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Homeland Security warned us we needed to start checking underwear

By | 01.05.10 | 8:38 am

Newsweek is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security last fall was exploring the threat posed to air travelers by bombs secreted aboard planes in underclothing and hidden in body cavities. Haven’t security personnel always been on the watch for…

Critics question plans to deploy 20,000 troops in U.S. for domestic security

By | 12.02.08 | 1:31 pm

Civil libertarians and plain old libertarians are sounding the alarm over Pentagon plans to station 20,000 uniformed troops stateside to respond to domestic “catastrophes,”including nuclear, chemical or biological attacks, the Washington Post reports. The deployment, reported by The Colorado Independent’s Erin Rosa a month ago, includes a 4,700-troop combat brigade based at Fort Stewart, Ga., under the command of the U.S. Northern Command’s Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr., in Colorado Springs.

Colorado ‘fusion center’ to step up intelligence gathering during DNC

By | 07.30.08 | 8:47 am

Federal and state law enforcement officials will increase intelligence operations during the Democratic National Convention, overseeing an information war room that will be staffed around the clock with analysts who access a dozen databases while receiving reports of "suspicious…

Is Real ID Really Going to Happen?

By | 05.12.08 | 11:28 am

Our Washington Independent colleague Matthew Blake reports that the 2004 Real ID Act was set to kick in yesterday, May 11. Yet, the new national standards for state driver’s licenses and official photo identification cards has not gone

So Long Cowboy Diplomacy. Hello Collaborative Women

By | 09.09.06 | 1:56 am

A new poll released yesterday by the nonpartisan The White House Project found that likely voters clearly reject the Bush Administration’s message that the nation is safer since 9/11. Candidates, especially women, who promote a more collaborative approach…