Our picksProperty rights vs. the wall; rebuilding the Iron Curtain; dwindling 9/11 fund, and more
· Study looks to define “industrial base” for the Great-Power era
· U.S. lawmakers, first responders sound alarm on 9/11 fund
· When Trump declared national emergency, most detained immigrants were not criminals
· Property rights versus the wall
· Andrew McCabe’s countdown to the Mueller report
· Blind Eagle, a new APT group, poses as Colombia’s Cyber Police to steal business secrets
· Who do you call when you’re the victim of a cybercrime?
· Here’s how Putin’s Russia is rebuilding the Iron Curtain
· Germany is testing the limits of democracy
· The military wants to build a bullshit detector for social science studies
Study looks to define “industrial base” for the Great-Power era (Marcus Weisberger, Defense One)
Reagan Institute panel will seek to identify the technologies and workforce skills needed to confront Russia and China.
U.S. lawmakers, first responders sound alarm on 9/11 fund (AP)
More than 17 years after the 9/11 attacks, first responders and their advocates were back at the Capitol Monday urging Congress to ensure that a victims’ compensation fund does not run out of money.
When Trump declared national emergency, most detained immigrants were not criminals (Maria Sacchetti, Washington Post)
Before President Trump declared a national emergency on the U.S. southern border on Feb. 15, he cited concerns that the United States was being flooded with murderers, kidnappers and other violent offenders from foreign countries.
According to new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement figures obtained by The Washington Post, the nation’s immigration jails were not filled with such criminals. As of Feb. 9, days before the president’s declaration, nearly 63 percent of the detainees in ICE jails had not been convicted of any crime.
“It proves this is a fake emergency,” said Kevin Appleby, policy director at the Center for Migration Studies, a New York-based nonpartisan immigration think tank. “It really shows that what the president’s doing is abusing his power based on false information.”
the American Civil Liberties Union said ICE is broadly interpreting who is subject to mandatory detention and has the flexibility to release more, especially those without criminal records.
“To the extent they’re saying they need massive increases in detention beds and new detention centers all over the country in order to keep dangerous criminal aliens from running amok in the streets, that’s not true. They’re lying,” said Michael Tan, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project in New York. “Their own data show that that’s not the people they’re locking up.”
