CSP Daily Brief: Monday, June 17, 2013
The Latest From the Center…
- Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Doing Something About Space Weather
- Frank Gaffney at Big Peace: Samantha Power: The Quintessential ‘Blame America First’-er
- Shariah Finance Watch: Shariah-Compliant Finance could reach 25%-40% market share in Tunisia
- Shariah Finance Watch: $94,000 Ransom to Abu Sayyaf to Free Australian Hostage in the Philippines
- Shariah Finance Watch: Money Jihad Blog: Syrian fighters funded in part by jizya
- Shariah Finance Watch: Here we go again: Zakat to those who fight “for the cause of Allah”
…and From our Colleagues
Secure Freedom Radio
News
- Iranians count on president-elect Rohani to bring change
- Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s New President, Lays Out Plans In First News Conference
- Iranian ‘moderate’ Hasan Rowhani could be part of nuke strategy, say experts
- West to Press Iran on Nukes
- White House announces it will not send troops into Syria, deploys them to the border
- Defector Syrian general will be conduit for US military aid to rebels
- Russian roulette: Canada’s Harper gives up on Russia, says summit is ‘G-7 plus 1’
- Ex-White House Advisers Discourage Nuke Threats Against Cyber Attacks
- NSA Leaker Had Legal Means to Reveal Information
- Snowden Not Our Spy, China Says
- New Leak Indicates Britain and U.S. Tracked Diplomats
- Officials Weigh Resource Priorities During Sequester
- Kenyan police kill suspected militant in raid, seize arms
- Egyptian President Morsi expands Islamist rule with key governor appointments
- Israeli Defense Minister Worried About Stability in Syria
- Three bombings kill at least 12 in Iraq: police
- Sensitive security vetting at U.S. Embassy in Iraq is turned over to troubled State Department
- Turkey unrest goes on despite end to park protest
- Afghanistan Drawdown: Afghans Poised To Take Security Lead From U.S., NATO
- Pyongyang Sends Another Top Official to Beijing
- North Korea wants to hold high-level talks with U.S.
- Obama urges youth to make Northern Ireland peace permanent
Commentary
- AHMARI: Behind Iran’s ‘Moderate’ New Leader
- AVNI: Obama’s Syrian error
- BABBIN: Foreign Policy as Farce
- GOODMAN: Liberals and Spying
- MAURO: A Radical Imam’s Infiltration of Philadelphia
- NORMAN: Fully Briefed, Right?
- O’GRADY: Colombia’s Perilous Peace Talks
- PRICE: Readying outpost in Djibouti for ‘rapid response’
- STEYN: OK To Spy On Americans, But Don’t Monitor A Mosque
- TAHERI: Iran’s new Prez is no ‘moderate’
Hearings and Events of Note
- Tuesday, June 18, 10:00am Threat, Risk and Vulnerability: The Future of the TWIC Program (House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security)
- Tuesday, June 18, 10:00am Continuing Concerns Over BioWatch and the Surveillance of Bioterrorism (House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations)
- Tuesday, June 18, 10:30am Elections in Iran: The Regime Cementing its Control (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa)
- Wednesday, June 19, 2:00pm Regional Security Cooperation: An Examination of the Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) and the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere)
- Wednesday, June 19, EMET Ray of Light in the Darkness Dinner (Endowment for Middle East Truth)
- Thursday, June 20, 2:15pm Nomination (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- Thursday, June 20, 2:30pm Examining the Workforce of the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Role of Private Contractors(Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce and the Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight
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