Counterterrorism

Schumer's One-Way Street

Len Levitt | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Senator Chuck Schumer, Ray Kelly Underwear Bomb Plot, Underwear Bomb Plot, Ray Kelly, Counterterrorism, Robert Mueller, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, New York News

Chuck Schumer put his Senatorial arm on FBI Director Robert Mueller last week -- pressuring him to call NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and brief him on the recently foiled Yemeni bomb plot.

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Homeland Security Trade Show Deserted Even As Industry Keeps On Growing

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Law Enforcement, Video, Explosives, Military, Police, Counterterrorism, Homeland Security, Defense Contractors, Cybersecurity, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- More than a decade after 9/11, it isn't easy to stage a "first-of-its-kind" event centered on homeland security and counterterrorism. ...

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Counterterrorism Chief Urges Congress To Renew Surveillance Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: National Counterterrorism Center, Warrantless Wiretapping, Drone Attacks, Intelligence, Video, Counterterrorism, Matthew Olsen, Nctc Matthew Olsen, Secret Courts, Wiretapping, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Nctc, Fisa, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The federal government's top official in charge of analyzing intelligence warned Congress Wednesday not to "wait until the last minute" ...

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Ex-FBI Counter-Terrorism Agent Arrested On Child Pornography Charges

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: FBI Agent, Donald Sachtleben, Video, Child Abuse, Counterterrorism, Child Pornography, Fbi, Fbi Agent Child Pornography Charges, Crime News

Donald Sachtleben was an FBI agent for 25 years, with a record that includes such high-profile investigations as the Oklahoma City bombing, United Fli...

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30 Al Qaeda Militants Killed

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Video, Yemen, Yemen Al Qaida, Al Qaida, Counterterrorism, Al-Hurur Region, Yemen Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda, World News

SANAA, Yemen — Government troops backed by warplanes and heavy artillery pounded al-Qaida positions in southern Yemen on Sunday, killing at leas...

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Everyone Loses In a 9/11 Show Trial

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Federal Courts, 9/11 Trials, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Guantanamo Bay, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, George W. Bush, 9/11, World Trade Center, September 11 Attacks, Ksm, Gitmo, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Politics News

When even the former chief prosecutor opposes a trial in the military commissions he headed, there's something seriously wrong. Since their creation...

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Security Pact Ensures America's Presence in Afghanistan

Malou Innocent | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Osama Bin Laden, Counterinsurgency, Nation-Building, Politics News

President Obama's arrival in Afghanistan and signing of the strategic partnership agreement with President Karzai supposedly represents yet another corner turned in our nearly eleven year (and counting) war.

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Bin Laden's Death, One Year On

Malou Innocent | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: 9/11, Yemen, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, Horn of Africa, Osama Bin Laden, Terrorism, Politics News

Policymakers and prominent opinion leaders must stop conflating the punishment of al Qaeda with the creation of stable societies, particularly when waging counterinsurgency campaigns distracts from the conceptually simpler task of targeted counterterrorism measures to find and eliminate terrorist threats.

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John Brennan: Drones Strikes Are 'Ethical And Just' [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Dead, Video, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, Uavs, Elections 2012, John Brennan, Drone Strikes, Drones, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Saying that President Barack Obama "has instructed us to be more open with the American people" in the use of drones to kill suspected t...

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Bin Laden Raid: 'Obama Made The Decision'

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Death, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Terrorism, John Brennan, Mitt Romney, Obama Osama, Osama Bin Laden Raid, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Anwar Al Awlaki, Underwear Bomber, Aqap, Counterterrorism, Barack Obama 2012, Obama Terrorism, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan appeared on three separate Sunday morning programs to discuss the administration's eff...

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Officials: Al Qaeda Incapable Of New 9/11-Scale Attack

Reuters | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Video, Aqap, Al Qaeda Iraq, Al Qaeda Yemen, Al Qaeda Arabian Peninsula, Al Qaeda Attack, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, World News

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's core organization is likely incapable of carrying out another mass-casu...

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Imagining A Terrorist Attack On LA

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Terrorism LA, Dirty Bomb, War on Terror, Terrorism, Bomb on LA, USC Study Terrorist Attack, Department of Homeland Security Study, LA Terrorist Attack, Terrorist Attack LA, Dirty Bomb LA, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, USC CREATE, Counterterrorism, USC Study Dirty Bomb, LA Dirty Bomb, Los Angeles News

If Los Angeles were to fall victim to a terrorist attack, one of the most likely methods would be a "dirty bomb," USC researcher Adam Rose told The Hu...

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'The American Homeland Is the Planet'

Malou Innocent | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Homeland Security, War on Terror, Safe Havens, Afghanistan, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, War, Counterinsurgency, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Wars are incredibly wasteful and counterproductive to the goal of stopping terrorism. Unfortunately, U.S. officials remain hostage to the outdated notion that a specific territory matters -- they remain possessed by a sort of safe haven syndrome.

