National Security

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• General Casey: Save diversity, not soldiers

  
  Rossputin.com Rational Thinking About Our World — Authority: 521
  From the “please tell me he didn’t really say that” files comes General George Casey, the Army Chief of Staff, who said on Meet the Press on Sunday regarding the terrorist massacre of our soldiers at Fort Hood last week “And as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think ...
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• Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) 2009 – 2014 Strategic Plan

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 153
  Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) 2009 – 2014 Strategic Plan (PDF; 154 KB) Source: Defense Security Cooperation Agency DSCA Core Competencies: Integration of policy and business processes for the sale, lease, grant or transfer of defense articles and services, to include education and training ...
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• Obama Afghanistan Decision Likely Pushed Back to December

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Barack Obama will likely hold off deciding his strategy and troop strength levels until December, according to a New York Times report on his upcoming meeting Wednesday with his national security advisers.That would make four months since Obamas hand-picked Afghan General Stanley McChrystal made an urgent request in ...
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• Have You Seen The Peacefulness of The “Devout” Muslim Faith on Display At Fort Hood?

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 427
  Guess who else is a “devout” Muslim?  Either the guy in the following video is a complete and utter bald faced liar or he is telling the TRUTH that he is a “devout” Muslim.   The Liberty Tree Lantern reports, YOU DECIDE, IF HE IS LYING: Now are you prepared to call President Obama a complete bald faced ...
  14 hours ago

• CAP: Postpone Gitmo Close, Send Leftovers to Bagram

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  The influential Center for American Progress, which has close ties to the Obama administration , is now calling on President Obama to push back the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center to July . That’s despite the president’s day-two directive to close the notorious prison by January. Closure has ...
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• India Places 20 Million Order With Chinas Huawei

  
  China Sourcing News — Authority: 122
  Indian state-owned telecommunications operator BSNL has announced that it has placed a purchase order of mobile communication equipment of 20 million GSM lines for Indias southern zone to the Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei and will not call for any new bids.Kuldeep Goyal, chairman and general manager for BSNL, ...
  16 hours ago

• Report: Globalization of Malware Production

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 427
  By Simon Heron , CISSP Internet Security Analyst Traditionally, malware has tended to originate mainly from countries like Brazil and America, with other nations such as Korea and India joining them in the top 10 malware charts in recent years. However, October’s threat stats reveal that the level of malware ...
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• Evaluating Corporate Social Media Strategies

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 427
  Daniel Wallace , Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward How vendors, integrators and consultants can position themselves to support CISO’s with corporate social media adoption… In the past I have written articles and advised CISO’s on how social media technology can be used as a vehicle ...
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• Well, Now We Know Why It Took So Long for Iraq to Kick Blackwater Out

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  As DeLong noted , Blackwater lost its license to operate in Iraq in 2007, after its security officers gunned down innocent civilians in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. Yet Blackwater didn’t actually leave Iraq until earlier this year , and even then it didn’t really leave. Many of its security guards were allowed ...
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• Kerry, Lugar Happy That Obama Nominated Someone for USAID

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  It’s not really a statement of support for nominee Rajiv Shah, who’s already got strong and eager support from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton . But here’s what the chairman and ranking member of the committee that he’ll appear before for his confirmation hearing have to say: Senate Foreign ...
  17 hours ago

• Blackwater Authorized Payments to Iraqi Officials Following Nisour Square Massacre

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  Breaking news from The New York Times: Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in ...
  17 hours ago

• Andrew Sullivan: From 9/11 to Fort Hood

  
  TORQOPIA - Abundance All Around Us — Authority: 138
  Andrew Sullivan has an insightful post today on the lessons that continue to unfold in this post-9/11 world: The awful truth is: what 9/11 revealed, and what it was designed to reveal, is that there is nothing we can really do definitively to stop another one. They had no weapons but our own technology. The ...
  17 hours ago

• US wants more Nato troops for new Afghanistan surge

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 589
  President Obama is to ask members of Nato to provide up to 4,000 more troops to help to break the deadlock in Afghanistan. Mr Obama is poised to confirm a surge of more than 30,000 US combat troops, according to senior military sources. He will also urge the rest of Nato to provide thousands of soldiers to train new ...
  17 hours ago

• Barack Obama’s Statement At The Fort Hood Memorial

  
  Liberal Values — Authority: 141
  Above is the video of Barack Obama’s remarks at the Fort Hood memorial ceremony. The transcript is below: We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that we have lost; with gratitude for the lives that they led; and with a determination to honor them through the work we carry on. This is a ...
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• Clinton on Prospective New USAID Chief

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  Just released from the Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton : Dr. Raj Shah is a leader in the development community, an innovative and results-oriented manager, and someone who understands the importance of providing people around the world with the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty and chart ...
  19 hours ago

• Casey, McHugh to Brief Senate Armed Services Committee on Fort Hood in Secret

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  The briefing, according to a release from the committee, will be entirely closed to the public. Presumably Nidal Malik Hasan’s intercepted communications with al-Qaeda affiliates will be discussed. It all goes down, with testimony from Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey and Army Secretary John McHugh, on ...
  19 hours ago

• Our ‘Reassured’ Allies

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  Justin Logan beat me to the punch , but Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal’s op-ed in the Washington Post warrants more than just one comment. Kagan and Blumenthal fret that the Obama administration’s policy of “strategic reassurance” is sure to fail. Aimed at encouraging Russia and China, especially, to ...
  20 hours ago

• Asleep On Watch

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 628
  The final page, labeled “Recommendation,” contained only one suggestion: “Department of Defense should allow Muslims [sic] Soldiers the option of being released as ‘Conscientious objectors’ to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.” – Dana Priest, Washington Post The backdrop of ...
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• Rajiv Shah: America’s Next Top USAID Administrator

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 781
  Laura Rozen breaks the news : Rajiv Shah, the Department of Agriculture’s undersecretary for Research, Education and Economics, is going to head the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has gone leaderless since the start of the Obama administration. They’ve got to move fast to get Shah in the post. ...
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• ACLU Sues FBI for Imprisonment of New Jersey Man in Africa

  
  ProPublica: Articles and Investigations — Authority: 646
  by Christopher Flavelle , ProPublica - The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saying it illegally detained and mistreated an American, Amir Meshal, who was held in Kenya, Somalia and Ethopia for four months in 2007 before being released. ...
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