2012 Archive - FAS in the News

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2012:

Dec 28: International Business Times, "Iran's Feared SAVAK: Norman Schwarzkopf's Father Had Great Impact on Middle East Affairs"
Dec 26: Business Insider, "The Intelligence Community is Glad it Can Keep 'Leaking to the Press'"
Dec 21: Global Security Newswire, "Auditors Blast DOE for "Fragmented" Cyber Attack Preparations"
Dec 20: Global Security Newswire, " Fewer Russian Tactical Nukes Are Battle-Ready Than Widely Thought: Expert"
Dec 20: Mother Jones, "Are US Nuke Secrets Vulnerable to Cyber Attack?"
Dec 18: The Baltimore Sun, "Mikulski Poised to Become Senate Committee Chair"
Dec 18: Global Security Newswire, "Russia, U.S. Slow Rate of Nuclear Drawdowns, Report Says"
Dec 17: Washington Post, "How Many Nukes Does it Take to Be Safe?"
Dec 17: Inter Press Service (IPS), "Weapons: Rate of U.S., Russian Nuclear Disarmament 'Slowing'"
Dec 17: McClatchy Newspapers,"Bin Laden Film Leak was Referred to Justice; Leaker Top Obama Official"
Dec 14: The Daily Star (Lebanon), "Does Hezbollah Have Chemical Weapons?"
Dec 14: Fox News, "What Americans Need to Understand About the North Korean Threat"
Dec 13: Al Jazeera, "Instagram Arms Control: WMD Prevention Versus Internet Freedom"
Dec 12: Associated Press, "A Look at North Korea's Missile Arsenal"
Dec 12: CNET.com, "ITU 'Failed,' Says Former Policy Chief"
Dec 11: Los Angeles Times, "Syrian Rebels Gaining Ground Against Assad's Air Power"
Dec 11: Federal Computer Week, "Calls to Overhaul Classification System Grow Louder"
Dec 9: UPI, "Spying on the American Public"
Dec 9: Federal Times, "White House Advisers Push Classification Overhaul"
Dec 7: Wired, "Iraqi Insurgents Once Mounted Rockets on Their Heads"
Dec 7: Asahi Shimbun, "North Korea Risks Iran-like Sanctions If It Launches Rocket"
Dec 7: Government Executive, "Agencies Keep Too Many Documents Classified, President Told"
Dec 6: Foreign Policy Blogs, "The Shoddy Science of AP's Iran Diagram"
Dec 6: Foreign Policy, "Why Assad Won't Use His Chemical Weapons"
Dec 6: Christian Science Monitor, "Syria Chemical Weapons Scare: Is Assad Threatening to Use Them or Lose Them?"
Dec 6: Reuters TV, "U.S. Warns Syria Not to Use Chemical Weapons"
Dec 5: BBC News, "Fears Grow for Fate of Syria's Chemical Weapons"
Dec 5: NBC - Nightly News With Brian Williams, "Syrian Military Loads Chemical Weapons"
Dec 4: UPI, "Syria: Looted SAMs Give Rebels a New Edge"
Dec 4: BBC World News Service, "World Briefing (Syria and Chemical Weapons)"
Dec 3: Washington Post, The Open and Shut Administration"
Dec 3: McClatchy Newspapers, "Obama Warns Syria About Using Chemical Weapons, Threatens 'Consequences'"
Dec 3: Salon, "America's Gun Industry is Booming"
Dec 3: Global Post, "In America, Guns Are a Boom, Regulation a Bust"mc
Dec 2: Final Call, "U.S. Escalation Against Iran Would Carry High Cost for Globa Economy"
Nov 30: Associated Press, "Manhattan Project 'Voices' Retelling Story of Bomb"
Nov 30: Greenville News, "Enthusiasm for Greenville Leads Environmental Engineer Encourages Others in Field to Come"
Nov 29: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "Iran Delay of Reactor to 2014 Gives Talks Time"
Nov 28: Washington Post, "Syrian Rebels' Arsenal Includes Up to 40 Antiaircraft Missile Systems"
Nov 28: The Guardian, "Arms and the MANPADS: Syrian Rebels Get Anti-Aircraft Missiles"
Nov 28: UPI, "Syrian Rebels Post Downed Chopper Video"
Nov 28: CATO at Liberty Blog, "Adventures in FOIA-land"
Nov 27: New York Times, "Downing of Copter May Show a New Syrian Rebel Capability"
Nov 27: New York Times - At War, "Videos From Syria Appear to Show First Confirmed Hit of Aircraft by Surface-to-Air Missile"
Nov 27: Slate (French), "Vers la fin de la suprématie aérienne de Bachar el-Assad?"
