Rozen

Laura Rozen is hearing that former Bush 41/Clinton administration peace processor Dennis Ross is, as expected, getting the job as special envoy to Iran.

Fearless Iranians From Hell | ATTACKERMAN 2009

According to Rozen, Zinni and Jones, both Marine generals, have been friends for 30 years.

Don’t Do Me Like That | ATTACKERMAN 2009

Now, Laura Rozen reports, the reach of CNAS expands deeper into the Pentagon, as fellows Colin Kahl becomes deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East and Vikram Singh takes an advisory position on Af-Pak.

Back In The Building | ATTACKERMAN 2009

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.

I Might Break Bread | ATTACKERMAN 2009

Laura Rozen reports that Kilcullen is literally going to have dinner tonight with Vice President Joe Biden.

Let Me Talk To Em | ATTACKERMAN 2009

But as Politico's Laura Rozen plausibly speculated, this statement could be technically true but highly misleading, as Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak may have transmitted the letter, or a draft of it, to Netanyahu, thus letting the Obama Administration claim that it did not "send" it.

Josh Ruebner: Obama's Misplaced Missive Josh Ruebner 2010

Now, this is obviously a public event concerning very public figures, but the sequence of events is nevertheless a pretty good illustration of an important point Jeff Rozen often makes about how the loss of privacy can be self perpetuating.

Who Ogles the Oglers? 2009

Laura Rozen got at that in her Zinni post as well, and now a friend, stationed abroad in the Foreign Service, emails:

I Ain’t A-Marching Anymore | ATTACKERMAN 2009

But as Politico's Laura Rozen plausibly speculated, this statement could be technically true but highly misleading, as Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak may have transmitted the letter, or a draft of it, to Netanyahu, thus letting the Obama Administration claim that it did not "send" it.

Josh Ruebner: Obama's Misplaced Missive Josh Ruebner 2010

Laura Rozen just published an Afghan Ministry of Defense document that looks a lot like that 11-point plan.

Cooperation Makes It Happen | ATTACKERMAN 2009