Hans Kristensen, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Nuclear Information Project in Washington, said his organization had already put the number at around 5,100 by reviewing budget estimates and other documents. The import of the announcement is the precedent it sets, Kristensen said. "The important part is that the U.S. is no longer going to keep other countries in the dark," he said. Read full article.

"It is important that the pursuit of ratification leads to bipartisan support," said Daryl Kimball, the executive director of the Arms Control Association, a think tank that supports ratification. "It is going to be important that this treaty sets the tone for future Senate debates." Read full article. 

Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum, a group that is pressing for immigration legislation, has issued a statement accusing Graham of "trying to play two critical issues for the country against one another. "Now more than ever, America needs strong, principled leadership," Noorani said. "Will the real Sen. Graham please step forward?" Read full article. 

Kurt Opsahl, a senior attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, criticized the fact that Instant Personalization is by default set to share user information and is time-consuming to change. "Your friends could be giving away information like your name, your gender, your community interests and pages to the Web sites they chose to interact with," Opsahl said. Read full article.

The Asian Law Caucus, based in San Francisco, released a statement this morning condemning the new law. "This law will level untold damage on the state's immigrant communities," said Titi Liu, executive director of the caucus. "Arizona's decision legalizes racial profiling by law enforcement and moves our entire country in the wrong direction." Read full article.

Kate Martin,the director of the Center for National Security Studies, observed that even outside of CYBERCOM, whose mandate remains rather unclear, there’s an “ongoing controversy about what kinds of military activities in the context of armed conflict with al-Qaeda are governed by the [legal] covert-activities requirement. That’s not even resolved, outside of the realm of cyberattacks.” Read full article. 

 Shakeel Syed, Director of Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, which serves over a half million Muslims in Southern California, served as the co-keynote speaker for the evening.

 Yet governments are increasingly looking to intermediaries such as Google to implement censorship and surveillance, said Cynthia Wong, staff attorney at the Center for Democracy and Technology. As a result, she said, "Companies like Google face difficult ethical questions." Read full article.

“For the first time in eight years, we have the opportunity to meet, engage, discuss, disagree, but have an impact on policy,” said James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute in Washington. “We’re being made to feel a part of that process and that there is somebody listening.” Read full article. 

Rami Nashashibi, 38, is head of Inner-City Muslim Action Network, a Southwest Side nonprofit organization with a broad social justice and arts agenda for a diverse, low-income constituency. I.M.A.N. runs housing, criminal justice, cultural, religious, literacy and youth counseling programs; operates a small, free health clinic; and creates partnerships with priests, rabbis, corporations and the City of Chicago, among others.Read full article.