Nov 26: Albuquerque Journal, "Is Modernization Overshadowing the Rest of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy?" (subscription required)
Nov 26: Global Security Newswire, "Dirty Bomb Cleanup Need Not Follow U.S. Cancer Rules"
Nov 21: Politifact, "Enact Measures to Prevent Nuclear Fuel From Becoming Nuclear Bombs"
Nov 21: Huffington Post, "Researchers Say U.S. Invasion of Iran Would Cost World Economy $1.7 Trillion"
Nov 21: National Iranian American Council, "Study Predicts Stunning Costs for Diplomatic Failure With Iran"
Nov 19: Think Progress, "U.S. Invasion of Iran Could Cost Global Economy $1.7 Trillion"
Nov 19: AOL Defense, "Iran Wobbles Between Talks and Bombs"
Nov 19: Foreign Policy, "Small Arms, Big Problems"
Nov 18: Bloomberg News, "Iran Nuclear Conundrum Can Be Solved By Law"
Nov 18: Press TV, "U.S. Strike on Iran to Cost World USD1.7 Trillion in First 3 Months"
Nov 16: Xinhua, "U.S. Military Action Against Iran Would Incur High Global Economic Costs: Study"
Nov 16: CNN - Security Clearance Blog, "Putting a Price on War With Iran"
Nov 16: Inter Press Service (IPS), "U.S. Escalation Against Iran Would Carry High Cost for Global Economy"
Nov 15: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Should Seek Nuke Talks With China, Congressional Report Says"
Nov 15: The Daily Caller, "Obama Signed Secret Cyber Directive in October"
Nov 15: CATO Journal, "The Bottom Line on Sequestration"
Nov 14: New York Times - At War Blog, "Possible Score for Syrian Rebels: Pictures Show Advanced Missile Systems"
Nov 14: The Guardian - Middle East Live, "Surface-to-Air Missiles"
Nov 14: Foreign Policy, "Lights Out"
Nov 14: Reason, "Obama: Transparently Disappointing"
Nov 14: RIA Novosti, "5 Questions About the CIA Sex Scandal"
Nov 13: Popular Mechanics, "What China's Nuclear Missile Subs Mean for the U.S."
Nov 13: Foreign Policy, "Red Balloon - Is Congress Inflating the China Threat?"
Nov 10: Politico, "6 Lingering Questions About the Exit of Gen. David Petraus"
Nov 10: The Star-Ledger, "6 Questions on Petraus's Exit"
Nov 10: Boston Globe, "CIA Chief Petraus Resigns Over Affair Uncovered By FBI"
Nov 10: Christian Science Monitor, "General Petraus Affair Raises Deep Personal and Public Questions"
Nov 10: Bangkok Post, "Chinese Sub Launched Nuclear Deterrent at Hand"
Nov 9: The New American, "Newly ReElected President Files Charges of Espionage Act Violation"
Nov 7: Dunya Buletini (Turkey), "Almanya'da ABD nükleer bombaları korkutuyor! [U.S. nuclear bomb scares in Germany]."
Nov 6: Wired - Danger Room, "Lockheed's Dubios Claim: Stealth Fighter Will Get Stealthier With Age"
Nov 6: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Brass Reviews Prompt Global Strike, Mulling Submarine-fired Arms"
Nov 6: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk FAKT (Germany), "US-Atombomben in Deutschland nicht brandsicher" [U.S. nuclear weapons in Germany not fireproof]. Direct link to television program.
Nov 1: UPI, "U.S. Cuts Risk Holes in Global Spying Ops"
Oct 31: Global Security Newswire, "U.K. Lawmakers Eye Basing Submarines at U.S. Port, if Expelled by the Scots"
Oct 30: Reuters, "U.S. Intelligence Spending Fell in 2012 for 2nd Year in a Row"
Oct 30: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "U.S. Spy Budget Falls to $75.4 Billion in Second Decline"
Oct 30: Washington Times, "U.S. Intel Budget Topped $75 Billion in 2012"
Oct 29: Wired, "Around the Moon in 80 Hours (1958)"
Oct 29: Chronicle of Higher Education, "In Memoriam: Anna K. Nelson"
Oct 23: Agence France-Presse (AFP), "Ex-CIA Agent Pleads Guilty to Identifying Undercover Agent"
Oct 22: Politifact, "Mitt Romney Says Pakistan Is On A Path to Overtake the UK in Nuclear Weapons"
Oct 22: Washington Post, "Former CIA Officer in Leaks Case Expected to Plead Guilty to a Single Charge"
Oct 19: Washington Times, "Defiant Insider: Benghazi Attack Clearly Planned"
Oct 19: Pacific Standard, "Clearer Vision on the "Eyeball to Eyeball" Cuban Missile Crisis"
Oct 18: Voice of America, "Iran - UAE Island Dispute Could Escalate"
Oct 17: Politico, "Feds Win Round in CIA Leak Case"
Oct 17: Huffington Post, "The Big Chill: How Obama is Operating in Unprecedented Secrecy"
Oct 16: Agence France Presse, "U.S. A Nation of Secrets -- and Leaks"
Oct 15: New York Times, "U.N. Envoy Seeks Pause in Syria for Holiday"
Oct 15: New York Times, "Heat-Seeking Missiles in Syria: The SA-7 in Action with Rebels"
Oct 14: The Guardian, "Cuba 50 Years On- and Lessons for Iran"
Oct 12: NewScientist, "Threat Watch: Can We Really Spot Covert Nuclear Tests?"
Oct 12: Columbia Daily Tribune, "'We're No.1,' But Hold The Applause"
Oct 12: Asian News International (ANI), "New Weapon Detail Reveals True Depth of Cuban Missile Crisis"
Oct 12: Homeland Security Today, "Counternarcotics, Terrorism and Intelligence"
Oct 12: Daily Kos, "Government's Fault that Espionage Act Cases Risk Press Freedom"
Oct 11: Politico, "Three Journalists Subpoenaed By Defense in CIA Leak Case"
Oct 11: Orlando Sentinel, "Central Florida Puerto Ricans Wach Statehood Referendum Closely"
Oct 9: WSB Radio (WALR-FM), "U.S.-ROK Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Cooperation: From Impasse to Opportunity"
Oct 4: Discovery News, "What's Up With Israel's Nukes Program?"
