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BORDER FENCE, MISMANAGED AND OVER BUDGET

WASHINGTON TIMES GAO: Border fence lagging, over budget Home Security mismanaged project, report says By Jerry Seper– The Washington Times October 24, 2010 The Department of Homeland Security has “largely defined but has not adequately implemented” controls over a “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border promised for completion in 2009 and, as a result, the

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BEWARE THE 21ST CENTURY SUPERWEAPONS

WASHINGTON TIMES Stopping the Next Stuxnet by Austin Bay October 20, 2010Can a worm bust a hydroelectric dam, on command? The cyber-warrior scenario goes something like this: If the worm is a computer worm (or other digital malware) infecting a dam’s computer system, it might be possible to use the malicious code to take control

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SECRET AGENTS AND DOUBLE AGENTS, WINNING THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM

ASSOCIATED PRESS Spy agencies infiltrate al-Qaida November 5, 2010 by Paisley Dodds LONDON   Months after he was released from Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahman was back in the company of terrorist leaders along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But he was a double agent, providing Taliban and al-Qaida secrets to Pakistani intelligence, which then shared the tips

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AN INTERVIEW WITH AN UNKNOWN WHITE HOUSE INSIDER

White House Insider: “They were in shock at the president’s behavior.” published by Ulsterman on October 25, 2010 in World Politics Our latest interview with the White House Insider reveals a Democratic Party civil war, with growing opposition to the Obama White House. Author’s Note: This interview took place for nearly two hours over the weekend at

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AIR FORCE/MILITARY CUT BACKS QUESTION OUR POWER PROJECTION

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Air Force We Won’t Have … Alas Is the era of power projection over? Reuben F. Johnson October 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 Linköping, Sweden A three-day airpower conference at the Swedish Air Force base at Malmen this summer covered all the usual wonkish territory: defense budgeting

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BOOK REVIEW – THE GRAND JIHAD

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Why We Fight The Islamist dimension to the war on terror. October 11, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 04 The Grand Jihad How Islam and the Left Sabotage America by Andrew McCarthy Encounter, 464 pp., $27.95 The controversy over whether a 13-story building, called Park51, should be erected within 600

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WYOMING URANIUM MINE SALE TO RUSSIA CAUSES ALARM

4 GOP leaders warn of uranium mine sale Russian agency would take over **FILE** Rep. Spencer Bachus (Bloomberg) By Eli Lake– The Washington Times Updated: 9:50 p.m. on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 leading House Republicans, citing national security concerns, are urging Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to block the sale of a Wyoming-based uranium mine

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HOW THE WORLD WOULD OF CHANGED IF NIXON HAD BEAT JFK

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) JFK-a-Palooza, faux correction & more From The Scrapbook. October 11, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 04 JFK-a-Palooza Herewith a friendly warning from The Scrapbook: We’re just a few weeks away from the golden anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election as president, and already the commemorative essays and video tributes are

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WHY ISRAEL NEEDS THE BOMB

OCTOBER 18, 2010 Why Israel Needs the Bomb It’s the only country whose right to exist is routinely questioned, and its conventional military superiority in the region is being challenged. By MARK HELPRIN Sixty-five years after Germany’s campaign to exterminate the Jews, of the many countries in the world Israel is the only one repeatedly

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IRAN’S NUCLEAR PLANTS INFECTED BY STUXNET, A COMPUTER WORM

THE WEEKLY STANDARD How Stuxnet is Scaring the Tech World Half to Death BY Jonathan V. Last September 30, 2010 2:30 PM The computer worm Stuxnet broke out of the tech underworld and into the mass media this week. It’s an amazing story: Stuxnet has infected roughly 45,000 computers. Sixty percent of these machines happen

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