CSP Daily Brief: April 24, 2013

The Latest From the Center…

• Press Release: Center Urges Select Committee to Make Real Progress on Benghazigate Scandal
• Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Connecting the Dots 101

…and From our Colleagues

• Gatestone Institute: The Honey-Trap of Moral Equivalence
• James Carafano in the National Interest: Obama’s Star Wars Regret

Secure Freedom Radio

• The Debate Over When and If to Extend Miranda Rights to Terror Suspects: with Mark Krikorian, Dr. Sue Mi Terry, Andy McCarthy, Michael Davidson
• Secure Freedom Minute: Defining Terrorists

Stand with Israel in 2013: Join Frank Gaffney for a Fact-Finding Tour This Fall. Click here for prices and dates.

News

• GOP Benghazi Report Slams Clinton and State, Spares DOD…
• …Key facts on Benghazi attack omitted to avert criticism
• Lone wolf is new focus post-Boston bombings
• Suspected Boston Bomber’s Mosque Founded by Convicted Terrorist
• Suspects Roused by Jihadist Thought
• SecAF Donley: Strategy, Sequestration Out Of Synch; National Decision Needed
• Littoral Combat Ship Network Can Be Hacked, Navy Finds
• Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to visit Egypt, smooth military ties
• Hagel Tours Israel: Israeli military warns of possible Syrian chemical weapons use
• UN torture investigator ‘deeply disappointed’ with Bahrain
• Israeli intelligence official says Syria used chemical weapons
• U.S. Moves Against Hezbollah ‘Cartel’
• ‘Kidnapped Syrian bishops still missing’
• U.S. seeks to ease Afghanistan-Pakistan tensions in Brussels talks
• Succession Plans: GOP lawmaker warns Palestinians could lose aid if Hamas official succeeds Abbas
• Iraq violence sparks fears of a Sunni revolt
• Putin’s Russia launches ‘unprecedented’ crackdown on activists, rights group warns
• Trial of Russian activist Alexei Navalny resumes
• North Korean soldiers put down arms to help plant rice
• Chinese troops continue mobilization along N. Korean border
• China calls Japan-U.S. island drill “provocative”
• State Media: China Plans Second, Larger Aircraft Carrier
• Ex-CIA director David Petraeus becomes a professor

Commentary

• BROOKES: Motive May Lie in Chechen Ties
• DAREMBLUM: Venezuela’s Illegitimate President
• KECK: Did China Just Rebuke the U.S. on Cybersecurity?
• LAMBRO: No Room For Complacency in Confronting Terrorist Threat
• MALKIN: America’s Insane Asylum for Jihadists, Hustlers and Frauds
• PIPES: Education by murder in Boston
• RAMTHUN: Bending the Pentagon’s medical costs curve
• ROFF: New Report Raises Significant Questions About Benghazi
• VOLPE: Bin Laden Eyed Chechnya for Terrorist Recruitment

Hearings and Events of Note

• 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: 4/24/13
• Foreign Policy Initiative: Overnight Brief 4/24/13
• Foreign Policy Magazine: Morning Brief 4/24/13
• AIA Daily Lead: April 23, 2013
• The Hill: Overnight Defense 4/23/13