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Lee Ferran, RealClearLife In all fairness, Sen. Angus King warned them out front he was steaming mad.The first statement I want to make is more in sorrow than in anger. I’ll get to the anger part in a minute, the independent senator from Maine said.King was addressing some of the most powerful men in the country, from the Director of National Intelligence to the chiefs of the CIA, NSA, FBI, Defense Intelligence Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency at Tuesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Worldwide Threats an annual face-to-face discussion about what keeps the top U.S. national… http://bit.ly/2FekHCN

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Jack Detsch, Al-Monitor The Donald Trump administration is seeking to more than double the number of assault rifles it provides to Syrian Kurds and other US-backed fighters despite rising anger from NATO ally Turkey.Budget figures released Feb. 15 reveal that the Pentagon plans to give its Syrian partners including the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) more than 25,000 AK-47s, the gas-powered Soviet-era gun that has become a fixture in Syria’s seven-year civil war. The low cost and accessibility of the Kalashnikovs make them easy for US-backed troops to sustain as the Pentagon looks to hold territory won… http://bit.ly/2ExpM7Q

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M. Peck, Nat. Interest Just before he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, the German officer penned a final note.”For a captain with a sense of honor, it goes without saying that his personal fate cannot be separated from that of his ship,” wrote Hans Langsdorff on December 19, 1939, in a hotel room in Buenos Aires. Langsdorff finished his letter to the Nazi ambassador to Argentina, lay down on a German battle flag, and shot himself. http://bit.ly/2ExpHRA