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What the Aspen Security Summit brought this year were strong words by former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and former Director of the National Counterintelligence Center Michael Leiter ...
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If you haven’t yet had a chance to mentally pause from digesting all the heavy news of the summer – ISIL’s expansion, domestic mass shootings, and extraordinary breaches of sensitive information, to name...
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Ben's list of unclassified databases for the Chinese to steal is just too much fun not to follow up. At the risk of piling on, here are a few more that a good Chinese spy ought to look at:
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Turkey has made a dramatic entrance into the war against the Islamic State. Following an agreement late last week about between Turkey and the United States to allow American forces to utilize a Turkish ...
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David Rivkin and Lee Casey maintain in the WSJ that the Iranian Nuclear Deal “is unconstitutional, violates international law and features commitments that President Obama could not lawfully make,” and t...
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The government's (second) rehearing petition apparently was filed today in this long-running military commissions case. Offhand, it's not clear to me how the government can prevail---but we'll see.
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I posted a first batch last week. Here are the rest of the videos from this year's Aspen Security Forum.
A Look Into SOCOM
Joseph Votel, Commander, US Special Operations Command
Moderator: Catherin...
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One aspect of President Obama’s historic visit to Kenya under-reported by the U.S. press and almost entirely ignored by U.S. human rights groups was that the President met with two Kenyan leaders who had...
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Guantanamo Diary
By Mohamedou Ould Slahi (edited by Larry Siems)
Published by Hatchette Book Group (2015)
Reviewed by Zoe Bedell
It's rare that quotes on the back of a book tell you anything genuinel...
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Here are several other unclassified government databases the PLA should target—and that our intelligence community might give some thought to protective.
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Editor’s Note: Sanctions are increasingly America’s foreign policy instrument of first resort, promising success without the bloodshed that comes with military force. Iran’s willingness to cut a deal ove...
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This week on the show, Shane and I are abandoned by Tamara, who has run off to the Aspen Security Forum—to which neither of us were invited. So we bring back special guest Wells Bennett, and invite Lawfa...
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This week, the Aspen Security Forum featured interviews with—among others—FBI Director James Comey, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, and NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers. I have edited these discussions down t...
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The New York Times reports that al Qaeda operative Abu Khalil al-Sudani was killed in an American airstrike in Afghanistan on July 11. He was a senior member of the group’s decision-making council, and a...
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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
By Michael Oren
RandomHouse (2015)
Reviewed by Yishai Schwartz
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As Congress begins its consideration of the Iran deal, the public debate has become increasingly frustrating. Or more precisely, what is so frustrating is that two distinct debates have thus far been hop...
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If Twitter is to be believed, the Iranian nuclear deal is already creating waves in the Middle East and upending old regional axes. Earlier today, Jacky Hugi, the Middle East editor for Israel’s Army Rad...
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If, like me, you were not invited to this year's Aspen Security Forum, you're probably thinking right now, "Gee, I wish someone would post all the videos of the great events I'm not getting to attend."
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