Oct 4: Defence Professionals, "Inspecter General Report Warns of Budget Overruns in Nuke Refurbishment"
Oct 3: Defence Professionals, "CRS Looks at Possible Israeli Military Strike Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities"
Oct 2: New York TImes, "Visiting Ancient Egypt, Virtually"
Oct 2: Albuquerque Journal, "Report: Nuke Refurbishing Behind Schedule"
Sept 28: Augsburger Allgemeine, "USA und Israel versichem Einigkeit gegennüber dem Iran"
Sept 25: Slate, "Does This American Spy Base in England Play a Role In Drone Strikes?"
Sept 25: Global Security Newswire, "Five Nations Believed to Hold Nonstrategic Nuclear Bombs, Experts Say"
Sept 24: Global Security Newswire, "Expert Doubts Syria is Behind Lebanese Residents' Unusual Rashes"
Sept 23: Christian Science Monitor, "Are Syrian Shells Raining Down Biological Agents on the Lebenese?"
Sept 23: New York TImes, "Uranium Substitute is No Longer Needed, But Its Disposal May Pose Security Risk"
Sept 20: Huffington Post, "Lindsey Graham Slams Rand Paul on Foreign Aid Cut Proposal"
Sept 20: Tech Crunch, "Meet the $35 Tablet That Could Connect the World"
Sept 19: Discovery News, "What is Mystery Weapon from 1981?"
Sept 19: Gizmodo, "What is This Secret Weapon the U.S. Has Been Hiding for 30 Years?"
Sept 19: Foreign Policy, "Will Suspending Joint Ops Make the Afghans Step Up?"
Sept 18: Foreign Policy, "Dirty Bomb, Muddy Thinking"
Sept 18: The Atlantic, "Romney's 5 Oddest Fundraiser Statements on Israel, Iran, and Peace"
Sept 16: Washington Post, "The B61 Bomb: A Case Study in Costs and Needs"
Sept 14: HuffingtonPost, "Drone Strikes Memo Debates Legality of Targeted Killing"
Sept 13: National Journal, "Seeking Kremlin Engagement, NATO Weighs Next Nuclear Posture Steps"
Sept 12: Reuters, "U.S. Spies Press for Renewal of Broad Electronic Surveillance Law"
Sept 11: Wired - Danger Room, "The Pentagon Doesn't Trust Its Own Robots"
Sept 7: Global Security Newswire, "Chinese Communist Party Newspaper Urges Bolstering Nuclear Deterrent"
Sept 5: Foreign Policy, "Race to the End"
Sept 4: Wired - Danger Room, "Nowhere to Hide: Secret Spy Sat Agency Plans Unblinking Array"
Sept 4: Global Security Newswire, "France Warns of Forceful Reaction Should Syria Use Chemical Weapons"
Sept 1: Agence France Presse, "Pentagon, Ex-SEAL At Odds Over Book On Bin Laden Raid"
Aug 31: Military.com, "U.S. Holds Off On Suit Against Bin Laden Raid Book"
Aug 31: Reuters, "After Early Sucesses, Obama Struggles to Implement Disarmament Vision"
Aug 31: Reuters, "Startup NuScale Holds Its Own in Game of Nuclear Giants"
Aug 31: Arms Control Wonk, "Worth the Wait"
Aug 30: Aviation Week, "NRO Research Focuses on Power, Cyber and Communications"
Aug 30: Toronto Star, "Osama bin Laden Book Could Mean Criminal Charges for Navy SEAL"
Aug 29: Government Executive Magazine, "Government is Ramping Up Document Declassifications"
Aug 28: Time - Battleland, "The U.S.: Arms Merchant to the Developing World"
Aug 27: Foreign Policy, "Inflating the China Threat"
Aug 27: The Atlantic Wire, "The Document That Might Spell Trouble for Ex-Navy SEAL Author"
Aug 27: Time - Battleland, "Bin Laden Raid SEAL Faces 'Double Jeopardy'"
Aug 24: Al Jazeera, "Russia Says No Chemical Weapons Use in Syria"
Aug 24: Agence France Presse, "U.S. Weighs Dire Scenarios to Secure Syria's WMD"
Aug 24: Politico - Morning Defense, "The Chemical Weapons Conundrum"
Aug 23: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. General Discounts Projections of Massive Chinese Nuke Stockpile"
Aug 22: Global Security Newswire, "Jury Out: Do Advanced Conventional Weapons Make Nuclear War More Likely?"
