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Comey will be the sole witness Wednesday as the House Judiciary Committee reviews the FBI's performance in what is likely to be the agency's final oversight hearing this year. Comey told a Senate panel Tuesday that the FBI is transparent about mistakes ...
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Pentagon chief pledges $108 billion to fix nuclear forceby ROBERT BURNS
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:35 AM

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MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AP) - Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday the Pentagon is committed to correcting decades of short-changing its nuclear force, including forging ahead with building a new generation of weapons that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming decades.

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Voters unsure how either Trump or Clinton can address terrorby Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:35 AM

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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. | A spate of lone-wolf attacks has thrust terrorism to the fore of another presidential election, but the candidates are deeply conflicted over the nature of the threat and voters are unsure whether any politician has the answers after 15 years of active war.

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Ashton Carter: Nuclear force changes are 'bearing fruit'by Robert Burns
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:35 AM

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MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AP) — Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, who inherited a tangled web of problems in the Air Force nuclear missile corps when he took over the Pentagon in 2015, says he sees reason to believe that a push for improvement is beginning to show results.

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Justice Dept. top national security official to leave post
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:34 AM

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department's top national security official is leaving his position next month, the department announced Tuesday.

John Carlin, who has led the department's national security division since 2014, will be leaving government on Oct. 15.

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U.S. pressed to prevent Aleppo bloodbath as its residents 'sit in their homes, waiting to die' by Carlo Muñoz
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:33 AM

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The U.S. must consider a no-fly zone and other aggressive actions to prevent an imminent bloodbath in the besieged rebel-held city of Aleppo by Russian and Syrian government forces, the head of civil defense forces known as the "White Helmets" warned on a Washington visit Tuesday.

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Senate poised to override Obama's veto of 9/11 legislationby RICHARD LARDNER
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:33 AM

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate is poised to reject President Barack Obama's veto of a bill that would allow the families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia even as lawmakers express fears the legislation could backfire on the United States.

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Malaysian jet downed by missile launcher from Russia, Dutch probe says by John-Thor Dahlburg
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:32 AM

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NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch-led criminal investigators said Wednesday they have solid evidence that a Malaysian jet was shot down by a Buk missile moved into eastern Ukraine from Russia.

Wilbert Paulissen, head of the Central Crime Investigation department of the Dutch National Police, said communications intercepts showed that pro-Moscow ...

FBI Director, Homeland Chief: Lone Wolf Terrorist Attacks Growing Threat in U.S. by Natalie Johnson
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:32 AM

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FBI Director James Comey warned Congress on Tuesday that homegrown terrorist attacks are an increasing threat to the United States, particularly as the Islamic State continues to lose territory in Iraq and Syria.

While the number of Americans traveling to Syria to join ISIS has diminished over the past year, Comey said law enforcement and intelligence agencies remain highly concerned that jihadists from Western nations will pour out of the Middle East and pose new threats as the so-called caliphate is “crushed,” the Associated Press reported.

“There will be a terrorist diaspora sometime in the next two to five years like we’ve never seen before,” Comey testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

The hearing came a week after the linked bombings in New York and New Jersey and the ISIS-claimed stabbing spree at a Minnesota mall.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told the panel that terrorist threats have evolved since September 11, 2001, from terrorist-directed attacks “to a world that also includes the threat of terrorist-inspired attacks” where a lone actor living in the U.S. is “self-radicalized” to carry out an assault.

Johnson said intelligence and law enforcement agencies have difficulties detecting terrorist-inspired and terrorist-enabled attacks because they can take place with little planning.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), who chairs the committee, said the latest attacks in the U.S. provide evidence that the threat of “militant Islamic terrorist attacks to the United States remains significant.” He said extremist Islamic terrorists have killed 63 people in the U.S. since last year.

Though Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested a temporary ban against Muslims from traveling to the U.S. to mitigate terrorism concerns, Jeh Johnson said the U.S. needs to instead focus on “building bridges to diverse communities.”

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State Dept Has Trouble Explaining American Inaction in Aleppoby Jack Heretik
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:31 AM

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State Department spokesman Mark Toner had trouble explaining Tuesday why the United States has not done more to address the humanitarian situation in Aleppo, Syria as the situation has deteriorated in recent days.

Since the ceasefire in Syria fell apart last week, the siege of Aleppo has escalated, especially with the news that Syrian regime forces are now attacking rebel-held parts of the city with ground forces. Russian and Syrian aircraft have been bombing the city for some time now, killing many innocent civilians and aid workers.

Reuters reporter Arshad Mohammed asked Toner why the United States government has not acted in Aleppo.

“What makes Aleppo different from the Yazidis who were on Mount Sinjar, from the Libyans who [Muammar] Gaddafi said he was going to hunt down like rats? What’s the difference here?” Mohammed said. “You have 250,000 people in a defined area that are now surrounded, that are subject not just to air but now to ground assault. Why did the United States deem it to be in the U.S. national interest to intervene in those other circumstances but not in this circumstance?”

Toner said that he does not like comparing different situations the U.S. has faced due to different circumstances.

“In the case of Aleppo, in the case of Syria, it’s hard to find one that’s more complex, and we’ve talked about that,” Toner said. “But also, the fact that really until the past few weeks we felt like we were on a firm path toward a possible diplomatic resolution to this. We still believe that’s possible.”

Mohammed then asked Toner if it was possible that the Obama administration may want to end diplomacy after it has mostly failed for five years.

“As part of, frankly, a healthy debate within any administration, those conversations are always ongoing, how you approach or how you resolve an issue like this or a problem like this, a conflict like this. Ultimately, you know, that’s a decision for the president to make,” Toner said.

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Pentagon Warns Congress Is Allowing Disclosure of Classified Intel, Arrest of U.S. Troops by Adam Kredo
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:31 AM

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Defense Secretary Ash Carter is warning Congress that its efforts to pass new contested legislation would lead to the disclosure of highly sensitive classified intelligence and open up U.S. troops to prosecution by foreign entities, according to a communication sent by the Pentagon leader to a top lawmaker and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

As Congress moves to override a presidential veto of new legislation creating a pathway for U.S. citizens to sue the Saudi Arabian government for its alleged role in the 9/11 terror attacks, top U.S. defense officials are preparing for an onslaught of lawsuits indicting the United States for war crimes.

The Justice Against Terrorism Act, or JASTA, aims to provide U.S. victims of terrorism with a pathway to sue foreign governments. However, the bill is expected to lead to more litigation targeting the United States, its intelligence operations, and troops stationed abroad.

There also could be significant damage to U.S. counterterrorism efforts across the globe.

“I agree with the intent of this bill, which is to honor the families of 9/11 victims. While we are sympathetic to the intent of JASTA, its potential second- and third-order consequences could be devastating to the Department and its Service members and could undermine our important counterterrorism efforts abroad,” Carter wrote on Monday to Rep. William “Mac” Thornberry (R., Texas), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, according to a copy of the communication obtained by the Free Beacon.

A coalition of Iraqis has already vowed to sue the U.S. government for war crimes should the legislation pass, the Free Beacon reported on Monday.

Carter disclosed in the letter that the U.S. military could be forced to provide foreigners with highly classified intelligence as part of potential lawsuits resulting from JASTA. It could also enable foreign individuals to assume control of critical U.S. assets abroad.

“It is likely that litigants will seek sensitive government information in order to establish their case against either a foreign state under JASTA in U.S. courts or against the United States in a foreign court,” Carter wrote. “This could include classified intelligence data and analysis, as well as sensitive operational information.”

JASTA makes no effort to shield such information, according to Carter.

“There would be a risk of sizeable monetary damage awards in such cases, which could lead to efforts to attach U.S. Government property to satisfy those awards,” Carter added. “We could have numerous assets vulnerable to such attempts.”

The bill would strip diplomatic immunity for U.S. officials and forces abroad, paving the way for foreign governments and individuals to haul American leaders and military officials into court.

“U.S. Service members stationed here and overseas, and especially those supporting our counterterrorism efforts, would be vulnerable to private individuals’ accusations that their activities contributed to acts alleged to violate a foreign state’s law,” Carter writes. “Such lawsuits could relate to actions taken by members of armed groups that received U.S. assistance or training, or misuse of U.S. military equipment by foreign forces.”

A congressional override of Obama’s veto of the bill could put the United States in an unprecedented situation.

“Disclosure could put the United States in the difficult position of choosing between disclosing classified or otherwise sensitive information or suffering adverse rulings and potentially large damage awards for our refusal to do so,” according to Carter.

Congressional insiders who object to the 9/11 bill for what they describe as its flawed approach to providing U.S. terror victims legal recourse told the Free Beacon on Monday that the United States would face an onslaught of lawsuits if Congress overrode Obama’s veto.

“When you hear critics talk about this bill setting a dangerous precedent, this is exactly what we mean. It’s backfiring before Congress even has a chance to override the veto,” said one senior congressional aide tracking the matter. “The U.S. government is unnecessarily exposing itself to countless frivolous lawsuits and jeopardizing relations with a key strategic ally. Although well-intentioned, they need to take this bill back to the drawing board.”

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House Dems Urge Obama to Reopen Negotiations With Russia Over Syria Despite Failed Ceasefire by Natalie Johnson
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:30 AM

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House Democrats called on the Obama administration Tuesday to continue diplomatic negotiations aimed at ending the Syrian civil war despite the recently failed effort with Russia.

Nearly 60 Democratic members signed a letter to President Obama urging him to reopen communication channels with Moscow to implement another ceasefire deal in the war-torn region as Pentagon officials and others push for escalated military intervention, Politico reported.

“There is simply no realistic alternative to a diplomatic and political resolution of the Syrian civil war that takes into account the interests of Syria’s diverse communities as well as the interests of all nations in a peaceful, stable Middle East,” the lawmakers wrote.

The lead signatories of the letter were Democratic Reps. John Conyers (Mich.), Seth Moulton (Mass.), and Tim Walz (Minn.), who all served in the military.

The plea came a day after Russian and Syrian military forces continued their deadly bombing campaign in the rebel-held city of Aleppo. Senior Pentagon officials, including Defense Secretary Ash Carter, have opposed negotiating with Russia, arguing the Kremlin cannot be trusted to honor any truce with the U.S.

More than 50 U.S. diplomats called on Obama in June to authorize military strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to weaken the regime and protect civilians, but he has shown no signs of changing course before his presidency comes to an end in January.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the U.S. would continue pursuing negotiations with Russia despite the failure earlier this month of a week-long ceasefire.

Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, told reporters Monday the administration was still focused on a “political solution.”

Kerry’s reliance on diplomatic resolutions without actions to back them up has drawn ire from Republicans. Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and Rep. Ed Royce (R. Calif.), who chair the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committees, expressed doubts that the administration would be able to clinch a lasting truce with the Russians or the Syrians.

Corker said last week the failure of the ceasefire “was always to be the outcome of negotiations since Russia has known all along that there was nothing to back up empty words from the United States.”

Royce and other GOP lawmakers have urged Obama to impose sanctions on Russia for aiding Assad.

“There is no hope for diplomacy as long as Assad sees a military path to victory,” Royce toldPolitico on Tuesday. “Imposing stiff sanctions on Assad’s war machine and its enablers will allow us to push for peace from a position of strength.”

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Homeland Security Chair: Anti-ISIS Coalition Thinks America Isn’t Leading Enough by Morgan Chalfant
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:30 AM

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Members of the coalition fighting the Islamic State suggested to a leading U.S. lawmaker that they don’t believe the United States has demonstrated enough leadership in combating the terror group.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), who was a U.S. representative at the 71st U.N. General Assembly in New York last week, told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview on Tuesday afternoon that members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS feel that “America hasn’t led enough” in the effort to expel ISIS from its stronghold in Iraq and Syria.

