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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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