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Opinion Roundup: More Intelligence, Less Safety
By not in system - AOL News(July 19) -- Dana Priest and William Arkin's Washington Post expose of the fast-growing intelligence community in their first installment of "Top Secret America" has plenty of people talking. Making Us Less Safe What's most noteworthy about all of this is that the objective endlessly invoked for why we must acquiesce to all of this -- National Security -- is not only unfulfilled by "Top Secret America," but actively subverted by it. ... The article details how ample information regarding alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and attempted Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab was collected ...
California Senate Race: Carly Fiorina, Climate Change and an Idiotic Ad
By David Corn - Politics DailyThere's an old cliché: Character is how you behave when no one is looking. And there's another way of testing character for a politician: what he or she is willing to say to get elected. Carly Fiorina failed that test this week -- when she released perhaps the most idiotic and juvenile campaign ad of the election year. Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, is the leading candidate in the California Republican Senate primary and is expected to beat former Rep. Tom Campbell and state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore in next week's election. (This week, Campbell pulled his television ads.) So ...
Jerry Ford OKed Warrantless Wiretaps in U.S., Memo Reveals
By Andrew Becker - Politics DailyPresident Gerald Ford secretly authorized the use of warrantless domestic wiretaps for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes soon after coming into office, according to a declassified document. The Dec. 19, 1974 White House memorandum, marked Top Secret/Exclusively Eyes Only and signed by Ford, gave then-Attorney General William B. Saxbe and his successors in office authorization "to approve, without prior judicial warrants, specific electronic surveillance within the United States which may be requested by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." ...
Bush Glad Cheney's 'Out There' Taking on Democrats, But Says He'll Avoid Politics
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFormer President George W. Bush is glad his old second-in-command Dick Cheney is "out there" fighting the good fight against the Obama administration's national security polices, but Bush prefers to stay on the sidelines. Bush spoke Friday at the inaugural Bush-Cheney reunion breakfast at a Washington hotel. Cheney, recovering from a heart attack, was unable to attend, and the meeting was closed to the media. But Politico's Mike Allen, relying on accounts provided by attendees, said the former president was both funny and humble. "Don't swagger. Sometimes I got carried away rallying the ...
Conservatives Skip Obama's National Security Successes at CPAC
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWhen Liz Cheney addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, she took President Barack Obama to task for what she said has been a dangerously misguided and ineffective approach to national security. "We've learned he wants to go around the world and apologize for this great country of ours," she said. "We've learned he wants to give rights to terrorists, including the right to remain silent. We've learned he wants to move dangerous terrorists from Guantanamo onto the American homeland while he investigates and possibly prosecutes the CIA officers who interrogated them. ...
Panel Says Government Fails on Key National Security Measures
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA bipartisan commission on Tuesday gave the federal government a mixed grade on national security, CNN reports. Led by Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Jim Talent (R-Mo.), the commission judged the government to be weak in preparation for a biological terror attack, in congressional oversight of national security, and in training the next generation of security experts. ...
Failure to Connect Dots Recalls 9/11 Shortfalls
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 31) -- The headlines were sickeningly familiar. "Spy Agencies Failed to Collate Clues on Terror," concluded The New York Times. "U.S. Intel Lapses Helped Abdulmutallab," CBS News reported on the Nigerian suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. "What the CIA Did and Didn't Know About Alleged Underpants Bomber" was the post on Newsweek's Declassified blog. President Barack Obama received a report today on the intelligence failures that let the alleged underpants bomber board a U.S.-bound airplane on Christmas Day. But details have already emerged about tantalizing clues that ...
White House Taps Former eBay, Microsoft Exec as New 'Cyber Czar'
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe White House announced Tuesday that Howard Schmidt, a former executive at eBay and Microsoft, will become the administration's new cybersecurity coordinator. Schmidt's selection comes at the end of a long process in which several other candidates turned down the job. President Obama is expected to announce the appointment Tuesday. Schmidt is an Internet security expert who, along with working for major Web-based companies, founded a security consulting firm. He was named one of the 50 most influential people in business information technology by Baseline magazine. Obama highlighted ...
Homeland Security Department Improperly Collected Intelligence on U.S. Citizens
By David Sessions - Politics DailyOn three separate occasions over the past several years, staffers at the Department of Homeland Security unlawfully collected information on American citizens or lawful residents, the New York Times reports. In all three cases, Homeland Security officials expressed concern that there was insufficient evidence to prompt the investigations and the reports were destroyed. In February, a Homeland Security staffer wrote a "threat assessment" for Wisconsin police in preparation for an upcoming pro- and anti-abortion demonstration and counter-demonstration. The report was eventually criticized ...
Climate Change About More Than Hugging Trees
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 12) -- The United States is in "a defensive crouch" on climate change that threatens its national security and must go on the offense by signing an agreement to combat global warming at an international conference in Copenhagen next month, reporters were told here. "Climate change would act as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions in the world," retired Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn said. "Climate change, energy and national security are inextricably linked." McGinn, a former deputy chief of naval operations, made his pitch sitting beside ...
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