CSP Daily Brief: Thursday, July 25, 2013
The Latest From the Center…
- VIDEO: Frank Gaffney Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee on Gitmo
- Poll: 70% Support Taking Action on EMP
- Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Kerry’s folly, Israel’s peril
…and From our Colleagues
- Washington Free Beacon: Gaffney Warns Against Closing Gitmo
- Wall Street Journal: Republicans for Snowden
- Gatestone Institute: Want Israeli-Palestinian Peace?
Secure Freedom Radio
- Cutting the NSA’s Data Collection Program Would Be A National Security Mistake: with Buck McKeon, Fred Fleitz, Mark Helprin, Diana West
- Secure Freedom Minute: How Jihadists Get Recruited
- Featured Segment: Rep. McKeon: Let the NSA Continue Collecting Phone Data
News
- House approves 2014 defense spending bill
- US House Approves Defense Spending Bill, Keeps NSA Surveillance Programs Alive
- Inside the Ring: Bill blocks nuclear cuts
- Manning’s trial nears closing arguments
- Edward Snowden Seeking to Join KGB Veterans Group: Participation in union would likely change Snowden’s status as whistleblower to intelligence defector
- Frank Wolf Demands Answers on Benghazi Attacks: Va. Republican asks questions as media attention drifts from attacks
- U.S. Military Vows to Put Women in Combat Roles by 2016
- Boeing Earnings Growth Is Tempered by Defense Concerns
- White House Must Bolster Pacific Strategy Across Government: Former CNO, HASC Members
- Navy Defends Littoral Ship Against Watchdog’s Criticism
- Journalist imprisoned at Obama’s insistence released
- U.S., in Sign of Displeasure, Halts F-16 Delivery to Egypt
- Militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula grow stronger
- Egypt Muslim Brotherhood head vilifies army chief
- Bulgaria names 2 suspects in Burgas bus bombing
- Rocket-propelled grenade fired at embassy compound in Libyan capital
- Thousands protest in Tunis after assassination of leading opposition figure
- Israelis, Palestinians to US next week for talks
- John Kerry’s Years of Quiet Diplomacy Helped Forge Path to Peace Talks
- Despite EU terror designation, Hezbollah will be in Lebanon’s next gov, leader says
- Syria lashes out at US move to arm rebels
- Experts: Iran Nuclear Weapon Closer than Some Think: New Iranian president unlikely to tamp down nuclear ambition
- China’s Bo Xilai indicted for corruption, abuse of power
- China says military aircraft near Japan on training mission
- North Korea to put captured U.S. spy ship on display
- Al-Qaeda hosts a family fair in Syria, complete with ice cream and jihad
Commentary
- COHEN: Russia’s Military on the March in Asia
- GOLDBERG: Want Peace? Get Rid of Hamas.
- IBRAHIM: The real War on Women is being waged in the Islamic world
- KECK: Coming Soon? China’s JL-2 Sub-Launched Ballistic Missile
- LIPSKY: An infant v. the State Department
- ROVE: Foreign Policy and the Vision Thing
- SMITH: Skipping the photo op
- ZAHRAN: Israel’s eastern front, the coming storm
Hearings and Events of Note
- Thursday, July 25, 9:30am Acquisition and Development Challenges Associated with the Littoral Combat Ship (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces)
- Thursday, July 25, 9:30am Nominations (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Thursday, July 25, 10:00am Emerging Threat of Resource Wars (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats)
- Thursday, July 25, 11:00am Nomination of Hon. Alejandro N. Mayorkas to be Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security(Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee)
- Thursday, July 25, 2:30pm The Partnership Between NIST and the Private Sector: Improving Cybersecurity (Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee)
- Wednesday, July 31, 10:00am How to Improve the Efficiency, Safety, and Security of Maritime Transportation: Better Use and Integration of Maritime Domain Awareness Data (House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation)
- Thursday, August 1, 9:30am Political Status of Puerto Rico (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee)
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