National Counterterrorism Center Director Michael Leiter is leaving his post next month. The former fighter pilot, Harvard Law Review president, and law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has just completed work crafting a new national counterterrorism strategy for the White House, one that will help coordinate U.S. counterterrorism efforts with those of our allies in the wake of the bin Laden killing and the Arab Spring. The strategy sets priorities for terror targets and breaks threats into two tiers, according to sources familiar with it.
11:35 AM 01/21/2010
The decision of the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC has set off a fundraising sprint as the country enters the 2010 election cycle. The court’s majority opinion, which opens the door to increased independent expenditures for elections at all levels, may get the law right. But it spells pure trouble for state court judicial elections.
