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News & Events

Recent news items, media releases and events related to Markle's activities are included on the list below.

Health IT Standards Committee: Clinical Operations group seeks specificity in standards

February 24, 2010
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on ...
Categories: Health    Tags: meaningful use

Security expert: Obama order resembles controversial Bush-era data-mining tool

February 24, 2010
The Obama administration has called for the development of a computer network that one security expert said on Tuesday resembles a ...
Categories: Health    Tags: privacy

Counterterrorism 2.0: Using IT to Connect the Dots

February 23, 2010

Membes of the Markle Task Force on National Security will participate in a panel discussion focused on the role of IT in the intelligence community.

Categories: National Security   

EastWest Institute's 7th Annual Worldwide Security Conference

February 18, 2010

Stefaan Verhulst, Markle's Chief of Research, attends "International Pathways to Cybersecurity," to participate in discussion on the practicalities of meeting new security threat. 

Categories: National Security   

Why information sharing is not always enough

February 17, 2010
Sounds of anger and signs of action are following the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day. We are lucky it is an averted ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: information sharing

Connecting the Dots and the Christmas Plot

January 25, 2010
“We slipped up.”  That’s what Patrick F. Kennedy, the Undersecretary of State for Management, said at a Senate hearing ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: policy, terrorism

The Christmas Day Intelligence Failure – Part I: Enterprise Amnesia vs. Enterprise Intelligence

January 12, 2010
I have been watching the public statements from our leadership, media reports, the blogosphere, and emails galore related to the failed ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: terrorism

Christmas Day Attack a Wake-Up Call for Obama

January 4, 2010
George W. Bush's presidency was shocked early in its term by the unimagined terrorist act on September 11, 2001. Mr. Bush, who tended to ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: terrorism

Another failure to communicate

January 3, 2010
Never again. That's what Congress and the Bush administration promised seven years ago after revelations that the CIA didn't warn ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: information sharing

What to make of the failed terrorist attack

December 29, 2009
The president has ordered two reviews since the attack attempted against Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. While such reviews are ...
Categories: National Security    Tags: terrorism