The story of the Ambassador, his wife and a rumored sale of vast amounts of uranium couldn’t have been written any better by the likes of Graham Greene or John LeCarre. Unfortunately for the Ambassador and his wife, a small case of fiction from the State of the Union turned into a sour case of reality. The wife, a CIA operative, had her identity revealed by none other than a source in the White House. Her husband, Joseph Wilson, retaliated. The result of which is his memoir, The Politics of Truth.
Prospective Heights
Joel Towers Director of the Sustainable Design and Urban Ecology Program at Parsons School of Design and partner at SRT Architects in New York (and Prospect Heights resident)
and Bertha Lewis executive director of ACORN-New York says Bruce Ratner plays well with others
and Bertha Lewis executive director of ACORN-New York says Bruce Ratner plays well with others
Can You Trust the Computer?
Avi Rubin professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University and author, Firewalls and Internet Security (Addison-Wesley 2003)
Patty Cake
Joseph Wilson former ambassador and career diplomat, and author, The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Exposed My Wife's CIA Identity--A Diplomat's Memoir (Carroll & Graf;) investigated reports of Iraq’s attempt to buy uranium from Niger which cost his wife her CIA cover.
Nets Gains and Losses
This morning two community activists tangled—and sometimes tangoed—over plans to build a Nets arena in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Bertha Lewis, whose ACORN organization advocates for poor New Yorkers, is working with the developer to make plans for 900 new units of affordable housing. Joel Towers, a professor of ...