“I was in New York and I was talking to the coalition partners and I think it’s fair to characterize their feelings as America hasn’t led enough in order to actually accomplish that goal,” said Johnson, who chairs the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

“And if we did lead enough, we could have wiped out ISIS a long time ago. We just haven’t had the will and the leadership and the commitment to actually accomplish that goal,” he said.

Johnson’s remarks come as the U.S. military prepares to help local Iraqi forces mount an offensive to retake Mosul, the terror group’s de facto capital in Iraq. Forces backed by the United States are also looking to retake Raqqa in Syria, though the situation in that country has been complicated by a failed ceasefire and assaults against rebel groups by Syrian and Russian government forces.

President Obama announced the formation of the global coalition to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS in Iraq and Syria two years ago. Since then, more than 60 nations and partner organizations have signed on to defeat the terror group that has ransacked the Middle East and carried out attacks in Paris, Brussels, and the United States.

“It took us four years to defeat Nazi Germany and imperial Japan,” Johnson said Tuesday. “Are you telling me that America can’t lead an effort to actually accomplish the destruction of a caliphate that is basically run by tens of thousands of ISIS operatives?”

“If we were to lead, we probably could destroy ISIS in a matter of months,” Johnson continued. “And we haven’t done it, we haven’t been serious about it. And I see no strategy on the part of this administration to actually do it.”

The Free Beacon spoke to Johnson following a Homeland Security Committee hearing on threats facing the homeland, during which the senator expressed frustration that the United States was “playing defense” against terror threats to the homeland rather than fighting ISIS abroad.

ISIS lost 14 percent of its territory last year and another 12 percent during the first six months of 2016, according to an analysis published by IHS Jane’s 360 in July.

Nicholas Rasmussen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, testified that ISIS’s capacity to launch attacks has not been “significantly diminished” by its territorial losses.

“It is our judgement that ISIL’s capacity and ability today to carry out attacks in Syria and Iraq and abroad has not thus far been significantly diminished,” Rasmussen told lawmakers, using another acronym for the terrorist group. “The tempo of ISIL-linked terrorist attacks and terrorist activity in Europe and other places around the globe is a reminder of that global reach.”

“This external operation’s capability has been building and entrenching over the past two years and we don’t think that battlefield or territorial losses alone will be sufficient to completely degrade the group’s terrorism capabilities,” Rasmussen continued.

During testimony, FBI Director James Comey highlighted the challenge of thwarting the “terrorist diaspora” that will result from the destruction of ISIS’s so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

“The so-called caliphate will be crushed. The challenge will be, through the fingers of that crush are going to come hundreds of very, very dangerous people,” Comey said. “They will not all die on the battlefield in Syria and Iraq. There will be a terrorist diaspora sometime in the next two-to-five years like we’ve never seen before. We must prepare ourselves and our allies especially in western Europe to confront that threat.”

“They will try to come to western Europe and try to come here to kill innocent people,” Comey said.

The hearing came after the arrest of Ahmad Rahami, the suspect in the New York and New Jersey bombings that wounded dozens of people earlier in September. The FBI’s handling of Rahami’s case has come under scrutiny because it was warned by Rahami’s father two years ago that his son might be a terrorist. The FBI looked into the report but found no reason to take action.

Comey said Tuesday that the bureau is reviewing its prior inquiry into Rahami, as well as its investigation of Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in June before being shot dead by police.

The FBI director insisted that the bureau is committed to “finding those pieces of hay that might become a needle and figuring out how to disrupt them before they do harm,” which he said has become difficult to do given terrorists’ use of encrypted communications.

Johnson expressed confidence that Comey and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson would perform a “post-mortem” of the cases, underlining the need for the agencies to look at possibly changing their internal procedures.

Johnson also said that the government should consider stricter restrictions on travel to areas like Pakistan and Afghanistan for Americans at risk of radicalization, while making sure to respect civil liberties. Rahami traveled multiple times to Afghanistan and Pakistan, while Mateen traveled to Saudi Arabia.

“I think the FBI has got to monitor international travel, particularly to any nation where you’ve got state-sponsorship of terrorism, that are these hot spots of Islamic terror,” Johnson said.

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Obama Nominates Ambassador to Cuba, Angering Criticsby Jack Heretik
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:29 AM

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President Obama nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis on Tuesday to be the first United States ambassador to Cuba in over five decades.

DeLaurentis is a career diplomat who would be the first American ambassador to the communist island in 55 years, Yahoo News reported. He is no stranger to working with the Cuban government, serving as the Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Havana since August 2014 to help normalize relations between the two countries. DeLaurentis also worked with Havana in two former jobs he held at the State Department.

Confirming DeLaurentis will likely prove to be difficult. A simple majority of the Senate must confirm a president’s nominee, but a single lawmaker can impose an anonymous hold to delay the process. The White House faces an uphill battle as many Senate Republicans who are against normalizingrelations with Cuba have threatened to vote down any pick Obama may put forward.

Obama became the first American president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years when he traveled there earlier this year.

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Would Donald Trump Ever Use Nuclear Arms First? He Doesn’t Seem Sure by By DAVID E. SANGER
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:28 AM

United States Defense And Military Forces

On the debate question of whether the United States should ever be the first to use such weapons, he appeared somewhere between contradictory and confused.

Trump Didn't Stress the Issues That Have Fueled His Riseby Robert W. Merry
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:28 AM

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Robert W. Merry

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Donald Trump at the First In The Nation Republican Leadership Summit, Nashua, New Hampshire. Flickr/Michael Vadon

If debates are an exercise in scoring points, Clinton got the better of her opponent.

Donald Trump is the most unlikely presidential candidate from a major party since William Jennings Bryan, who was still in his thirties and merely an obscure two-term congressman when he was nominated by the Democrats in 1896 on the basis of a single convention speech. Trump entered this year’s presidential race with no political experience or serious base of operation but with abundant political baggage. And yet, going into last night’s first presidential debate, he was in a virtual tie with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in current poll numbers.

That was a remarkable political achievement. But last night he failed to exploit the debate to accentuate the full range of issues that had fueled his political success up to that time. He did engage with Clinton on trade, economic policy and the combination topic of race and crime. But he didn’t score significant points on four of the major issues that have buoyed his campaign—the future of the American judiciary, immigration, the dangers of foreign policy adventurism, and President Obama’s sputtering and unpopular health care legislation.

Of course, the debate topics were chosen by moderator Lester Holt of NBC, but clever debaters find ways to weave into their discussion the issues that they need to emphasize.

Clinton, meanwhile, brought to the debate the smooth efficiency she has developed over decades of political combat. She adopted a tone of amused dismissiveness, never passed up an opportunity to force him onto the defensive, and employed a cutting rapier approach to his bludgeon of attack and braggadocio. Clinton evinced an air of enjoying the whole thing, as when she responded to a Trump assertion that he possessed better judgment than her and also a better temperament. “I have a winning temperament,” he declared. “I know how to win.”

Clinton rocked her shoulders as if she were about to start dancing and said with a dismissive laugh, “Ooh! Okay!” At another point, she responded to a Trump pronouncement by saying, “Donald, I know you live in your own reality.”

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Why the U.S. Military's Unmanned Surface Vehicle Could Be a Game Changer by Kris Osborn
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:28 AM

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The Pentagon is engineering high-tech, removable Unmanned Surface Vehicle “kits” that could be able to do some amazing thing.

The Pentagon is engineering high-tech, removable Unmanned Surface Vehicle “kits” designed to change amphibious warfare by delivering combat-relevant supplies, firing weapons, swarming enemies, refueling ships, searching for enemy mines and submarines and dispersing attacking forces to minimize risk from enemy fire.

A key advantage of using remotely-controlled drone ships is that, quite naturally, they can save sailors and marines from being exposed to enemy fire during an attack operation.

The project, now advancing through a Science & Technology effort led by the Pentagon’s once-secret Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO), brings the possibility of using drones to substantially improve amphibious assault tactics and procedures, Dr. William Roper, Director of the SCO, told reporters.

Different mission kits are being developed more various mission applications, allowing unmanned ships to perform a wide range of tasks currently performed by manned vessels. The kits are exchangeable so that ships can be operated as both manned and unmanned systems, he added.

“This can greatly help expeditionary logistics for a ship that is standing off from the shore. Instead of having to use an amphib manned by a lot of people - you have an unmanned boat supply boat,” Roper said.

Computer processing speeds and algorithms are progressing at an alarming rate, increasingly allowing unmanned ships to perform a greater range of functions without necessarily needing human intervention for each particular step.

Roper added he expects this “autonomy kit” effort to progress for another two years before it is formally fully transitioned to the Navy. The Navy is, however, already involved in this testing and technological maturation lead by the Pentagon effort; the Strategic Capabilities Office is a special DoD-level effort to integrate harness, leverage and integrate near-term emerging technology for faster delivery to combatant commanders at war. Much of this involves merging new platforms, weapons and technologies with existing systems in a manner that both improves capability while circumventing a lengthy and often bureaucratic formal acquisition process, Roper explained.

(This first appeared in Scout Warrior here.)

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National Security Highlights from the First Presidential Debateby Zachary Burdette
Wednesday September 28th, 2016 at 9:26 AM

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The much-anticipated debut debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took place on Monday night at Hofstra University. In a conversation moderated by NBC’s Lester Holt, the candidates began by discussing economic issues and race relations before concluding with a back-and-forth on national security. The most extensive discussions on security topics covered the candidates’ plans related to the Islamic State, domestic terrorism, cybersecurity, NATO, nuclear weapons, the nuclear deal with Iran, and their support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Trump first broached the topic of national security by criticizing Clinton for being too transparent with her plans to combat the Islamic State, claiming that she was telegraphing American strategy to the enemy. He abstained from outlining concrete measures and argued that Clinton should be held responsible for the rise of the Islamic State because of her position as Secretary of State in the Obama administration. In contrast, Clinton described her proposals to counter the Islamic State as including efforts to counter online radicalization, intensify airstrikes, target the group’s leadership, and support local forces. She countered that the George W. Bush administration set the timeline for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, which the Iraqi government then refused to extend during negotiations over a new Status of Forces Agreement.

The candidates also briefly addressed domestic terrorism. Clinton proposed an “intelligence surge” that would include more intensive cooperation with U.S. allies, as well as closer collaboration with Muslim nations and communities.

When the debate turned to cybersecurity issues, Clinton outlined the importance of deterring state-sponsored cyber operations and implied that further attacks would be met with reciprocal retaliation in the cyber domain. Trump used the topic to reference the DNC attack and criticize Democratic leadership for conspiring to undermine Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for the Democratic nomination for president. He also refused to acknowledge Russia’s involvement in the incident, citing that it could very well “be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK?”

In responding to a question on NATO, Trump reiterated his core critiques of the alliance—that American partners are not meeting their defense spending benchmarks and that the institution is obsolete because it is ill equipped for counterterrorism operations. Clinton defended the importance of NATO and of upholding Article 5, which she noted has only ever been invoked in response to 9/11.

The candidates also discussed several issues related to nuclear weapons. Clinton presented her accomplishments in cobbling together the sanctions regime against Iran, while Trump criticized the subsequent nuclear deal as disastrous. Notably, Trump seemed to come out against first use of nuclear weapons when asked if he would adopt a “no first use” posture, saying, “But I would certainly not do first strike. I think once the nuclear alternative happens, it’s over.” It remains slightly unclear how certain he is, though, given his subsequent remarks: “At the same time, we have to be prepared. I can’t take anything off the table.” Clinton reiterated her support for the Obama administration’s decision not to rule out first use and expressed her support for upholding America’s security guarantees.

