CSP Daily Brief: Monday, May 13, 2013

The Latest From the Center…

• Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: The Women of Benghazigate
• Kyle Shideler at Free Fire Blog: The Istanbul Process, The Missing Piece of the Filmmaker Puzzle

…and From our Colleagues

• Gatestone Institute: Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East
• Refugee Resettlement Watch: Former refugee resettlement worker blows the whistle on refugee program failures; calls for moratorium

Secure Freedom Radio

• U.S. Led Intervention into Syria Not the Best Answer: with Victor Davis Hanson, Chris Crane, Bill Gertz, Faith McDonnell
• ICE Union Head: Administration Won’t Let Us Do Our Jobs
• Secure Freedom Minute: Erdogan is No Friend

Join us for the 2013 Freedom Flame Dinner on June 6 as we honor Allen West and Richard Scaife

News

• David Cameron and President Obama to hold Syria talks
• Turkey’s Erdogan to air policy differences with Obama
• McCain senses Benghazi ‘cover-up,’ wants more Clinton testimony
• Caught Scrubbing The Truth From Benghazi, What’s Next For The Obama Administration?
• U.S. automatic cuts send Pentagon contract awards down 52 percent
• Navy Plan Calls for More Sub Funding
• Leaving Afghanistan is a $7 billion moving task for US
• Pentagon plans to share missile secrets with Russia opposed by Republicans
• Netanyahu decides on more moderate defense cuts
• Israelis worried that UN may stop patrolling Syrian border
• Mubarak’s retrial starts amid tight security
• Iran expects ‘progress’ in U.N. nuclear talks, West skeptical
• World’s biggest anti-mine naval exercise after Iranian threats to close Gulf
• Four remaining kidnapped Turks to be freed soon: Afghan Taliban
• Pakistani Leader Moves Quickly to Form Government
• Pakistan’s next premier an Islamist comeback kid
• North Korea axes hard-line defense chief
• Veterans or families seeking benefits from VA are dying for a decision
• False reports outpace sex assaults in the military
• Did J Street Sic IRS on Pro-Israel Rival?

Commentary

• AVNI: Kerry: A pavlovian peace-processor
• BARONE: Did Clinton and Obama Believe Their Benghazi Baloney?
• INHOFE: To Defeat Iran, Drill For Energy At Home
• KASPAROV: A Shared Enemy Does Not Mean Shared Values
• KNIGHT: Benghazi’s media maze
• NORTH: Benghazi cover-up
• O’KEEFE: Reckless Abandon(ment)
• PICKETT: Give US Industry a Seat at the Strategy Table
• PIPES: Islam and its infidels
• RUBIN: The Israel Card Has Been Overplayed

Hearings and Events of Note

• Tuesday, May 14, 9:30am Oversight- Marine Corps modernization (Senate Armed Services Committee)
• Tuesday, May 14, 2:30pm Briefing- the situation in Syria (Senate Armed Services Committee)
• Thursday, June 6, 6:30 Freedom Flame Award Dinner 2013 (Center for Security Policy)
• Tuesday, June 11, Legislative: Subcommittee Markups (Senate Armed Service Committee)
• 9:30 a.m. Subcommittee on Airland
• 11:00 a.m. Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
• 2:00 p.m. Subcommittee on Personnel
• 3:30 p.m. Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
• 6:00 p.m.  Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
• Wednesday, June 12, 9:30am Subcommittee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Seapower)
• Wednesday, June 12, 2:30pm Full Committee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee)
• Thursday, June 13, 9:30am Full Committee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee)
• Friday, June 14, 9:30am Full Committee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee)
• Wednesday, June 19, EMET Ray of Light in the Darkness Dinner (Endowment for Middle East Truth)

Other Briefs

• Politico Morning Defense: 5/13/13
• Foreign Policy Initiative: Overnight Brief 5/13/13
• Foreign Policy Magazine: Morning Brief 5/10/13
• AIA Daily Lead: May 10, 2013