Liberty and Security Roundup

National Security:

• Doomsday Memo: The House Armed Services Committee released a report stating that further budget cuts will return the military to “the post-Vietnam Carter era of the late 1970s” and that proposed cuts would “transform a Superpower into a Regional Power.”
• The Army will begin cutting 50,000 soldiers in March.
• Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer wants to become a New York City firefighter.
• The Justice Department has asked a court not to allow the release of photos showing Osama bin Laden after being killed in Pakistan.
• Authorities found a Michigan man with over 4000 pounds of explosives, but have not charged him with plotting to detonate the materials.

Islam/Sharia:

• Christian pastor in Iran faces execution for refusing to convert to Islam
• The FBI is investigating evidence that the Council on American-Islamic Relations has solicited funds from state sponsors of terror.