As Mark Zuckerberg faced Congress about the good and bad aspects of Facebook’s decidedly open-web presence, cybersecurity expert Gabriel Weimann revealed that there are good, as well as bad, aspects of the “dark net” in an interview with the Woodrow Wilson Center. Weimann, a public policy fellow at the Wilson Center’s Middle East and Science […]
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Six Icebreakers Key To USCG Success, Report Says
The U.S. Coast Guard needs six operational icebreakers to meet ongoing challenges at the poles, particularly with Russia and China seeking to increase their influence, according to an April 9 report from The Heritage Foundation by James Di Pane. Currently, the Coast Guard fields just two icebreakers—Polar Star (heavy) and Healy (medium). A third heavy […]
Pompeo Team Key to Latin America Success
The coordinator for American Enterprise Institute (AEI) programs on Latin America said April 6 that the appointment of Mike Pompeo as secretary of state could boost the Trump administrations impact in the region. “President Trump is finally putting a team in place that could begin to address the grave and growing security threats right here […]
Debate Rages Over National Guard Border Deployment
When President Trump announced plans to put National Guard troops on the border in the wake of the annual trek of Central American migrants heading to the United States, it once again stoked the flames of the immigration debate. On April 5, Trump told reporters that the number of troops would likely be 2,000-4,000, and […]
AP: Cell-Site Simulators Found in Washington D.C.
The Associated Press reported April 3 that the U.S. government acknowledges the existence of rogue cell devices in the nation’s capital that track cell calls and eavesdrop on individual calls and messages. “In a March 26 letter to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that last year it identified suspected unauthorized […]