Intelligence Gathering Opportunity?

embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://static.bloggingheads.tv/maulik/offsite/offsite_flvplayer.swf" flashvars="playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fbloggingheads%2Etv%2Fdiavlogs%2Fliveplayer%2Dplaylist%2F20694%2F23%3A58%2F29%3A48" height="288" width="380"/embedbr /I had the same thought as a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/06/23/a-semi-defense-of-those-embassy-parties.aspx"Jason Zengerle;/a inviting Iranian diplomats to the July 4 embassy picnics was potentially an intelligence gathering opportunity. This appears not to be the case, a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2009/06/24/obama-to-iran-quot-no-hot-dogs-for-you-quot.aspx"however. /a br /br /Also, this is the a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/06/leftovers-of-axis-of-evil-i-dont-know.html"nicest thing/a that Ann Althouse has ever said about anyone associated with LGM. An attempt at engagement to end the longstanding rift between our two peoples? Or unwelcome interference in LGM affairs?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-5171992663456503809?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div