From Salon: Since the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, the federal government has obtained more than 500 federal counterterrorism convictions. According to a new Human Rights Watch report (produced in association with Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute), “nearly 50 percent of [those] … convictions resulted from informant-based cases; […]
From The Wall Street Journal: Ebola outbreaks in several West African nations forced two heads of state to pull out of a historic Africa summit with President Barack Obama, in a reminder of how crises on the continent can undermine efforts to change U.S. perceptions of it. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president […]
From Fierce Homeland Security: A top researcher at RAND urged lawmakers and the Homeland Security Department to open up more data on border security to the research community and academia during a House hearing July 31…Riley said DHS restrictions on access to border security data and on publishing work related to that data impede outside […]
From HSToday: The House overwhelmingly passed three bills Monday “to strengthen efforts to combat cyber attacks on our critical infrastructure through the distribution of cyber threat information, the development and procurement of new technologies and support for the Department of Homleand Security’s (DHS) cybersecurity workforce.
From The Kansas City Star: The words used in a recent terrorism risk report are alarming: Kansas City International Airport is a key hub for terrorist travel…Federal and police officials say travelers should be alert but not alarmed. An independent terrorism expert, however, says we should all take a deep breath — the incendiary report […]
From USA Today: In a crime-fighting tactic that sets civil libertarians’ teeth on edge, police in Monroe County and other urban counties across New York state are collecting and archiving tens of millions of records that track vehicle movement. The records are stored in a series of loosely connected secure computer servers, accessible directly or […]
From Reuters: A 28-year-old Chinese man pleaded guilty on Wednesday of attempting to smuggle military technology obtained from undercover U.S. agents out of the United States to China, the U.S. Justice Department said. Bo Cai, an employee of a Chinese technology firm, was accused along with his cousin Wentong Cai, 29, of trying to illegally […]
From The Associated Press: At an impasse on immigration, House Republicans and Senate Democrats advanced competing proposals Wednesday for dealing with tens of thousands of young migrants showing up at the southern border. Each side quickly ruled the other’s approach unacceptable, leaving any solution unclear with Congress’ annual August recess looming.
From HSToday: Congressional oversight of homeland security received a particularly harsh rebuke by a new report by members of the now decade-old 9/11 Commission who were reconvened by the Bipartisan Policy Center and Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania to update their original recommendations ten years ago.
From Politico: Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the U.S. government has prosecuted more than 500 people in the United States for terrorism-related offenses, an impressive tally that suggests law enforcement is keeping Americans safe…But examine many of these cases closely, as Human Rights Watch and Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute did, and you […]
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