Finally, the candidates sparred over Trump’s support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Trump insisted that he opposed the invasion while Clinton supported it. After moderator Lester Holt pressed him on the issue, Trump slightly backtracked by saying that any support he expressed on a 2002 taping of a Howard Stern show was done “very lightly.”

The New York Times provides a full transcript of the debate here. Below are the portions of the debate relevant to national security, organized by topic.

The Islamic State

TRUMP: And look at her website. You know what? It’s no difference than this. She’s telling us how to fight ISIS. Just go to her website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don’t think General Douglas MacArthur would like that too much.

HOLT: The next segment, we’re continuing...

CLINTON: Well, at least I have a plan to fight ISIS.

HOLT: ... achieving prosperity...

TRUMP: No, no, you’re telling the enemy everything you want to do.

CLINTON: No, we’re not. No, we’re not.

TRUMP: See, you’re telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you’ve been fighting—no wonder you’ve been fighting ISIS your entire adult life.

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CLINTON: Well, I think there are a number of issues that we should be addressing. I have put forth a plan to defeat ISIS. It does involve going after them online. I think we need to do much more with our tech companies to prevent ISIS and their operatives from being able to use the Internet to radicalize, even direct people in our country and Europe and elsewhere.

But we also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to actually take out ISIS in Raqqa, end their claim of being a Caliphate.

We’re making progress. Our military is assisting in Iraq. And we’re hoping that within the year we’ll be able to push ISIS out of Iraq and then, you know, really squeeze them in Syria.

But we have to be cognizant of the fact that they’ve had foreign fighters coming to volunteer for them, foreign money, foreign weapons, so we have to make this the top priority.

And I would also do everything possible to take out their leadership. I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out bin Laden. And I think we need to go after Baghdadi, as well, make that one of our organizing principles. Because we’ve got to defeat ISIS, and we’ve got to do everything we can to disrupt their propaganda efforts online.

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TRUMP: Well, first I have to say one thing, very important. Secretary Clinton is talking about taking out ISIS. “We will take out ISIS.” Well, President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out—what, they shouldn’t have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.
So she talks about taking them out. She’s been doing it a long time. She’s been trying to take them out for a long time. But they wouldn’t have even been formed if they left some troops behind, like 10,000 or maybe something more than that. And then you wouldn’t have had them.
Or, as I’ve been saying for a long time, and I think you’ll agree, because I said it to you once, had we taken the oil—and we should have taken the oil—ISIS would not have been able to form either, because the oil was their primary source of income. And now they have the oil all over the place, including the oil—a lot of the oil in Libya, which was another one of her disasters.

HOLT: Secretary Clinton?

CLINTON: Well, I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard. Donald supported the invasion of Iraq.

TRUMP: Wrong.

CLINTON: That is absolutely proved over and over again.

TRUMP: Wrong. Wrong.

CLINTON: He actually advocated for the actions we took in Libya and urged that Gadhafi be taken out, after actually doing some business with him one time. But the larger point—and he says this constantly—is George W. Bush made the agreement about when American troops would leave Iraq, not Barack Obama.

And the only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected our troops, and the Iraqi government would not give that.

Domestic Terrorism

HOLT: You mention ISIS, and we think of ISIS certainly as over there, but there are American citizens who have been inspired to commit acts of terror on American soil, the latest incident, of course, the bombings we just saw in New York and New Jersey, the knife attack at a mall in Minnesota, in the last year, deadly attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando. I’ll ask this to both of you. Tell us specifically how you would prevent homegrown attacks by American citizens, Mr. Trump?

[...]

CLINTON: But let’s talk about the question you asked, Lester. The question you asked is, what do we do here in the United States? That’s the most important part of this. How do we prevent attacks? How do we protect our people?

And I think we’ve got to have an intelligence surge, where we are looking for every scrap of information. I was so proud of law enforcement in New York, in Minnesota, in New Jersey. You know, they responded so quickly, so professionally to the attacks that occurred by Rahami. And they brought him down. And we may find out more information because he is still alive, which may prove to be an intelligence benefit.

So we’ve got to do everything we can to vacuum up intelligence from Europe, from the Middle East. That means we’ve got to work more closely with our allies, and that’s something that Donald has been very dismissive of.

We’re working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism. We’re working with our friends in the Middle East, many of which, as you know, are Muslim majority nations. Donald has consistently insulted Muslims abroad, Muslims at home, when we need to be cooperating with Muslim nations and with the American Muslim community.

They’re on the front lines. They can provide information to us that we might not get anywhere else. They need to have close working cooperation with law enforcement in these communities, not be alienated and pushed away as some of Donald’s rhetoric, unfortunately, has led to.

Cybersecurity and the DNC Hack

HOLT: Our next segment is called “Securing America.” We want to start with a 21st century war happening every day in this country. Our institutions are under cyber attack, and our secrets are being stolen. So my question is, who’s behind it? And how do we fight it?

Secretary Clinton, this answer goes to you.

CLINTON: Well, I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we’re facing at this point two different kinds of adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they can use to make money.

But increasingly, we are seeing cyber attacks coming from states, organs of states. The most recent and troubling of these has been Russia. There’s no doubt now that Russia has used cyber attacks against all kinds of organizations in our country, and I am deeply concerned about this. I know Donald’s very praiseworthy of Vladimir Putin, but Putin is playing a really...

(CROSSTALK)

CLINTON: ... tough, long game here. And one of the things he’s done is to let loose cyber attackers to hack into government files, to hack into personal files, hack into the Democratic National Committee. And we recently have learned that, you know, that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information. We need to make it very clear—whether it’s Russia, China, Iran or anybody else—the United States has much greater capacity. And we are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.

And we’re going to have to make it clear that we don’t want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We don’t want to engage in a different kind of warfare. But we will defend the citizens of this country.

And the Russians need to understand that. I think they’ve been treating it as almost a probing, how far would we go, how much would we do. And that’s why I was so—I was so shocked when Donald publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable. It’s one of the reasons why 50 national security officials who served in Republican information—in administrations...

HOLT: Your two minutes have expired.

CLINTON: ... have said that Donald is unfit to be the commander- in-chief. It’s comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.

HOLT: Mr. Trump, you have two minutes and the same question. Who’s behind it? And how do we fight it?

TRUMP: I do want to say that I was just endorsed—and more are coming next week—it will be over 200 admirals, many of them here—admirals and generals endorsed me to lead this country. That just happened, and many more are coming. And I’m very proud of it.

In addition, I was just endorsed by ICE. They’ve never endorsed anybody before on immigration. I was just endorsed by ICE. I was just recently endorsed—16,500 Border Patrol agents.

So when Secretary Clinton talks about this, I mean, I’ll take the admirals and I’ll take the generals any day over the political hacks that I see that have led our country so brilliantly over the last 10 years with their knowledge. OK? Because look at the mess that we’re in. Look at the mess that we’re in.

As far as the cyber, I agree to parts of what Secretary Clinton said. We should be better than anybody else, and perhaps we’re not. I don’t think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She’s saying Russia, Russia, Russia, but I don’t—maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, OK? You don’t know who broke in to DNC.

But what did we learn with DNC? We learned that Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of by your people, by Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Look what happened to her. But Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of. That’s what we learned.

Now, whether that was Russia, whether that was China, whether it was another country, we don’t know, because the truth is, under President Obama we’ve lost control of things that we used to have control over.

We came in with the Internet, we came up with the Internet, and I think Secretary Clinton and myself would agree very much, when you look at what ISIS is doing with the Internet, they’re beating us at our own game. ISIS.

So we have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is—it is a huge problem. I have a son. He’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it’s hardly doable.

But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. But that’s true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better, Lester, and certainly cyber is one of them.

NATO

TRUMP: The secretary said very strongly about working with—we’ve been working with them for many years, and we have the greatest mess anyone’s ever seen. You look at the Middle East, it’s a total mess. Under your direction, to a large extent.

But you look at the Middle East, you started the Iran deal, that’s another beauty where you have a country that was ready to fall, I mean, they were doing so badly. They were choking on the sanctions. And now they’re going to be actually probably a major power at some point pretty soon, the way they’re going.

But when you look at NATO, I was asked on a major show, what do you think of NATO? And you have to understand, I’m a businessperson. I did really well. But I have common sense. And I said, well, I’ll tell you. I haven’t given lots of thought to NATO. But two things.

Number one, the 28 countries of NATO, many of them aren’t paying their fair share. Number two— and that bothers me, because we should be asking—we’re defending them, and they should at least be paying us what they’re supposed to be paying by treaty and contract.

And, number two, I said, and very strongly, NATO could be obsolete, because—and I was very strong on this, and it was actually covered very accurately in the New York Times, which is unusual for theNew York Times, to be honest—but I said, they do not focus on terror. And I was very strong. And I said it numerous times.

And about four months ago, I read on the front page of the Wall Street Journal that NATO is opening up a major terror division. And I think that’s great. And I think we should get—because we pay approximately 73 percent of the cost of NATO. It’s a lot of money to protect other people. But I’m all for NATO. But I said they have to focus on terror, also.

And they’re going to do that. And that was—believe me—I’m sure I’m not going to get credit for it—but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO.

I think we have to get NATO to go into the Middle East with us, in addition to surrounding nations, and we have to knock the hell out of ISIS, and we have to do it fast, when ISIS formed in this vacuum created by Barack Obama and Secretary Clinton. And believe me, you were the ones that took out the troops. Not only that, you named the day. They couldn’t believe it. They sat back probably and said, I can’t believe it. They said...

[...]

TRUMP: When they formed, when they formed, this is something that never should have happened. It should have never happened. Now, you’re talking about taking out ISIS. But you were there, and you were secretary of state when it was a little infant. Now it’s in over 30 countries. And you’re going to stop them? I don’t think so.

[...]

CLINTON: ...Let’s talk about two important issues that were briefly mentioned by Donald, first, NATO. You know, NATO as a military alliance has something called Article 5, and basically it says this: An attack on one is an attack on all. And you know the only time it’s ever been invoked? After 9/11, when the 28 nations of NATO said that they would go to Afghanistan with us to fight terrorism, something that they still are doing by our side.

Nuclear Weapons

CLINTON: And, in fact, his [Trump’s] cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons is so deeply troubling. That is the number-one threat we face in the world. And it becomes particularly threatening if terrorists ever get their hands on any nuclear material. So a man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes, as far as I think anyone with any sense about this should be concerned.

[...]

TRUMP: So I just want to give a lot of things—and just to respond. I agree with her on one thing. The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming, like you think and your—your president thinks.

Nuclear is the single greatest threat. Just to go down the list, we defend Japan, we defend Germany, we defend South Korea, we defend Saudi Arabia, we defend countries. They do not pay us. But they should be paying us, because we are providing tremendous service and we’re losing a fortune. That’s why we’re losing—we’re losing—we lose on everything. I say, who makes these—we lose on everything. All I said, that it’s very possible that if they don’t pay a fair share, because this isn’t 40 years ago where we could do what we’re doing. We can’t defend Japan, a behemoth, selling us cars by the million...

HOLT: We need to move on.

TRUMP: Well, wait, but it’s very important. All I said was, they may have to defend themselves or they have to help us out. We’re a country that owes $20 trillion. They have to help us out.

HOLT: Our last...

TRUMP: As far as the nuclear is concerned, I agree. It is the single greatest threat that this country has.

HOLT: Which leads to my next question, as we enter our last segment here (inaudible) the subject of securing America. On nuclear weapons, President Obama reportedly considered changing the nation’s longstanding policy on first use. Do you support the current policy? Mr. Trump, you have two minutes on that.

TRUMP: Well, I have to say that, you know, for what Secretary Clinton was saying about nuclear with Russia, she’s very cavalier in the way she talks about various countries. But Russia has been expanding their—they have a much newer capability than we do. We have not been updating from the new standpoint.

