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- National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com
  Posted by okami from GovExec
  America's national security institutions have failed and the military has been left holding the bag in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan, conducting nation-building tasks for which it is ill-suited, according to the final report of a House Armed Services Committee panel established in 2007 to examine military roles and missions.
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- All your Internets are belong to AT&T and the NSA
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  Two seemingly coincidental bits of news crossed my desk yesterday morning. First, the Wall Street Journal contains excerpts of an interview with Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell in which he outlines a vast new initiative to police Internet traffic “for abuse.”
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- Edwards will step up Iraq troop withdrawal
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  This is quite an evolution from Edwards’ previously more militant stance on keeping troops in Iraq, and his overall liberal hawk foreign policy stances. His bad call on authorizing force for Iraq and calls for aggression against Iran were the chief things preventing me from wholeheartedly endorsing him. Indeed, the odd juxtaposition of his fighting populist/progressive domestic policies and his weird “warlike” foreign policy stance creates a big disconnect...
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- Vultures (presidential and otherwise) descend on Pakistan’s chaos
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  Never one to pass up an opportunity to make himself look good using others’ deaths as the backdrop, Rudy Giuliani was quick to post a statement that the Terrorists ™ must be stopped from continuing their War On Us (caps are his, not mine). And he wasn’t the last...
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- White House, NSA staffers bought fake diplomas from Spokane Web site
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  A White House staff member and National Security Agency employees were among 6,000 people who bought bogus online college degrees from a diploma mill, a federal judge has been told.
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- Ardent Sentry: Asymmetric 'Kitchen Sink' Threat Exercise Planned for 2006
  Posted by conelrad from Washington Post Blogs
  William Arkin's Codename of the Week: Simultaneous events including a pneumonic plague, multiple dirty bombs, a Class IV hurricane and a transnational threat by a universal adversary... stayed tuned for this NORTHCOM, NORAD and DHS combined exercise as part of TOPOFF IV scheduled for May 2006.
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- Powering the Future
  Posted by Jon from National Geographic
  Great piece on our energy future
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