CSP Daily Brief: April 26, 2013
The Latest From the Center…
- LATMA: The Boston Marathon bombing — The FBI investigates
- LATMA: Hebrew’s Word with Avishay Ivry 254.13
- LATMA: An interview with GOC Central Command Leitzan Balloon and the FBI fights terror
- Frank Gaffney’s Weekly Article: Connecting the Dots 101
…and From our Colleagues
- Joe Lieberman and Jon Kyl in the Washington Post: The danger of repeating the cycle of American isolationism
- Diana West’s Weekly Column: Saudi Follies, Part 2
- Gatestone Institute: Palestinian Journalists Declare War On Israeli Colleagues
Secure Freedom Radio
- Exposing Iranian Influence on the US Government: with Clyde Prestowitz, Sam Nunberg, Fred Fleitz, Diana West
- Secure Freedom Minute: No Time To Disarm
News
- Obama stalls as Syria crosses ‘red line’ with chemical weapons…
- …looking for Reasons to Delay Response to Syria’s Chemical-Weapons Use
- Syrian officials deny use of chemical weapons
- Syrian air strikes, shelling batter rebels in Damascus suburbs
- Jordan’s Abdullah urges diplomatic action to end Syrian conflict
- Documents: Terror suspect came to Canada in ’93
- Intel chairman: Russia withholding information on bombing suspect
- UN Official’s Smear of Boston Victims Just Latest Attack on US, Israel
- Obama’s scrub of Muslim terms under question; common links in attacks
- Bush’s Millennium Challenge is still changing the developing world
- USAF Gen. Warns of Future Implications of Budget Cuts
- Military grooms new officers for cyberspace warfare
- DoD Still 3,700 Cyber Experts Short of Full Staff
- Hagel, Crown Prince Discuss U.S.-U.A.E. Defense Cooperation
- F-35 Office Sees Improved Relations With Contractor
- British Islamists jailed for al Qaeda suicide bomb plot
- Malians cautiously welcome approval of UN force
- Egypt’s Pope says Islamist rulers neglect Copts
- Lebanese army ups presence on Israel border
- Israeli military shoots down drone likely launched by Hezbollah
- Somali jihadi tweets picture of ‘assassination attempt’
- China omission of no-first-use nuclear doctrine in defense white paper signals policy shift
- Philippines accused of trying to ‘illegally’ occupy South China Sea territories
- South Korea to withdraw final workers from joint industrial complex in North
- Chairman Urges More Japan, South Korea Defense Cooperation
- DHS officials deny allegations the department is ‘hoarding’ bullets
Commentary
- AUSLIN: Doing more with zero
- CONTINETTI: Mugged by Reality
- KRAUTHAMMER: The Bush legacy
- KUHNER: Obama’s 9/11
- MALKIN: A National Security History Lesson for Marco Rubio
- MAY: Defense in the Age of Jihad
- PLETKA: Obama’s empty threats on Syria
- PODHORETZ: O’s time of testing
- SEXTON: Syria’s next civil war
- WILKER: Why aren’t liberals more critical of Islam?
Hearings and Events of Note
- Friday, April 26, 8:00am The Readiness Posture of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Readiness)
- Friday, April 26, 10:30am Fiscal Year 2014 Army Modernization Programs (House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces)
- Tuesday, May 7, 9:30am Oversight: Department of the Air Force (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Wednesday, May 8, 9:30am Oversight: Army Modernization (Senate Armed Services Committee)
- Wednesday, May 8, 9:30am Oversight: Navy Shipbuilding Programs (Senate Armed Service Committee, Subcommittee on Seapower)
- Thursday, May 9, 9:00am Third Latin American Symposium (Center for Security Policy)
- Tuesday, June 11, 9:30am Legislative: Subcommittee Markups (Senate Armed Service Committee, Subcommittee on Airland)
- Tuesday, June 11, 11:00am Legislative: Subcommittee Markups (Senate Armed Service Committee, Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support)
- Tuesday, June 11, 2:00pm Legislative: Subcommittee Markups (Senate Armed Service Committee, Subcommittee on Personnel)
- Wednesday, June 19, EMET Ray of Light in the Darkness Dinner (Endowment for Middle East Truth)
Other Briefs
- Politico Morning Defense: 4/26/13
- Foreign Policy Initiative: Overnight Brief 4/26/13
- Foreign Policy Magazine: Morning Brief 4/26/13
- AIA Daily Lead: April 25, 2013
- The Hill: Overnight Defense 4/25/13
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Secure Freedom Radio is a much-needed vehicle for sober analysis of the high costs of appeasement and the benefit of policies based on “peace through strength.” For an hour each weeknight, Secure Freedom Radio serves as a powerful force-multiplier for the cause of freedom.
The show airs weeknights nationally on American Family Radio and 570 AM in the Washington, D.C. area.
Listeners can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and more.
For Frank's daily Secure Freedom Minute commentary, click here.
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