CSP Daily Brief: Thursday, June 6, 2013
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News
- Report: Secret court order forces Verizon to turn over telephone records of millions
- Administration defends collecting phone records
- House panel passes $638B defense bill
- HASC Green-Lights East Coast Missile Shield
- Dems seek to lift prohibition on Gitmo detainees to US
- Defense Cuts Will Hurt Attempts to Rebuild Military: Officials, experts warn against massive cuts to the military in a dangerous world
- Susan Rice fails up, becomes National Security Adviser
- Top 10 Questions for Samantha Power Confirmation Hearing
- Pentagon IG report: Security lapses revealed names to ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ filmmakers
- The Iran Project Calls for ‘Rebalance’ Toward Regime: Group encouraging ‘engagement’ with Iran on nuclear weapons
- Nigerian tycoon offers to initiate talks with Boko Haram
- Two Tunisian soldiers killed in hunt for Islamists near Algeria
- Syrian army retakes Golan crossing point from rebels
- Israel hit by missiles from Syria as civil war flares in Golan Heights
- Inaction in Syria Emboldens Iran: Syria policy will impact Iran nuke program, experts say
- Insight: Russia’s Syria diplomacy, a game of smoke and mirrors
- Al Qaeda leader Zawahri urges Syrians to unite against Assad, U.S.
- Lawmakers in new drive to slash Iran’s oil sales to a trickle
- Arabs press Iran on atomic reactor safety
- Turkish riots leave White House in uncomfortable position
- Russia arrests man it says planned foiled Moscow terror attacks
- Georgia encouraged with meeting over NATO membership
- Australia and India plan naval exercise
- Inside the Ring: U.S.-Japan Dawn Blitz
- N. Korea proposes Kaesong talks, Seoul may agree
- Microsoft And The FBI Are Teaming Up To Take Down A Global Cyber Crime Ring
- U.S. Navy’s Next Bid for Ship to Ship Combat
Commentary
- AHLERT: An Israel-Hater Heads to the U.N.
- BLACKBURN: Government Has A False Sense Of Cybersecurity
- BLUMENTHAL: Why China Frets Over America’s Retreat
- GOLDMAN: Muslim Civil Wars Stem from a Crisis of Civilization
- MAKOVSKY AND MISZTAL: Lessons from Syria for Iran
- MCFARLAND: The real reason Obama tapped Susan Rice for national security adviser
- PORTER: Between Niebuhr and Luce: The contradictions of Obama’s statecraft
- SHIRLEY: A recollection of D-Day
- WIDLANSKI: Iran’s building a nuke arsenal
Hearings and Events of Note
- Thursday, June 6, 10:00am Labor Issues in Bangladesh (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- Thursday, June 6, 2:15pm Nominations (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- Thursday, June 6, 6:30pm Freedom Flame Award Dinner 2013 (Center for Security Policy)
- 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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