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a new report from Daniel L. Byman at Brookings: Passive Sponsors of Terrorism From ResourceShelf's DocuTicker: Leaving the Nation at Risk: 33 Unfulfilled Promises From the Department of Homeland Security and Beyond Connecting the Dots: A VITAL Framework for Sharing Law Enforcement Intelligence Information from Law Librarian Blog: Before Monitoring Everyone Using Data-Mining Technology [must] File Report with Congress This Day in History: December 29 from Infomaniac: "Breached Levee map from Times-Picayune, incredible PDF." Too young to die on the teenaged girl who was killed during a shootout between rival drug gangs on the streets of Toronto.