Today's Headlines and Commentary

As Wells mentioned, the next hearings in the 9/11 cases at Guantanamo have been scheduled. Carol Rosenberg at the Miami Herald reminds us that the hearings will take place during Ramadan.

Ben already noted today's New York Times editorial.

The drone stories drone on: Canada is planning on using unmanned aerial vehicles to patrol its Arctic territory, writes Carola Hoyas in the Financial Times.

The Atlantic's senior editor Robert Wright adds his name to the list of those responding to the New York Times story on Obama's "kill list" that's been making waves all week, as does Mark Mardell at BBC News, Peter Oborne at the Telegraph, Michael Kelley at Business Insider.

Austin Wright at Politico tells us what many of us may have already suspected, based upon last year's fiasco: the House and the Senate are poised for a fight over the NDAA.

With its new government in place, France is starting over on its drone-building plan, says Reuters and Bloomberg.

The government of Malaysia is joining forces with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in an effort to secure the release of two of its citizens currently detained in Guantanamo, Mohd Farik Amin and Mohd Nazir Lep. Malaysia's national news agency Bernama reports.

Nicole Perlroth at the New York Times continues her coverage of the Flame computer virus, and her interviewees speculate that the virus is state-sponsored, although they hesitate to say which country is responsible (although yesterday we shared a story laying the blame on Israel, as does this International Herald Tribune post).

The Obama administration is hard at work trying to thwart botnets with its new "Keep a Clean Machine" campaign to educate consumers on how to secure their computers. Brendan Sasso at The Hill reports.

Meanwhile, Ellen Nakashima at the Washington Post tells us that the Pentagon is looking toward private industry to develop technologies to aid in the DOD's Plan X, which is aimed at developing cyberwarfare capabilities.

Rod Nordland at the Times updates us on the transfer of authority over Parwan Detention Facility from the U.S. to the Afghan government, which is moving slower than Afghan officials expected.

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