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President Obama’s Skipped Intelligence Briefings
by Dr. Paul Kengor
by Dr. Paul Kengor on Oct 06, 2014 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues 
I’m not asking for a perfect president.
Tag: "national security"
President Obama and the ‘Intelligence Brief’ Scandal
by Dr. Paul Kengor
The last few weeks have produced many intriguing political moments, but none as shocking as the revelation that President Obama has been absent from the vast majority of his daily intelligence briefings. According to a study by the Government Accountability Institute, Obama failed to attend a single Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) in the week leading up […]
Befogging the Enemy: U.S. Officials as Human Pretzels
by David J. Rusin
The most vexing video of 2011 may be this clip of Congressman Dan Lungren questioning Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Stockton on December 7. Though Stockton’s evasiveness is in line with the government’s history of not calling Islamism the enemy — recently exhibited by scrubbing FBI training materials and labeling the Fort Hood attack as […]
The Need to Restructure the DoD: Part II
by Dr. Earl Tilford
Editor’s note: This article is Part II in a series. Click here to read Part I. The U.S. Department of Defense must restructure to accommodate deep budget cuts and, more importantly, be ready for the challenges of 21st-century warfare. Those challenges will include unconventional operations and wars fought in vastly expanded battle spaces. Reforms are […]
Huawei? No way
by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
Last summer, a Chinese telecommunications giant founded by a former People’s Liberation Army (PLA) engineer was rebuffed in its effort to sell vast quantities of equipment to Sprint Nextel – an American company that provides communication services to the U.S. Defense Department and other government agencies. An interagency group known as the Committee on Foreign […]
The Muslim Brotherhood: The Enemy in Its Own Words
by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
As Egypt lurches towards the end of Hosni Mubarak’s regime, one way or another – by “an orderly transition to democratic rule” (as Hillary Clinton delicately puts it), through violent overthrow or simply through the demise of the ailing 82-year-old president – much is unclear. One thing that should not be is that the Muslim […]
