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Former Undersecretary at DHS for cybersecurity and critical infrastructure resilience. Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Director of the Defending Democratic Institutions Project. Grandmother.
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Still waiting for the investigations and prosecutions of those who are threatening judges across the country... Comey under investigation for ‘threat’ to Trump on social media, officials say

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o... "When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy."

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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

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On the day the long-time producer of 60 Minutes resigned, I watched "Good Night and Good Luck" tonight on Broadway. George Clooney as CBS' Edward R Murrow taking on Sen Joe McCarthy: "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. ...

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🚨"In fact, in the minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in..."🚨 www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n... A detailed and deeply troubling account of the many dangers DOGE is creating as they rummage around sensitive personal and business data, experiment with untested technologies, and remove security measures designed to keep out enemies and criminals.

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Cory Booker making history with the longest floor speech in US Senate, a record previously held by Strong Thurmond speaking against 1957 Civil Rights Act. Thurmond spoke from fear and hate. Booker speaks from joy and love. He's counting on all of us to stand up and speak out in the same vein.

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"The operational emphasis on Signal from multiple threat actors in recent months serves as an important warning for the growing threat to secure messaging applications..." (Glad USG isn't sharing military ops plans on Signal. Oh, wait...) thehackernews.com/2025/02/hack...

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In light of CJ Roberts statement today reinforcing the role of the courts and the appeals process, I'm re-posting this plea for judges to remember that twisting themselves in knots to avoid confrontation is itself abandoning independence. That, too, is a constitutional crisis.

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As I explain in the piece below, "If the executive branch is determined to provoke a constitutional crisis, then confrontation is inevitable. It is better that the crisis arises from the Court doing its job than from the Court being cowed into submission."

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The House Homeland Security Committee is meeting right now to, among other things, mark up a GOP bill to expand cyber scholarships. Democrats supported the bill last year, but ranking member Bennie Thompson just urged a "no" vote, citing layoffs at CISA that he says jeopardize the bill's success.

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Excellent piece on risks from Musk minions taking over federal IT systems. As former head of what is now CISA at DHS, I worry about their having moved there, given its visibility into all .gov networks. Their goal seems to be data exploitation, not security. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Couldn't help thinking on Sunday of this greatest Superbowl ad ever, from 1984. Such a sharp contrast with today's tech oligarchs reinforcing "100% loyalty" to the leader.

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Enemies like China, Russia, and Iran employ ever more sophisticated techniques in their ongoing info wars against Americans, and we are rapidly tearing down our defenses and unilaterally disarming. Our enemies seek to exacerbate divisions to weaken us. We must fight back, not open the doors.

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Stunning

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www.reuters.com/world/us/pen... Do they think "1984" is a how-to manual rather than a cautionary tale?

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Mondale eulogy for Carter, read by his son, ends with this:

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I hope you will join me and Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta tomorrow to discuss the Panetta Institute's latest Youth Civic Engagement survey --and what can be done to restore faith in democracy and its institutions. Watch live to ask questions: www.csis.org/events/day-a...

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