Air Marshal Surge By February 1, Ordered By Obama
President Barack Obama has ordered a "surge" of federal air marshals to be in place by Feb.1 in what officials said was a "race against time," with ot...
President Barack Obama has ordered a "surge" of federal air marshals to be in place by Feb.1 in what officials said was a "race against time," with ot...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.06.2010 | Media
As we posted earlier, Representative Peter King (R-N.Y.) seems content to contribute little more to the overall oeuvre of counter-terror policy than t...
Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
On Good Morning America Wednesday, Rep. Peter King (R-New York), the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security committee, offered the White House a ...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics
WASHINGTON — As the White House portrays the dramatic scene, President Barack Obama summoned his national security team to the Situation Room fo...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 01.06.2010 | Comedy
High-ranking DHS officials, including chief Janet Napolitano, immediately held emergency meetings to plan a course of action to deal with a mysterious connect-the-dots picture in their possession.
Huff TV | Posted 01.05.2010 | Media
HuffPost's Ryan Grim was on MSNBC Tuesday to discuss, along with conservative journalist Jamie Weinstein, whether Obama is "soft on terror." "I kind...
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics
Maybe it's time to recognize that this really is a war -- we have to have more effective defense as well as spending billions on offensive initiatives that don't seem to be working.
Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics
National security is serious business. It involves how our country protects and projects itself abroad. It's not meant to be about partisan game-playing.
Bernadette Atuahene | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics
I know that there are many proactive measures TSA has taken that are not apparent to frequent travelers like me, but from my vantage point, it seems like they are always one step behind the terrorists.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics
I'm sitting at Newark airport waiting for my entire family to disembark. The entire terminal is being cleared out, and all because one guy walked backward through an exit. This is the level of farce that passes for airport security here.
Sunil Adam | Posted 01.06.2010 | World
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The Washington Post | Philip Rucker | Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics
Republicans are jumping on President Obama's response to the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner as the latest evidence that Democrats ...
Richard Grenell | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics
Napolitano's characterization and subsequent spin that "the system worked" in the case of the Detroit terror scare proves that she isn't qualified to be the head of Homeland Security in a post-9/11 world.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics
The instant I heard Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano utter the words, "the system worked," I've waited for the ass covering that was bound to come. Today it arrived.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.29.2009 | Comedy
In the wake of the Christmas Day airline terror attempt the Homeland Security chief said that her department would continue to crack down on the primary threat to air safety: shampoo.
Thomas Lipscomb | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics
Incompetent State Department officials and poor enforcement of visa procedures that have been in place long before the personal computer, or even the jet airliner, are the problem here. And we aren't hearing a word about it.
Paul Helmke | Posted 12.28.2009 | Politics
If the National Rifle Association's leaders want to help suspected terrorists get easy access to guns, bucking the wishes of their own membership, they should come out and say so.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.28.2009 | Comedy
In a stunning admission on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano compared the nation's terrorist watch list to the once-popular social networking site, MySpace.
Brian Ross | Posted 12.28.2009 | Media
Media outlets are really good at turning the screws on other publicity-seekers, but are addicted to promoting the work of terrorists because they all profit from generating the same fear that the terrorists thrive upon.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 12.27.2009 | Politics
The only way to truly keep us truly safe while flying a commercial airliner would be to put us all through body scanners, then have us fly in our underwear.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.27.2009 | Comedy
Responding to the botched terrorism attempt, the Department of Homeland Security announced today that it was considering a new rule that would force passengers to fly naked.
Playboy | Aram Roston | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
The weeks before Christmas brought no hint of terror. But by the afternoon of December 21, 2003, police stood guard in heavy assault gear on the stree...
James Zogby | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
We must address the alienation of young Muslims, which can lead to violence. But we must address the problem with a scalpel and not a sledgehammer, or we'll exacerbate it.
Paul Helmke | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
it is time for Congress to start listening to the American people -- including NRA members and gun owners -- instead of responding to the dictates of NRA bosses.
The Denver Post | Karen E. Crummy | Posted 12.09.2009 | Denver
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama questioned U.S. Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano this morning about the firing of a Colorado immigratio...
ABC News | Anna Schecter and Brian Ross | Posted 01.06.2010 | Politics