Daily Brief: Thursday, February 28, 2013
The Latest From the Center…
- Press Release: National Security Experts Warn: Reject Brennan
- Press Release: Conservative Leaders: Launch Bicameral Congressional Investigation into Benghazi Debacle
- VIDEO: Brennan Nomination in Trouble? Now’s The Time for Pressure
- The Americas Report: The Real Meaning of the New Argentina-Iran Agreement
- Shariah Finance Watch: Four Somalis in US Found Guilty of Providing Material Support for Terrorism
- Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: The Case Against Chuck Hagel
…and From our Colleagues
- Buck McKeon in the LA Times: Obama’s dangerous defense experiment
- Mackenzie Eaglen at Fox News: Will Obama and the Pentagon do the right thing when the sequester arrives?
- Patrick Christy and Evan Moore in US News and World Report: Don’t Let Sequestration Cut Foreign Aid
Secure Freedom Radio
- Chuck Hagel’s Confirmation: Losing Congress’s Check on Executive Power: with Adam Kredo, Clare Lopez, Jim Hanson, and Diana West
- Secure Freedom Minute: Syria Next
News
- Inhofe-Toomey sequester alternative takes shape
- Cuts would affect readiness in Pacific, military leaders say
- Brennan Accused of Involvement in Altered Benghazi Talking Points
- Pentagon Clarifies Hagel’s Position on U.S.-India Relations
- Secretary of State John Kerry on Iran: It’s an ‘elected’ government
- U.S.: $60M in new aid to Syrian opposition
- Names emerge for Air Force secretary, OSD spots
- Inside the Ring : Chinese pressure points
- Chinese Cyberspies Attacked Natural Gas Pipeline Operators For Six Months Straight
- North Korea Renews Threats Against Annual U.S-South Military Exercises
- Thailand to Hold Peace Talks With Rebel Group
- Insight: Egypt’s army tiptoes through democracy’s minefield
- Al Qaeda commander Abu Zeid killed in Mali: Ennahar TV
- Al Qaeda on the Warpath: Terrorist affiliates spread after decapitation of central organization
- More than half of individuals convicted al Qaeda terrorism were U.S. citizens, study shows
- U.S. Army private in WikiLeaks case pleads not guilty to aiding enemy
- Erdogan says Zionism crime against humanity
Commentary
- AJAMI: John Kerry’s Syrian Second Chance
- ALLARD: Targets for Chuck Hagel’s new ax
- FARLEY: Simulating a Cyber Attack
- NOONAN: Sequestration Could Take Our Army Back to 1940
- ROBBINS: Does Iran already have the bomb?
- SCHWARTZ: Iranian Sufis Defy Tehran Dictatorship
- TAHERI: Will Egypt’s democrats get serious?
- TOLOCZKO: U.S. moving backward on missile capability
- WEISS: OIC Ramps Up ‘Islamophobia’ Campaign
Hearings and Events of Note
- Thursday, February 28, 8:00am Assuring Viability of the Sustainment Industrial Base (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Readiness)
- Thursday, February 28, 9:00am Impacts of a Continuing Resolution and Sequestration on Acquisition, Programming and the Industrial base (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces)
- Thursday, February 28, 9:30am Overview of U.S. Interests in the Western Hemisphere: Opportunities and Challenges (House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere)
- Thursday, February 28, 9:30am Nominations (Senate Foreign Relations Committee)
- Thursday, February 28, 10:30am Nuclear Security: Actions, Accountability and Reform (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces)Thursday, February 28, 1:00pm Human Rights in Burma (Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission)
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