NEW YORK (AP) -- Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik (KEHR'-ihk) has been indicted on charges of making false statements to White H...
Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
It has been nearly eight years since Al-Qaeda struck the United States on September 11, 2001. In the aftermath of that transformational event, some ha...
Coleen Rowley | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics
Governor PawLENTY's been stealing from the poor to give to the wealthy! He must still think his "no new taxes" piracy is the surefire, cutthroat way to the GOP presidency.
Keith Thomson | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
A former CIA operations officer told me that Al Qaeda members are "happy" with the new U.S. policy that essentially has opened our interrogation playbook to them.
Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 06.06.2009 | World
Regional disease surveillance networks be established -- both among developing countries and developed ones -- in order to improve the quality of detection and control across borders.
John Ridley | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
If conservatives are so sensitive to "shoddy" threat assessments, where's the (fake) outrage over Virginia's recently leaked report that the state's historically black colleges form a "radicalization node" for extremists?
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met with the American Legion on Friday to apologize for a right-wing extremism report ...
Washington Post | Mary Beth Sheridan, Spencer S. Hsu and Steve Fainaru | Posted 05.25.2009 | World
The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 m...
HuffingtonPost.com | Danny Shea | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
The Huffington Post has obtained a letter from Fox News to the Department of Homeland Security requesting they release the entire report on the right-...
Bob Cesca | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
Whether intentional or not, the talkers and bloggers who appear to be driving the post-Bush crazy train have opened up the conservative tent to some pretty unsavory and dangerous characters.
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics
If you think the conservative "Tea Party" movement is daunting, take a look at a new report issued by the Department of Homeland Security that says ri...
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
President Obama knows the United States has been losing these wars and also knows the terrible impact these wars have had on a group of people when they are labeled and targeted.
Ian Welsh | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
The US spends almost half the world's military spending and too many Americans seem to think that it needs to spend more, not less.
Dan Dubno | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business
I'm not suggesting we raise a nation of pyromaniacs. But youthful experimentation is a prerequisite to innovation, to giving kids "license to think outside the box."
Andy Borowitz | Posted 03.16.2009 | Comedy
In the four-minute tape, a man believed to be the chairman of AIG says that if his organization is not paid its ransom, "chaos and destruction will rain down on the American economy."
Chip Ward | Posted 03.30.2009 | Green
Isn't it time that we green-ed homeland security? I'm not talking about cops wearing recycled Kevlar recharging their Tasers via solar panels.
Arnold Bogis | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
To improve homeland security, the administration must reach out to citizens and provide real education about the threats they face.
Mark Nickolas | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
Did Gregg deliberately conceal nearly a dozen contributors to his leadership PAC -- White Mountain PAC -- at the very time he served as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee?
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — If you're a criminal and you're not entitled to be in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants you out...
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Senior officials in the Bush administration and members of President-elect Barack Obama's staff teamed up at the White House Tuesda...
Barry Steinhardt | Posted 02.12.2009 | Home
You are being watched! Once that might have just been the ravings of a paranoid, but increasingly it’s all too true. More and more of the publ...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics
Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?
Brad Listi | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Back in the old days, the White House was wide open. Citizens could enter freely -- much like they enter, say, the post office or the local police station in modern times.
Randall Amster | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
By most accounts, Jane Napolitano's been a competent and capable governor, which is something of a rarity in the annals of Arizona.
AP | CARYN ROUSSEAU | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revoked embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich's access to classified federal security informatio...
AP | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics