One and a half years ago, the folks at the CATO Institute published a piece under the headline, Be Wary of Using Military as Police. In the opening paragraph, they offered a warning of sorts: The mainstream media has finally gotten around to reporting that the Pentagon has assigned active-duty troops to a homeland defense [...]
Will Military’s Homeland Security Mission Grow?
July 10th, 2010 · 11 Comments
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No Word Yet on NYC Bomb Suspect’s Tea Party Ties
May 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment
During a mid-day news conference at the Department of Justice, Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and others addressed the charges that Faisal Shahzad will face following the car bomb attempted that failed Saturday in New York City’s Times Square. They did not, however, reveal any details about the specific Tea Party [...]
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Missouri’s Use of Federal Funds ‘Most Unusual’
May 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Out of all the 50 states and Washington, D.C., Missouri’s response to open-records requests seeking detailed grant spending records in electronic form such as a spreadsheet turned out to be among the most unusual, according to a report, the “Price of Peril”, released today by the Center for Investigative Reporting. This isn’t the first time [...]
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Explosives Theft Qualifies As Near-Miss for USA
February 24th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Imagine tons of explosives being stolen in Mexico and then transported by truck across the border into the United States. Could it happen? Over the weekend, it did. Almost. On Friday, according to an article in the Latin American Herald Tribune, 18 tons of industrial explosives were stolen from a cargo container during a robbery [...]
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Cyber Attack on USA Expected Tuesday?
February 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment
It was almost 9 p.m. in Tehran as I published this post, and people around the world are still trying to decide what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threatened “punch” against the West is going to be. Some influential Americans appear to think it might come as a cyber attack. For more information, I direct your [...]
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Proposed Law Would Keep Best Tools Out of the Hands of Law Enforcement During War on Terror
February 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Like many Americans, you might deem the information below “yawnworthy.” If, however, you’re interested in ensuring that our nation’s Departments of Defense and Homeland Security are equipped with the best possible tools to fight the War on Terror, you’ll be interested in what happens in states like Washington where a push is being waged to [...]
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CIA Deaths, Terrorism Could Have Been Prevented
January 11th, 2010 · 8 Comments
James Chapman was as distraught as any patriotic American about seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan being killed in an explosion set off by a double-agent Dec. 31. The 67-year-old Marine Corps veteran made it clear that he hated to see our nation’s security compromised the way it was Christmas Day when a 23-year-old Nigerian man, [...]
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