Epstein Secrets

ic's favored zones: ambivalence and inertia. As one awaits this tortuous Godot, one might recall a forecast of a bomb by 1999 (Shimon Peres) or 2004 (Ehud Barak), or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's talk of "a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs," or my friend Jeffrey Goldberg's allusion in

st of a bomb by 1999 (Shimon Peres) or 2004 (Ehud Barak), or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's talk of

pid idea." He suggested his main worry was not Iran itself but Netanyahu's susceptibility to "dangerous adventure." Dagan's concerns have surfaced as Seymour Hersh concludes in a New Yorker article this month that, as he put it in one interview, "There's just no serious evidence inside that Iran is actually doin

n had halted a nuclear-weapons program in 2003 — still pertains in the classified N.I.E. of 2011. As a retired senior intelligence official put it to Hersh, there's nothing "substantially new" that "leads to a bomb." In other words, Iran, epicenter of inefficiency, unable to produce a kilowatt of electri

all. The Palestinian date with the United Nations looms large, though no one is exactly sure what will happen after it. Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, warned that his country faced a "diplomatic tsunami." Others worry that it will kick off a third intifada, given the political ferment elsewhere i

will happen after it. Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, warned that his country faced a "diplomati

at Cambridge dinner parties where its opinions are the last word. And I've completely sworn off some of its writers. I don't believe a single word Seymour Hersh writes: His last report, I'm told, informed his readers that Iran doesn't have a nuclear device and is not close to having one, and he was informed

evice and is not close to having one, and he was informed of this by a man wearing a raincoat on a bench in Dupont Circle. (Actually, my allergy to Hersh goes back to 1968 when he quit the McCarthy campaign in New Hampshire, charging that "clean for Gene" was actually a racist.) Every time The New Y

all. The Palestinian date with the United Nations looms large, though no one is exactly sure what will happen after it. Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, warned that his country faced a "diplomatic tsunami." Others worry that it will kick off a third intifada, given the political ferment elsewhere i

will happen after it. Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, warned that his country faced a "diplomati

at Cambridge dinner parties where its opinions are the last word. And I've completely sworn off some of its writers. I don't believe a single word Seymour Hersh writes: His last report, told, informed his readers that Iran doesn't have a nuclear device and is not close to having one, and he was informed of

evice and is not close to having one, and he was informed of this by a man wearing a raincoat on a bench in Dupont Circle. (Actually, my allergy to Hersh goes back to 1968 when he quit the McCarthy campaign in New Hampshire, charging that "clean for Gene" was actually a racist.) Every time The New Y