I looked the other night. I was seeing B-52s, they’re old enough that your father, your grandfather could be flying them. We are not—we are not keeping up with other countries. I would like everybody to end it, just get rid of it. But I would certainly not do first strike.

I think that once the nuclear alternative happens, it’s over. At the same time, we have to be prepared. I can’t take anything off the table. Because you look at some of these countries, you look at North Korea, we’re doing nothing there. China should solve that problem for us. China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.

And by the way, another one powerful is the worst deal I think I’ve ever seen negotiated that you started is the Iran deal. Iran is one of their biggest trading partners. Iran has power over North Korea.

And when they made that horrible deal with Iran, they should have included the fact that they do something with respect to North Korea. And they should have done something with respect to Yemen and all these other places.

And when asked to Secretary Kerry, why didn’t you do that? Why didn’t you add other things into the deal? One of the great giveaways of all time, of all time, including $400 million in cash. Nobody’s ever seen that before. That turned out to be wrong. It was actually $1.7 billion in cash, obviously, I guess for the hostages. It certainly looks that way.

So you say to yourself, why didn’t they make the right deal? This is one of the worst deals ever made by any country in history. The deal with Iran will lead to nuclear problems. All they have to do is sit back 10 years, and they don’t have to do much.

HOLT: Your two minutes is expired.

TRUMP: And they’re going to end up getting nuclear. I met with Bibi Netanyahu the other day. Believe me, he’s not a happy camper.

HOLT: All right. Mrs. Clinton, Secretary Clinton, you have two minutes.

CLINTON: Well, let me—let me start by saying, words matter. Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president. And I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.

It is essential that America’s word be good. And so I know that this campaign has caused some questioning and worries on the part of many leaders across the globe. I’ve talked with a number of them. But I want to—on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

It’s also important that we look at the entire global situation. There’s no doubt that we have other problems with Iran. But personally, I’d rather deal with the other problems having put that lid on their nuclear program than still to be facing that.

And Donald never tells you what he would do. Would he have started a war? Would he have bombed Iran? If he’s going to criticize a deal that has been very successful in giving us access to Iranian facilities that we never had before, then he should tell us what his alternative would be. But it’s like his plan to defeat ISIS. He says it’s a secret plan, but the only secret is that he has no plan.

So we need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying to get hints about what we will do. Can they rely on us? Are we going to lead the world with strength and in accordance with our values? That’s what I intend to do. I intend to be a leader of our country that people can count on, both here at home and around the world, to make decisions that will further peace and prosperity, but also stand up to bullies, whether they’re abroad or at home.

We cannot let those who would try to destabilize the world to interfere with American interests and security...

[...]

TRUMP: And it’s a big problem. And as far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world...

The Iran Deal

CLINTON: ...With respect to Iran, when I became secretary of state, Iran was weeks away from having enough nuclear material to form a bomb. They had mastered the nuclear fuel cycle under the Bush administration. They had built covert facilities. They had stocked them with centrifuges that were whirling away.

And we had sanctioned them. I voted for every sanction against Iran when I was in the Senate, but it wasn’t enough. So I spent a year-and-a-half putting together a coalition that included Russia and China to impose the toughest sanctions on Iran.

And we did drive them to the negotiating table. And my successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran’s nuclear program without firing a single shot. That’s diplomacy. That’s coalition-building. That’s working with other nations.

The other day, I saw Donald saying that there were some Iranian sailors on a ship in the waters off of Iran, and they were taunting American sailors who were on a nearby ship. He said, you know, if they taunted our sailors, I’d blow them out of the water and start another war. That’s not good judgment.

TRUMP: That would not start a war.

CLINTON: That is not the right temperament to be commander-in-chief, to be taunted. And the worst part...

TRUMP: No, they were taunting us.

CLINTON: ... of what we heard Donald say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn’t care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons. He even said, well, you know, if there were nuclear war in East Asia, well, you know, that’s fine...

TRUMP: Wrong.

CLINTON: ... have a good time, folks.

TRUMP: It’s lies.

Support for the Invasion of Iraq

HOLT: Mr. Trump, a lot of these are judgment questions. You had supported the war in Iraq before the invasion. What makes your...

TRUMP: I did not support the war in Iraq.

HOLT: In 2002...

TRUMP: That is a mainstream media nonsense put out by her, because she—frankly, I think the best person in her campaign is mainstream media.

HOLT: My question is, since you supported it...

TRUMP: Just—would you like to hear...

HOLT: ... why is your—why is your judgment...

TRUMP: Wait a minute. I was against the war in Iraq. Just so you put it out.

HOLT: The record shows otherwise, but why—why was...

TRUMP: The record does not show that.

HOLT: Why was—is your judgment any...

TRUMP: The record shows that I’m right. When I did an interview with Howard Stern, very lightly, first time anyone’s asked me that, I said, very lightly, I don’t know, maybe, who knows? Essentially. I then did an interview with Neil Cavuto. We talked about the economy is more important. I then spoke to Sean Hannity, which everybody refuses to call Sean Hannity. I had numerous conversations with Sean Hannity at Fox. And Sean Hannity said—and he called me the other day—and I spoke to him about it—he said you were totally against the war, because he was for the war.

HOLT: Why is your judgment better than...

TRUMP: And when he—excuse me. And that was before the war started. Sean Hannity said very strongly to me and other people—he’s willing to say it, but nobody wants to call him. I was against the war. He said, you used to have fights with me, because Sean was in favor of the war.

And I understand that side, also, not very much, because we should have never been there. But nobody called Sean Hannity. And then they did an article in a major magazine, shortly after the war started. I think in ’04. But they did an article which had me totally against the war in Iraq.

And one of your compatriots said, you know, whether it was before or right after, Trump was definitely—because if you read this article, there’s no doubt. But if somebody—and I’ll ask the press—if somebody would call up Sean Hannity, this was before the war started. He and I used to have arguments about the war. I said, it’s a terrible and a stupid thing. It’s going to destabilize the Middle East. And that’s exactly what it’s done. It’s been a disaster.

HOLT: My reference was to what you had said in 2002, and my question was...

TRUMP: No, no. You didn’t hear what I said.

HOLT: Why is your judgment—why is your judgment any different than Mrs. Clinton’s judgment?

TRUMP: Well, I have much better judgment than she does. There’s no question about that. I also have a much better temperament than she has, you know?

(LAUGHTER)

TRUMP: I have a much better—she spent—let me tell you—she spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an advertising—you know, they get Madison Avenue into a room, they put names — oh, temperament, let’s go after—I think my strongest asset, maybe by far, is my temperament. I have a winning temperament. I know how to win. She does not have a...

[...]

TRUMP: The AFL-CIO the other day, behind the blue screen, I don’t know who you were talking to, Secretary Clinton, but you were totally out of control. I said, there’s a person with a temperament that’s got a problem.

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mikenova shared this story from fbi aclu report - Google News. 12 Reasons Weed Should Be Legal Heat Street An ACLU report from 2013 suggests that taxpayers shelled out anywhere from $1.6 to $6 billion to cover pot enforcement, prosecutio...

» Marijuana arrests fall to lowest level since 1996 - Washington Post
28/09/16 09:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi aclu report - Google News. Washington Post Marijuana arrests fall to lowest level since 1996 Washington Post A widely-cited 2013 ACLU report estimated that the total cost to taxpayers of marijuana poss...

» Clinton campaign defends immunity deal for aide Mills, others in FBI email probe - Fox News
28/09/16 09:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Fox News Clinton campaign defends immunity deal for aide Mills, others in FBI email probe Fox News The Hillary Clinton campaign on Sunday defended the Justice Department's decision to gr...

» Leaked FBI Data Reveal 7,700 Terrorist Encounters in USA in One ... - Breitbart News
28/09/16 09:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Breitbart News Leaked FBI Data Reveal 7,700 7700 Terrorist Encounters in USA in One ... Year; Border States Most Targeted Breitbart News Leaked documents with sensitive FBI data exclusiv...

» FBI Releases 2015 Crime Statistics - Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog)
28/09/16 09:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. FBI Releases 2015 Crime Statistics Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release) (blog) After two years of decline, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation increased 3.9 p...

» Former NSA Analyst: FBI May Reopen Investigation If Clinton Loses - Fox News
28/09/16 09:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Fox News Former NSA Analyst: FBI May Reopen Investigation If Clinton Loses Fox News The FBI could reopen its investigation into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified information if...

» FBI Chief Security Officer Arlette Hart Talks Fighting Insider Threats
28/09/16 09:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Comments on: FBI Chief Security Guru Talks Fighting Insider Threats. Making sure outside attackers don’t hack the Federal Bureau of Investigation is obviously one of the law enforcement agency’...

» FBI Chief Security Guru Talks Fighting Insider Threats - Fortune
28/09/16 09:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Fortune FBI Chief Security Guru Talks Fighting Insider Threats Fortune The FBI stepped up monitoring its employees around February 2001 after an FBI agent named Robert Hanssen was discov...

» FBI: New York bomber acted alone - Arutz Sheva
28/09/16 09:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. Arutz Sheva FBI : New York bomber acted alone Arutz Sheva The suspect in the bombing this month in New York's Chelsea neighborhood appears to have acted on his own, the FBI said Tuesday,...

» Trump's Incoherent Ideas About 'The Cyber' - The Atlantic
28/09/16 09:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. The Atlantic Trump's Incoherent Ideas About 'The Cyber ' The Atlantic “ Cyberspace ,” in particular, is an old-school favorite that people just can't seem to shake—in large par...

» At least 7 Afghan military students AWOL in US this month, Pentagon says - Fox News
28/09/16 09:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. Fox News At least 7 Afghan military students AWOL in US this month, Pentagon says Fox News Seven Afghan students training at U.S. military facilities disappeared just this mont...

» What a real cyber war would look like - USA TODAY
28/09/16 09:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Cyber Warfare - Google News. USA TODAY What a real cyber war would look like USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO – Both U.S. presidential candidates have vowed to take on the world when it comes to cyber warfare. But ...

» Was CIA Director Brennan's 1976 Vote for a Communist Just a ... - The New American
28/09/16 09:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from cia - Google News. ticklethewire.com Was CIA Director Brennan's 1976 Vote for a Communist Just a ... Youthful Indiscretion? The New American During a panel discussion Thursday at the Congressional Black Ca...

» ISIS kamikaze drone strikes Turkish force in N. Syria; three wounded
28/09/16 08:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. September 28, 2016, 12:22 PM (IDT) A bomb-carrying drone operated by ISIS blew up on Tuesday close to a force of Turkish troops near the Syrian village of Wuquf. Three of the soldiers ...

» The Early Edition: September 28, 2016
28/09/16 08:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Zoë Chapman Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. SYRIA Syrian government troops ...

» В Баку проходит заседание Совета руководителей органов безопасности и спецслужб СНГ
28/09/16 08:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from АМИ Trend - Все новости. Только совместными усилиями и посредством координации деятельности, обмена опытом и информацией по вопросам противодействия современным вызовам и угрозам, таким как терроризм и экс...

» Russian investigative journalist Grigory Pasko assaulted in Siberia
28/09/16 08:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia News. Authorities in Russia's southern Siberian republic of Altai should credibly investigate yesterday's assault on investigative journalist and journalism trainer Grigory Pasko and swiftly bring t...

» Dizzy with Success
28/09/16 08:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russian Defense Policy. On Topwar.ru on 15 September, Aleksandr Staver and Roman Skomorokhov ask whether President Vladimir Putin, like his predecessor Stalin, has decided to curb (at least temporarily)...

» RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Sept 28, 2016
28/09/16 08:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Robert Amsterdam. TODAY: Reporter Grigory Pasko attacked in Barnaul; journalist who attempted to expose election fraud charged with it himself; Patriarch Krill hardens abortion stance; anti-Kremlin protest...