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In Defense of Jihadist Internet Forums

Aki Peritz | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Jihadists, Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Counterterrorism, National Security, Terrorism, Cybersecurity, Islamic Extremists, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Defacing and darkening extremist websites is immensely satisfying. However, the U.S. and others should not keep reminding terrorists and their followers that they are being monitored online.

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Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us

Bill Quigley | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Homeland Security, Surveillance, Cellphone Tracking, Government Surveillance, Counterterrorism, National Security Agency, GPS Tracking, Electronic Surveillance, Tracking, FBI Surveillance, Politics News

The advanced technology of the war on terrorism, combined with deferential courts and legislators, have endangered both the right to privacy and the right of people to be free from government snooping and tracking.

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U.S. Investigates Possible Internet Threat To NYC

Reuters | Mark Hosenball | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Video, Web Threat, Counterterrorism, Al Qaeda Sites, Reuters, Al Qaeda Websites, Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda Threat Posted on Internet New York City, New York City, New York City Police, Nyc Threat, Al Qaeda Nyc, Technology News

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcement and counterterrorism officials are trying to figure out the significance ...

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BIG BROTHER: U.S. Government To Expand Ability To Hold Citizens' Data

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: National Counterterrorism Center, Video, Doj, Counterterrorism, Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community will now be able to store information about Americans with no ties to terrorism for up to five year...

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Attorney General Holder: Investigate New York Police Surveillance of Muslims

Human Rights Watch | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Nypd, Discrimination, Counterterrorism, Eric Holder, New York News

(Washington, DC) – The US Justice Department should immediately investigate the New York City police for alleged religion-based discrimination i...

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Latest Afghan Torture Report Casts Shadow on U.S. Transfer Plans

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: International Law, Obama, Afghanistan, Afghan Withdrawal, Indefinite Detention, Karzai, Torture, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, World News

After the U.N. report pointed this problem out last year, the U.S. military pledged 'never again' -- it would stop transferring captives to the abusive Afghan security service facilities until the Afghan government had demonstrated that the problem was solved.

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The Situation in Afghanistan Gets Worse

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Counterterrorism, Afghanistan, Immunity, Counterinsurgency, US Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, US Troops, Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal, Quran Burning, Politics News

President Obama has a lot of issues to weigh with regards to Afghanistan, but I really hope he sides with the American troops on the ground. They're now being asked by our government to provide security to a population in a mission that is no longer wanted by the democratically elected leader of that country, making their current mission untenable and unproductive. Therefore, the only conclusion he can come to is to engage U.S. forces in a mission that can be successful. And that is an immediate transition to an Advise, Train, and Assist role, on the way towards a negotiated counter-terror mission with a very limited footprint.

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Time to End Counter-Insurgency In Afghanistan

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Military, Counterterrorism, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, President Obama, Atrocities, Taliban, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan War, World News

The counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan has failed, and it is time for President Obama to abandon it. In the wake of the horrific incident where a US soldier killed 16 innocent Afghans, and just weeks after American Marines were caught on tape desecrating the body of a dead enemy, and a pile of Korans were burned, that much is clear. It is time to employ a mission in Afghanistan that actually works, and leave a residual force in the region that focuses on destroying real threats to America. The sooner President Obama announces that, the better off our military and America will be.

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NYPD Surveillance Shows No Good Deed Goes Unpunished For American Muslims

Sahar Aziz | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Community Outreach, Counterterrorism, Nypd Muslims, Muslim Americans, Surveillance, Post 9/11, Spying, Nypd Spying, Nypd Spying on Mosques, FBI Surveillance, Nypd, Religion News

So long as the police engage in systemic racial profiling and attendant criminal punishments, community outreach is futile, as well as disingenuous.

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Never Underestimate Israeli Ingenuity

Joshua Gleis | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Counterterrorism, Uavs, Israel, Obama Administration, Idf, Technology, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News

As the battle of both words and deeds heats up between Iran and the west, some experts have begun to question whether Israel even truly has the capabi...

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Calling It Quits in Afghanistan

Malou Innocent | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Islam, Nato, Coin, Counterterrorism, Afghanistan, Military Spending, Isaf, Counterinsurgency, Koran, Quran, World News

How many more American soldiers and innocent Afghan civilians have to die before the Obama administration withdraws from Afghanistan?

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4 Myths That Led To The NYPD Attack On Muslim Civil Liberties

Daniel Tutt | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Religious Extremism, Islamophobia, Islamic Extremists, Nypd, Counterterrorism, Muslim Americans, Islam, Radical Islam, Islam in America, Religion News

The damage that these scandals have caused in severing the lines of trust between law enforcement and the Muslim community may be irreparable in the short term, but it is not too late for the NYPD to begin assessing the policies that led us here.

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