I recently joined the board of directors for The Constitution Project, a think tank that provides scholarship and bipartisan policy recommendations on constitutional issues in the criminal justice and rule of law arenas. Maintaining an effective criminal justice system and upholding the Constitution requires a collective effort from throughout the public and private sectors, and the Constitution Project supports this.
TSA Admits Bungling of Airport Body-Scanner Radiation Tests – Wired Threat Level
The Transportation Security Administration is re-analyzing the radiation levels of X-ray body scanners installed in airports nationwide, after testing produced dramatically higher-than-expected results.
How should law enforcement respond to “threats” against government officials, particularly when the “threats” do not rise to the level of criminal activity? Law enforcement has made great strides in collecting data on incidents and behaviors that are suspicious in nature. The advent of Fusion Centers and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative (NSI) has laid the framework. If we do not begin to look at the threats against our institutions by people who are aggrieved, violently inclined, or mentally ill, then we will likely see more of this kind of crime.
Court Unlikely to Halt ‘Nude’ Airport Body Scanners – Threat Level
A federal appeals court on Thursday appeared unlikely it would block the use and ongoing deployment of the so-called “nude” airport body scanners, which the government maintains are necessary to protect the airways from terrorists.
Emotions Run High in Congressional Hearing on Radicalization New York congressman Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, defended the hearing as a necessary examination of terrorists’ attempts to recruit Muslims living in the U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison vehemently objected to Mr. King’s approach, saying individuals are responsible for instances of terrorism.
Kari Ansari: The Muslim Family Response to Hatred Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Chair of the Homeland Security Committee of the House of Representatives, is holding McCarthy-like Congressional hearings beginning this Thursday on the “Radicalization of American Muslims.” Quite a bit of the proposed witness list has looked like a who’s who of Islamophobes, and we […]
Guest Voices: In defense of Peter King’s Muslim hearings – On Faith at washingtonpost.com When I heard that Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) was going to hold hearings on the issue of radicalization inside our American Muslim community, I thought: It’s about time. As those hearings begin on Thursday, all of us need to grab a […]
We’ve got anti-Muslim accusations. We’ve got anti-American accusations. We’ve got anti-Peter King accusations. We’ve got charges of bigotry, racism and religious intolerance. We’ve got a New York Times magazine writer asserting that “America is a tinderbox of prejudice and fear.” In short, we’ve got a lot of hysteria.
The Supreme Court decision to uphold the right of the members of the Westboro Baptist Church to protest at the funerals of fallen service members reminds us: Even hurtful speech is protected. As a career Army Officer, what these protesters do at ceremonies personally sickens and angers me, but I thank God that I can be counted as a U.S. citizen, and I am glad I was willing to lay down my life so the Westboro Baptist crowd can desecrate the memory of my comrades.
Court Likely to Uphold Constitutionality of ‘Nude’ Airport Scanners – Wired Threat Level
Airline passengers in the United States understand they will be treated as suspected terrorists when going through airport security checkpoints.
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