Christopher Columbus was a figure of controversy from the outset—the present fuss is as nothing compared with what he had to put up with during his lifetime. The travails of navigation, which included shipwreck off Portugal in 1476 and mutinous sailors on his voyage to the Bahamas in 1492, ...

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The following is George Croner’s response to Lawrence Husick’s critique of his four part series “The Clock Is Ticking: Why Congress Needs to Renew America’s Most Important Intelligence Collection Program.” You may read the entire series here.  I’m not sure with whom Mr. Husick is speaking on the Hill but ...

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The following is a response to the four part series “The Clock Is Ticking: Why Congress Needs to Renew America’s Most Important Intelligence Collection Program” by George Croner. You may read the entire piece here. Introduction George W. Croner argues in a recent series of articles published by FPRI ...

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Russia’s relations with North Korea are often ignored in the West. The conventional view is that Russia’s role with respect to the North is purely political and diplomatic, predicated on Russia’s permanent membership in the UN Security Council. Often overlooked is the fact that Russia maintains a range of ...

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Accepting that the Program, as a whole, meets the reasonableness standard required by the Fourth Amendment, the critical importance of the Section 702 Program to the nation’s security should warrant its reauthorization without any neutering by Congress. Critics, however, importune for changes that, aside from the overriding constitutional issue, ...

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