Aug 22: Los Angeles Times, "U.S. Has Plans in Place to Secure Syria Chemical Arms"
Aug 20: Pacific Standard, "Spying on the Spooks"
Aug 19: Washington Post, "Exploding Costs"
Aug 17: New York Times, "Watching Syria's War"
Aug 13: Providence Journal, "How Romney Could Blow Away Iowa"
Aug 9: Global Security Newswire, "United States Submarine Capabilities"
Aug 7: Politico, "No Legal Obstacle to David Petraeus Pick"
Aug 7: Wired - Danger Room, "NCIS Targets Danger Room in Silliest Leak Investigation Ever"
Aug 7: Global Security Newswire, "France Submarine Capabilities"
Aug 6: Aviation Week, "Nuclear Bomb's Cost Increases Draw Congressional Scrutiny"
Aug 4: Boston Globe, "Administration Struggles on Transparency, Analysis Shows"
Aug 3: Washington Post, "Obama Administration Struggles to Live Up To Its Transparency Promise"
Aug 3: Global Security Newswire, "Pentagon Official Blames U.S. Bomb Cost Hike on 'Incomplete' DOE Agency Estimate"
Aug 2: Fox News, "Special Report With Bret Baier - Political Headlines" (transcript)
Aug 1: Global Security Newswire, "U.S. Senate Panel Curbs Navy Effort to Add Missiles to Attack Submarines"
Aug 1: Politico, "Defense Vague on Plan to Plug Press Leaks"
Jul 31: Federal Times, "Open Government Groups Denounce Proposed Penalties For Classified Leaks"
Jul 30: Washington Post, "Anti-Leak Measures Target Background Briefings"
Jul 27: Foreign Policy - Passport, "What's Up With Syria's MANPADS?"
Jul 27: McClatchy Newspapers, "Grassley Seeks Probe of Polygraph Techniques at National Reconnaissance Office"
Jul 27: Albuquerque Journal, "Nuke Cost to Double"
Jul 26: New York Times, "The 3-Step Method to Analyzing Videos from Syria"
Jul 26: Washington Post, "Small Ships, Big Threat"
Jul 25: Al Jazeera - The Stream, "Nuclear Nation"
Jul 25: CNN, "Syria's Chemical Weapons Threat Demands a Response"
Jul 25: Boston Globe, "Mitt Romney Raps Security Leaks as Political, Harmful"
Jul 25: The Federal Register, "DOD Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information"
Jul 24: NPR, "Obama Warns Syria Against Using Chemical Weapons"
Jul 24: The Economic Times, "India Currently Has 80 to 100 Nuclear Warheads, U.S. Experts"
Jul 23: McClatchy Newspapers, "Ruling Could Hurt Bradley Manning Defense in WikiLeaks Case"
Jul 23: Wired - Threat Level, "Nearly 5 Million People Have Government Security Clearances"
Jul 23: Federal Times, "4.9 Million Feds, Contractors Hold Security Clearances"
Jul 21: Washington Post, "Ex-Federal Official Calls U.S. Classification System 'Dysfunctional'"
Jul 20: Federal News Radio, "DOD Needs to Consolidate Data Centers to Become More Efficient"
Jul 19: NPR, "As Fighting in Syria Intensifies, U.S. Worries About Chemical Weapons"
Jul 19: Homeland Security Today, "Security Risks of Publishing Results of Government Funded Bio Research Discussed in Report to Congress"
Jul 18: Washington Post, "FDA Isn't the Only Agency Snooping in E-mail"
Jul 17: Christian Science Monitor, "Syria's Top Defector Says Assad Not Afraid to Use Chemical Weapons"
Jul 17: Discovery News, "Why a Chemical Threat in Syria is Terrifying"
Jul 16: The Atlantic, "Deadly Uncertainty: The Reason Syria's Chemical Weapons Are So Dangerous"
Jul 16: Foreign Policy, "Just How Deadly is Assad's Arsenal?"
Jul 16: Federal Times, "DOD Data CentersCould Stymie Federal Energy Savings Goals, Report Says"
Jul 13: National Journal, "Syria's Chemical Weapons: A Perfect Storm?"
Jul 11: U.S. News & World Report - DotMil, "Lawmakers May Start Issuing Subpoenas Over National Security Leaks"
Jul 11: Salon, "America's Own Terror Group"
Jul 11: Think Progress - Security, "Pentagon Report: Iran Military Posture Aimed at 'Forcing a Diplomatic Solution to Hostilities'"
Jul 11: Huffington Post, "Los Alamos Underestimates Radiation Leak Risk"
Jul 10: McClatchy Newspapers, "U.S. Spy Agency Accused of Illegally Collecting Personal Data"
Jul 10: Project on Government Oversight, "Nuclear Weapons Lab Underestimates Risk of Radiation Leak, Study Finds"
Jul 8: Federal Times, "Growing Costs of Keeping Secrets: Almost 30 Percent Jump in 3 Years"
Jul 8: Honolulu Star-Advertiser, "Night to Day" (requires subscription)
Jul 5: PBS-Frontline, "'Top Secret America' Price Tag at Record High"
Jul 4: Huffington Post, "Squelching Secrets: Why Are Obama's Prosecutors Pursuing John Kiriakou?"
Jul 3: New York Times, "Cost to Protect U.S. Secrets Doubles to Over $11 Billion"
Jul 3: Wired-Danger Room, "Feds Look to Fight Leaks with 'Fog of Disinformation'"
Jul 3: InfoSecurity Magazine, "Protecting U.S. Secrets Costs Taxpayers Big Bucks"
Jul 2: Mother Jones, "Government Secrecy Costing Even More Money These Days"
Jul 2: Global Times, "Japan Looks to US Gas as a Nuclear Substitute"
Jun 29: Business Insider, "The Greatest Biological Threats to Civilization"
Jun 28: Ars Technica, "FOIA Request Forces DOJ to Reveal National Security Letter Templates"
Jun 27: Reuters, "Why Leaks Are Good For You"
Jun 27: AOL Defense, "Bio-weapons Crusader Calls for Tighter Research Oversight"
Jun 27: The Daily Star, "Syria's Non-conventional Arms Could Be Up For Grabs as Crisis Rages"
Jun 26: Christian Science Monitor, "Syria's Chemical Weapons: How Secure Are They?"
