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(Washington Post) — A year after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials say they have made it easier to add individuals’ names to a terrorist watch list and improved the government’s ability to thwart an attack in the United States. The failure to put Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on the watch listlast […]
(AP) — The Senate on Wednesday agreed to provide up to $4.2 billion in new aid to survivors of the September 2001 terrorism attack on the World Trade Center and responders who became ill working in its ruins. The House and Senate were expected to vote later in the day on a deal negotiated by […]
(Washington Informer) — Metro kicked off tighter security controls Tuesday, beginning randomized searches of riders’ bags at two stations during the morning commute. The first screenings, typically running well under a minute each, lasted for an hour at the Green Line’s College Park station and Braddock Road stop on the Yellow/Blue lines in Alexandria. No […]
In the government's opinion a secure citizenry is one under close watch.
(New York Times) — A former Guyanese politician convicted of plotting to blow up fuel tanks at Kennedy International Airport was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison. The man, Abdul Kadir, once the mayor of Guyana’s second-largest city, Linden, and a former member of the country’s Parliament, sat quietly as Judge Dora L. Irizarry of Federal […]
(Wall Street Journal) — A measure in Congress that effectively bars the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the U.S. for trial drew a sharp reaction from the Obama administration Thursday, with Attorney General Eric Holder calling it “extremely unwise.” The restriction was tucked into a $1.1 trillion appropriations bill to fund the government that the […]
(Wall Street Journal) — After two losses in court, the Justice Department is pushing Congress to broaden a provision of the Patriot Act that allows U.S. judges to freeze assets linked to foreign crimes. In recent cases in New York and Washington, D.C., federal judges ruled the Justice Department acted prematurely on requests by foreign […]
(New York Times) — Amid the uproar that airport screening has become too intrusive, some Americans are now asking why the United States cannot do it like the Israelis. Representative John L. Mica, Republican of Florida and a critic of the Obama administration’s new screening methods, says theTransportation Security Administration should look at Israel, which […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Examples of public resistance to the rollout of high-technology body scanners in American airports are mounting, with some protesters calling for a nationwide boycott of the new security scanners on the day before Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year. Several pilots unions are advising their members not […]
(New York Times) — The trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani has attracted intense interest as a test of the Obama administration’s strategy to try Guantánamodetainees in civilian court. But few have as much personal connection to the case as the group of onlookers who fill several rows of the Manhattan courtroom. Some are family members of those […]