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Thornberry Fears Bureaucracy Hamstrings Cyber Vs. ISIS WASHINGTON: Why does the internet still work in Raqqa? That simple question about the Syrian capital of Daesh, the self-proclaimed Islamic State, posed today by retired fighter pilot Rep. Martha McSally, goes to the heart of how the military will use — or refrain from using — cyber weapons. It goes to deep suspicions that President Obama’s swollen National Security Council staff is micromanaging the military. No less a figure than House Armed Services Committee chairman Mac Thornberry voiced deep concern that we are bureaucratizing the cyber force at birth. All too often...

Orlando’s Pulse nightclub terror attack will go down in U.S. history as the single largest case of mass slaughter ever conducted by a lone gunman in the nation’s 240-year history. Barack Obama’s shameful but predictable response to the carnage can best be characterized as deceitful spin involving a two-part strategy of obfuscation. The first part involves deflection. Divert America’s attention from the main culprit – Islamic terrorism – to forwarding dual strawman/red herring arguments designed to confuse and mislead. By doing so, he hoped to draw America’s attention away from his own flawed foreign and domestic policies which enabled the...

A new Bloomberg poll shows that a significant majority of Americans oppose bringing Syrian refugees into the U.S.  By a 53-to-28 margin, Americans disagree with President Obama and many Democrats about admitting the refugees.  Another 11% think that only Christian Syrians should be allowed in. The poll also shows that terrorism concerns about ISIS have risen to the top of American's concerns. More broadly, terrorism and the Islamic State group surged to the top of Americans’ concerns immediately following the deadly attacks, even as Republicans and Democrats remain divided over how best to address threats. The percentage of those...

2141 Rayburn House Office Building 9:00 AM By Direction of the Chairman Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security Ms. Anne C. Richard Assistant Secretary Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, United States Department of State Mr. Seth Jones Director International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation Mr. Mark Krikorian Executive Director Center for Immigration Studies Mr. Mark Hetfield President and Chief Executive Officer HIAS Honorable Leon Rodriguez Director United States Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS Rodriguez Testimony.pdf (127.7 KBs)

I'm assuming we'll lose complete track of most of them very quickly.

"I would encourage you, Mr. President, if you want to insult me, come back and insult me to my face," Cruz said of Obama, who is in the Philippines. "Let's have a debate right now," he added. "We can do it anywhere you want. I'd prefer it in the United States and not overseas where you're making the insults. It's easy to toss a cheap insult when no one can respond." "It is utterly un-befitting of a President to be engaging in those kinds of personal insults, attacks," Cruz said, charging that Obama was "belittling the Republican field." Monday, Obama...