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• Cyber-Security Chief Resigns in Protest

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 520
  Source: New Media Journal The official in charge of coordinating the US government’s cyber-security operations has quit, saying the expanding control of the National Security Agency over the nation’s computer security efforts poses “threats to our democratic processes.” “Even from a security standpoint, ...
  11 hours ago

• President Obama orders investigation following failed terror attack

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — President Obama on Sunday ordered an immediate review of aviation screening technology and its terrorism watchlisting system, the White House said on Tuesday.The White House released two presidential memorandums in which President Obama detailed on the purpose of the reviews.One of the ...
  14 hours ago

• Klein: McClatchy blames Republicans holding up TSA chief confirmation. Minimizes concerns Obama nominee would harm U.S. airport security

  
  RBO — Authority: 516
  Aaron Klein, Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, writes:The McClatchy newspaper syndicate this week squarely blamed a Republican senator for holding up the confirmation of a new chief for the Transportation Security Administration, failing to mention until the end of a lengthy article the delay was over fears ...
  15 hours ago

• Obama Fail, DHS Fail…

  
  Truth, Lies and In Between — Authority: 125
  The attack that failed due to a terrorist being a moron, is not the “system worked” that I would expect. The system didn’t work. The President is a putz, his appointed moron to DHS is absent from reality, and the press, they’re continuing to suck Obama’s ass. When do we start the proceedings for ...
  16 hours ago

• How to make TSA even worse? Unionize them, of course!

  
  W.C. Varones Blog — Authority: 547
  As Congress and the Dept of Homeland Security ponder the key question of how it can make the Transportation Security Administration any worse , it has apparently come up with a fool-proof answer: Lets Unionize TSA workers ! I kid not. Napalotino wants to unionize them , and so does Obamas nominee to head the ...
  18 hours ago

• Lancaster requires businesses to do immigration checks on new hires

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Businesses operating in the city of Lancaster will be required to ensure that all their new hires are eligible to work in the United States by using an Internet-based federal program to check the immigration and employment eligibility of potential workers. The free online program, called E-Verify, allows participating ...
  22 hours ago

• Asking Questions

  
  Carol's Closet — Authority: 559
  By now we know that the attempted airline bombing on Christmas day was planned by two former residents of Gitmo who were released and sent back to Saudi Arabia. We know that the “Underpants Bomber” was trained in an al Qaeda camp in Yemen and we know that Obama has plans to send up to eighty current Gitmo ...
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• Underwear Bomber Renews Calls for ‘Naked Scanners’

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 145
  After an alleged terrorist unsuccessfully tried to detonate his explosive underwear on a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, current and former American officials are now using the failed attack to push for more airport scanners to spot such explosives — and a lot more.The Transportation Security Administration in ...
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• President Obamas year of blunders is ending with the worst failure yet by the president and his team

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 143
  Obama has proved himself remarkably skilled for the role of celebrity talking head and woefully ill-prepared for the job of leader of the free world and defender of American security. He campaigned as the opposite of George W. Bush and he has delivered, as the attack on Detroit demonstrates. The country cannot ...
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• Video- Rove: Obama Admin. Handling Flight 253 Suspect in Troubling Way

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 659
  And no one is defending from our side. Should have been out in front of this.
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• Homeland Security Official Air Travel Security Rules

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 494
  For those of you still awaiting flights home from the holidays or with impending business travel in the coming weeks, you may want to read over these security directives distributed by TSA as their “official security rules” in light of the Flight 253 “Underpants Bomber:” U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ...
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• al Qaeda taking credit for AbdulMutallab

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 149
  December 28, 2009According to CNN, al Qaeda in the “Arabian Peninsula” has claimed responsibility for Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab’s thwarted attack, saying it was retaliation for the recent US attacks in Yemen.CNN: In the statement, published on radical Islamist Web sites, the group hailed the “brother” who ...
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• U.S. Department Of Homeland Security Rules Document Leaks After Detroit Terrorist Incident

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 523
  Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab is the 23 year old terrorist that attempted to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight in Detroit last week. Umar attempted to set off a device when he was aboard a plane that was preparing to land in the Detroit airport arriving from Amsterdam. The passengers and flight crew put out the flames ...
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• Feds assess terror watchlists after airline attack

  
  TexasFred — Authority: 518
  Feds assess terror watchlists after airline attack WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal authorities met Monday to reassess the nation’s system of terror watchlists to determine how to avoid the type of lapse that allowed a man with explosives to board a flight to the U.S. even though he was flagged as a possible terrorist.A ...
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• DHS: Department Of Hairbrained Slackers

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 165
  More than once on these pages we have taken Janet Napolitano and her crew at the Department of Homeland Security to task. This woman, who heads the government agency that is supposed to keep Americans safe here in the U.S. is an absolute disgrace. From her remarks about returning veterans being “potential domestic ...
  2 days ago

• Your Questions About Abdulmutallab’s Visa: Answered

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The key question about how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab retained his visa to enter the U.S. centers on the connection between the terror watchlist he was on and State Department visa procedures . Here I was, working on an explainer about precisely that connection, when Mark Hosenball beat me to it . And he did an ...
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• Dont let them get away with it

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 659
  Every D talking head in THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD should be pounding this into the publics brains over and over and over. G-d damn this pisses me off. Via Ben- Perhaps the largest impediment to change at the agency: South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint has a hold on the appointment of a TSA chief, over his ...
  2 days ago

• Napolitano Acknowledges Security System Failed

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 532
  The secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, said Monday that the thwarted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner represented a failure of the nation’s aviation security system, not the success she and other administration officials had portrayed in comments over the weekend.Ms. Napolitano said Monday on ...
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• Brits Denied Visa Request for Abdulmutallab

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The New York Times reports on a radio interview with U.K. Home Secretary Alan Johnson: Mr. Johnson said Mr. Abdulmutallab’s application to renew his student visa was rejected in May after officials determined that the academic course he had given as his reason for returning to Britain was bogus. He was then ...
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• Napolitano Says System To Keep Air Travel Safe Failed

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 160
  Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The system aimed at keeping air travel secure failed when a Nigerian man who was suspected of ties to militants managed to smuggle explosives aboard a flight, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Monday. “It did,” Napolitano said in an interview on ...
  2 days ago

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