Jun 26: Huffington Post, "X-37B Air Force Space Plane Remains Mysterious After Long Orbital Mission"
Jun 25: Gizmodo, "Do You Live Near a High Containment Biohazard Laboratory?"
Jun 25: Space.com, "Secretive Air Force Space Plane's Purpose Questioned"
Jun 25: The Hill, "Intelligence Chief Takes New Steps to Crack Down on Leaks"
Jun 22: Science, "Implementing the New U.S. Dual-Use Policy"
Jun 22: iWatch News, "U.S. Points Finger, And Arms Exports, at Human Rights Abusers"
Jun 21: Foreign Policy, "Why Is the U.S. Selling Billions in Weapons to Autocrats?"
Jun 21: PBS - Frontline, "Iran's Nuclear Calculus"
Jun 21: Voice of America, "Syria Said to Possess Vast Quantities of Chemical Weapons"
Jun 21: U.S. News & World Report, "Senior GOP Lawmaker Suggests Security Leaks 'Coming Right From The Top'"
Jun 21: The Daily Beast, "Intelligence Community Aims to Get Tough on Leaks"
Jun 20: Wired - Danger Room, "Washington's 5 Worst Arguments for Keeping Secrets From You"
Jun 20: U.S. News & World Report, "Amid DC Uproar, Intel Chief Quietly Cracks Down on Leaks"
Jun 20: Fox News, "'Magnitsky' Plan Put Forth By Congress to Punish Russia is a Dangerous Move"
Jun 20: The Examiner, "Obama Asserts Privilege He Once Derided"
Jun 19: Associated Press, "Obama Security Record Gives GOP Few Openings"
Jun 19: The Guardian, "Drone Strikes: Activists Seek to Lift Lid on Open Secret of Targeted Killings"
Jun 18: BBC News, "Fears Grow for Fate of Syria's Chemical Weapons"
Jun 18: Washington Post, "West Cuts Nuclear Warheads as it Negotiates With Iran"
Jun 18: Wired - Danger Room, "NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say If We Spied on You"
Jun 18: ABC News, "Is a Military Drone Base Coming to Your Hometown?"
Jun 18: Associated Press, "U.S. Shadow Wars Rely on Drones, Computers"
Jun 17: Associated Press, "Unmanned Air Force Space Plane Lands in California"
Jun 17: The Hill, "Lawmakers Caution Against Targeting Journalists in Security Leak Crackdown"
Jun 17: Press TV, "Is the Secret War in Yemen and Somalia Secret No Longer?"
Jun 16: Christian Science Monitor, "Drones Over America: Are They Spying on You?"
Jun 16: Washington Post, "Feds Have Interviewed More Than 100 People in Two Leak Investigations"
Jun 15: New York Times, "Obama Acknowledges U.S. is Fighting Groups Tied to Al Qaeda in Somalia and Yemen"
Jun 15: New York Times, "Iran's High Card at the Nuclear Negotiation Table"
Jun 15: Global Security Newswire, "Russia Plans Push for Iran Nuclear Deal"
Jun 15: Washington Post, "Feds Have Interviewed More Than 100 People in Twio Leak Investigations"
Jun 15: iWatch News, "Drones Not Used Effectively on U.S. Borders"
Jun 14: The Daily Beast, "The Man Behind the 'Blue Ball' Emails Scandal That Snared Brett McGurk"
Jun 13: Gizmodo, "This is What it Looks Like When a Giant Drone Crashes on U.S. Soil"
Jun 13: Security News Daily, "Congressmen Support Hunt for Stuxnet, Drone Leakers"
Jun 12: National Public Radio, "Does Leaking Secrets Damage National Security?"
