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Obama Wants Internet Security Czar
President Barack Obama wants to ramp-up Internet security with the establishment of a czar to oversee privacy. The administration plans a stronger legal effort to protect Internet privacy -- including new laws and creation of a new position to oversee...
An Unhealthy Health Care Debate
I guess it was too much to ask that when the University of Washington School of Law decided to hold a roundtable debate on the Constitutionality of the Health Care Reform Act that they would actually have both sides of the argument represented, and that...
Treating Terrorism as a Crime…Nine years later!
The FBI said today that they are announcing the addition of two individuals to our Most Wanted Terrorists list, along with substantial rewards for information leading to their capture. Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso is sought for his role in the October...
Kudos to Obama for Appointing a Cybersecurity Czar
Those who know me, know that I don’t approve of much of what the Obama Administration has done so far; however I have to give the new POTUS kudos on a job well done, by creating the position of a “Cybersecurity Czar” President Obama spoke today about...
Obama Administration fixed to damage U.S. - Israeli relations
Secret U.S.-Israel nuclear accord in jeopardy. This was the head line of the Washington Times (I get the e-edition ) this morning. The article written by Eli Lake goes on to say, that "...President Obama's efforts to curb the spread of nuclear...
“The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office”
Dean Gooderham Acheson was born at Middletown, Connecticut on this day in 1893. He was educated at Harvard, then went on to Yale Law School, and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. He served as Undersecretary of the Treasury under Roosevelt...
Keystone Cops At It Again!
Is it just me, or does watching the Obama Administration remind you of an episode of the Keystone Cops? On February 26th, 2009 the DNI, Dennis Blair selected Ambassador Charles W. Freeman, Jr. to be the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC...