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Friday Talking Points -- Rest In Peace, Fourth Amendment

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.07.2013 | Politics
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Chris Weigant

We gather here today to mourn the passing of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although weakened and battered in the past, it seems that it has finally succumbed and will be heard of no more.

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Sea Piracy Falls To Lowest Level Since 2008

AP | Posted 12.21.2012 | World
Read More: Video, Piracy, Pottengal Mukundan, Hostages, Sea Piracy Rate, International Maritime Bureau, Pirates, Hijacking, Sea Piracy, Ap, World News

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Sea piracy worldwide fell to its lowest level since 2008 over the first nine months of this year as navies and shippin...

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Plane Hijacking Reports False

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 10.29.2012 | World
Read More: Malaga, Amsterdam, Terrorism, Holland, Spain, Travel News Vueling Airline, Aviation Security, Hijacking, Schipol Airport, Vueling Hijacking, World News, World News

AMSTERDAM — The Netherlands scrambled two F16 fighter jets Wednesday to escort a Spanish passenger plane to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a...

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'Congratulations On Being Hijacked'

Reuters | Posted 10.13.2012 | World
Read More: Arabian Sea, Piracy, Crime, Somali Pirates, Africa, Reuters, Somalia, Pirates, African Piracy, Maratime Security, Hijacking, World News

(Reuters) - Welcome to the Pirate Action Group. Pirate commander Jamal wishes to congratulate you on being hijacked. Kindly speak to his negotiator ...

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Man Hijacks Horse-Drawn Carriage

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 05.10.2012 | Crime
Read More: Video, Horse Hijacking, Weird News, St. Louis, Horse, Weird Crimes, Horses, Hijacking, Weird Crime, Crime News

The staff of the St. Louis Carriage Company is still in disbelief after the bizarre turn of events that upset one of their driver's usual Tuesday nigh...

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FBI Knows DB Cooper's Identity, Witness Claims

Posted 12.05.2011 | Crime
Read More: Cold Cases, Skyjacking, d.b. Cooper Solved, Video, Cold Case, Airplane Hijacking, Hijacking, d.b. Cooper Case, D.B. Cooper, Armchair Detective, Crime News

Forty years after a man in a suit commandeered a 727 jet and parachuted into the night carrying $200,000, federal investigators may be close to cracki...

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Captured Fugitive Claims He Has New Identity

AP | By BARRY HATTON | Posted 12.02.2011 | Crime
Read More: Citizenship, Video, Jose Luis Jorge Dos Santos, George Wright, Identity, Portuguese Citizen, Fugitive, Hijacking, New Identity, Portugal, Citizen, Crime News

By BARRY HATTON, Associated Press LISBON, Portugal -- Captured American fugitive George Wright will claim a new identity to prevent the U.S. from e...

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After More Than 40 Years On The Run, Fugitive Behind 1972 Airplane Hijacking Caught In Portugal

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 11.27.2011 | Crime
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NEWARK, N.J. — A 1970s militant who escaped from a murder sentence in New Jersey and carried out one of the most brazen hijackings in U.S. histo...

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Gerry Smith

'Cyber 9/11': Serious Risk Or Inflated Threat?

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 11.09.2011 | Technology
Read More: September 11, Department of Homeland Security, Stuxnet, Cyberstorm, Terrorists, National Security, Terrorism, Cyber 9/11, Cybersecurity, Hijacking, Dhs, Cyberterrorism, September 11 Anniversary, Cyberattack, Technology News

Ten years after the Sept. 11 attacks, many lawmakers and intelligence officials say they fear the next such attack could be triggered with the click o...

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WATCH: Woman Claims To Be Niece Of 70s Skyjacker D.B. Cooper, Throwing Light On Unsolved Mystery

ABC/Huffington Post | Posted 10.03.2011 | Crime
Read More: Tacoma, Tsa, Most Wanted, Fbi, Hijacking, Washington State, Boeing 727, Parachute, Good Morning America, D.B. Cooper, Video, Crime News

On Nov. 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient flight from Portland, Ore. to Seattle, Wash., collected $200,000 in ran...

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D.B. Cooper: FBI Unlikely To Find Print Match In Hijacking Case (EXCLUSIVE)

Geoffrey Gray | Posted 10.02.2011 | Crime
Read More: Crime, D. B. Cooper, Hijacking, Unsolved Mystery, Tsa, 1970s, Most Wanted, Crime News
Geoffrey Gray

D.B. Cooper was one hygenic getaway artist. Aboard the flight he hijacked and jumped out of 40 years ago, Cooper was extremely cautious about, if not obsessed with avoiding, leaving his fingerprints on anything he touched.

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Yemeni Pirate Pleads Guilty In American Yacht Hijacking

AP | BROCK VERGAKIS | Posted 09.06.2011 | World
Read More: Yemen, Quest, Somali Pirates, Africa, Yacht, Four Americans Dead, Pirates, Pirate, Guilty, Yemeni Man, Hijacking, Yemen Pirate, World News

NORFOLK, Va. — A Yemeni man pleaded guilty to piracy on Thursday for his role in the hijacking of a yacht off the coast of Africa that left four...

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Thousands Cheer Bin Laden's Death at White House (PHOTOS)

Jeff Malet | Posted 07.06.2011 | Politics
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Jeff Malet

The announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden sparked a spontaneous celebration at the north gate of the White House with chants of USA USA and the...

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Pilot's Coffee Spill Triggers Hijacking Alert, Emergency Landing

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Food Crime, Pilot Coffee Spill, Airplane Coffee, Coffee Hijacking, United Airlines, Coffee Spill, Hijacking, Coffee, Air Travel, United Flight 940, Home News

TORONTO (AP)-- A pilot's spilled coffee accidentally triggered a hijacking alert and caused a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, German...

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Russia Foils Passenger Plane Hijacking

AP | DAVID NOWAK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Plane Hijacking Attempt, Hijacking, Russia Hijacking Attempt, Airlines, Travel News

MOSCOW — Russian special forces quickly overpowered a man after he briefly seized a plane with 105 passengers and crew at a Moscow airport on Thursd...

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India Hijack Plot: Alert Issued Over Possible Al Qaeda Plane Attack

AP | RAVI NESSMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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NEW DELHI — Airline passengers across India went through extra security screenings Friday and sky marshals were placed on flights as the governm...

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Pirates New Focus Of US Seamen Training

AP | CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Anti-Piracy, "International Maritime Bureau", "Massachusetts Maritime Academy", Pirates, Hijacking, "Merchant Ships", "California Maritime Academy", Portland Oregon, World News

PORTLAND, Maine — With an alarming number of tankers and cargo ships getting hijacked on the high seas, the nation's maritime academies are offe...

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Somali Pirates Fire On US Cruise Ship In Hijack Attempt

AP | By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Pirates, Nautica, Foreign Affairs, Hijacking, Oceania Cruises, Somali Pirates, Somalia Pirates, Nautica Hijack, Ukraine, Politics News

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Pirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed a...

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