Jun 12: Los Angeles Times, "India's Cold Shoulder"
Jun 11: Reuters - The Great Debate blog, "Sometimes Leaking Classified Information is Perfectly Fine"
Jun 11: Washington Times, "White House Backs Holder's Decision to Appoint U.S. Attorneys to Probe Leaks"
Jun 10: Washington Post, "Leak Probe's Risks for Administration Depend on Two Veteran Prosecutors"
Jun 9: New York Times, "For U.S. Inquiries on Leaks, a Difficult Road to Prosecution"
Jun 9: New York Magazine, "Eric Holder Launches National Security Leak Investigation"
Jun 8: Politico, "The 'Leak' Wars"
Jun 7: New York Times, "U.S. Attacks, Online and From the Air, Fuel Secrecy Debate"
Jun 7: Salon, "Probing Obama's Secrecy Games"
Jun 7: CNN, "Congressional Leaders Call for Halt to 'Cascade of Leaks'"
Jun 7: CNN, "Obama Has Been 'Very Tough' on Leakers"
Jun 5: The Telegraph, "India and Pakistan 'Escalate Nuclear Arms Race'"
Jun 4: Washington Post, "CIA Memoirs Offer Revelations and Settle Scores Among Spies"
Jun 2: RT, "World At Risk as Syrian Stockpile Faces Plunder"
Jun 1: Salon, "Another Right-Wing Drone Skeptic"
May 31: Associated Press, "House Votes to Outspend White House on Spy Bill"
May 31: McClatchy Newspapers, "Lawmakers Nudge Spy Agencies into Anti-drug Fight on U.S. Public Land"
May 31: Salon, "Welcome to Terminator Planet"
May 31: Huffington Post, "A Drone-Eat-Drone World"
May 31: Mother Jones, "A Drone-Eat-Drone World"
May 31: Washington Times, "Congressional Fight Gives Peak at Intelligence Spending"
May 30: Salon, "States Fight for Drone Biz"
May 30: Bloomberg Businessweek, "Widening Secret Patents Seen as Costing Investors' Rights"
May 30: Think Progress, "Information Security Oversight Office Report Shows Government Overclassification Remains Pervasive"
May 29: Bloomberg Businessweek, "Secret Court Rulings Kept Out of Public View After U.S. Review"
May 29: Salon, "The Face of Collateral Damage"
May 29: Federal Times, "Fewer New Documents Classified as Secret, Report Finds"
May 26: Salon, "The Imperial Mind"
May 25: Christian Science Monitor, "By Not Lifting Sanctions, West and Obama Are Helping IRan Enrich Uranium"
May 24: New York Times - At War Blog, "Confronting a False Meme: Libya's Deadly 'Stinger Equivalents'"
May 23: The Daily Beast, "White House Gives Moviemakers the Scoop on Osama Bin Laden Raid"
May 23: United Press International (UPI), "War-torn Yemen On Brink Of Human Calamity"
May 23: CNN, "Deadly Drones and the 'Classified' Conundrum"
May 22: The New Republic, "Defining Weaponization Down: Why We Should Be Wary of 'Successful' Nuclear Negotiations With Iran"
May 19: Salon, "Missile Defense is Back"
May 17: New York Times, "Bridging the Missile Defense Gap"
May 17: Patch.com, "Artist Johnathan Roberson-Beery Sculpts His Part for a Nuke-Free World"
May 16: Der Spiegel, "U.S. Nuclear Weapons Upgrades - Experts Report Massive Cost Increase"
May 15: TIME - Battleland, "U.S. Casualties Drop Sharply in Afghanistan"
May 11: National Journal, "Cost Worries Could Derail Plan for Next Bomber to be Unmanned"
May 11: Global Security Newswire, "B-61 Bomb Project Expense Projection Hits $6 Billion, Report Says"
May 11: Global Security Newswire, "NATO Should Use Summit to Address U.S. Tactical Nukes in Eureope, Report Says"
May 10: Global Security Newswire, "Cost Worries Could Derail Plan for Next Bomber to be Unmanned"
May 10: The Daily Beast, "Leak About Al Qaeda Plot and Double Agent Helps CIA, Could Scare Terrorists"
May 10: Heritage - The Foundry, "Missile Defense Program Essential to Address Ballistic Missile Threats"
May 9: Huffington Post, "Media Silent When Administration Targets News Sources"
May 9: Slash Gear, "U.S. Drones 'Accidental' Surveillance Can Be Kept for 9 Days"
May 8: Associated Press, "N. Korea Nuclear Weapons: How Real Is The Threat?"
May 8: Washington Post, "Experts Say, In N. Korea A Useable Weapon May Be Far Off"
May 8: Foreign Policy, "The Little Nukes That Got Away -- Again"
May 8: Wired - Danger Room, "Oops! Air Force Drones Can Now (Accidentally) Spy On You"
May 8: Huffington Post, "The Strategic Partnership Agreement and Pakistan"
May 7: Reason, "Obama Administration Security Official: We Know Who Reporters Are Talking To"
May 7: The National Interest, "Debunking the Missile Defense Myth"
May 7: Miami Herald, "Media Silent When Administration Targets Sources"
May 6: National Post, "Taking Stock of the World's Nuclear Missiles"
May 4: Defense Professionals, "Federation of American Scientists Releases Report on Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons"
May 4: iWatch News, "Boxes of Top Secret Documents Go Missing"
May 4: Huffington Post, "Government Surveillance Requests Up in 2011, Report Says"
May 4: Homeland Security Today, "FISA Applications for Covert Surveillance Increased in 2011"
May 3: Boing Boing, "U.S. Requests for Secret Spying Warrants Rose to Nearly 2K in 2011"
May 3: Associated Press, "Government Seeks More Than 1,700 Secret Warrants"
May 1: Popular Mechanics, "3 Theories About the Air Force's Mystery Space Plane, X-37B"
May 1: New Scientist - One Percent, "Hide Patents to Foil Invention Thieves, Urges Congress"
May 1: TalkingPointsMemo.com, "As White House Choreographs Raid Anniversary, Bin Laden Death Photos Remain Secret"
May: Physics Today, "A Tale of Openness and Secrecy - The Philadelphia Story"
Apr 28: Sydney Morning Herald, "Claims of Deniers Won't Alter the Facts"
Apr 27: Saarländische Zeitung (online), Germany, "Atomwaffenexpert zu Besuch in Berlin"
Apr 26: Global Security Newswire, "Draft House Measure Demands Nuclear Capability in New Bomber from Get-Go"
Apr 23: The Greenville News, "Nuclear Safety is About Diligence, Scientist Says"
Apr 18: Kyodo News, "Opinion - Right Approach for Diplomacy with North Korea"
Apr 17: Huffington Post, "ICBM Coalition of Rural Senators Fights Nuclear Weapons Cuts"
Apr 17: Wired - Danger Room, "Military Intelligence Gadfly Will Lead All Military Intelligence"
Apr 17: Examiner.com, "U.S. Army General Michael Flynn Tapped to be Director of Defense Intelligence"
Apr 13: National Public Radio, "The Case of an Accused Leaker: Politics or Justice?"
