Watching the CIA from Dublin

I'll be at the excellent conference on "The CIA and US Foreign Policy" at our partner, the Clinton Institute for American Studies, from Friday to Sunday. Mike Dunn will be minding the shop and taking all your comments and leads on stories.

Enduring America in The Irish Times: Obama's Policies

The Irish Times has a nice summary of Thursday's discussion, organised by our partner The Clinton Institute for American Studies, on "Change in Washington". While the article leads with the hope of "the bad boyfriend factor" --- if your last boyfriend, let's say a Mr G W Bush, was horrible, then your next one is going to seem wonderful for a while --- it also offers the more cautious remarks of Enduring America's Scott Lucas as "a salutary study in realism".