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Leaks from both sides of the mouth
In a fresh Insights column, NSZ's Josh Meyer explains that when it comes to leaks, the Obama administration plays both sides, "acknowledging the need for highly sensitive and even classified information to get out to the public when it is expedient and beneficial to its approval ratings, and trying to prosecute those who release information that it doesn’t like." Read more.Missing Journalist James Foley now thought held by Syrian government, report says
Foley in June, 2011
U.S. Journalist James Foley, missing in Syria since Thansgiving 2012, is now thought to be being held by the Syrian government.
"With a very high degree of confidence, we now believe that Jim was most likely abducted by a pro-regime militia group and subsequently turned over to Syrian government forces,” GlobalPost CEO and President Philip Balboni said on May 3 during a speech marking World Press Freedom Day. (Full story) This is the second time in 18 months that the 2008 Medill School of Journalism graduate has been taken captive in a war zone.
“The family appeals for the release of Jim unharmed,” his relatives said on a web site focused on getting him freed. He was kidnapped in northwest Syria on Thanksgiving Day, the family said.
Watch video archive of May 3 World Press Freedom Day event in Boston: “Silenced Voices: When Conflict Journalists Go Missing.”
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Drone strikes and the principles of war
(Jun. 07, 2012)WASHINGTON—Legal, ethical and wise. That is how John Brennan, chief counterterrorism advisor to President Obama characterized drone strikes at a recent speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The speech was the White House’s first formal acknowledgement of the sustained campaign of drone strikes that journalist David Rohde called “the Obama Doctrine” in the March/April 2012 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. In the article, Rohde called on the administration to be more transparent … (Continue reading . . .)
Debating the Littoral Combat Ship
(Jun. 07, 2012)WASHINGTON—Skeptics of the effectiveness of the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship outnumbered its supporters at an event Monday at the Cato Institute, saying that structural and design issues prevent it from being an effective ship. The Littoral Combat Ship is a relatively small ship that will comprise about one-third of the navy’s surface combat fleet, and was created as a way of reacting more quickly to asymmetrical threats in the war on terrorism including counter-mine anti-submarine … (Continue reading . . .)
