CSP Daily Brief: Friday, June 7, 2013
The Latest From the Center…
- Caroline Glick: Wounded…and dangerous
- Shariah Finance Watch: More Clear Evidence of the Zakat-Violent Jihad Connection
- Shariah Finance Watch: IRS Favored HAMAS-linked Council on American Islamic Relations While Targeting the Hero Who Exposed Them
- Shariah Finance Watch: US Treasury Imposes Sanctions on Senior Al Qaeda Bomb Maker
- Shariah Finance Watch: HAMAS on “Jihad with Money”
- Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Does Rubio care about national security?
…and From our Colleagues
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News
- ‘No Such Agency’ spies on the communications of the world
- US to declassify secret surveillance documents after uproar
- Obama embracing some Bush-era anti-terror policies
- Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
- Clapper: Leaks will cause ‘irreversible harm’ to national security
- The Surveillance State: How We Got Here and What Congress Knew
- Why Collect So Much Information if Obama Refuses to Use it Against Terror?
- Obama-Xi summit: cyber security, North Korea and Syria on US-China agenda
- As Wars End, a Rush to Grab Dollars Spent on the Border
- Pentagon Says Cost to Retrofit F-35s Drops $500 Million
- New Virginia-class submarine delivered to Navy
- McRaven: Cuts Are Hurting Military: Worries about tension between telling truth and being a ‘good soldier’
- Egypt’s president dismisses calls for early vote
- McCain says Assad is winning in Syria, urges US aid to moderates
- Iraq bomber hits Iranian pilgrims, at least nine dead
- Russia says detained senior Islamist militant who planned Moscow region attack
- 7 Georgian soldiers killed in Afghanistan suicide blast
- North and South Korea set to hold talks over the weekend
- Japan, France to tighten nuclear, defense ties
- Counter Pivot: China moves against U.S. pivot to Asia with stepped up military, diplomatic economic ties to Americas
- Ex-Im Bank Authorizes Loan for China-Bound Satellites
Commentary
- BEDNARZ: Ayatollah’s Ruse: Iran’s Presidential Election Offers No Real Choice
- DONNELLY: Losing the Middle East
- IBRAHIM: Jihad on Egypt’s Christian Children
- KUHNER: The betrayal of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6
- KRAUTHAMMER: Message from the ruins of Qusair
- MAY: Al Qaeda vs. Hezbollah: Which is the Current World Champion of Terrorism?
- SCHMITT: How to meet the threat from China’s army of cyber guerrillas
- VADUM: Spy Games & Double Standards
Hearings and Events of Note
- Monday, June 10, 6:00pm Book Launch Event: Luis Fleischman’s “Latin America in the Post-Chávez Era” (Center for Security Policy)
- Tuesday, June 11, Legislative: Subcommittee Markups (Senate Armed Service Committee)
- 9:30 a.m. Subcommittee on Airland
- 11:00 a.m. Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
- 2:00 p.m. Subcommittee on Personnel
- 3:30 p.m. Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
- 6:00 p.m. Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
- Wednesday, June 12, 9:30am Subcommittee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Seapower)
- Wednesday, June 12, 1:00pm The Department of Defense and the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget (House Budget Committee)
- Wednesday, June 12, 2:30pm Full Committee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Thursday, June 13, 9:30am Full Committee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Friday, June 14, 9:00am Why Can’t DHS Better Communicate with the American People? (House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency)
- Wednesday, June 19, EMET Ray of Light in the Darkness Dinner (Endowment for Middle East Truth)
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