Apr 12: Huffington Post, "The Deadly Folly of Nuclear Power Overhead"
Apr 12: The Week, "Inside the Secret World of America's Top Eavesdropping Spies"
Apr 11: Federal Computer Week, "Digital Information May Strain GPO and Library System, CRS Says"
Apr 10: GameSutra, "Video Games Are Good For You, Says High-Tech Parenting Expert"
Apr 6: El Pais, "El fin del Mercader de la Muerte"
Apr 3: Stars and Stripes, "U.S. Researches Idea of Using Nuclear Powered Drones"
Apr 2: The Guardian, "U.S. Draws Up Plans for Nuclear Drones"
Apr 2: Huffington Post, "Nuclear Drones? New Design Reportedly Increases Flying Time"
Mar 30: Homeland Security Today, "Consequences of Israeli Strike on Iran's Nuke Sites Examined in Congressional Report"
Mar 29: PhysOrg.com, "ASU's Krauss Will Receive National Award for Improving Public Understanding of Science"
Mar 27: Washington Post, "A New Plan for Iran: Lift Sanctions, Increase Monitoring"
Mar 27: Washington Post - Post Local, "A Nuclear Blast of Any Size Would End D.C. As We Know It"
Mar 27: Huffington Post, "Barack Obama's Broken Nuclear Promises Undermine Successes"
Mar 27: International Business Times, "Israel Encouraged by Obama's Tougher Talk on Iran"
Mar 26: National Public Radio (NPR), "Defining Nuclear Security in Face of Modern Threats"
Mar 26: BBC News, "Obama and Hu to Coordinate on North Korea Rocket Launch"
Mar 26: BBC News, "Which Countries Have Nuclear Weapons?"
Mar 26: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "Bales's Security Clearance May Reflect Strain on Approval"
Mar 26: Daily Beast, "Military's Internet Scrub of Robert Bales Data Was A Futile Whitewash Bid"
Mar 24: National Post, "Ongoing Nuclear Threat Looms Over Seoul Summit"
Mar 24: Bloomberg, "Soldier Charged in Afghan Shootings Had Secret Clearance"
Mar 24: Albuquerque Journal, "Sandia Studied Nuke-Powered Drone"
Mar 23: New Scientist, "Syrian Uprising Raises Fears Over Chemical Weapons"
Mar 22: Politico, "Atomic Eye in the Sky for Spy-In-Chief?"
Mar 22: Wired, "Nuclear Drone PLan Nixed By 'Political Realities'"
Mar 22: Gizmodo, "The Secret Nuclear Drone Tech the U.S. Government Hid"
Mar 22: McClatchy News, "Army Tried to Delete Bales From Web After Arrest"
Mar 22: Kansas City Star, "After Bales' Arrest, Military Tried to Delete Him From Web"
Mar 19: Fox News, "U.S. Government Spent At Least $945M on Advertising in 2010"
Mar 19: Federal Computer Week, "Social Media Challenges Federal Oversight of Agency Communications"
Mar 16: BBC News, "North Korea's Missile Programme"
Mar 15: Huffington Post, "Meet the Bangor 5"
Mar 15: The National Interest, "Nuclear Power's Uncertain Future"
Mar 14: Gizmodo, "Here's What Happens When Our Nation's Capital is Nuked"
Mar 14: Fast Company, "Video Games Are Tomorrow's Answer to Executive Training"
Mar 13: National Post, "Syria a Chemical Weapon 'Power Keg Ready to Explode,' Experts Fear"
Mar 13: Boston Globe, "National Archives Director Battles to Unlock U.S. Secrets"
Mar 9: Council on Foreign Relations, "Japan's Nuclear Dilemma"
Mar 6: Ars Technica, "Chain Reaction: The (Slow) Revival of U.S. Nuclear Power"
Mar 5: USA Today, "Missiles Give Libyan Militias 'Leverage'"
Mar 5: USA Today, "Analysts: Iran Sanctions Unlikely to Force Regime Change"
Mar 5: The New Yorker, "What About Israel's Nukes?"
Mar 1: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, "Fearful of a Nuclear Iran? The Real WMD Nightmare is Syria"
Mar 1: Columbia Journalism Review, "My Lawyer, Myself"
Mar 1: The Guardian, "Menwith HIll Eavesdropping Base Undergoes Massive Expansion"
Mar 1: Discovery News, "How North Korea Got the Bomb"
Feb 29: The Atlantic, "The Case for Letting Iran (Almost) Build a Bomb"
Feb 29: CNN - Global Public Square Blog, "Why Iran Sanctions Won't Work"
Feb 29: Politico, "Judge Issues Rare Order to Release Classified Document"
Feb 29: Nieman Watchdog, "So Many Questions About Nuclear Power"
Feb 29: The New American, "Privacy Rights Groups Fight FAA on Use of Drones in U.S."
Feb 27: Huffington Post, "Anonymous, WikiLeaks Team Up in Stratfor Disclosure"
Feb 27: Boston Globe, "Smarter Nuclear Reduction"
Feb 27: Mother Jones, "Should Wyoming Build an Aircraft Carrier?"
