A small vessel, such as a commercial fishing vessel or recreational boat, can be used as a waterborne improvised explosive device, as a platform for conducting an attack, or to smuggle weapons or terrorists into the United States.
He’s the International Olympic Committee (IOC) member who asked about the “harrowing” experience of entering the United States. Some are already seeing him as the Voice of the World, condemning America for its arrogance in trying to protect US borders. But it’s worth remembering that the IOC membership represents, well, the IOC members.
The White House says that President Obama is taking the unusual step of personally lobbying the international Olympic committee in order to help create jobs, spur tourism and promote economic growth for the US and especially his home town of Chicago. Certainly, the President should promote trade and tourism, but it is a pity that he can’t get DHS fully on board and willing to make a similar commitment.
By Stewart Baker
According to Stratfor the terrorist who attacked Prince Mohammed bin Nayef was able to get through security searches because he hid the IED in what the organization delicately describes as his “anal cavity.” Of course it’s hard to do much damage with the amount of explosives you can get in there, so the attack only lightly wounded the prince.
By Douglas Doan
The good news is that the Secretary Napolitano is, finally, starting to focus on the growing problem regarding how over a $ 1 billion of Stimulus funding was quietly diverted from its intended purpose and is being squandered. But stay tuned to this one – nasty congressional hearings could be just around the corner
The arrest of Richard Cramer earlier this month is very disturbing news for many reasons. Cramer was arrested by DEA on September 4th for his participation in a conspiracy to provide members of a Mexican drug cartel with information and background on U.S. narcotics enforcement activities.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) conducted a survey of its top performing confidential sources a couple years ago, and asked them to list in order of importance the factors that allow global drug trafficking cartels [and terrorist organizations] to succeed. At the very top of the list for every respondent was the single word— ‘CORRUPTION.’
Perhaps the most compelling feature of the Pittsburgh preparations for G20 has been the apparent attitude in Pittsburgh of, “It won’t happen here.” This attitude is dangerous – the local government can argue that it took all necessary precautions to warn people of the threat, but even with less than a month to go the warnings and preparation advice was basically to, “prepare as though it’s a snow day,” and to “have pre-drilled boards available for the windows” just in case.
In response to an act-of-war situation, we probably would not want to send a police department to a foreign land. Conversely, sending an Army to handle a police action is probably not a good idea or at least a good use of resources. This brings me to my concern for putting the military on the U.S. borders to handle the immigration issue that faces our nation. It’s a bad idea.
Sponsored by:
