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Frank Wolf
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Obama's summer travel partly courtesy of taxpayers
Burnishing his foreign policy credentials, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is traveling this summer to Iraq and Afghanistan - and the taxpayers will be footing the bill.
Politicians still ignoring the entitlement tsunami
W hen is Congress going to get serious? After an acrimonious exchange in the House Appropriations Committee last week, an amendment to set up a bipartisan Securing America’s Future Economy Commission to deal with runaway entitlement spending was defeated by just one vote.
US lawmakers: Bush should skip Olympics
Two Republican congressmen have called on President Bush to steer clear of the Beijing Olympics unless China makes substantial improvements in its treatment of dissidents, including releasing prisoners of conscience.
Hacker attacks show vulnerability
While computer hackers in China were brazenly stealing sensitive information from congressional offices on Capitol Hill in recent years, al-Qaida operatives were busy hardening security on their internal communication system to the point where U.S. intelligence officials now admit it’s nearly impossible to penetrate.
Chinese hacker attacks show U.S. vulnerability
W hile computer hackers in China were brazenly stealing sensitive information from congressional offices on Capitol Hill in recent years, al Qaeda operatives were busy hardening security on their internal communication system to the point where U.S. intelligence officials now admit it’s nearly impossible to penetrate. Both developments have extremely ominous implications for our national security. Cyber attackers traced to the Chinese mainland gleaned information from government computers, cell phones and BlackBerries in both Congress and federal offices in the Commerce, State and Energy departments. Pentagon officials also confirmed that Chinese military hackers even got into the e-mail system within Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ office. Meanwhile, the United States still can’t figure out how to shut down Osama bin Laden’s prolific propaganda network, which produces jihadist documentaries and iPod files. Gates was right when he said last November that this is just “plain embarrassing.” |
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