Evening Roundup, March 23
Movements are more than their leaders, the war on mail-in voting, WNBA shatters court ceilings, asylum seeking at the Supreme Court, what is "intelligence" and why does it matter?, and more!
Spotlight
Culture Corner
Death of the Cinderella Story
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[VIDEO] The “charity” era of women’s sports is officially dead (if it was ever alive). The WNBA has struck a landmark deal to spike the salary floor, acknowledging the booming success of these teams.
The Lesson of the M.S. St. Louis Is on Trial Again
By Beth Oppenheim
The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments on whether the United States can step foot in the country and ask for safety.
Intelligence World
When Intelligence Stops Judging, It Stops Mattering
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On the first day of my class on strategic intelligence, I ask my students a series of straightforward questions: What is intelligence? How does an analytic assessment from CIA differ from a New York Times article? What is the role of the U.S. intelligence community? These questions are the baseline. If students do not understand the distinctions …
Brian O’Neill’s column When Intelligence stops judging it no longer matters is a must read column. Having incomplete or insufficient information and data on our adversaries is a dangerous thing. The information that has been gathered requires judgement in terms of intent among other things. The gist here according to O’Neill seems to me like Gabbard is just going through the motions of the requirements of the department of DNI without really evaluating the more critical elements that leads to complete judgement decisions on our adversaries.
I would like to see the Contrarian sue Donald Trump because of his misuse of TSA funds. TSA is funded by the September 11 Security Act that assesses a fee for every airline ticket purchased. So the passengers pay for the airport security. Argiably, then, a government shutdown should not result in unpaid TSA workers. But Trump has diverted the fee revenue into the general fund. Since Congress enacted the Act, it seems as if the executive shouldn't be able to divert the money for an unrelated purpose.