WATCH: Muslims On No-Fly List Now Suing FBI, Pressured To Be Informants
Fifteen American Muslims, including four military veterans, are suing the federal government after discovering they were placed on the "no-fly" list. ...
Fifteen American Muslims, including four military veterans, are suing the federal government after discovering they were placed on the "no-fly" list. ...
This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By G.W. Schulz Three California residents are among 15 plaintiffs preparing a renewed challenge t...
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.22.2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. counterterrorism official says the man suspected in the deaths of seven people in France was on the list of known or suspec...
This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By G.W. Schulz The federal appeals court ruling last week on gay marriage in California o...
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 04.02.2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has more than doubled, to about 21,000 names, its secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from ...
AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 11.12.2011
McLEAN, Virginia — A man who traveled to England by boat because he thought he was on the no-fly list was detained Monday upon his arrival in Gr...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2011
Congress has chosen its priorities -- a month of paid vacation is more important to them than doing the work they have been hired to do. This is unacceptable.
Robert K. Lifton | Posted 05.25.2011
Once again, with the incursions in Libya, our nation is getting involved in military action in the Middle East. Although we are part of a coalition effort, as usual America is carrying out a large part of the action and at no small cost.
The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011
As the U.S. ramps up efforts to root out homegrown terrorism, hundreds of people who have fallen under suspicion are in a state of limbo: Many say the...
Tihomir Kukolja | Posted 05.25.2011
The rare opportunity for America to assert itself as a global leader is slipping through its fingers fast.
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011
Has the United States adopted a new policy of "proxy detention" of U.S. citizens by countries that engage in torture?
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011
Increasingly, it seems that Americans who've traveled to Yemen at some point have been detained abroad, where they're subjected not only to aggressive questioning by U.S. officials but also to brutality by the U.S. allies detaining them.
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011
While the U.S. may legitimately ask questions of passengers flying to or from Yemen, is it outsourcing those interrogations to countries known to engage in torture?
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011
Due Date is a cross country adventure to be endured and that classification is deadly for any comedy. When you want the trip to end and the movie to be over you know you are in trouble.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The time is long overdue to get tough with young adults who believe that a visit to grandma in Pakistan should include a few months at a Taliban or Al Qaeda training camp.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't know about you, but I can't remember the last time I booked a flight to Dubai while I was already driving to the airport, and then paid for my ticket with a wad of cash.
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
The United States Constitution is the charter document of democracy in America. It is what makes us who we are, and we go outside the boundaries of that charter at our peril.
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 05.25.2011
If someone is too dangerous to fly on a plane in this country, that person is too dangerous to buy explosives and guns.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is refining its terror-screening policy to focus on specific terror threats and not travelers' nationalities. T...
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is fo...
Mary Shannon Little | Posted 05.25.2011
The solution to improving our intelligence gathering is not installing better software, but ensuring that people performing these tasks have real investigative experience.
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A Continental Airlines jet flying from Newark, N.J., to Bogota was diverted to Jacksonville, Fla., on Friday over concerns a passen...
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011
Why is it so important to the great leaders of the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions that Obama's campaign message of joyous reconciliation be converted to an elegy of disillusionment?
LA Times | Sebastian Rotella | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. border security officials learned of intelligence about the alleged extremist links of the suspect in the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt a...
The Huffington Post | Samreen Hooda | Posted 05.17.2012