AZIZ POONAWALLA: Obama’s Intelligence Director Dennis Blair and East Timor genocide. “If Obama, who has lived in Indonesia (a fact he trumpets), is unaware of the history of the genocide in East Timor, then that’s quite an embarrassment, but it can be fixed, starting with replacing Blair as nominee for top spy. If he knows and nominated Blair anyway, then there’s a deeper problem that isn’t so easily fixed.”

Here’s an earlier post from Gary Farber.