CSP Daily Brief: Friday, June 28, 2013
The Latest From the Center…
- Caroline Glick’s Weekly Article: Obama’s war of ideas
- LATMA: The Kerry peace plan and the Heath Minister’s organ donor program
- Shariah Finance Watch: Banks To Screen For Terror Links Under New Basel Scheme
- Shariah Finance Watch: Financial Jihadis Double-Down on Derivatives with Sukuk Mechanisms
- Shariah Finance Watch: Online Jihadis post bounty on bloggers, Facebook users
- Shariah Finance Watch: Shariah Bankers in Egypt Push for Egyptian Central Bank to go Shariah-Compliant
- Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: The Senate’s serial contempt
…and From our Colleagues
- James Carafano at the Heritage Foundation: For Conservatives, Snowden Is Hero and Horror
- Gatestone Institute: Germany Faced with “Loudspeaker Jihad”
Secure Freedom Radio
- What Will Come Out of Obama’s Africa Trip? with Lt. Gen Jerry Boykin, Christian Whiton, Mark Schneider, Fred Fleitz
- Secure Freedom Minute: The House Must Hold the Line
News
- Senate Passes Immigration Bill; Billions Slated for Drones, Choppers, Surveillance
- Former Marine general focus of cyber warfare leak investigation
- Pentagon Is Updating Conflict Rules in Cyberspace
- Edward Snowden Is Riding a Global Anti-American Network
- Ecuador’s president to U.S.: Don’t threaten us on Snowden case
- ‘No one wants this fight:’ Ecuadoreans divided over Snowden asylum
- Top SASC Republicans Split Over Dempsey Nomination
- House panel denies cuts to Army network
- DOD Contractors to Get New Whistleblower Protections
- Fear of G.I. Jane: Special operations forces are worried about adding women
- Luke AFB west of Phoenix to get 72 more F-35s
- Working for a SAFE Future: Former military brass, corporate leaders combining efforts on energy security
- In Africa, Obama plays catch-up with China
- Somalia’s al-Shabab leader Aweys ‘not surrendering’
- Kerry plunges back into Mideast peace diplomacy
- Egypt braced for protests as Muslim Brotherhood claim fatal attack on party office
- Palestinians Pushing Agenda at UNESCO: Anti-Israel report issued by U.N. body that recognized ‘Palestine’
- U.N. peacekeepers at Israeli-Syria border to get armored vehicles, machine guns
- Iranian official signals no scaling back in nuclear activity
- Iran ICBM Advances: Iran conducts test of new rocket motor with ICBM capability
- Watchdog warns of wasted U.S. funds in Afghan aircraft buy
Commentary
- ABEDINI: Pain, uncertainty with my husband still imprisoned in Iran
- AJAMI: For Egypt’s Liberals, Noise Doesn’t Equal Power
- FORBES & LARSEN: The Pentagon’s Fair-Share Budget Strategy
- HAQQANI: Don’t Talk With the Taliban
- HERIOT: Harassing the Military
- KNIGHTS: Iran’s Foreign Legion: Shiite Militias in Iraq
- MURDOCK: Morsi’s long train of abuse
- O’KEEFE: Sequestration: The Failed Fail-Safe
Hearings and Events of Note
- Friday, June 28, 10:00am Past, Present, and Future Irregular Warfare Challenges: Private Sector Perspectives (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities)
- Tuesday, July 9, 10:00am Emergency MGMT 2.0: How #SocialMedia & New Tech are Transforming Preparedness, Response, & Recovery #Disasters #Part2 #Govt/NGOs (House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications)
- Tuesday, July 9, 2:00pm Threat to the Homeland: Iran’s Extending Influence in the Western Hemisphere (House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency)
- Thursday, July 11, 2:15pm Nominations (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- Thursday, July 18, 9:30am Nominations (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
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