http://www.nysun.com/foreign/un-ambassador-cuts-vacation-short-amid-memo-flap/84873/ U.N. Ambassador Cuts Vacation Short Amid Memo Flap By BENNY AVNI, Staff Reporter of the Sun August 29, 2008 UNITED NATIONS — The American ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, is cutting his vacation short and is due to return home on Monday night, after a leaked State Department memorandum raised questions about his methods of work, which many U.N. diplomats fondly call his “independent streak” but which have angered some of his colleagues in the Bush administration. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad speaks to the press outside of the United Nations Security Council August…

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the new york times ran a front page story this morning about my boss, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations zalmay khalilzad, and his ties to the guy running for president of pakistan (see story in blog below). the times had been working on the story with multiple journalists for several days…..you can imagine my surprise when i arrived into work this morning to see that bloomberg news had cut and pasted the nytimes story into a bloomberg news wire story – running it as their own but crediting the nytimes sources. bloomberg news was even quoting me even…

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/washington/26diplo.html?_r=1&scp=10&sq=pakistan&st=cse&oref=slogin August 26, 2008 U.N. Envoy’s Ties to Pakistani Are Questioned By HELENE COOPER and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — Zalmay Khalilzad, the American ambassador to the United Nations, is facing angry questions from other senior Bush administration officials over what they describe as unauthorized contacts with Asif Ali Zardari, a contender to succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan. Mr. Khalilzad had spoken by telephone with Mr. Zardari, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, several times a week for the past month until he was confronted about the unauthorized contacts, a senior United States official said. Other officials said…

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did you see this story? after 10 months of hearing about john edwards’ affair, the national media finally got around to doing the story when edwards admitted it! how can the editors at the new york times and the washington post justify this?? the new york times ran a frontpage story roughly 6 months ago claiming to have proof that john mccain was having an affair – and when the story ran – there was no hard evidence but anonymous sources saying it was so. so what gives when there are rumors that john edwards was having an affair? why…

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the new york times story on my boss’ relationship with pakistani presidential candidate zardari certainly caused a plethora of media calls over the last few days. the washington post followed the story the next day and so the calls continued to come in thru the next days’ news cycle. i was surprised that it was such a big deal, especially during a democratic convention. the new york times even ran it on the frontpage of the paper and above the fold! the news media outlets who assigned reporters to the story were from around the world not just from the…

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http://newsmax.com/kessler/Richard_Grenell_at_un/2008/08/11/119512.html U.S. Spokesman at the U.N. Makes His Mark Monday, August 11, 2008 2:35 PM By: Ronald Kessler In February 2006, both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times ran editorials saying that John Bolton, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, was right to reject sham proposals to reform the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Noting that some of the world’s most abusive regimes hold seats on it, the Times called the commission “disgraceful.” The paper even applauded Bolton’s refusal to go along with a “shameful charade” to make cosmetic changes in the commission. The New York Times…

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http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/photos/story/389712.html Sanctions may be in store if Iran rebuffs nuclear offer By WARREN P. STROBEL WASHINGTON The United States and Europe are poised to seek harsher U.N. financial sanctions against Iran if it fails to meet this weekend’s deadline to accept an international offer of negotiations in exchange for freezing its nuclear program, diplomats said Friday. It’s uncertain how, or even whether, Iran will formally respond to the offer. Authorities in Tehran have given no sign that they’re willing to accept the offer of a “freeze for a freeze” – to cap Iran’s uranium enrichment at current levels in exchange…

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http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/08/04/africa/OUKWD-UK-IRAN-NUCLEAR-1.php U.N. council must increase sanctions on Iran: U.S By Louis CharbonneauSun Aug 3, 8:20 PM ET The United States said on Sunday that Iran has left the U.N. Security Council no choice but to increase sanctions on the Islamic Republic for ignoring demands that it halt sensitive nuclear activities. The U.S. declaration came a day after an informal deadline lapsed for Iran to respond to an offer from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia for talks on its disputed nuclear program. “It is clear that the government of Iran has not complied with the international community’s…

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http://www.theusdaily.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=470837&type=World

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/opinion/26sun2.html?scp=1&sq=John+Bolton+%2C+Kofi+Annan%2C+Human+Rights+Council&st=nyt

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/01/world/africa/01nations.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=grenell&st=cse&oref=slogin