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Published 6 December 2019

·  Private Group Must Stop Building Border Wall in South Texas, Judge Says in Temporary Order

·  CBP Aims to Sweep US Citizens into Facial-Recognition Database

·  Killer Content: Disinformation Campaign Derails Pakistan’s National Anti-Polio Drive

 

·  Is U.S. Deterrence Against Iran Doomed to Fail?

Private Group Must Stop Building Border Wall in South Texas, Judge Says in Temporary Order (Teo Armus, Washington Post)
The group, We Build The Wall, said it has cleared a mile and a half of land next to the Rio Grande and plans to begin installing the wall within 48 hours, with a goal of completing it by Jan. 15.

CBP Aims to Sweep US Citizens into Facial-Recognition Database (Aaron Boyd, Defense One)
A proposed rule change would no longer allow citizens and green card holders to opt out of Customs and Border Protection’s biometrics program.

Killer Content: Disinformation Campaign Derails Pakistan’s National Anti-Polio Drive (Ayushman Kaul, Medium)

Misleading videos online provoked mass hysteria and attacks on health workers

 

Is U.S. Deterrence Against Iran Doomed to Fail? (Katie Bo Williams, Defense One)
A key ingredient may be missing. And we won’t know until Tehran launches another attack.