HERITAGE FOUNDATION Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons: Congress Must Understand the Risk Published on March 3, 2010 by Baker Spring WebMemo #2822 In 2004, the congressionally mandated Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack released an unclassified executive report on its broader study of the U.S.’s vulnerability to EMP weapons […]
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JULY 19, 2010 Avoiding Another Intelligence Failure on Iran The disastrous 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Tehran’s weapons program cost us dearly. Only an independent inquiry can assure the country that the new estimate underway will be better. By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD U.S. intelligence has already had two horrendously costly lapses this decade: the failure to
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JULY 14, 2010 Iran and the Missile Defense Imperative U.S. intelligence now sees Tehran developing intercontinental missiles by 2015. If we continue our current strategy, we will not be able to counter the threat. By R. JAMES WOOLSEY AND REBECCAH HEINRICHS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Further, if the Iranians were to detonate even a primitive
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD Our Right Not To Know BY Gabriel Schoenfeld June 9, 2010 9:50 AM We may soon have before our eyes the mother of all leaks. “The State Department and American embassies around the world,” reports the Daily Beast, “are bracing for what officials fear could be the massive, unauthorized release of secret diplomatic
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Adam Goldman LaBonte’s family had promised him they wouldn’t talk about his work. They kept that pledge as they mourned in private after he died along with six other CIA employees and a Jordanian intelligence officer in the suicide bombing at a U.S. base in Afghanistan in late December. Even now, months after his burial,
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MAY 28, 2010 Confidential Conundrum By JOHN O. MCGINNIS There is an obvious tension between a democratic public’s need for information—its right to know—and the government’s need, at times, for operational secrecy. A broad sense of what officials are doing is at the heart of any democracy, and not only in principle: Collective wisdom in
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Updated: Wed., May. 26, 2010, 1:06 AM Just another act of deadly treason By RALPH PETERS Last Updated: 1:06 AM, May 26, 2010 Posted: 11:41 PM, May 25, 2010 Yesterday, The New York Times published another front-page article based on a leaked classified document. This time, it was an order signed by Gen. David Petraeus
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Washington Times Thursday, May 6, 2010 Ex-CIA lawyer: Gitmo IDs graver than Plame leak Eli Lake and Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES Covertly taken photos of CIA interrogators that were shown by defense attorneys to al Qaeda inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison represent a more serious security breach than the 2003 outing of CIA
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MAY 12, 2010 Shahzad and the Pre-9/11 Paradigm By MICHAEL B. MUKASEY Some good news from the attempted car bombing in Times Square on May 1 is that—at the relatively small cost of disappointment to Broadway theater-goers—it teaches valuable lessons to help deal with Islamist terrorism. The bad news is that those lessons should already
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– Associated Press – May 03, 2010 U.S. Releases Details of Nuclear Weapons Inventory The Obama administration disclosed the size of its atomic stockpile going back to 1962 as part of a campaign to get other nuclear nations to be more forthcoming WASHINGTON — The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and
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