Daryll Kimball,the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association, a private research firm, says President Obama is more skeptical about the missile-defense system.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

Ben Reiss left his job as an assistant public defender in favor of a higher paying job with a top private law firm.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

Reva Bhalla,a Middle East analyst with the private intelligence firm Stratfor, says the Iranian government is angry over U.S.and British covert activity in Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

It came into force in 1994. Daryl Kimball,Executive Director of the Arms Control Association, a private research firm, says that treaty helped end the Cold War.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

But analyst Kamran Bokhari, of the private intelligence firm Stratfor, says there is a crucial difference between playing the tribal card in Iraq and trying the same thing in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11