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Smith is a diplomatic historian and public policy consultant. After serving briefly as a junior Intelligence officer during the Cold War, in 1972, with the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. as mentor, he wrote the first history of the OSS, the World War II Office of Strategic Services. The following year, he was a consultant to the Defense in the Pentagon Papers trial of Daniel Ellsberg. Smith has since written on national security issues for the Washington POST, the Los Angeles TIMES and the International Journal of Intelligence, and has taught foreign policy seminars at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. A political "gut-liberal" Democrat, he has worked in the campaigns of nine congressional, gubernatorial, senatorial and presidential candidates. He now lives with his daughter on the central coast of California.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 THE LAST HURRAH OF JERRY BROWN (1 comments)
The future of California Governor-elect Jerry Brown
Friday, July 2, 2010 Google News and the Arrogance of Cyber-Power
The "new" Google News presents a technical nightmare and aesthetic atrocity - and may also the arrogance of corporate power on the Internet.
Friday, May 28, 2010 One "Spy Czar" Too Many?
The position Director of National Intelligence - as rival to the Director of CIA - should be re-invented.
Saturday, March 7, 2009 PANETTA WATCH 6: CAN INTELLIGENCE BE 'HATCHED'? (2 comments)
Weekly reflections on the Central Intelligence Agency, under the Direction of Leon Panetta, in the new presidential administration.
Saturday, February 21, 2009 THE PANETTA WATCH 5: ON 'EXTRAORDINARY' LIAISON
Periodic reflections on the Central Intelligence Agency under the Directorship of Leon Panetta, in the Obama Administration.
Saturday, February 7, 2009 THE PANETTA WATCH 3: 'MEMO TO THE DIRECTOR'
Weekly reflections on the Central Intelligence Agency under the Direction of Leon Panetta, in the new presidential administration.
Saturday, January 31, 2009 THE PANETTA WATCH 2: LONELY AT LANGLEY
A continuing series of weekly reflections on President Obama's appointment of Leon Panetta as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Sunday, January 25, 2009 THE PANETTA WATCH 1: INAUGURAL EDITION (1 comments)
"First edition" of periodic reflections on Leon Panetta's tenure as Director of CIA.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 PANETTA TO CIA: A "BRILLIANT" CHOICE? (3 comments)
Examing the case for Leon Panetta appointment as President-elect Obama's CIA Director
Friday, December 26, 2008 Senator Dianne Feinstein's Defining Moment (19 comments)
Should Senator Dianne Feinstein become Governor of California? The defining moment of her political life.
