Response to Glenn Greenwald on August 8, 2007, regarding a highly praised policy paper by then-Obama foreign-policy advisor Samantha Power:

...the following bullet point deserves serious (as it were) scrutiny

The United States has not talked directly to Iran at a high level, and they have continued to build their nuclear weapons program, wreak havoc in Iraq, and support terror."

This is impressive. Not only does she ratify the unproven GOP talking point that Iran is wreaking havoc in Iraq (a neo-con claim which alternates rapidly with the claim that all the havoc in Iraq is from Al-Qaeda), she purports that Iran has an ongoing nuclear-weapons program. I don't believe that even the Bushies have made this claim...

Glenn Greenwald, January 12, 2009:

So what's the justification for Obama's inflammatory and obviously consequential (though seemingly baseless) claim on national television that the Iranians "are pursuing a nuclear weapon that could potentially trigger a nuclear arms race" when the consensus of American intelligence agencies is that they are not doing so?