CSP Daily Brief: Tuesday, July 9, 2013

The Latest From the Center…

• Adm. James Lyons in the Washington Times: The Muslim Brotherhood’s long reach
• The Americas Report: Los Zetas and Hezbollah, a Deadly Alliance of Terror and Vice
• Shariah Finance Watch: UAE trial sheds light on Muslim Brotherhood finances
• Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Who’s for dismantling the defense industrial base?

…and From our Colleagues

• Mackenzie Eaglen and Charles Morrison of AEI: Psst, Congress: You don’t really know sequestration’s bite
• Gatestone Institute: Tinker, Tailor, Snowden, Spy

Secure Freedom Radio

• Uncertainity Looms In Egypt As Chaos Grows: with Barry Rubin, Adam Kredo, Kenneth DeGraffenreid, Gordon Chang
• Secure Freedom Minute: A Beginning and an End

News

• Pentagon Begins Furloughs for 650,000 Civilians
• U.S. Considers Faster Pullout in Afghanistan
• Morsi’s ouster a ‘nightmare’ for Hamas rulers in Gaza Strip
• Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood rejects transition plan
• Congress divided on using aid to pressure Egypt
• In talking about Egypt, Obama officials won’t even mention the word ‘coup’
• DNI Clapper Won’t Resign Over Misleading Congress on NSA Surveillance: Congress divided on whether he should be fired, resign
• Obama administration set to make NSA leaker Snowden’s trip tough
• European Parliament launches ‘in-depth inquiry’ into US spying
• US slowly steps up diplomacy in Somalia
• Assad’s forces chip away at rebels’ control of key city
• Syria Invites U.N. Chemical Arms Chief, but Access Is in Doubt
• Car bomb rocks south Beirut suburbs
• Police in Turkey Fire Teargas, Water Cannon to Prevent Protest
• Japan cites China, North Korea tensions in defense budget
• U.S., China Talk Cyber Theft at Strategic Dialogue: China military urges controls on Internet

Commentary

• BERMAN: The Russian Beachhead in Nicaragua Keeps Growing
• BLAIR: Democracy doesn’t on its own mean effective government
• GOLDBERG: Obama wings it in Egypt
• GWYN: Welcome to the global revolution
• HAMID: The post-Morsi reality in Egypt
• KHALAJI: Iran’s Losing Bet in Egypt
• MANNING: US counterbalancing China, not containing
• PIPES: Is Netanyahu Turning Left?

Hearings and Events of Note

• Tuesday, July 9, 10:00am Emergency MGMT 2.0: How #SocialMedia & New Tech are Transforming Preparedness, Response, & Recovery #Disasters #Part2 #Govt/NGOs (House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications)
• Tuesday, July 9, 10:00am Learning from Iraq: A Final Report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa)
• Tuesday, July 9, 10:15am Cyber Espionage and the Theft of U.S. Intellectual Property and Technology (House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations)
• Tuesday, July 9, 2:00pm Threat to the Homeland: Iran’s Extending Influence in the Western Hemisphere (House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency)
• Tuesday, July 9, 2:00pm Cambodia’s Looming Political and Social Crisis (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific)
• Wednesday, July 10, 9:00am Assessing Attacks on the Homeland: From Fort Hood to Boston (House Homeland Security Committee)
• Wednesday, July 10, 10:00am Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombings: Preparing for and Responding to the Attack (Senate Homeland Security Committee)
• Wednesday, July 10, 10:00am Joint Hearing on DOD and VA Collaboration to Assist Service Members Returning to Civilian Life (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on House Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committee)
• Wednesday, July 10, 10:00am The Terrorist Threat in North Africa: Before and After Benghazi (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa)
• Wednesday, July 10, 2:00pm The Abu Dhabi Pre-Clearance Facility: Implications for U.S. Businesses and National Security (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade)
• Thursday, July 11, 10:00am Assessing the Transition in Afghanistan (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
• Thursday, July 11, 11:00am The State Department 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations)
• Thursday, July 11, 2:15pm Nominations (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
• Tuesday, July 16, 10:00am S.980, The Embassy Security and Personnel Protection Act 2013 (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
• Thursday, July 18, 9:30am Nominations (Senate Armed Services Committee)
• Thursday, August 1, 9:30am Political Status of Puerto Rico (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee)

Other Briefs

• Politico Morning Defense: 7/9/13
• Foreign Policy Initiative: Overnight Brief 7/9/13
• Foreign Policy Magazine: Morning Brief 7/9/13
• AIA Daily Lead: July 8, 2013
• The Hill: Overnight Defense 7/8/13