CSP Daily Brief: Thursday, August 8, 2013

The Latest From the Center…

• Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Willful blindness, mortal peril

…and From our Colleagues

• Gatestone Institute: How the EU Empowers Hezbollah’s “Military Wing”

Secure Freedom Radio

• Political Correctness Can Cause the Most Damage to the Superiority of the Military: with Ralph Peters, Tom Donnelly, Diana West, Robert Zubrin
• Secure Freedom Minute: Moscow Rules

End the Benghazigate Cover-Up: E-Mail your Representatives and Senators and Demand they Form a Select Committee to Investigate

News

• Lawyer: Hasan intent on getting death sentence
• Fort Hood survivor prepares to testify
• More than Snowden keeping US, Russia at odds
• Gen. Amos on Reinventing the Marines, Owning Sequester and Why COIN Is More Relevant Than Ever
• Diplomatic Rift With Putin Grows as Obama Cancels
• John Bolton on Russia’s Vladimir Putin: It’s time to ‘cause him pain’
• Navy: USS Miami, RIP – Congress, Please Keep Buying Virginia Class Subs
• Pentagon’s information operations chief moves on
• Mccain contradicts Obama on status of Egypt coup
• Israeli Ambassador So Furious with a New York Times Story He Wrote a Letter to the Editor
• Israel gives preliminary approval for 800 new settler homes
• Suspected US drone kills 6 militants in Yemen
• Yemen Steps Back From Terror-Plot Claims, Highlighting U.S.’s Challenge
• Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula at center of U.S. cross hairs
• As al-Qaida grows, leaders remain a global threat
• Rebel Groups Claim Assad Targeted in Mortar Attack
• Report says Iran building missile site
• 328 killed in South Sudan attack, official says
• Czech parties closing on deal to hold early election
• The Abandoned: Afghan translator of Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer caught in bureaucratic limbo
• Bomb kills 14 as Afghan president calls for peace
• India-Pakistan Tension Mounts
• At Least 30 Killed in Suicide Bombing at Funeral in Pakistan
• U.S., Philippines to open talks on larger U.S. troop presence
• Satellite Images Suggest North Korea Has Doubled Its Uranium Enrichment Capacity
• Japan protests to China after ships linger near isles

Commentary

• AHMARI: About That New ‘Moderate’ Iranian Cabinet . . .
• ALLARD: A generous second coat of the Benghazi whitewash
• EAGLEN AND MCGRATH: X-47B Belongs in the Sky, Not a Museum
• GOLDENZIEL AND LANDAU: Egypt’s constitutional crisis
• GOODWIN: Call Hasan’s Ft. Hood attack by its true name
• HARPER: Skepticism required in the face of Obama’s terror warning
• KENGOR: Ho Chi Minh, Obama’s Freedom Fighter
• LAMBRO: Contrary to Obama’s claims, al-Qaida grows stronger
• SOUFAN: How Al Qaeda Made Its Comeback

Hearings and Events of Note

• There are no scheduled Hearings or Events of Note

Other Briefs

• Politico Morning Defense: 8/8/13
• Foreign Policy Initiative: Overnight Brief 8/8/13
• Foreign Policy Magazine: Morning Brief 8/8/13
• AIA Daily Lead: August 7, 2013