CSP Daily Brief: Friday, August 2, 2013
The Latest From the Center…
…and From our Colleagues
Secure Freedom Radio
- Heightened Activity in The Solar System Increases the Chances of an EMP Threat: with John Wohlsetter, Jim Hanson, Claudia Rosett, Fred Fleitz
- Secure Freedom Minute: CNN: Benghazigate Exposed
News
- Snowden Asylum Hits U.S.-Russia Relations
- Pentagon Conducts Overhaul of War Plans
- DOD Downplays Cancelling F-35, New Bomber
- Expert: U.S. Naval Supremacy Is in Trouble- While U.S. makes sequestration cuts, Russia, China, Iran projecting naval power
- Senate Confirms Samantha Power as U.N. Ambassador
- SAIC’s Deborah Lee James nominated as next Air Force secretary
- Rep. Wolf: Sources Say CIA Was Moving Guns in Benghazi…
- …22 agents at Benghazi consulate
- Threat to close U.S. embassies in Muslim world on Sunday
- US careful not to let Snowden destroy Russia ties
- Muslim Brotherhood criticizes Kerry’s endorsement of Mursi overthrow
- Egypt this is not: Tunisia stays calm as it debates democracy
- Tunisian forces launch air strikes on Islamist militants
- Mali Faces Runoff Vote
- Two Kenyan hostages released by al-Shabab
- Two killed in clashes between rival factions in Yemeni army
- Syrian Kurds take fragile steps towards autonomy
- Iran’s Ahmadinejad steps aside, divisive to the end
- Iran’s incoming president calls Israel ‘wound’ that must be removed
- 1st lt. found guilty in Afghan shootings; gets 20-year sentence
- White House backpedals on Kerry’s pledge to end drone strikes in Pakistan
- Months of planning led to Pakistan prison break that freed scores of terrorists
- Bangladesh Court Strikes Down Jamaat-e-Islami’s Electoral Registration
- China Reveals New Short-Range Missile: DF-12 among more than 5 new short-range missiles
- China reiterates opposition to U.S. sanctions on Iran
- Pentagon to probe alleged waste, fraud in MIA unit
- July saw slight bump up in veterans jobless rate
Commentary
- BOZELL: Fox Versus the Islam-Boosting ‘Mainstream’
- HOWE AND DOBLOW: Reinvent the Coast Guard Quickly
- MAY: Al-Qaeda Is Back! (But It Never Really Went Away)
- NELSON: Zimbabwe is booming – but its future lies in Chinese hands
- PROSOR: Hezbollah’s partial isolation
- PRUDEN: More fake peace for the Middle East
- SPAKOVSKY AND MALCOLM: A just verdict against Bradley Manning
- TIRPAK: Why Joint Acquisition Has So Many Problems
Hearings and Events of Note
- Friday, August 2, 9:00am, Border Security Planning: Applying Overseas Lessons Learned to the Homeland (House Committee on Homeland Security)
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