CSP Daily Brief: April 23, 2013

The Latest From the Center…

• The Americas Report: The Union of South American Nations Give a Nod to Chavez’s Successor
• Ben Lerner at Free Fire Blog: The Boston Marathon and Enemy Combatants: Time to Revisit the AUMF?
• Adm. James Lyons at American Thinker: Are We Being Compromised by Barack Obama’s Murky Past?
• Nonie Darwish in IBD: Muslims Should Rise Up And Reject Terrorism
• Shariah Finance Watch: Sukuk Issuance to Reach $275 Billion by Year-End
• Shariah Finance Watch: Lawfare to Attack Terrorism Financiers
• Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Connecting the Dots 101

…and From our Colleagues

• VIDEO: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick embraced radical imam
• Sam Nunberg at Big Peace: Predatory Lawsuit Rebounds Back on Iranian Front Group
• Gatestone Institute: Britain’s Sharia Courts: “You Cannot Go Against What Islam Says”

Secure Freedom Radio

• A Growing Closeness Between the Emir of Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood: with Charles Jacobs, Thor Halvorssen, Elliott Abrams, Gordon Chang
• Secure Freedom Minute: Napolitano Fools Us

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News

• Tsarnaev Says They Got No Outside Help, Brother Was ‘Driving Force’ In Attacks
• Blind Eye: Conciliatory FBI policies toward Islamism hampered probe into Boston bombers, experts say
• Eye on the FBI: Congress ordered review of FBI’s response to domestic terror prior to Boston bombing
• North Korea Adamantly Denies Conspiracy Theory Linking It To Boston Bombing
• Spain: 2 terror suspects held, were ‘lone wolves’
• Boston bombing could prompt US, Russia cooperation
• Terrorist plot foiled in Canada
• Shrinking Europe Military Spending Stirs Concern
• In Egypt, anger at Islamists brings calls for military to reclaim power
• Explosion Hits French Embassy in Tripoli
• Israel Says Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons
• Syrian bishops who warned of religious intolerance kidnapped
• Kerry urges NATO allies to up aid to Syrian rebels
• Sanctioning Iran’s American Allies: NIAC ordered to pay nearly $200K in legal fees
• Indonesian president urges Myanmar to address Muslim violence
• North Korea vows to bolster nuclear arms over US report
• China: Cyberattacks Are Like Nuclear Bombs
• Pentagon Withholding From Lockheed Grows Over Management
• Struggling Al Qaeda offshoot using Twitter to spread message

Commentary

• BOLTON: We can’t ignore foreign roots of the massacre
• BERMAN: Overlooked Middle East crises
• CHERTOFF AND LAWRENCE: Investigating Terror in the Age of Twitter
• EAGLEN: Hagel’s Budget: Where’s The Beef In Reform Efforts, Weapons Buys?
• GERSON: Tied in knots by radical Islam
• HANSON: The Diffidence Doctrine
• PODHORETZ: A ‘beautiful, beautiful’ terrorist
• VADUM: Saudi Connection to Boston Bombing?
• WILSON: Honoring Commitments and Remembering Lessons Learned
• ZARATE: When to call it ‘terrorism’

Hearings and Events of Note

• Tuesday, April 23, 9:30am Oversight: Department of the Army (Senate Armed Services Committee)
• Tuesday, April 23, 2:30pm Oversight: Proliferation Prevention Programs (Senate Armed Services committee, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities)
• Tuesday, April 23, 3:00pm Subcommittee Hearing: Meeting the Challenge of Drug-Resistant Diseases in developing Countries (House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations)
• Wednesday, April 24, Oversight and Business Practices of Durable Medical Equipment (Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight)
• Wednesday, April 24, 10:00am Hearing: Export Control Reform: the Agenda Ahead (House Committee on Foreign Affairs)
• Wednesday, April 24, 10:00am Oversight of U.S. Naval and U.S. Air Force Acquisition Programs in the Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Budget Request (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces)
• Wednesday, April 24, 10:00am Oversight: Active, Guard, Reserve, and Civilian Personnel Programs (Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Personnel)
• Wednesday, April 24, 10:00am International Development Priorities in the FY 2014 Budget (Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs)
• Wednesday, April 24, 11:30am The Readiness Posture of the U.S. Air Force (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Readiness)
• Wednesday, April 24, Budget Hearing: United States Agency for International Development (House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs)
• Wednesday, April 24, 2:00pm Status of implementation of the requirements of the VOW Act and the recommendations of the Presidential Veteran Employment Initiative Task Force for the DOD Transition Assistance Program -Goals, Plans, and Success (GPS) (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Military Personnel)
• Wednesday, April 24, 2:00pm Subcommittee Hearing: Kosovo and Serbia: A Pathway to Peace (House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats)
• Wednesday, April 24, 2:30pm Oversight: Military Space Program and Views on DOD Usage of the Electromagnetic Spectrum (Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces)
• Wednesday, April 24, 2:30pm Oversight: Military Construction, Environmental, and Base Closure Programs (Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support)
• Wednesday, April 24, 2:30pm Oversight: Tactical Aircraft Programs (Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Airland)
• Thursday, April 25, 9:30am Oversight: Department of the Navy (Senate Armed Services Committee)
• Thursday, April 25, 10:00am The Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Budget Request from the Department of the Army (House Armed Services Committee)
• Thursday, April 25, 2:00pm Transitioning to Afghan Security Lead: Protecting Afghan Women? (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations)
• Thursday, April 25, 3:30pm Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for National Security Space Activities (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces)
• Friday, April 26, 8:00am The Readiness Posture of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Readiness)
• Friday, April 26, 10:30am Fiscal Year 2014 Army Modernization Programs (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces)
• Tuesday, May 7, 9:30am Oversight: Department of the Air Force (Senate Armed Services Committee)
• Wednesday, May 8, 9:30am Oversight: Army Modernization (Senate Armed Services Committee)
• Wednesday, May 8, 9:30am Oversight: Navy Shipbuilding Programs (Senate Armed Service Committee, Subcommittee on Seapower)
• Thursday, May 9, 9:00am Third Latin American Symposium (Center for Security Policy)
• Tuesday, June 11, 9:30am Legislative: Subcommittee Markups (Senate Armed Service Committee, Subcommittee on Airland)
• Tuesday, June 11, 11:00am Legislative: Subcommittee Markups (Senate Armed Service Committee, Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support)
• Tuesday, June 11, 2:00pm Legislative: Subcommittee Markups (Senate Armed Service Committee, Subcommittee on Personnel)

Other Briefs

• Politico Morning Defense: 4/23/13
• Foreign Policy Initiative: Overnight Brief 4/23/13
• Foreign Policy Magazine: Morning Brief 4/23/13
• AIA Daily Lead: April 22, 2013
• The Hill: Overnight Defense 4/22/13