Conspicuously absent from Senator Jeff Sessions‘ opening statement/bill of grievances with Solicitor General Elena Kagan? Any reference to the Islamic Studies Program or the Islamic Finance Project at Harvard Law as evidence that Kagan partnered with sinister foreign forces to implement Sharia at Harvard University. Maybe after he saw Frank Gaffney‘s op-ed, Sessions realized that […]
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Long Wars and Terrorism.
Scott Shane has a really good piece on a conversation we really need to be having–to what extent are America’s ongoing wars “normalizing” conflict between the West and Islam in a manner that ultimately serves al-Qaeda’s interests and draws more recruits to their side? I also thought the point of Shane’s kicker is too often […]
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Virginia Five Convicted. [draft]
The five young Americans who were captured in Pakistan attempting to join the Taliban have been convicted on terrorism related charges in a Pakistani court. Prosecutors said e-mail records and witness statements proved the men were plotting terror attacks in Pakistan and had conspired to wage war against nations allied with it, a reference to […]
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The Inevitable Global War On Shakespeare.
Mark Graber considers the implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project yesterday. The ruling upheld a definition of “material support” for terrorism that includes informing designated terror groups about how to resolve conflicts without violence because such activities could free up resources to commit further acts of terror: Consider whether […]
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More Intelligence Oversight For Congress. [draft]
Marc Ambinder reports that members of Congress who sit on the relevant committees are getting more intelligence oversight: Among them: agency directors will have to certify, under penalty of law, that they’ve disclosed to Congress everything that must be disclosed; expanded criteria for the types of covert operation planning that must be briefed to Congress; […]
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Yawn, More National Security Related Arrests. [draft]
What’s the Department of Justice’s National Security Division been up to the last few days? Well here’s an indictment against Omid Khalili, an Alabama resident who is accused of trying to sell military equipment to the Iranian government released just yesterday: According to Khalili’s factual proffer and the documents filed in court, Khalili, along with […]
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Petraeus And The Cult Of The Presidency. [draft]
Yesterday, General David Petraeus, CENTCOM commander and architect of the surge strategy in Iraq, collapsed in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Owing to the setting in which the incident occurred and the status of General Petraeus both in the media and the country at large, there was a sense of genuine panic in the […]
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Dept. Of Vaguely Frightening Soccer History Details. [draft]
Today the North Korean soccer side is scheduled to face soccer giant Brazil, a match they’re almost sure to lose. NPR took a look back at the last time a North Korean side won an upset game, in 1966 when they defeated Italy, another soccer superpower. It’s a weird twist on the old Cinderella sports […]
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Schumer’s On Gaza.
I think Matthew Yglesias is actually low-balling how appalling Senator Chuck Schumer‘s defense of “strangling Gaza” economically with a blockade is. Yglesias writes, “In contrast to his proposed remedies, Schumer’s critique of Hamas policy is sound.” I’m not sure that’s entirely accurate. This is an excerpt of what Schumer said: “The Palestinian people still don’t […]
