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...biological, and nuclear weapons—we assess the likelihood of each,” said McConnell, who became the second director of national intelligence in 2007. “The likelihood of nuclear attack is less but is not eliminated.” Cyberterrorism is yet another rising danger, McConnell said. “The cyber threat is the soft underbelly of the United States,” McConnell said. “The United States depends on the cyber infrastructure more than any other on Earth.” He said that the American financial system is especially...
...extent of concentration on résumés becomes most transparent in the field of extracurricular activities. The Harvard student with a coherent five-year plan to get into a top law school, featuring specific courses and activities, is far from a rarity. The obvious danger within this approach, which lies in using our free time as a mere means to a distant end, is to run the risk of forgetting what truly interested us in the first place...
...radicals and moderates, with Moscow watching closely, having reinforced the Soviet troop contingent stationed in Poland. The Soviets had previously sent troops to crush a popular rebellion in Hungary in 1956, and to brutally destroy a reformist Czech communist regime in 1968, and Jaruzelski was acutely aware of the danger that Poland could suffer a similar fate. Martial law was "a dramatically difficult decision," but it "saved Poland from a looming catastrophe," according to Jaruzelski...
...continuing wave of taxi strikes underlines a danger that the more upfront coverage of controversial issues carries with it: the danger of copycat incidents in other parts of the country. With the police detaining or jailing leaders of some of the strikes, those involved are understandably reluctant to discuss their motivations. But many observers believe that there is little doubt the lengthy coverage of the strikes in the official media was seen as a form of legitimization by later strikers. "There have been taxi-driver strikes occasionally in the past a few years, but never so many in such...
...with top terrorism hunters, who rely on informants and classified evidence. Because some of the evidence looks to have been gathered during harsh interrogations that may now be regarded as illegal and therefore inadmissible in court, building criminal cases against some detainees may be impossible. That raises the danger of avowed terrorists walking away from U.S. custody on a technicality. "These are enormously complicated problems," says Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings Institution fellow. "It's very easy to say, 'Put everybody on trial.' But we still haven't figured out what our trial system looks like for these terrorism cases...