CSP Daily Brief: Thursday, June 20, 2013
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News
- Obama Directs New Limits on Pentagon Nuclear Weapons Use: Calls for new cut to 1,000 warheads in Berlin speech
- DoD will Continue to Make Nuclear Investments
- Inside the Ring: NSA contractor threat
- Scenarios for Snowden: Escape, arrest, asylum
- Trust low, but U.S. says talks with Taliban will go on
- Senators closing in on border security compromise
- SecDef focuses on challenges in speech
- Bill Would Protect Against Electromagnetic Pulse Catastrophe
- House Defense Authorization Includes Military Hardware for Israel
- Document: Economic Impact of U.S. Shipbuilding
- Fiscal Year Recruiting Remains Strong Through April
- Analysis: Rough honeymoon for Chavez’s successor in Venezuela
- Somali Islamists threaten more carnage after attack on U.N. base
- Syrian rebel general grapples with disarray in his ranks
- In northern Iraqi city, al-Qaida gathers strength
- Iran’s new president is not so ‘moderate,’ expert says
- New Iranian President Tied to 1994 Bombing: 85 were killed in bombing of Argentinian Jewish Center
- Kyrgyzstan votes to end US lease of airbase
- Explosion in Jalalabad kills Afghan security official, civilian
- Bangladesh sentences to death 10 Islamists for suicide bombing
- Miller: Veterans claims backlog needs Obama’s direct attention
Commentary
- AVNI: Damning Suicide Note to Iran’s New Prez
- COUGHLIN: Barack Obama has given the Taliban the upper hand in Afghanistan
- DODGE: Obama’s misguided magical thinking about nuclear weapons
- GOLDBERG: Snowden, a fool not a spy
- HARPER: Media overlook key player in Middle East crisis
- KUNIN: Obama Rhetoric Matches That Of Old Soviet Leaders
- KROENIG: The Case for Overkill
- MAY: Jordan, a Land Flowing with Syrian Refugees
- NISMAN: If Hezbollah Wins Syria
Hearings and Events of Note
- Thursday, June 20, 10:00am Ethiopia after Meles: The Future of Democracy and Human Rights (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations)
- 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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