The new administration must broaden the scope
of its counterterrorism activities, including a focus on collection of
domestic and open source intelligence as well as traditional foreign
intelligence, the Defense Science Board said in a report outlining the
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Opinion: November 2008 Archives
Google's chief executive officer has called for the federal government to invest in green technology and a
national computer infrastructure to help create jobs and spur the next
wave of American innovation.
The Google CEO repeatedly stressed government's critical role in creating the framework upon which technological innovations can flourish. MORE
The Google CEO repeatedly stressed government's critical role in creating the framework upon which technological innovations can flourish. MORE
OPINION:
The recent flurry of piracy incidents got me to thinking ... if folks were caught off guard about how an airliner could be used as a WMD ... imagine what a Super Tanker holding more than a quarter of the daily oil exports from Saudi Arabia and about three times the size of a U.S. nuclear powered aircraft carrier could do ... such a ship is right now in the hands of pirates off the coast of Somalia!
Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he was "stunned" by the reach of the Somali pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker off the east coast of Africa. MORE
The recent flurry of piracy incidents got me to thinking ... if folks were caught off guard about how an airliner could be used as a WMD ... imagine what a Super Tanker holding more than a quarter of the daily oil exports from Saudi Arabia and about three times the size of a U.S. nuclear powered aircraft carrier could do ... such a ship is right now in the hands of pirates off the coast of Somalia!
Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he was "stunned" by the reach of the Somali pirates who seized a Saudi supertanker off the east coast of Africa. MORE
