Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 5, 2017

Ian Duncan, Baltimore Sun: Intelligence officials: U.S. needs to rethink how to respond to hacks

WASHINGTON — Top American intelligence officials told Congress on Thursday that the nation needs to become more effective in responding to cyberattacks, saying that foreign governments are ever more capable and willing to break into American computer networks.

Adm. Michael S. Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, told a Senate committee that China could mount a Russian-style meddling campaign if it wanted, and that Iran, North Korea and even terrorist groups pose a threat. The United States needs to be better prepared to respond, he said.

"The biggest frustration to me is speed, speed, speed," Rogers said. "I'm constantly asking the team, 'What can we do to be faster and more agile? How do we organize ourselves? What's the construct that makes the most sense?' We can't be bound by history and tradition."

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 5, 2017

Everybody Loses in Trump’s War on Intelligence Agencies -- Bloomberg editorial

Who is Julian Assange? -- Eli Watkins, CNN

Reading news in the age of Trump? Think like a spy -- Peter Van Buren, Reuters

Donald Trump’s Soft Spot for Russia Could Be His Political Undoing -- John Schindler, Observer

The Istanbul attack marks a new age of terror in Turkey -- Yavuz Baydar, The Guardian

How Iranian President Rouhani’s main asset became his biggest liability -- Ali Hashem, Al-Monitor

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/iran-presidential-elections-2017-rouhani-nuclear-deal-jcpoa.html#ixzz4UwB7M220

Trump Picks Peter Navarro for Trade and China Hits the Panic Button -- Jonathan Russo, Observer

A Bull Named Trump in a Shop Called China -- Yasheng Huang, Project Syndicate

China Bubble Looking Ever More Ominous -- Walter Russel Mead, The American Interest

The Rise of Taliban Diplomacy -- Ahmad Bilal Khalil, The Diplomat

The Case for Wider U.S. Engagement in Libya -- Karim Mezran, Atlantic Council

The Red Ink Behind Brazil's Bloody Prison Massacre -- Mac Margolis, Bloomberg

The Post-Caliphate Counterterrorism Challenge -- John McLaughlin, The Cipher Brief

The 17 World Elections You Should be Watching In 2017 -- Kevin Lees, Suffragio