» Russia Implicated in Shooting Down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Over Ukraine - New York Times
28/09/16 08:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia ukraine - Google News. New York Times Russia Implicated in Shooting Down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Over Ukraine New York Times UNITED NATIONS — A Dutch-led investigation has concluded that the pow...

» Запад выдвинул России ультиматум по Сирии - Finanz.ru
28/09/16 08:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from россия и запад - Google News. "Русский Еврей" Запад выдвинул России ультиматум по Сирии Finanz.ru Евросоюз, США и Великобритания выступили с совместным заявлением по Сирии, потребовав от России и сил Башар...

» Александр Скобов: Полная деградация придворных либералов до совсем уж низкопробного холуйства - Интернет-газета Гарри Каспарова
28/09/16 08:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from путинизм - Google News. Интернет-газета Гарри Каспарова Александр Скобов: Полная деградация придворных либералов до совсем уж низкопробного холуйства Интернет-газета Гарри Каспарова Еще в 2010 г. массовый ...

» Russian-born oil magnate gives big to Trump Victory - Center for Responsive Politics
28/09/16 08:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Center for Responsive Politics Russian -born oil magnate gives big to Trump Victory Center for Responsive Politics Donald Trump has an interesting relationship with Russia , to say th...

» MH17: Russia accuses Ukraine of complicity in flight's downing ahead of criminal report release - ABC Online
28/09/16 08:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. ABC Online MH17: Russia accuses Ukraine of complicity in flight's downing ahead of criminal report release ABC Online Russia has accused Ukraine of refusing to release its own radar d...

» Commander: IRGC supplies intelligence to Russia for airstrikes in Syria - Long War Journal
28/09/16 08:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Long War Journal Commander: IRGC supplies intelligence to Russia for airstrikes in Syria Long War Journal A top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander told Iranian media l...

» Philippines' Duterte wants to 'open alliances' with Russia, China - CNBC
28/09/16 08:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CNBC Philippines' Duterte wants to 'open alliances' with Russia , China CNBC He said Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was expecting him in Moscow. China claims most of the South...

» Fact check: Was Russia behind the DNC cyberattacks? - CNN
28/09/16 08:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CNN Fact check: Was Russia behind the DNC cyberattacks? CNN Fact check: Was Russia behind the DNC cyberattacks? Donald Trump rebuts Hillary Clinton's assertion that the Democratic Nat...

» Donna Brazile to Donald Trump on Russia: 'Don't tweet. Call me, boo.' - CNN International
28/09/16 08:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CNN International Donna Brazile to Donald Trump on Russia : 'Don't tweet. Call me, boo.' CNN International Brazile said she has proof that Russia is involved in the hackings this past...

» Russia Reports Sluggish Wheat Sales - AgWeb
28/09/16 08:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. AgWeb Russia Reports Sluggish Wheat Sales AgWeb Russian wheat exports haven't lived up to expectations so far this season as falling prices made some growers reluctant to sell grain t...

» DNC breach was likely Russia, not 400-pound hacker, law enforcement says - CNBC
28/09/16 08:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CNBC DNC breach was likely Russia , not 400-pound hacker, law enforcement says CNBC Last week, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Jack Clapper — in his most explicit comments to d...

» Talking to Russia Cannot Save Syria - The Atlantic
28/09/16 08:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Long War Journal Talking to Russia Cannot Save Syria The Atlantic The all-out assault on Aleppo by Russian and Assad regime aircraft, targeting as it does...

» Russia backs Aleppo assault to strong-arm US: analysts - Yahoo News
28/09/16 08:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Yahoo News Russia backs Aleppo assault to strong-arm US: analysts Yahoo News Beirut (AFP) - Russia has decided to throw its military might behind the Syrian regime's drive to recaptur...

» A Voice Cuts Through, and Adds to, the Intrigue of Russia's Cyberattacks - New York Times
28/09/16 08:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times A Voice Cuts Through, and Adds to, the Intrigue of Russia's Cyberattacks New York Times BIYSK, Russia — Living anonymously, down a winding road in the wilderness of wes...

» US Believes Russia Steered Hacked Documents to Websites - Wall Street Journal
28/09/16 08:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Wall Street Journal US Believes Russia Steered Hacked Documents to Websites Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—U.S. officials are increasingly confident that the hacker Guccifer 2.0 is pa...

» Pro-Putin party highlights Germany's complex relations with Russia 26.09.2016 - Deutsche Welle
28/09/16 08:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from putinism - Google News. Deutsche Welle Pro-Putin party highlights Germany's complex relations with Russia 26.09.2016 Deutsche Welle "[Pro- Putinism ] is indeed an interesting phenomenon that we have o...

» Pro-Putin party in Germany - New Europe
28/09/16 08:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from putinism - Google News. New Europe Pro-Putin party in Germany New Europe “[Pro- Putinism ] is indeed an interesting phenomenon that we have observed for some time,” Ulrich Herbert, political history profes...

» Seven National Security and Executive Power Questions for Donald Trump - Lawfare (blog)
28/09/16 08:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from putin's health - Google News. Seven National Security and Executive Power Questions for Donald Trump Lawfare (blog) Most Americans think of Vladimir Putin's Russia as an adversary nation. But you have ...

» Trump's crush on Russia, Putin deserves scrutiny - Minneapolis Star Tribune
28/09/16 08:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from putin's face - Google News. Minneapolis Star Tribune Trump's crush on Russia, Putin deserves scrutiny Minneapolis Star Tribune In Putin's Russia, political protesters face heavy fines and years in forc...

» How Putin Is Restoring the Fallen Soviet Empire - Newsweek
28/09/16 08:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from putin's face - Google News. Newsweek How Putin Is Restoring the Fallen Soviet Empire Newsweek ... states and highlights how Russia-bordering regions like Estonia's Ida-Viru County, where Russian speake...

» After party win, Putin renews assertiveness at home and abroad - Al-Arabiya
28/09/16 07:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from putin's face - Google News. Al-Arabiya After party win, Putin renews assertiveness at home and abroad Al-Arabiya Yet if Putin secured a political highway towards a reelection in 2018, he still has to f...

» Trump, Putin and fascism - Burlington Hawk Eye
28/09/16 07:58 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from putin's face - Google News. Washington Post Trump, Putin and fascism Burlington Hawk Eye Tonight, the imperfections will be front and center as Americans watch with trepidation as Hillary Clinton and D...

» East Libya's General Asks Russia for Weapons, Military Support Against Daesh - Sputnik International
28/09/16 07:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from shoigu - Google News. Sputnik International East Libya's General Asks Russia for Weapons, Military Support Against Daesh Sputnik International MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Haftar has addressed the request to both Ru...

» Oil Prices Plunge As Saudi-Iran Split On Output Freeze Resurfaces
28/09/16 07:50 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Oil prices plunged anew as signs of discord re-emerged between Iran and Saudi Arabia over an oil production freeze being pushed by the Saudis and Russia.

» Erdogan escalates his ‘master phase’
28/09/16 07:39 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News. Turkey’s president has used the failed coup to assert control over a febrile nation and advance his own ambitions

» Putin's Chechnya Strongman Tightens Grip as Future Stability in Question
28/09/16 07:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Chechnya’s Kremlin-appointed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, was directly elected for the first time September 18 by a whopping 98 percent of voters, with 95 percent of the republic voting, accor...

» Russia aims to turn Aleppo into Grozny
28/09/16 07:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Europe News. A broken ceasefire in Syria benefits the jihadis

» Russia aims to turn Aleppo into another Grozny - Financial Times
28/09/16 07:36 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Financial Times Russia aims to turn Aleppo into another Grozny Financial Times In the year since Russia began its air offensive in Syria, it has become clear that the depleted forces ...

» Putin's Chechnya Strongman Tightens Grip as Future Stability in Question - Voice of America
28/09/16 07:35 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin - Google News. Voice of America Putin's Chechnya Strongman Tightens Grip as Future Stability in Question Voice of America The landslide win was predictable as Kadyrov has ruled Chechnya for a decade,...

» Joint Chiefs Chairman Rejects Obama Plan to Share Syria Intel with Russia
28/09/16 07:32 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Accuracy In Media. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford has just gone where no JCS chairman has ever gone before! Unsurprisingly, it took a Marine general to stan...

» Joint Chiefs Chairman Rejects Obama Plan to Share Syria Intel with Russia - Accuracy In Media
28/09/16 07:25 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia international behavior - Google News. Accuracy In Media Joint Chiefs Chairman Rejects Obama Plan to Share Syria Intel with Russia Accuracy In Media Since the Senate passed the agreement, the number ...

» The most dangerous conspiracy theory of 2016 - Politico
28/09/16 07:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia and US Presidential Elections of 2016 - Google News. Politico The most dangerous conspiracy theory of 2016 Politico While Obama said in an NBC interview in July that “anything's possible” when it co...

» For Hillary Clinton and Vladimir Putin, the Mistrust Is Mutual
28/09/16 07:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . MOSCOW—In Monday’s U.S. presidential debate , Hillary Clinton voiced her longstanding suspicion of Vladimir Putin , saying the Russian president is “playing a really tough, long game here.&#...

» For Hillary Clinton and Vladimir Putin, the Mistrust Is Mutual - Wall Street Journal
28/09/16 07:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin - Google News. Wall Street Journal For Hillary Clinton and Vladimir Putin , the Mistrust Is Mutual Wall Street Journal MOSCOW—In Monday's U.S. presidential debate, Hillary Clinton voiced her longstan...

» Putin Offers Russians Third Social Compact, This One Based on Fear Alone, Solovey Says
28/09/16 07:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, September 28 – The Putin regime is offering the people of the Russian Federation &nb...

» Putin faces dilemma after vote win: How to prolong a system based on himself
28/09/16 07:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
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» Orlando Terror Attack ‘Triggered’ by Pentagon Drone Strike
28/09/16 06:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. The domestic terrorist behind the Orlando nightclub massacre was motivated by a Pentagon drone strike in Iraq a month before the shooting, according to police transcripts made publi...

» Weiner Father-In-Law Exposed
28/09/16 06:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. Syed Abedin, the father of top Hillary Clinton aide Huma, outlined his view of Sharia law and how the Western world has turned Muslims “hostile” during a wide-ranging video intervie...

» Putin pays tribute to Shimon Peres
28/09/16 06:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. September 28, 2016, 12:37 PM (IDT) In his telegram of condolences, Vladimir Putin highly praised Shimon Peres’ “personal contribution towards achieving a peaceful settlement in the M...

» Trump's Popularity Reflects Fear, Anger and a Desire to Be Entertained
28/09/16 05:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Responses to Donald Trump's America. Randa Fahmy, a former U.S. associate deputy secretary of energy to President George W. Bush, is president of Fahmy Hudome International , a government relations and...

» МИД опубликовал полный текст соглашений Москвы и Вашингтона по Сирии
27/09/16 13:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Каспаров.Ru. Министерство иностранных дел России опубликовало полный текст соглашений Москвы и Вашингтона по Сирии, который глава ведомства Сергей Лавров и госсекретарь США Джон Керри подписали в Женеве.

» Lavrov: U.S. military does not entirely obey commander-in-chief
27/09/16 13:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia Beyond The Headlines. Pentagon officials are pressuring Obama on Syria, say Russian analysts

» I'll save you from Trump and Clinton: Evan McMullin - USA TODAY
27/09/16 13:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin personal dictatorship - Google News. I'll save you from Trump and Clinton: Evan McMullin USA TODAY As a clandestine services officer in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, I saw exactly th...

