this post and that [Ms. Kennedy's nomination] would fit into the pattern. This is a complicated region, but she has those two very important assets.

    April 1, 2013, Mireya Solís, Wall Street Journal

  • Interview | BBC Newshour

    John Kerry as Secretary of State

    February 6, 2013, Tamara Cofman Wittes

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    [Filibustering of a presidential nominee is] just sort of emblematic of senators pushing their powers here into an area where we traditionally said that senators are willing to defer to the president.

    January 11, 2013, Sarah A. Binder, National Public Radio

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    [Jack Lew] is a political insider without a close relationship or linkage to outside business groups. He will not be a particularly effective emissary between the President and the business community or other outside groups. I don’t think he has any particular leverage with the Congress and will not find it easy to bring in outside business groups to pressure the Republicans.

    January 10, 2013, Barry P. Bosworth, International Business Times

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    I have no doubt the next president will decide what happens to Roe v. Wade by his appointments to the Supreme Court.

    October 3, 2012, Elisabeth Jacobs, Glamour

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    Will Judge Sonia Sotomayor be Confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice?

    May 26, 2009, Russell Wheeler

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    President Obama's Court Nominations

    March 20, 2009, Russell Wheeler

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