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- Multilayered Security, Ken Gude
- 'Connecting the Dots' Requires Commitment
to IT Infrastructure, Ian Milhiser
- Terrorism in Yemen Rediscovered, Brian
Katulis
- How Ideology Trumped Science in PEPFAR
Program, Scott Evertz
- 2010 a Year for Administration to Start
Showing Results, Brian
Katulis
- Obama Administration's Difficult Balance
on Counterterrorism Policy, Ken Gude
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Ken Gude, "Multilayered Security,"
Center for American Progress, January 11, 2010
Much of the attention [following the failed Christmas bombing] has been
focused on the apparent inability to
“connect the dots” about [Umar Farouk] Abdulmutallab and
either prevent him from
boarding the plane or otherwise disrupt the attack. But it is extremely
difficult and unreliable to try to pick out just a handful of fragments
of information from a constant stream of thousands of pieces of
information. It is far better to invest in a multilayered security
system that has many points to identify potential threats and disrupt
attacks.
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Ian Milhiser, "'Connecting the
Dots' Requires a Commitment to IT Infrastructure," Center for American
Progress, January 11, 2010
It will likely be months before intelligence officials fully understand
what failures allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the son of an
influential Nigerian banker, to board a plane with explosives secreted
in his underwear. Yet, as President Obama told the nation Thursday, we
now know that Abdulmutallab’s nearly-successful terrorist attack
occurred not because the Intelligence Community failed to collect
enough information to discover the bomber’s intentions, but
because
intelligence officials failed to connect the puzzle pieces they already
held in order to see the entire picture.
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read the full article.
Brian Katulis, "Terrorism in Yemen
Rediscovered," Center for American Progress, January 6, 2010
America’s attention deficit disorder-afflicted media spent the
last
week rediscovering Yemen as a country of serious concern for global
security. The renewed attention on Yemen, resulting from the failed
Christmas Day airline bombing attempt in Detroit, reminds us that
terror networks adapt and can quickly defy conventional military
responses like troop surges in Afghanistan and Iraq by migrating around
the world.
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read the full article.
Scott Evertz, "How Ideology Trumped Science," Center
for American Progress, January 13, 2010
The [President's Emergency Plan for AIDS
Relief] program has proved deficient in many respects, most
notably in prevention and reaching out to populations most in need of
services. Some of these limitations are rooted in the statute or
implementing regulations; others have played out on the ground through
different interpretations of U.S. government policies; but most are due
to a framework that placed ideology above science. The Obama
administration now seeks to reverse these trends and infuse PEPFAR with
its own vision and principles, in the context of its new $63 billion,
six-year Global Health Initiative to help the world’s poorest
countries.
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read the full article.
New York Times -
Brian Katulis says, after a first year of emphasizing points of
departure from the Bush administration, the Obama administration needs
to make 2010 a year of achieving results:
"They’re going to need to demonstrate a set of tangible successes
that’s not just a set of speeches.”
NPR - Ken
Gude discusses the administration's balancing act on counterterrorism
policy: "America's global leadership depended, and the credibility of
America's
political leadership depended, on demonstrating a significant change
from the Bush administration... [at the same time] the Obama
administration is just facing withering attacks from the right. "
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