» Unlike in Soviet Times, Russians Today Overwhelmingly Trust Government Propaganda, Urnov Says
27/09/16 13:22 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Window on Eurasia -- New Series. Paul Goble Staunton, September 27 – At the end of Soviet times, the Russian people didn’t trust official ...

» Anger at the un as russia and the west trade insults over syria - Daily Mail
27/09/16 13:21 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia and the west - Google News. Daily Mail Anger at the un as russia and the west trade insults over syria Daily Mail A deepening rift has opened up between the West and Russia amid angry exchanges at t...

» Russia and Syria: War of Words With West Is Worst in Decades - NBCNews.com
27/09/16 13:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia and the west - Google News. NBCNews.com Russia and Syria: War of Words With West Is Worst in Decades NBCNews.com Barbarism. Mayhem. A New Hell. War Crimes. The language of diplomacy has taken a turn...

» Iran, Russia Forming 'Unholy Alliance' to Destabilize the World, Spread Sharia Law, Christian Lawyer Says - Christian Post
27/09/16 13:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia and the west - Google News. Christian Post Iran, Russia Forming 'Unholy Alliance' to Destabilize the World, Spread Sharia Law, Christian Lawyer Says Christian Post Iran, Russia , Syria and terrorist...

» Putin's Relations With the West Reach Rock-Bottom - Newsweek
27/09/16 13:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia and the west - Google News. Newsweek Putin's Relations With the West Reach Rock-Bottom Newsweek On Friday, the cease-fire in Syria, which was brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his R...

» Ties that bind Tehran and Moscow - Russia Beyond the Headlines
27/09/16 13:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia and the west - Google News. Ties that bind Tehran and Moscow Russia Beyond the Headlines Today, there is a new surge of Russian -Iranian cooperation, which outrages the West . But contrary to popula...

» NATO Warns West Is 'Losing Information War' Against Russia, IS - Voice of America
27/09/16 13:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia and the west - Google News. NATO Warns West Is 'Losing Information War' Against Russia , IS Voice of America The West must step up its efforts to combat and counter the information war being waged b...

» What accounts for Russian President Vladimir Putin's popularity? - UPI.com
27/09/16 13:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin personality cult - Google News. UPI.com What accounts for Russian President Vladimir Putin's popularity? UPI.com Of course, opinion polls and Duma votes could have been rigged -- as one of the candid...

» Как Путин влияет на выборы в США - Вести.Ru
27/09/16 13:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin and Putinism - News Review. Вести.Ru Как Путин влияет на выборы в США Вести.Ru Российского президента и его окружение выборный процесс в США волнует значительно меньше, чем самих кандидатов на место ...

» Putin's vote-winning trick? He makes power personal - New Statesman
27/09/16 13:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin and Putinism - News Review. New Statesman Putin's vote-winning trick? He makes power personal New Statesman Still, with the low turnout, only 26 per cent of eligible Russians voted for Putin's party....

» Expert: Putin's Reported Plan to Restore KGB May Reflect Fear of ... - Voice of America
27/09/16 13:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin - Google News. Voice of America Expert: Putin's Reported Plan to Restore KGB May Reflect Fear of ... Overthrow Voice of America One Kremlin watcher says Russian president is more worried about his ow...

» Is Putin starting a nuclear war? Russian leader accused of using deadly weapons in Syria - Express.co.uk
27/09/16 13:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin - Google News. Express.co.uk Is Putin starting a nuclear war? Russian leader accused of using deadly weapons in Syria Express.co.uk RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin has been accused of using nuclear ...

» Schoen: Hillary Clinton Is More Qualified To Deal With Putin - FOX News Radio (blog)
27/09/16 13:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin - Google News. FOX News Radio (blog) Schoen: Hillary Clinton Is More Qualified To Deal With Putin FOX News Radio (blog) Monday on “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke with Democratic pollster Douglas S...

» Op-Ed Contributor: Germany’s Retrograde Record on Gay Rights
27/09/16 13:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. When it comes to marriage equality, one of Europe’s most progressive countries is far behind the rest.

» Reincarnation of the KGB, Putin’s Ideology Hero, and Russia’s Liberal Utopia
27/09/16 13:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Home - Institute of Modern Russia. In this week’s Western media highlights, Andrei Soldatov explains in Foreign Policy the implications of the potential revival of the Ministry of State Security in Russia,...

» Мирный атом: может ли Кириенко что-то изменить в российской политике
27/09/16 13:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Главные темы дня. Руководителя «Росатома» называют главным кандидатом на место замглавы президентской администрации. Что будет обещать такое назначение? Статья из журнала: Статья не из журнала После того ...

» Islamic State 'dead set' on using chemical arms: Pentagon spokesman
27/09/16 13:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State militants are "dead set" on using chemical arms and are likely to try them again as Iraqi forces advance on Mosul, a Pentagon spokesman said on Mon...

» Duterte says will create 'so many new alliances' for Philippines
27/09/16 13:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said his country, a longtime U.S. ally, was seeking to build "many news alliances" and could turn to Russia and China...

» France, Germany put EU defense plan to skeptical partners
27/09/16 13:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - France and Germany made the case for the European Union's most ambitious defense plan in almost two decades on Tuesday, aiming to persuade skeptical eastern memb...

» Kyrgyz President has recovered, may leave hospital this week: office
27/09/16 13:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev has recovered significantly and may be discharged from hospital by the end of the week, his office said on Tuesday.

» Syrian government launches Aleppo ground attack
27/09/16 13:09 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and their allies attacked the opposition-held sector of Aleppo on several fronts on Tuesday, the biggest ground assault yet in a massive new...

» Reaction around the world to first Trump-Clinton debate
27/09/16 13:08 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 12:18 p.m. EDT. Views from around the world on Monday's first U.S. presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump:...

» Trump on the defensive after combative debate with Clinton
27/09/16 13:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 12:18 p.m. EDT. HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) -- Donald Trump blamed the moderator, a bad microphone and anyone but himself Tuesday after he was forced onto the defense by Hillary Clinton's ...

» FBI chief: Extreme concern about fanatics from Syria, Iraq
27/09/16 13:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 12:18 p.m. EDT. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Law enforcement and intelligence agencies remain extremely concerned that violent militants will eventually flow out of Syria and Iraq and into other count...

» Senators press FBI director on response to terrorism threat
27/09/16 13:07 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 12:18 p.m. EDT. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican senators pressed FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday about whether anything more could have been done to prevent recent acts of extremist violen...

» Panama sends U.S. extradition request for ex-president Martinelli
27/09/16 13:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama has sent the U.S. Department of State an extradition request for former President Ricardo Martinelli to be returned to the Central American nation, a spo...

» The Latest: FBI will look for past mistakes in terror probes
27/09/16 13:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on senior U.S. officials' testimony to Congress on terror threats (all times local): 11:10 a.m. FBI Director James Comey says the FBI...

» Syrian troops advance in central Aleppo near old quarter
27/09/16 13:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. Syrian government forces captured a central rebel-held neighborhood in Aleppo on Tuesday after a week of blistering airstrikes, as a military official vowed that the offensive would cont...

» Senators Press FBI Director on Response to Terrorism Threat - ABC News
27/09/16 13:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from fbi - Google News. ABC News Senators Press FBI Director on Response to Terrorism Threat ABC News Republican senators pressed FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday about whether anything more could have been ...

» National Security-Related Congressional Hearings, September 27– October 3
27/09/16 12:53 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Just Security Tuesday, September 27 10:00am – Senate Intelligence Committee – Robert Cardillo, Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (here) 10:00am – Senate Committee on Homelan...

» 5 defense issues not discussed during Clinton-Trump debate
27/09/16 12:52 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Stars and Stripes. The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump covered a lot of ground Monday night. But despite a 30-minute portion entirely devoted to the subject "Securing Ame...

» Why the Donald Trump who appeared on stage Monday can't win
27/09/16 12:38 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . But Trump was at least on Clinton's level during these exchanges. That didn't last very long. The trouble began when Clinton ripped Trump for comments about getting a big loan from his father to start his bus...

» FBI chief: Extreme concern about fanatics from Syria, Iraq - U.S.
27/09/16 12:04 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Daily Newsletter Feed. WASHINGTON — Law enforcement and intelligence agencies remain extremely concerned that violent extremists will eventually flow out of Syria and Iraq and into other countries in...

» New Ad Slams Hillary Clinton’s ‘Bad Experience’
27/09/16 12:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. A conservative group dropped a new ad on Tuesday morning following up on Donald Trump’s debate attack that while Hillary Clinton may have experience in government it is all “bad exp...

» National Security Experts Write Letter Urging Pentagon to Oppose Transfer of U.S. Control of Internet
27/09/16 12:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Washington Free Beacon. National security and cyber threat experts wrote a letter to the Pentagon urging the secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to intervene so that the United S...

» Pro-Clinton ad raises prospect of nuclear war under Donald Trump - Washington Times
27/09/16 12:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from clinton trump war of ads - Google News. Washington Times Pro- Clinton ad raises prospect of nuclear war under Donald Trump Washington Times A pro-Hillary Clinton outside group is releasing a new television...

» Clinton ad hits Trump on past comments on military - USA TODAY
27/09/16 12:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from clinton trump war of ads - Google News. USA TODAY Clinton ad hits Trump on past comments on military USA TODAY ... was a prisoner of war for more than five years during the Vietnam war . Another clip shows...

» Clinton air war fails to sink Trump - The Hill
27/09/16 12:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from clinton trump war of ads - Google News. The Hill Clinton air war fails to sink Trump The Hill Many of Clinton's ads have been negative, including her most memorable spot, which shows children watching a TV...

» Clinton puts Trump on the defensive in combative debate
27/09/16 11:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) - Donald Trump aggressively tried to pin the nation's economic and national security problems on Hillary Clinton in the first presidential de...

» Jeh Johnson, Homeland Security chief: Homegrown attacks an increasing threat
27/09/16 11:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. WASHINGTON (AP) — WASHINGTON (AP) - Bombings in New York and New Jersey — - and a stabbing attack in Minnesota the same day — - underscore that homegrown attacks ...

» Homegrown terrorists to target concerts, sporting events, DHS warns
27/09/16 11:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from www.washingtontimes.com stories: Security. U.S.-based terrorists are likely focused on mass killings at festivals, concerts, sporting events and other outdoor events, says a confidential report by the Depa...

» A Good American review – troubling, fascinating glimpse of NSA surveillance
27/09/16 11:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from US national security | The Guardian. Former National Security Agency analyst William Binney is chief witness in this flawed documentary about two surveillance systems Less scoping with its all-seeing eye t...

» Hillary Clinton's plan to stop Isis: hunt down leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
27/09/16 11:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from US national security | The Guardian. Democratic nominee’s campaign for the first time elaborates on policies behind the intelligence surge at center of her national security agenda A key priority of Hillar...

» Chelsea Manning Sentenced to Solitary Over Suicide Attempt
27/09/16 11:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from United States Defense and Military Forces. A lawyer for An Army board is mandating that the former Army analyst said the punishment would like exacerbate Ms. Manning’s problems and would be appealed. in pr...

» Prospect of Philippine Thaw Slows China’s Plans in South China Sea
27/09/16 11:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from United States Defense and Military Forces. For Beijing, befriending the Philippines’ new president, Rodrigo Duterte, trumps building a military base 150 miles from the country’s coast.

» The Early Edition: September 27, 2016
27/09/16 11:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Just Security. Zoë Chapman Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. SYRIA The Assad regime and Russ...

» Hackers Trawl User Data in Hopes a Small Target Will Lead to a Big One - New York Times
27/09/16 11:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from James R. Clapper Jr. - Google News. New York Times Hackers Trawl User Data in Hopes a Small Target Will Lead to a Big One New York Times The biggest worry, Mr. Kanuck and other American intelligence offici...

