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The Wall Street Journal reports:
Defense Secretary Robert Gates created a new military command dedicated to cyber security on Tuesday, reflecting the Obama administration’s plans to centralize and elevate computer security as a major national-security issue.
In a memo to senior Pentagon officials, Mr. Gates said he intends to recommend that Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, take …

The Washington Independent reports:
On Monday, nearly four months after President Obama nominated Harold Koh to become legal adviser to the State Department, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed cloture and moved his nomination to the floor.
The Independent explains:
Koh’s qualifications for the State Department job have never really been in dispute. A veteran of both the Reagan and the Clinton presidencies, a …

From Slate, with great appreciation for Gerry Trudeau’s work over the years!

The Washington Post is reporting on the new Intelligence Authorization Bill that has just cleared the House Intelligence Committee. According to the Post:
The House intelligence committee late Thursday approved measures to strengthen oversight of the National Security Agency and the overall intelligence community, including by making the jobs of NSA director and general counsel subject to Senate confirmation.
The committee also …

My good friend of nearly forty-years, John Michael Grant, brought a very disturbing item to my attention. From FOX News:
A written exam administered by the Pentagon labels “protests” as a form of “low-level terrorism” — enraging civil liberties advocates and activist groups who say it shows blatant disregard of the First Amendment.
The written exam, given as part of …

US Premanent Representative to the United Nations Susan Rice
made the following statement on Monday, June 15 at the International Peace Institute Vienna Seminar:
Thank you very much. It’s an honor and a pleasure to be here, especially with so many of you who work with the UN system every day to try to protect civilians from harm. I’m particularly grateful to …

Reuters is reporting:
European Union member states are ready to help resettle detainees freed from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the EU said on Monday.
A joint statement by Brussels and Washington said the EU backed the decision by the United States to close the detention center and set out a framework for cooperation under …

Reuters is reporting:
Yemen has arrested a man described as al Qaeda’s top financer in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, a security source told Reuters on Sunday.
Separately, a government source said nine foreigners, including seven Germans, were kidnapped in the Saada area of north Yemen.
Militant activity in Yemen, a revolt in the north and a secessionist movement in the south has unsettled …