Security Sieve Through Which Abdulmutallab Passed: Who’s to Blame?
Reports from two investigations into the intelligence community’s mishandling of crucial information relevant to the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 by Nigerian...
Crime
How Did Abdulmutallab Avoid Detection?
As reported yesterday by The New American, a second person of interest was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers after the...
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Did Abdulmutallab Board Flight 253 Without a Passport?
As is typical in the aftermath of this sort of occurrence, there is a maelstrom of stories swirling around Umar Abdulmutallab’s attempt to...
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New York City Murder Rate at All-time Low
New York City is headed for a record-low number of murders in 2009, according to the New York Times for December 28. As...
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Nigerian with al Qaeda Ties Attempts Airline Terrorist Attack
As the Airbus 300 from Amsterdam packed with holiday travelers descended toward Detroit on Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab returned to his seat...
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Inside Goldman
When the New York Times announced in their lead article on the front page of their Christmas Eve edition that the Securities and...
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Crime Rate Falls Despite Recession
The FBI’s preliminary crime statistics for the first half of 2009 show the crime rate falling all across the nation despite high unemployment...
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TSA Baggage Screening Set to Take Out Grandma’s Cookies
Did you know that, technically, it is illegal to cram a week’s worth of medications into one convenient bottle? And if airport screeners...
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The Jihadists in America
It is a bucolic region of verdant meadows, rolling hills, and babbling brooks, a largely peaceful place where big city hustle and bustle...
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Orwellian Technology at Homeland Security
George Orwell, in his chilling classic, 1984, described how people could commit crimes without any physical act at all. This type of offense,...
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Homeland Security’s Improper Intelligence
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that during the last several years the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has improperly collected intelligence...
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World’s Toughest Sheriff — No Apologies
Arguably the “world’s toughest sheriff,” Maricopa County (Phoenix) Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues to draw heavy fire for his strong statements, stands, and...
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ACLU Says Obama Is Creating “Impunity” for Torturers
“The Bush administration constructed a legal framework for torture, but the Obama administration is constructing a legal framework for impunity,” the American Civil...
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TSA Places Five Employees on Leave Over Breach
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has placed five employees on administrative leave pending the results of the agency’s investigation of how a confidential...
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Contractor Posted TSA Secrets Online
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stated on December 9 that her department is investigating how a version of the Transportation Security...
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