» US|US Murders Surged in 2015, FBI Finds - New York Times
27/09/16 11:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from james b. comey - Google News. New York Times US|US Murders Surged in 2015, FBI Finds New York Times James B . Comey , the F.B.I. director, has suggested that the increase in violence in some urban centers ...

» Trump's Russia adviser speaks out, calls accusations 'complete garbage' - Washington Post
27/09/16 11:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from james b. comey - Google News. Washington Post Trump's Russia adviser speaks out, calls accusations 'complete garbage' Washington Post Last month, Reid wrote to FBI Director James B . Comey asking him to in...

» Clinton attacked a defensive Trump. Tie holds
27/09/16 11:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. Clinton attacked a defensive Trump. Tie holds The first direct face-off between the two US presidential candidates Tuesday, Sept. 27 ended in a slight edge for the Democrats’ Hillary Clint...

» Syrian army launches major ground offensive for Aleppo
27/09/16 11:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from DEBKAFile. September 27, 2016, 3:40 PM (IDT) The Syrian army Tuesday began a comprehensive ground operation to recover Aleppo with special commando forces advancing in armored columns from three directions...

» US terror attacks’ common denominator: Anwar al-Awlaki
27/09/16 11:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. Five years after Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by an American drone strike, he keeps inspiring acts of terror - including the Chelsea bombing.

» Lawmakers vow to override Obama’s veto of Sept. 11 bill
27/09/16 11:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. Democrats and Republicans are vowing to decisively override President Obama's veto of a bill to allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the Saudi government.

» Homeland chief: Homegrown attacks an increasing threat
27/09/16 11:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. Bombings in New York and New Jersey — and a stabbing attack in Minnesota the same day — underscore the growing threat of homegrown terrorism.

» An Analysis of 2016’s Cyber Threat Landscape
27/09/16 11:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from In Homeland Security. Cyber threats: The need to have a 360-degree awareness of cybersecurity and the potential for attacks to come from any direction is overwhelming.

» clinton trump debate - Google Search
27/09/16 10:59 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . Who Got What They Wanted From The First Clinton - Trump Debate ? NPR - 5 hours ago In sum: Clinton projected more of what she wanted than Trump , who did not ... He began at a debate volume but segued to spor...

» Rudolph Giuliani Says Donald Trump Bit His Tongue Because Chelsea Clinton Was in the Room
27/09/16 09:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Politics. Mr. Trump and his surrogates suggested that Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky was fair game in the debate.

» Insiders: Hillary won
27/09/16 09:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from POLITICO - TOP Stories. HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Score round 1 for Hillary Clinton. That’s according to The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of swing-state activists, strategists and operatives who watched the first deb...

» Pat Caddell: Breitbart/Gravis Post-Debate Flash Poll Shows Hillary Clinton Won Slightly; Trump Gains ‘Plausibility’
27/09/16 09:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Breitbart News. Democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton edged her GOP rival Donald Trump in Monday’s presidential held at Hofstra University before a television audience estimated at 100 mil...

» DEBATE BOX SCORE: By the Numbers: Butting In, and Going On, Trump Dominates
27/09/16 09:27 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Politics. The Republican nominee interrupted Hillary Clinton 29 times in Monday night’s event.

» The 2016 Race: A Debate Victory Doesn’t Ensure a Real Shift in the Race
27/09/16 09:26 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Politics. San Franciscans gathered at The Chapel in the Mission District to watch and comment on the debate. A CNN/ORC instant poll found that Hillary Clinton won by a margin of 62 percent to 27 p...

» The Run-Up: Our Middle-of-the-Night Debate Analysis Roundtable
27/09/16 09:24 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Politics. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the first presidential debate at Hofstra University on Monday night.

» Clinton, Trump Created Psychological Profiles On One Another For Debate Preparation
27/09/16 08:43 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . MSNBC’s Chris Hayes says he was joking about a Trump advisor telling him “We're almost 100% sure he's gonna just drop trow and moon Hillary. We're terrified." Still, it’s probably what peopl...

» Dominique Moïsi on The Geopolitics of Emotion - Chats, Foreign Policy
26/09/16 11:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Zócalo Public SquareZócalo Public Square. Dominique Moïsi is founder of and senior adviser to the French Institute of International Affairs. A regular writer for the Financial Times and Foreign Affair...

» Anger and fear dominate U.S. politics
26/09/16 10:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story . A common diagnosis of Jeb Bush 's failed campaign is that the candidate was "out of touch." It's hard to argue otherwise; Bush himself admitted it. "I'm not a grievance candidate," he told NBC's Chuck Todd. S...

» Albright: Trump's slogan should be 'Russia First'
26/09/16 10:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Presidential races. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton Debate preview: The blunders Clinton and Trump must correct Poll: Most think debate moderators wil...

» Police say man opens fire, injuring two, near supermarket west of Paris
26/09/16 10:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. PARIS (Reuters) - French police officials said on Monday a man had opened fire near a supermarket west of Paris and injured two people.

» Donald Trump and the Politics of Fear
26/09/16 09:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from The Atlantic. People are scared,” Donald Trump said recently, and he was not wrong. Fear is in the air, and fear is surging. Americans are more afraid today than they have been in a long time: Polls ...

» Trump reportedly used charity money to settle legal claims – as it happened - The Guardian
26/09/16 09:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from trump as danger to National Security - Google News. The Guardian Trump reportedly used charity money to settle legal claims – as it happened The Guardian “Immigration security is national security ,” he sa...

» Albright: Trump's slogan should be 'Russia First' - The Hill (blog)
26/09/16 09:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from trump as danger to National Security - Google News. The Hill (blog) Albright: Trump's slogan should be 'Russia First' The Hill (blog) Morell made waves when he endorsed a presidential candidate for the fir...

» U.S. intelligence probes ties between Russia and Trump 'foreign policy adviser' - Daily Mail
25/09/16 00:42 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from US - Russia relations - Google News. Daily Mail U.S. intelligence probes ties between Russia and Trump 'foreign policy adviser' Daily Mail 'Carter was never a person who would discuss foreign policy or U.S...

» Trump Suffers Another Bout of Russian Amnesia - KTIC
25/09/16 00:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia as mafia state - Google News. KTIC Trump Suffers Another Bout of Russian Amnesia KTIC Sater was also a twice-convicted felon who served prison time and had documented Russian mafia connections. In 2...

» Trump Suffers Another Bout of Russian Amnesia - myCentralOregon.com
25/09/16 00:41 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia as mafia state - Google News. KTIC Trump Suffers Another Bout of Russian Amnesia myCentralOregon.com Sater was also a twice-convicted felon who served prison time and had documented Russian mafia co...

» David J. Kramer: No bailouts for Putin - Kyiv Post
24/09/16 17:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia as mafia state - Google News. Kyiv Post David J. Kramer: No bailouts for Putin Kyiv Post He was U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor from 2008 to 2009. He was pres...

» Putin Appoints Crimean Commander to Head Baltic Fleet - Newsweek
24/09/16 17:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from shoigu - Google News. Newsweek Putin Appoints Crimean Commander to Head Baltic Fleet Newsweek Shoigu accused the outgoing commander of "laxity in combat training" as well as "distortion in t...

» Kremlin Reportedly Planning to Revive KGB-style Security Behemoth - Voice of America
24/09/16 17:31 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin personal dictatorship - Google News. Voice of America Kremlin Reportedly Planning to Revive KGB-style Security Behemoth Voice of America FILE - Russian servicemen (not pictured) hold flags with pikes...

» Syria Cease-Fire Collapse Highlights How Far US-Russia Relations Have Fallen - Daily Signal
24/09/16 17:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from US - Russia relations - Google News. Daily Signal Syria Cease-Fire Collapse Highlights How Far US - Russia Relations Have Fallen Daily Signal Airstrikes in the town of Hutah, in western Aleppo, have caused...

» US Intelligence Officials Investigating Trump Adviser's Links to Russia - Washington Free Beacon
24/09/16 17:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from US - Russia relations - Google News. New York Daily News US Intelligence Officials Investigating Trump Adviser's Links to Russia Washington Free Beacon U.S. intelligence officials have opened an investigat...

» Trump foreign policy advisor reportedly being probed for ties to Russia - CNBC
24/09/16 17:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia and US Presidential Elections of 2016 - Google News. CNBC Trump foreign policy advisor reportedly being probed for ties to Russia CNBC Carter Page, an adviser to U.S. Republican presidential candida...

» Lawmakers losing patience with Obama's silence on Russian hacking - Politico
24/09/16 17:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia international behavior - Google News. Politico Lawmakers losing patience with Obama's silence on Russian hacking Politico “It's not just naming, it's … using the tools we have available to make it c...

» Top US General Warns Syrian “No-Fly” Zone Means War with Russia - Center for Research on Globalization
24/09/16 17:29 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia international behavior - Google News. Center for Research on Globalization Top US General Warns Syrian “No-Fly” Zone Means War with Russia Center for Research on Globalization This view was reiterat...

» Is Russia using its relationship with Turkey to build closer ties with US in Syria? - Rudaw
24/09/16 17:28 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Turkey and Russia - Google News. Rudaw Is Russia using its relationship with Turkey to build closer ties with US in Syria? Rudaw However, under close examination one can see that Russia's evolving dialogue...

» That brief US-Russia strategic partnership 15 years ago? New interviews reveal why it derailed. - Washington Post
24/09/16 17:20 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia and the west - Google News. Washington Post That brief US- Russia strategic partnership 15 years ago? New interviews reveal why it derailed. Washington Post In a speech just days after the tragedy, ...

» Путин сменил главу московского управления МВД - РБК
24/09/16 17:19 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from путин – Новости Google. РБК Путин сменил главу московского управления МВД РБК Анатолий Якунин покинул пост начальника главного управления МВД по Москве. На эту должность указом президента назначен бывший з...

» Путин встал за штурвал "Надежды" - L!FE.ru
24/09/16 17:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin and Putinism - News Review. L!FE.ru Путин встал за штурвал "Надежды" L!FE.ru Президент России Владимир Путин сегодня принял участие в награждении победителей второго этапа Международной чер...

» Политолог Антон Хащенко: Почему Путин поставил на Володина? - Комсомольская правда
24/09/16 17:18 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin and Putinism - News Review. Комсомольская правда Политолог Антон Хащенко: Почему Путин поставил на Володина? Комсомольская правда На протяжении последних лет Володин системно и последовательно выступ...

» ‘All of the World Has Failed’ Aleppo
24/09/16 17:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia. Civilians in Aleppo try to cope after the Syrian government and Russian forces launched a new offensive on opposition-held areas on Friday.

» Hackers Trawl User Data in Hopes a Small Target Will Lead to a Big One
24/09/16 17:16 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia. By perusing personal accounts of people with even the thinnest thread of a connection to power, hackers can find their way to high-level government officials.

» 6 Sites Recognized by Britain for Significance to Gay History
24/09/16 17:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from NYT > Europe. The sites include former homes of Oscar Wilde and Benjamin Britten, and were chosen as part of an effort to commemorate Britain’s gay heritage.

» Russian Soldiers Arrive In Pakistan For First-Ever Joint Military Exercise
24/09/16 17:15 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. A Russian mechanized infantry unit has arrived in Pakistan to participate in two countries' first joint military exercise.

» A strong Putin has meant a weak Russia. Trump's America would be no different. - The Boston Globe
24/09/16 17:14 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin - Google News. The Boston Globe A strong Putin has meant a weak Russia. Trump's America would be no different. The Boston Globe Donald Trump is a self-professed admirer of Russian President Vladimir ...

