With the prospect of a government shutdown looming as Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans battle obstructionist Democrats, I decided to turn back the pages of history and examine the effects of the most-recent government shutdown which began Dec. 16, 1995, and ended Jan. 6, 1996. According to the Congressional Research Service report, “Shutdown of [...]
Report Details Impact of 1995-96 Shutdown (Update)
April 8th, 2011 · No Comments
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Memo May Have Cost Two U.S. Soldiers Their Lives (Update)
January 16th, 2011 · No Comments
When I read a news report about an Iraqi soldier killing two U.S. soldiers and wounding a third during training of Iraqi security forces at a U.S. military camp 240 miles north of Baghdad, I couldn’t help but think the shootings might have been prevented if only that Iraqi soldier had been screened by U.S. [...]
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Special Forces Units Ignore Memo, Save Lives (Update)
December 7th, 2010 · 11 Comments
By signing a memo Oct. 29, 2007, James R. Clapper Jr. exposed U.S. military personnel to greater-than-necessary danger as they served their country in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hot spots around the world. Then an Under Secretary of Defense and now our nation’s Director of National Intelligence, Clapper designated the polygraph and its hand-held cousin, [...]
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Passenger-Friendly Screening Technology Ready (Update)
December 1st, 2010 · 36 Comments
Full-body scans, pat-downs and other procedures wouldn’t be necessary at the nation’s airports if the federal government, including the Transportation Security Administration, would only turn to a safer, touch-free, passenger-friendly technology with nearly four decades of success behind it. Because of its timeliness in relation to current events, I share a slightly-modified version (below the [...]
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I’m Stepping Away From Full-Time Blogging
June 3rd, 2010 · 11 Comments
With the fourth anniversary of this blog’s birth less than five months away, I’m using this post to announce that I’m stepping away from full-time blogging at BobMcCarty.com. Why slow down after publishing nearly 4,000 posts? Several reasons exist, but I’ll limit myself to the most important one: I WANT TO FINISH WRITING MY FIRST [...]
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Counterterrorism Drill Compromised By PR Effort
May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Terrorists looking for an opportunity to study how law enforcement agencies conduct a regional counterterrorism exercise received a gift Wednesday night. It came in the form of an embargoed news release. I came across the news release, a partial image of which appears above, via PR Newswire Wednesday at 8:37 p.m. Central. Issued by the [...]
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Was Interrogation of ‘Meredith Reed’ Realistic?
January 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment
I welcomed the arrival of the first two Season 8 episodes of the Fox Network program “24″ in my living room last night. After all, what man doesn’t enjoy an occasional foray into the adrenaline-filled life of “Jack Bauer”? At about the 28-minute mark of the second episode, however, the story unfolding on my television [...]
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