News You Can Use: 09/09/16

National Security

Dinner, Drinks, and a Near-Fatal Ambush for U.S. Diplomats, Foreign Policy

9/11 Commission leader: US at ‘stalemate’ in anti-terror fight 15 years later, The Hill

Party lines split U.S. on terror threat 15 years after 9/11: poll, Reuters

Obama Unlikely to Vow No First Use of Nuclear Weapons, The New York Times

The Unfinished Legacy of Obama’s Pivot to Asia, Foreign Policy

Congress: Four things to watch in the next four weeks, Brookings

Fact-Checking Donald Trump’s National Security Speech, The New York Times

War on Terror Forever, Foreign Policy

GAO: DOD’s recovery from war ops, budget cuts might take another 10 years, Stars and Stripes

Cybersecurity

White House Names First Chief Information Security Officer, Nextov

New Malware Targets Android Banking Apps, Cybersecurity Group Says, The Wall Street Journal

Congressional Probe Says OPM Hackers Arrived in 2012 and We Will Never Know What They Took, Nextgov

The Global Threat That Went Undiscussed at the G20 Summit, Defense One

Cybersecurity expert says ‘almost everything can be hacked’ and endpoint protection is not enough, Healthcare IT News

Top spy: ‘Russians hack our systems all the time’, The Hill

Watchdog: DoD Needs Better Insight Into National Guard’s Cyber Response Capabilities, Nextgov

Public Health

Zika Funding Fails Again in Congress, NBC News

Millions protected in Africa’s largest-ever emergency yellow fever vaccination campaign, World Health Organization

Why Combining Zika Money and Funding to Avoid a Shutdown Is Key to the Hill’s Exit Strategy, Government Executive

Human Rights & Humanitarian Efforts

Experts set to reveal South Sudan’s money theft, arms deals soon, Sudan Tribune

Pressing Asia Agenda, Obama Treads Lightly on Human Rights, The New York Times

Zimbabwe denies opposition supporters food aid: Rights group, Associated Press

Drums of war put South Sudan’s children at risk, The Huffington Post

Government & Military Personnel

9/11 Documentary Recalls How Pentagon Employees Stayed On The Job During Disaster, Government Executive

DHS Exposes Thousands of Individuals’ Private Information — Including Feds, Golfers and Priests, Government Executive

Army Announces Long-Anticipated Family Program Cuts, Military.com

An Inside Look at How Agencies Handle Whistleblower Revelations, Government Executive

Study: Women Ask for Raises as Often as Men — They Just Don’t Get Them, Government Executive

 


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