As U.S. counter-terrorism focus has shifted to ISIS over the past six months, the campaign against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (including Yemen) has stalled. Politico reports that experts are asking whether Obama’s Yemen policy has failed – and the impact it had on the Paris attacks. CBS: Did Paris Police Miss All the […]

Al Qaeda in Yemen claimed responsibility Wednesday for the terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, reports the New York Times. In their statement, the terror group called the attacker “two heroes of Islam.” WSJ: Charlie Hebdo’s New Issue Flies Off Newstands Nat’l Journal: Obama Backs Gov’t Run Internet WaPo: Cillizza – It Makes […]

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal) believes there are sleeper cells in the United States, reports CNN. And, she adds, they’re likely here through what she calls America’s “Achilles’ heel” – a visa program started under President Bush. WaPo: ISIS Hacks Pentagon Social Media Accounts AFP: Charlie Hebdo Prints 3m Post-Attack Issues to Feature Mohammed Cartoons Politico: […]

More than 40 heads of state locked arms and marched through the streets of Paris on Sunday. President Obama was not one of them, Newsmax reports. Nor did he send any high-level representative of the United States government. CNN’s Jake Tapper lamented, “As an American, I do wish that we were better represented in this […]

The suspects have been identified and the larger investigation has only just begun, but the Daily Beast reports U.S. intelligence officers see key signs that the Paris terror attack on Charlie Hebdo was carried out by an al-Qaeda affiliate. CBS: Paris Terror Suspects Cornered Politico: Obamacare for Community Colleges USA Today: Computer Chaos Feared Over […]