» Report: U.S. Intelligence Officials Examining Trump Adviser's Russia Ties
24/09/16 17:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Yahoo News is reporting that U.S. intelligence officials are trying to establish whether a businessman identified by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as a f...

» СМИ: Клинтон в бытность госсекретарем забыла в отеле в России секретный документ - Газета.Ru
24/09/16 17:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. СМИ: Клинтон в бытность госсекретарем забыла в отеле в России секретный документ Газета.Ru Кандидат в президенты США от Демократической партии Хиллари Клинтон во время пребывания в...

» Трамп потратит около $140 млн на агитацию в СМИ - ТАСС
24/09/16 17:13 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Газета.Ru Коммерсантъ Трамп потратит около $140 млн на агитацию в СМИ ТАСС НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 24 сентября. /Корр. ТАСС Кирилл Волков/. Кандидат в президенты США от Республиканской партии До...

» Top US general warns Syrian “no-fly” zone means war with Russia - World Socialist Web Site
24/09/16 17:12 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia international behavior - Google News. Top US general warns Syrian “no-fly” zone means war with Russia World Socialist Web Site This view was reiterated Thursday by General Dunford, who declared that...

» По мере ухода Обамы с Ближнего Востока Путин берет под контроль мирный процесс - inoСМИ.Ru
24/09/16 17:11 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin and Putinism - News Review. inoСМИ.Ru По мере ухода Обамы с Ближнего Востока Путин берет под контроль мирный процесс inoСМИ.Ru По мере ухода Обамы с Ближнего Востока Путин берет под контроль мирный п...

» Клинтон забыла в Москве секретный документ - Вести.Ru
24/09/16 17:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Вести.Ru Клинтон забыла в Москве секретный документ Вести.Ru Хиллари Клинтон забыла в Москве секретный документ, об этом сообщают американские СМИ. Речь идет о тех временах, когда ...

» 'No credibility, used by German spies': WikiLeaks lambasts Focus' claim it 'works for Russia' - RT
24/09/16 17:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT 'No credibility, used by German spies': WikiLeaks lambasts Focus' claim it 'works for Russia ' RT The statement was published hours after Focus posted an article it claims was “bas...

» The impossible clash between US and Russia - Hurriyet Daily News
24/09/16 17:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from russia and the west - Google News. CNN The impossible clash between US and Russia Hurriyet Daily News Russia , on the other hand, has two main objectives. Firstly, in the post-Cold War era it has been tryi...

» Смогут ли державы договориться о правилах поведения в киберпространстве - inoСМИ.Ru
24/09/16 17:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin and Putinism - News Review. inoСМИ.Ru Смогут ли державы договориться о правилах поведения в киберпространстве inoСМИ.Ru Сначала они якобы вскрыли почтовый сервер национального комитета Демократическо...

» Смогут ли державы договориться о правилах поведения в ... - inoСМИ.Ru
24/09/16 17:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin and Putinism - News Review. inoСМИ.Ru Смогут ли державы договориться о правилах поведения в ... inoСМИ.Ru Ведущие кибердержавы, включая Россию и США, уже официально приравняли кибератаки к традиционн...

» Савченко пожаловалась американцам на недоработки Порошенко - Вести.Ru
24/09/16 17:05 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. Вести.Ru Савченко пожаловалась американцам на недоработки Порошенко Вести.Ru Депутат Верховной рады Надежда Савченко, выступая в центре Atlantic Council в США, сказала, что Петр По...

» How this week brought Russia-US relations to a new low - CNN
24/09/16 17:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Putin - Google News. CNN How this week brought Russia-US relations to a new low CNN At the heart of Russia's rocky relationship with the US stands Vladimir Putin , the man who has led the country as Presid...

» Information Vacuum: Azerbaijanis To Vote On Constitutional Amendments With Few Details
24/09/16 17:03 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Azerbaijan is holding a referendum on September 26 on constitutional amendments to expand its president's powers, but voters have little information about what they are b...

» Олланд призвал власти Кале снести стихийный лагерь мигрантов - РИА Новости
24/09/16 17:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from В мире – Новости Google. РИА Новости Олланд призвал власти Кале снести стихийный лагерь мигрантов РИА Новости МОСКВА, 24 сен — РИА Новости. Президент Франции Франсуа Олланд призвал власти французского горо...

» New Wave Of Air Strikes On Aleppo As Damascus Prepares Offensive
24/09/16 16:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Warplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo as part of a planned major offensive by the Russian-backed Syrian military.

» Pakistan Not Doing Enough Against Haqqani Network, US General Says
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mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says neighboring Pakistan has not yet placed “adequate pressure” on the Haqqani Network of militants to prevent them from plotting dea...

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» Focus: Вбросы компромата на WikiLeaks - дело рук «московской агентуры» - baltnews.lv
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mikenova shared this story from Putin and Putinism - News Review. baltnews.lv Focus: Вбросы компромата на WikiLeaks - дело рук «московской агентуры» baltnews.lv В WikiLeaks уже «давно внедрилась московская агентура», продолжает автор ста...

» US Has Repeatedly Missed its Chance to Establish Partnership With Russia - Sputnik International
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mikenova shared this story from US - Russia relations - Google News. Sputnik International US Has Repeatedly Missed its Chance to Establish Partnership With Russia Sputnik International Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian stu...

» UN: Rebel-held Parts of Aleppo Without Water After Syrian Bombing
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mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. The United Nations says that intense airstrikes against rebel-held areas of the embattled city Aleppo have left 1.75 million people without running water, days into one of the most intens...

» Clinton's aide left classified briefing paper in Russian hotel – FBI documents - RT
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mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. RT Clinton's aide left classified briefing paper in Russian hotel – FBI documents RT The FBI investigation looking into Hillary Clinton's breaches of professional conduct has made pub...

» Clinton, Trump to Meet Separately With Israel’s Netanyahu
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mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will suspend weekend preparations for Monday’s presidential debate when they meet separately Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a key ...

» Trump Suffers Another Bout of Russian Amnesia - ABC News
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mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. CNBC Trump Suffers Another Bout of Russian Amnesia ABC News Donald Trump, a man who once boasted having “the world's greatest memory,” has suddenly forgotten the role that was to be p...

» Indian PM Accuses Pakistan Of Exporting Terrorism
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mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accused Pakistan of trying to destabilize Asia by exporting terrorism while vowing to work to isolate it internationally.

» In Syrian War, Russia Has Yet to Fulfill Superpower Ambitions - New York Times
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mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. New York Times In Syrian War, Russia Has Yet to Fulfill Superpower Ambitions New York Times Russia's intervention has succeeded in freezing its interests, along with Syria's battle li...

» India's PM Says Pakistan's Support of Terror Is Destabilizing Asia
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mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Slamming Pakistan as an exporter of terrorism, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused his country's South Asian neighbor of trying to destabilize Asia and vowed to isolat...

» Assad’s troops tighten grip on Aleppo as 2 million left without water
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mikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. A siege of the Syrian city has intensified after the end of the weeklong ceasefire, with little hope of reviving US-Russian backed talks President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have tight...

» In Syrian War, Russia Has Yet to Fulfill Superpower Ambitions
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mikenova shared this story from Russia. Vladimir V. Putin has won Moscow a seat at any table where Syria’s future is debated. But his drive for renewed recognition as a superpower remains unfulfilled.

» Will Russia-Pak joint drill alter Moscow-Delhi ties? - Times of India
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mikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. Times of India Will Russia -Pak joint drill alter Moscow-Delhi ties? Times of India NEW DELHI: This week India- Russia relationship moved from being 'special' to regular. As Russian t...

» Hillary Clinton for President - The New York Times
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» 9 times Ted Cruz insulted Donald Trump before endorsing him - Politico
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» Ted Cruz endorses Donald Trump months after calling him 'pathological liar', 'utterly amoral' and 'serial philanderer' - Telegraph.co.uk
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» Cruz once called Trump 'a serial philanderer' and 'pathological liar.' Now he's backing him for president. Here's why. - Los Angeles Times
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mikenova shared this story from Trump liar - Google News. Los Angeles Times Cruz once called Trump 'a serial philanderer' and 'pathological liar .' Now he's backing him for president. Here's why. Los Angeles Times Ted Cruz announced Frid...

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» Trump's Biggest Clinton Conspiracy Theories, Debunked - Vanity Fair
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» Clinton: 'habitual liar' Trump must be curbed in presidential debate - The Guardian
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» Шанс на стратегическое партнерство с Россией был упущен при Буше, — Washington Post - Русская Весна (пресс-релиз) (Блог)
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» Clinton Plays It Frosty Between the Ferns - New York Times
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» Donald Trump Either Lied to the Republicans or Broke the Law (Exclusive) - Newsweek
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mikenova shared this story from trump - Google News. Newsweek Donald Trump Either Lied to the Republicans or Broke the Law (Exclusive) Newsweek Donald Trump committed perjury. Or he looked into the faces of the Republican faithful and kn...

» Ted Cruz caves, endorses 'pathological liar' Donald Trump - CNBC
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» Trump's Companies Made $1.6 Million Off the Secret Service - Fortune
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» Clinton calls on Charlotte police to release video of shooting - USA TODAY
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» Hillary Clinton's 'Angry' Face - New York Times
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» BREAKING: Former US Attorney Says FBI Director Comey Should Resign - Daily Caller
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» Trump campaign quarrels over money woes - Politico
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» Russia: Syrian Opposition Must Separate from Nusra - Voice of America
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mikenova shared this story from russia in syria - Google News. Voice of America Russia : Syrian Opposition Must Separate from Nusra Voice of America Lavrov complained that since the United States and Russia , as co-chairs of the Internat...

» The Mystery of Trump's Man in Moscow - POLITICO Magazine
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» FBI dumps new batch of Clinton probe documents - USA TODAY
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» Police Intelligence Operations are leaving Cascade Mall shooting scene for the night, press conference to take place ... - BreakingNews.com
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» Hillary Clinton Has the Best Solution to Homegrown Terrorism - TIME
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» FBI and DOJ Vow to Continue Using Junk Science Rejected by White House Report - The Intercept
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» Hillary Clinton Would Raise the Estate Tax to 65%
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» Trump team builds 'psychological profile' of Clinton for debate
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mikenova shared this story . The “psychological profile,” as the analysis is being called, is based on a statistical analysis of videos from 16 years' worth of Hillary Clinton’s debates. | Getty Donald Trump’s tea...

» Kentucky police arrest lurking clown
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» Mideast ‘quartet’ urges steps to resume peace talks
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» America's dilemma is this: Trump may get the answers wrong, but he is asking the right questions
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» Media: Turkish Journalist Detained Over 'Subliminal Coup Messages'
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» Кадровые назначения в системе МВД России
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mikenova shared this story from Сайт Президента России: Все материалы. Президент подписал указы о кадровых назначениях в системе Министерства внутренних дел Российской Федерации. Согласно Указу, генерал-лейтенант полиции Анатолий Якунин ...

» Байден сообщил о согласии Киева предоставить особый статус Донбассу - Взгляд
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» The Real Terrorism Problem: There is No Such Thing as Perfect Security
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» Panel Discussion - Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict
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» Ahmad Khan Rahami Was Inspired by Bin Laden, Charges Say
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» What Does the F.B.I. Do to Prevent Terrorist Attacks?
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mikenova shared this story from Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau has been criticized for failing to prevent a series of recent attacks, but there are limitations on what it can investigate without justification.

» How Ahmad Khan Rahami Passed Through a Net Meant to Thwart Terrorists
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mikenova shared this story from Federal Bureau of Investigation. The National Targeting Center flagged Mr. Rahami, who is charged in a two-state bombing spree, for extra screening when he returned from traveling abroad, but there were no...

» Russian planes dropped bombs that destroyed UN aid convoy, US officials say
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» Unmasked!
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