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A New World of Global Security: A Briefing with Sir John Sawers
February 17, 2021
The Newsletter
The new COVID-19 national security world is one shaped by a host of national and global security issues that were impacted – both good and bad – by the global pandemic. That, in turn, has fundamentally changed the way governments and private sector companies need to think about the old threats, according to former Chief of MI-6, Sir John Sawers.
The Social Order
Don t Pardon the Intrusion: Edward Snowden s actions immeasurably weakened the United States and strengthened our adversaries
By Edward Jay Epstein City Journal
Published Dec. 24, 2020
Eric Schulzke: Daydreaming may be the next childhood psychiatric target
Kathryn Moody: Investors, Are You Ready for the Next Global Crisis?
Meghan Streit: Pitching In When Caregivers Need Help
The Kosher Gourmet by Diane Rossen Worthington: Caprese is a light, fresh salad; the perfect quick and easy accompaniment to any summer meal
Jonathan Tobin: Care about the Jewish state s future? Obama, in interview, reveals even more reasons to worry
Alan M. Dershowitz: Confirmed: Needless death and destruction in Gaza
eye on the news
Don’t Pardon the Intrusion Edward Snowden’s actions immeasurably weakened the United States and strengthened our adversaries.
Politics and law
The most surprising thing about the failure of U.S. intelligence to discover for nearly nine months the SolarWinds penetration of U.S. government agencies, reportedly including the State, Energy, and Homeland Security Departments as well as private contractors, is that anyone is surprised. After all, the National Security Agency, responsible for protecting the communications of the U.S. government, had such a massive hole punched in its capabilities by a breach in 2013 that Michael McConnell, the former director of first the NSA and then the Office of National Intelligence, assessed “This [breach] will have an impact on our ability to do our mission for the next 20 to 30 years.”
for 30 years. i don t get it, wolf. it s not only political, there are personal aspects to this of people that served in the business. it s painful. rick ledgett spent nearly 30 years at the national security agency. you spent almost 30 years in the u.s. navy, became an admiral. how do you feel about it? the same way phil does. look, i sailed in the baltic sea not far from here. in 1988, my first deployment at sea chasing soviet sub-marines. they were the threat. they and russia still is the threat. for the last ten years in particularly. it makes nato even more relevant than it was now. so when i listen to the commander in chief get up there today and take 9 side of the russian president, against his own intelligence community and the national security establishment, i think that s a disgrace. as commander in chief, i m absolutely shocked by it. for both of you, phil, this is emotional for you. its. i mean, you look back. when you join, you have friends join who become accou