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Defensiveness Dominates Homeland Security Session |
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Written by IPT News
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 06:29 |
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Rebutting criticisms that were not made, and often ignoring those that were, witnesses and representatives in a House subcommittee hearing on disrupting terror plots through community engagement often lost focus on their task Wednesday.
The digressions began when Jane Harman, chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, read an excerpt from an article published Tuesday by the Investigative Project on Terrorism. It raised concerns about the hearing's absence of Muslim voices who are detached from national political organizations which have a record of extremist rhetoric and hostility toward law enforcement.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 18 March 2010 06:53 |
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Government Secrecy Increases Under Obama |
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Written by JudicialWatch.org
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 03:13 |
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Government agencies keep finding excuses to keep an alarming number of public records secret as President Obama sits idly watching his promise of unprecedented transparency repeatedly mocked.
The commander-in-chief's open-government guarantee has turned out to be a big joke that has actually led to more secrecy than under the Bush Administration. Federal agencies have increasingly used "legal exemptions" to withhold information that should probably be made public, according to an analysis conducted by a national news organization.
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U.S. Cyber Command Preparations Underway, General Says |
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Written by Jordan Reimer
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 13:55 |
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By American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2010 - Preparations for the formal establishment of U.S. Cyber Command are underway, a senior military officer reported to Congress today.
The formal launch of the new organization is awaiting congressional approval of its commander, Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said in a written statement submitted to the House Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on strategic forces.
Army Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, currently the director of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Md., has been nominated to command U.S. Cyber Command, pending Congressional approval. Alexander would, if confirmed, command both the NSA and Cyber Command and be promoted to full general.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 March 2010 13:57 |
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Snitches, rats and squealers: Obama's Counterterrorism Strategy |
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Written by Jim Kouri - National Association of Chiefs of Police
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 06:02 |
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In 1995, President Bill Clinton composed and signed an executive order prohibiting CIA officers from utilizing "unsavory characters" as informants? In other words, while gathering information or undergoing covert operations, intelligence officers overseas could not develop "assets" who were themselves terrorists, gunrunners, drug traffickers, organized crime gang leaders and members, or other denizens of the international underworld.
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Combating Lawfare |
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Written by IPT NEWS
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 05:12 |
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 Federal courts are slowly becoming a new battlefield in the war on terror, with combatants setting aside traditional weapons and arming themselves instead with domestic and international laws. Responding to this phenomenon, the inaugural meeting of The Lawfare Project convened last week in New York to discuss The Use of the Law as a Weapon of War.
Major General Charles Dunlap coined the term lawfare, identifying it as:
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:25 |
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