Feb 24: CNN - Global Public Square Blog, "Decoding Iran's Conflicting Signals"
Feb 24: Wired, "Calm Down. Why Iran's Missiles Can't (and Won't) Hit the East Coast"
Feb 23: Bloomberg, "Manning Faces Arrignment in WikiLeaks Case"
Feb 23: Washington Times, "WikiLeaks Suspect Defers Plea"
Feb 23: Lesoir.be, "Des missiles qui attisent bien des convoitises"
Feb 21: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Rethinking How Many Nuclear Weapons Are Enough"
Feb 19: New York Times, "WikiLeaks, a Postscript"
Feb 18: Associated Press, "Boldest Nuclear Cutters Recently? It's Been GOP"
Feb 17: The Atlantic, "The Media's 'Iran is a Wild and Crazy State' Frame"
Feb 17: Foreign Policy, "Fumbling the Nuclear Football"
Feb 17: Inside Iran, "Q & A: Iran Hopes Claims of Nuclear Advances Demonstrate Strength Ahead of Negotiations"
Feb 16: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, "Al-Qaeda Bid for Role in Syria Cited by Panetta as U.S. Concern"
Feb 15: Associated Press, "U.S. 'Very Closely' Watching Syrian Chemical Weapons"
Feb 15: Mother Jones, "Nuclear Weapons on a Highway Near You" (sources FAS)
Feb 15: Politico, "CIA OK'd Accused Leaker to Disclose Training, Assignments"
Feb 14: Associated Press, "U.S. Weighing Steep Nuclear Arms Cuts"
Feb 13: Poynter.org, "Aided by Silicon Valley, U.S. Government Ferrets Out Journalists' Confidential Sources"
Feb 12: Omaha World-Herald, "Offutt Crews Are Troops' Ears in Sky"
Feb 11: New York TImes, "A High-Tech War on Leaks"
Feb 10: Fox News, "The Sobering Truth About National Security Threats to a Finanically Squeezed USA"
Feb 9: PhysOrg.com, "Carnegie's Richard Meserve Receives Inaugural Richard Garwin Award"
Feb 9: EurekAlert, "Carnegie's Richard Meserve Recieves Inaugural Garwin Award"
Feb 8: Government Security News, "Study Says Nuclear Plant Designs Need Stepped Up Attention to Security"
Feb 8: DefenseNews.com, "IG Reviewing Overclassification at DOD"
Feb 7: New York Times - The Lede, "Among Liberties Advocates, Outrage Over Expanded Use of Drones"
Feb 7: Washington Times, "Drones Over U.S. Gets OK By Congress"
Feb 6: Mother Jones, "Obama's Golden Nuclear Option"
Feb 1: Bloomberg, "Biological Attack Threat Cited as Pentagon Bolsters Defense"
Feb 1: Gizmodo, "Never Before Seen Satellite Spy Shots from the Depths of the Cold War"
Jan 30: Wired - Threat Level, "CIA Claims Publication of Bin Laden Death Photos Would 'Trigger Violence'"
Jan 30: Mother Jones, "A-10 vs. F-35: The Air Force's Latest Budget Bungle"
Jan 29: Bloomberg/BusinessWeek, "IAEA Chief Unsure of Iran's Candor While Israel Issues Warning"
Jan 27: Bloomberg, "IAEA's Amano Says Not Sure 'Iran Has Declared Everything'"
Jan 27: Reuters, "The Spy Who Was Undone By His Email"
Jan 27: Global Security Newswire, "Pentagon Unveils New Plan for Conventional Submarine =Based Ballistic Missiles"
Jan 27: Albuquerque Journal, "Kirtland Nuclear Unit to be Inactivated"
Jan 27: Voice of America, "Iran's Nuclear Program" (Persian) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Jan 26: Reuters, "IAEA Talks in Tehran to Test Iran's Nuclear Defiance"
Jan 24: TIME - Battleland, "The Afghan War: Cause and Effect"
Jan 24: DailyKos.com, "Another Whistleblower Indicted Under the Espionage Act"
Jan 24: Council on Foreign Relations, "Can Sanctions Bring Iran to the Table?"
Jan 23: Washington Post, "Former CIA Officer Charged in Leaks Case"
Jan 23: Chicago Tribune, "Former CIA Officer Charged With Leaking Classified Information"
Jan 23: Washington Times, "Ex-CIA Officer Charged in Leak Case"
Jan 23: National Public Radio, "Foreign Policy: Stop the Madness"
Jan 19: Foreign Policy, "Stop the Madness"
Jan 19: Nature, "Paul M. Doty (1920 - 2011)"
Jan 19: Military.com News, "New Strategy Could Presage U.S. Nuclear Arsenal"
Jan 18: Reuters, "Not-so-covert IranWar Buys West Time, Raises Tension"
Jan 17: PBS Frontline, "Nuclear Aftershocks"
Jan 17: Reuters Magazine, "WikiLeaks's 16th Minute"
Jan 13: Reuters, "West Sceptical of Iranian Nuclear Cooperation"
Jan 13: The Atlantic, "Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists is Counterproductive and Wrong"
Jan 13: Science, "Retrospective: Paul Mead Doty (1920 - 2011)"
Jan 8: Seattle Times, "Plan for New Navy Wharf at Bangor Fires Up Nuke Debate"
Jan 4: Reuters, "Nuclear Fuel Test Won't Hasten Iran Bomb"
Jan 4: Foreign Policy, "Supreme Loser"