Truman National Security Project

Less than 48 hours before Pakistan’s historic democratic elections on May 11 — which saw former Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif re-elected — Pakistani police gathered at the Islamabad home of New York Times correspondent Declan Walsh. They had Walsh sign for a letter from the Minister of Interior, which informed him that his visa had been canceled [...]

Nearly six months after President Morsi issued a decree exempting his decisions from judicial review- which touched off a political firestorm in Egypt- the country is still beset with political instability and policy drift. Although Morsi rescinded most of his controversial November 22 edict, it failed to mollify the opposition, which distrusts him and wants him removed [...]

On April 14, 2013, Venezuela held a special election after the death of former president Hugo Chavez. The election gained international attention for its narrow results and for claims of voting irregularities and subsequent demands for an audit from the defeated party.  Further, human rights groups voiced objections that the Chavista Government intimidated voters and [...]

“First off, I object to this. I’m tired of somebody telling me I don’t care about our soldiers, that we don’t respond.”  Those are the words Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno had for California Representative Duncan Hunter during a recent House Armed Services Committee hearing.  For about a year and a half, Rep. Hunter has [...]

Rachel Kleinfeld in Austin-America Statesman News about how to improve US Immigration policy and create more forward thinking and bipartisan legislation. America’s immigration system is a frayed patchwork of overregulation and incoherent policies. Polling this spring by the Small Business Majority found that 88 percent of small business owners believe the system is broken — [...]

Mandiant’s chief security officer Richard Bejtlich speaks about Chinese hackers at CNP’s cybersecurity panel “The group itself went quiet for a while. They changed the nature of their activities [and] they removed some of the tools they had been using inside different companies,” said Mandiant’s chief security officer Richard Bejtlich at a cybersecurity panel held [...]

Reports on Richard Bejtlich at Center for National Policy and how the US respond to China Hackers. click here to read entire post. 

Chinese New site DW News reports on cyber security expert panel hosted by Center for National Policy. Click here to read the article (Chinese).