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“Every day, as Washingtonians go about their overt lives, the FBI, CIA, Capitol Police, Secret Service and U.S. Marshals Service stage covert dramas in and around the capital where they train,” the Post’s Laura Blumenfeld spotlights.“The Pentagon has approached Congress to grant the Secretary of Defense the authority to post almost 400,000 military personnel throughout the United States in times of emergency,” The Progressive’s Matthew Rothschild alerts. The White House must appoint without delay a cybersecurity czar “who can not only guard against cyber-attack and protect critical infrastructure but also prevent intellectual-property theft,” Stanton Sloane exhorts in BusinessWeek. National Counterterrorism Center reporting identifies nearly 50,000 casualties worldwide in terror-related violence last year, U.S. News’ Alex Kingsbury recounts in a profile of the center’s latest director.