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Ideas
Expand Five Eyes to Nine? That's Four Too Many
The proposed expansion would force the original members to stop spying on the new ones.
Ideas
The Intel Community Needs A Better Media Strategy
As press watchdogs stiffen their spines, intel agencies must decide what secrets truly need protecting and why.
Ideas
Why Size Doesn’t Matter When Judging the Intelligence Community
Instead of criticizing how big the Intelligence Community has grown, let’s get the US to do a better job explaining why.
Ideas
It’s Time for Obama To Re-Engage with Iraq
Just because the U.S. pulled out of Iraq in 2011 doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a vested interest in the worsening violence there. By Aki Peritz
Threats
Freezing Out U.S. Security at Sochi Is a Counterterrorism Fail
Putin’s Sochi stiff arm is a dangerous rejection of U.S. security help, right as the jihadist Caucasus Emirate looks to strike the 2014 Winter Olympics. By Aki Peritz
Ideas