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...cybersecurity czar position, which the administration has yet to fill, will cooperate jointly with the National Economic Council and the National Security Council, viewed as a controversial move by some on the Beltway...
...Melissa Hathaway is a real expert with great policy energy around cyber security questions—that are cutting edge for US national security,” wrote Former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who is currently the director of the National Economic Council, in an e-mailed statement. “This will make her a real asset to the Belfer center...
...Human Rights Council chooses to act on the Goldstone report, the easiest choice for Netanyahu would be to follow the advice of his key Western allies and appoint an independent Israeli panel of jurists to re-examine the events of the Gaza war. But Netanyahu and most Israelis - who feel that, yet again, they are being unjustly singled out by the U.N. - are in no mood to let that happen...
...That discussion will begin in earnest on Thursday, when the Human Rights Council meets in Geneva to consider whether to bury the report in the international body's labyrinthine archives, as Israel would prefer, or forward it for action by the Security Council. The latter course would trigger a process in which Israel and Hamas are both given six months to carry out their own independent investigations into the charges raised by the Goldstone report. If they fail to do so, the issue could be referred for prosecution by the International Criminal Court in the Hague, which could result...
...that he will ratify the Lisbon Treaty, a document designed to re-engineer the European Union's institutions to better match the realities of its expanded membership, has set off a race for the E.U.'s top job. The treaty creates two powerful new positions: President of the European Council and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, effectively the E.U.'s Foreign Minister. Blair is seen as front runner for the presidency. (See pictures of the George W. Bush-Tony Blair friendship...