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Opinion Roundup: More Intelligence, Less Safety
By not in system - AOL News(July 19) -- Dana Priest and William Arkin's Washington Post expose of the fast-growing intelligence community in their first installment of "Top Secret America" has plenty of people talking. Making Us Less Safe What's most noteworthy about all of this is that the objective endlessly invoked for why we must acquiesce to all of this -- National Security -- is not only unfulfilled by "Top Secret America," but actively subverted by it. ... The article details how ample information regarding alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and attempted Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab was collected ...
More High-Tech Setbacks for Border Security
By G.W. Schulz - Politics DailyThe Obama administration's recent surprise decision to suspend new work on a multibillion-dollar high-tech border control system -- the third attempted since 1997 -- raises further questions about the government's use of computer networks and sensors in an effort to seal the border with Mexico. As part of a broad illegal immigration crackdown called the Secure Border Initiative, a seamless "virtual fence" launched in 2005 was supposed to be up and running by last year. Among other things, the project known as SBInet called for a vast surveillance system along the 2,000-mile Southwestern ...
'Virtual Fence' Along U.S.-Mexico Border Halted as Napolitano Shifts Funding
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe building of a "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border has come to a virtual halt -- by order of the Obama administration. The Department of Homeland Security, citing delays and cost overruns for the project, has decided to shift $50 million in economic stimulus funds set aside for the "fence," to other purposes related to border security. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she would freeze work on the five-year plan to mount sensors and other surveillance gear along stretches of the 2,000-mile border. Two pilot projects in Arizona will apparently remain in place and ...
Bulk of Anti-Terror Funding Pegged to 9/11 Suspect
By Russell Berman - AOL News(Feb. 1) -- At first glance, the $213 million that the Obama administration wants to add to the federal budget in anti-terrorism funding for high-risk cities next year seems like a substantial increase. It would boost the pot of urban homeland security money by 24 percent over the current level. But a closer look at the budget finds that almost all of the increase – $200 million – can be traced largely to one man: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. www.muslm.net / AP A lion's share of the $213 million President Obama is asking for in anti-terrorism funding for high-risk cities next year can ...
Hamilton Amplifies Chorus of Criticism From 9/11 Panel
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 7) -- The vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission charged that "complacency set in" after the 2001 terrorist attacks and blamed "human failure" for not preventing the Christmas Day bomb plot to blow up an American airliner over Detroit. While there has been some progress, former Democratic congressman Lee Hamilton said, "I do not feel that homeland security is at the highest priority level of the government. It's true today, it's been true in recent years. It may be that this Detroit incident will change that." Hamilton spoke just hours before President Barack Obama was to ...
Opinion: Obama Missteps on Airport Security
By not in system - AOL News(Jan. 5) – In confronting the aftermath of the Christmas bombing plot, President Obama is surely discovering one thing: It isn't easy being George Bush. In its reaction to the failed attacks, the Obama administration has responded with many of the same panicked measures that were seen in the Bush response after 9/11. From patting down 4-year-olds to forcing air travelers to sit in their seats for the last hour of every flight, the administration once again turned homeland security into the stuff of late-night comedy. And in what looks like an effort to answer critics who charge that ...
Al-Qaida Claims Responsibility for Attempted US Attack
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO (Dec. 28) -- Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner on Christmas day, saying it was retaliation for a U.S. operation against the group in Yemen. In a statement posted on the Internet, the group said 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab coordinated with members of the group. Yemeni forces, helped by U.S. intelligence, carried out two airstrikes against al-Qaida operatives in the country this month. The second one was a day before the attempted bombing of the plane. The group said the would-be bomber used ...
Homeland Security Department Improperly Collected Intelligence on U.S. Citizens
By David Sessions - Politics DailyOn three separate occasions over the past several years, staffers at the Department of Homeland Security unlawfully collected information on American citizens or lawful residents, the New York Times reports. In all three cases, Homeland Security officials expressed concern that there was insufficient evidence to prompt the investigations and the reports were destroyed. In February, a Homeland Security staffer wrote a "threat assessment" for Wisconsin police in preparation for an upcoming pro- and anti-abortion demonstration and counter-demonstration. The report was eventually criticized ...
Opinion: A Needed Return to Immigration Reform
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- Finally, in the midst of so many other ambitious agenda items, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last week reasserted the administration's commitment to immigration reform, tentatively scheduled for early 2010. It's about time. The United States is, unbelievably enough, processing millions of immigration cases using a dinosaur system last updated when "E.T." topped box office charts and "Cheers" was America's favorite TV show. So what has taken immigration reform so long? The last attempt at reform, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act introduced in 2007, was ...
In 'Astonishing' Move, Kerik Pleads Guilty
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(Nov. 5) -- Bernard Kerik, the former police commissioner of New York City whose meteoric rise to the national spotlight was matched only by his even faster fall, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to eight felony counts that included lying to the White House and tax crimes. The plea agreement calls for a sentence of up to nearly three years. "It is a sad day when the former chief law enforcement officer of New York City pleads guilty to eight federal felonies," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a prepared statement. Lawrence Kobilinsky, an acquaintance of Kerik and a forensics ...
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