CSP Daily Brief: Thursday May 9, 2013
The Latest From the Center…
- Press Conference TODAY 10:00am: Navy Seal Team 6 Families to Reveal Government’s Culpability in Death of their Sons in Fatal Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan Following Successful Raid on Bin Laden’s Compound
- Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Moment of Truth for Benghazigate?
…and From our Colleagues
- The Legal Project: ‘The Innocent Prophet’ Narrator and Christian Convert Defeats the Islamists’ Hate Speech Charge
- Victor Davis Hanson at Townhall: Hoping for Change in Syria
Secure Freedom Radio
- As Qatar Buys Up American Gas Wells, Energy Independence Seems Even Less Likely: with Rep. Pete Hoekstra, Jim Hanson, Diane West, Kevin Freeman
- Secure Freedom Minute: A Tale of Three Women
News
- Diplomat Airs Benghazi Attack Details
- Blowing the Lid Off Benghazi: Whistleblowers contradict State Department officials about events surrounding terrorist attack
- After Benghazi hearings, lawmakers want more ‘whistle-blowers’ to step forward
- Senate Republicans slam Navy’s newest warship
- Army Defends GCV, Keeps Lakota Stateside
- Senators Question Air Force Brass on Nuclear Safety
- US discussing giving Russia missile defense data
- Kerry announces more aid to Syria
- Israel asks Russia not to sell Syria missiles
- Syria’s internet access ‘restored’ following blackout
- Fears rise that jihadi fighters have brought their battles to Tunisia
- Qaeda-linked gunmen kill Yemeni intelligence officer: official
- Iran Steps Up Rhetoric: Iran urges war on Israel’s northern front
- Bangladesh Islamist gets death for war crimes, raising fears of protests
- Son of Former Pakistani Leader Abducted as Campaign Nears End
- Pakistan Taliban plan suicide attacks on May 11 election
- Inside the Ring: China reins in North Korea
- EZ Bake Terrorism: Capitol Hill presentation addresses proliferation of home-made terrorism guides
Commentary
- DAREMBLUM: Why Mexico Must Destroy the Cartels
- EAGLEN: The sequester is here to stay — now the military needs to get to work
- HAMID: Morsy and the Muslims
- HAYDEN AND SIMCOX: The terror that grows at home
- MILLER: Benghazi and the Lust for Power
- PODHORETZ: Failings of Bam & Hill laid bare
- ROVE: A President as Aloof Abroad as at Home
- SIMONS: Stephen Hawking’s boycott of Israel is a sad display of partisanship
- WEST: US Religious Freedom Commission Won’t Touch Sharia
- WICKER: The World Is Watching Sequester’s Defense Cuts
Hearings and Events of Note
- Thursday, May 9, 9:00am Third Latin American Symposium (Center for Security Policy)
- Thursday, May 9, 9:00am Fiscal Year 2014 Budget Request for Atomic Energy Defense Activities and Nuclear Forces Programs (House Armed Services Committee)
- Thursday, May 9, 9:00am The Boston Bombings: A First Look (House Homeland Security Committee)
- Thursday, May 9, 9:30am Budget Hearing – United States Air Force (House Appropriations Committee)
- Thursday, May 9, 10:00am Resolving International Parental Child Abductions to Non-Hague Convention Countries (House Foreign Affairs Committee)
- Thursday, May 9, 2:30pm Oversight of ballistic missile defense policies and programs (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Tuesday, May 14, 9:30am Oversight- Marine Corps modernization (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Tuesday, May 14, 2:30pm Briefing- the situation in Syria (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Thursday, June 6, 6:30 Freedom Flame Award Dinner 2013 (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, 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, 9:30am Full Committee Markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Wednesday, June 19, EMET Ray of Light in the Darkness Dinner (Endowment for Middle East Truth)
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