CSP Daily Brief: Tuesday, June 11, 2013
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News
- Edward Snowden’s NSA surveillance leak ‘most significant disclosure in US history’
- Obama Pressured Over NSA Leak As US Senator Calls It ‘Act Of Treason’
- Russia Would Weigh Snowden Asylum Bid
- Chinese bloggers rally behind NSA whistle-blower
- Defense contractors fear blowback in wake of leak about NSA snooping
- Pentagon five-year cybersecurity plan seeks $23 billion
- Cyber War Details Revealed
- Defense Industry In Search of The New Normal
- State Department: No cover-up for diplomats
- Gitmo’s Standing: Republicans starting to splinter on terrorist prison
- Judge to rule on Fort Hood suspect’s defense
- Judge sentences 6 extremists in British bomb plot
- Egypt’s opposition says ‘too late’ for unity talks with president
- South Sudan Says Oil Will Flow Despite Sudan’s Threats
- U.S. F-16s, Patriot missiles to Jordan, as Obama weighs Syria intervention
- Bombs explode in Damascus
- Iran launches rearmed destroyer on Persian Gulf
- Election Smokescreen: Iranians working toward achieving nuke as talks slow down ahead of presidential election
- Iran’s former vice president, Mohammad Reza Aref, drops out of presidential race
- Hundreds Of Turkish Police Stormed Istanbul’s Protest Square Last Night
- Taliban Plans U.N. Talks on Lowering Afghan Casualties
- Taliban surge expected to continue
- Pakistan’s Musharraf gets bail in key case
- SKorea says it considers talks with North scrapped
- Japan, U.S. start joint military drill
- Venezuela sees normal U.S. relations this year
Commentary
- ARON: The Widening Putin Clampdown
- ERICKSON: Over Criminalization and the NSA
- JOHNSON: Already Fearing Sequestration, Contractors Could Feel Impact from Leaks
- GERSON: A Power of conviction
- LOWRY: Benghazi is the blank spot in the Obama presidency
- PETERS: Making treason cool
- SANTORUM: America Demands Truth on Benghazi
- SOWELL: Sex and the Military
Hearings and Events of Note
- Tuesday, June 11, 10:00am Political Status of Puerto Rico (Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee)
- 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, 10:00am Modernizing US International Food Aid: Reaching More for Less (House Foreign Affairs Committee)
- Wednesday, June 12, 10:00am Protecting the Homeland Against Mumbai-Style Attacks and the Threat from Lashkar-e-Taiba(House Homeland Security Committee, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence)
- Wednesday, June 12, 10:00am US – Brazil Trade and Investment Relationship: Opportunities and Challenges (House Ways and Means Committee, Subcommittee of Trade)
- Wednesday, June 12, 1:00pm The Department of Defense and the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget (House Budget Committee)
- Wednesday, June 12, 1:00pm American NGOs Under Attack in Morsi’s Egypt (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa)
- 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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