New America in the News: 2013

Philip Mudd, a former key intelligence officer with both the FBA and CIA, said that the aspects of the Boston bombing's operation – the acquisition of widely available materials, the absence of an apparent escape plan, little attempt by the suspects to ...

The two brothers displayed an amateurish modus operandi, failing to disguise themselves from cameras, suggesting they were motivated by feelings of social alienation as immigrants in the U.S., said Philip Mudd, a former CIA deputy director in the ...

As Rebecca MacKinnon noted talking about her book, "Consent of the Networked," it's sort of a lucky accident that Twitter is as good as it has been on free speech (and maybe we shouldn't rely on lucky accidents). Minimalist design values also demand ...

As Peter Bergen, wrote for CNN last month, "According to US documents and officials, in addition to [Suleiman] Abu Ghaith, other of bin Laden's inner circle who ended up in Iran include the formidable military commander of al Qaeda, Saif al-Adel, a ...

Open data, BYOD, data analytics, for many local government's those innovative ideas aren't a reality. For many them most important innovations are those that change their bureaucratic processes to improve the way they deliver their services while reducing their costs, according to a recently released report from the New American Foundation.

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As CNN's national security analyst Peter Bergen points out, the brothers' e-mail traffic will be of huge importance to investigators as they seek an answer to this question. 2. What was Tamerlan Tsarnaev doing in Russia? The older brother's six-month ...

Peter Bergen sagely writes that an “FBI study reported that between January 1, 2007, and October 31, 2009, white supremacists were involved in 53 acts of violence, 40 of which were assaults directed primarily at African-Americans, seven of which were ...

The two brothers displayed an amateurish modus operandi, failing to disguise themselves from cameras, suggesting they were motivated by feelings of social alienation as immigrants in the U.S., said Philip Mudd, a former CIA deputy director in the ...

And also of proving yourself as a man of action," said Brian Fishman, who studies terrorism at the New America Foundation in Washington. Fishman cautioned that it was too early to draw any firm conclusions about the Tsarnaev brothers, but he said there ...