CSP Daily Brief: Friday, July 12, 2013
The Latest From the Center…
- The Americas Report: The State Department Under-Estimates Iranian Threat in the Western Hemisphere
- Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Who’s for dismantling the defense industrial base?
…and From our Colleagues
Secure Freedom Radio
- Understanding the Similarities between the Cold War and the War Against Radical Islam: with Shoshana Bryen, Cully Stimson, Herbert Meyer, Fred Fleitz
- Secure Freedom Minute: You Can Counter EMP
News
- Senators Press Obama for Afghan Commitment
- Zero Option Talk Makes McKeon Fear Iraq Repeat
- Troop Numbers in Afghanistan Needed for Stability: Experts ask for concrete proposal from Obama administration for after 2014
- Anti-Taliban Movement Gaining Strength in Afghanistan, U.S. Says
- U.S. officials optimistic about local uprisings
- Defense hawks fault Obama for failed missile interceptor test
- Snowden seeks Friday meeting at Moscow airport with activists
- Court denies Fort Hood shooting suspect access to evidence
- Victoria Nuland Questioned About Benghazi Attack Talking Points
- Republicans criticize former State Department spokeswoman
- National Guard Troops at Risk for Furloughs
- Egyptian military gives its version of events that led to death of 51 protesters
- Egypt PM Picks Leftist Politican as New Deputy
- Congo flee after Uganda’s ADF attack Kamango
- New front opens in Syria as rebels say al-Qaida attack means war
- Pakistan Taliban ‘sets up a base in Syria’
- Insider attacks cloud U.S. transition to Afghan control
- Pakistan’s security chief killed by suicide attacker
- India, China to Hold Joint Navy, Air Force Drills
- PACOM Addresses Growing Chinese ICBM Program
- Pentagon: Growing Threat as China Expands Missile Arsenal Development
- Report reveals new data on growing Chinese missile threat
- Dominican Republic outraged over Obama’s pick of gay ambassador
Commentary
- AVNI: Dithering on Egypt
- BREMMER: Is becoming Pakistan the best Egypt can hope for?
- HORNIK: Obama’s Israeli Turkish Détente Goes Bust
- MOSHER: China’s approaching hegemony
- O’HANLON: Don’t Abandon Afghanistan
- WHITEY: The FBI Caves to Politically Correct Muslim Propaganda
- WITTMAN: In Defense of NSA
Hearings and Events of Note
- Monday, July 14, 3:00pm Strategic Sourcing: Leveraging the Government’s Buying Power to Save Billions (Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs)
- Tuesday, July 16, 9:30am Oversight: Situation in Syria (Senate Armed Services Committee, Closed Hearing)
- Tuesday, July 16, 10:00am Implementation of Wartime Contracting Reforms (Senate Financial & Contracting Oversight Committee, Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight)
- Tuesday, July 16, 10:00am S.980, The Embassy Security and Personnel Protection Act 2013 (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- Wednesday, July 17, 9:30am Oversight: Major Threats Facing Navy Forces (Senate Armed Services Committee, Closed Hearing)
- Wednesday, July 17, 10:00am Nomination (Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Nominee Ms. Samantha Power)
- Wednesday, July 17, 10:00am The Security Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic – Implications for U.S. National Security and U.S. Policy Options (House Armed Services Committee)
- Wednesday, July 17, 10:00am The Department of Homeland Security at 10 Years: Harnessing Science and Technology to Protect National Security and Enhance Government Efficiency (Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee)
- Wednesday, July 17, 10:15am Border Security Oversight, Part III: Examining Asylum Requests (House Oversight and Government Committee, Subcommittee on National Security)
- Wednesday, July 17, 2:30pm Oversight: Revisions to the Nuclear Employment Strategy (Senate Armed Services Committee, Closed Hearing)
- Thursday, July 18, 9:30am Nominations (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Thursday, August 1, 9:30am Political Status of Puerto Rico (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee)
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