CSP Daily Brief: Friday, August 9, 2013

The Latest From the Center…

• Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Willful blindness, mortal peril

…and From our Colleagues

• Diana West’s Weekly Column: Rediscovering America’s Truth-Tellers: Julius Epstein
• Gatestone Institute: Egypt Blockades Gaza

Secure Freedom Radio

• What losing the US Dollar as the International Currency could mean for the US economy: with Kevin Freeman, Helle Dale, Gerald Steinberg, Fred Fleitz
• Secure Freedom Minute: It’s Time for Fuel Choice

End the Benghazigate Cover-Up: E-Mail your Representatives and Senators and Demand they Form a Select Committee to Investigate

News

• U.S. Evacuates a Consulate in Pakistan
• Al Qaeda Yemen Branch Plan Prompted U.S. Terror Alert
• U.S., Russian diplomatic and defense chiefs to meet
• McCain: Russia’s sent relations ‘back to 1955’
• McCain, Graham Call for NATO Expansion, Missile Interceptors
• Manning prosecutors wrapping up for sentencing
• NSA to curb Snowden-style leaks by replacing workers with machines
• Darrell Issa Demands Former State Dept. Spox’s Benghazi-Related Emails: Congressman wants unredacted emails following terrorist attack
• Spain says it is committed to dialogue after Gibraltar spat
• 14 suspected al-Qaida militants killed in Yemen drone attack
• 4 dead in Ethiopian military crash in Mogadishu
• Anti-U.S. Hostility Ramps Up in Egypt
• As Foreign Fighters Flood Syria, Fears of a New Extremist Haven
• Kremlin says no deal reached with Saudi on changing Syria stance
• Israel’s armed forces are shifting emphasis from mechanised warfare toward air and cyber power
• Israel’s ultra-Orthodox headed to the army
• Iranian Guard Corps Could See Influence Dialed Back
• Iran’s top leader: US not good Mideast mediator
• Turkish president calls for Morsi’s release, slams Egyptian ‘coup’
• Local cease-fire deals could hasten Afghan peace
• Philippine leaders want U.S. troops back as bulwark against China
• Study: North Korea appears to have doubled space for uranium enrichment

Commentary

• HANSON: Giving new meaning to ‘let’s roll’
• KRAUTHAMMER: War by wordplay
• KRISTOL: Feebleness in the Executive
• LAPPIN: How American Leaks May Help Arm Israel’s Enemies
• LYNCH: How the Arab Spring turned out to be a win for al Qaeda
• RANSOM: Obama Meant to Do That: He Killed Detroit and Saved Al Qaeda
• STOCK: Obama, McCain and Graham make a ‘huge mistake’ in Egypt
• YADLIN AND GOLOV: Iran’s Plan B for the Bomb

Hearings and Events of Note

• There are no scheduled Hearings or Events of Note

Other Briefs

• Politico Morning Defense: 8/9/13
• Foreign Policy Initiative: Overnight Brief 8/9/13
• Foreign Policy Magazine: Morning Brief 8/9/13
• AIA Daily Lead: August 8, 2013