Terrorist Watch List

The Incredible Shrinking Woman in Post-9/11 Hell

Ann Jones | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Tsa Pat Downs, Terrorist Watch List, Bank Holds, Airport Security, Fulbright, Terrorists, War on Terror, William Fulbright, Politics News

I don't know how it happened. Or even, really, what happened. Or what it means. Someone in the U.S. government who specializes in finding terrorists seems to have found me and laid a heavy hand on my bank account.

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Who's the Bigger Threat: Shahzad or McCain and Lieberman?

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, John McCain, War on Terror, Times Square Car Bomb, Guantanamo, Joe Lieberman, Faisal Shahzad Times Square Bomber, U.S. Constitution, Tea Parties, No Fly List, Torture, Politics News

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.

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It's Pretty Simple: Terrorists Have No Right To Bear Arms

Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Terrorist Watch List, Obama Administration, Taliban, Lindsay Graham, Terror Gap, Rahm Emanuel, Faisal Shahzad, Fort Hood Shootings, Politics News

There is not much courage these days in the Halls of Congress. While faux-moderates worry that someone could accidentally lose their right to buy a gun, they call for stripping citizenship for the very same potentially accidental terrorists.

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FBI Refuses to Put Republicans on Terrorist Watch, For Now

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, Will.I.Am, Tea Party, House Minority Leader John Boehner, Explosives, President Obama, Firearms, Hell No You Can't!, Senator John McCain, Hitler, Republicans, Domestic Terrorism, Democrats, Rep. Joe Wilson, Politics News

The Republican Party may have dodged a bullet when the FBI announced it had no plans, "at this time," to put the party on its Terrorist Watch List. But some members are none too happy about the slight.

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NRA Members Disagree With NRA Leadership: Those On Terrorist Watch List Should Not Be Able To Buy Firearms

Think Progress | Ben Armbruster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Control, NRA Terrorists Guns, Terrorist Watch List, Nra, Politics News

But it appears that rank-and-file NRA members disagree with their leadership. Today at the NRA's annual conference in Charlotte, NC, ThinkProgress ask...

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No Fly List Match Diverts Newark Flight To Jacksonville

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, Jacksonville, Newark, Jacksonville International Airport, Colombia, Terrorism, Bogota, No-Fly, No Fly List, Newark Airport, New York News

WASHINGTON — A Continental Airlines jet flying from Newark, N.J., to Bogota was diverted to Jacksonville, Fla., on Friday over concerns a passen...

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Gaps in Protection for Us and the President

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, Gun Violence, Health Care Town Halls, Fort Hood, National Security, Rahm Emanuel, Terrorism, Janet Napolitano, Secret Service, Gun Control, Oath Keepers, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Guns, Illegal Guns, Fort Hood Shootings, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

We want security not only for the president and our top officials, but also for ourselves and our families. Yet as a nation we make it very easy for dangerous people to arm themselves.

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Terrorist Watch List is Like MySpace; It's There, But No One Checks it Anymore

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borowitz Report, Nigerian Terrorist, Terrorist Watch List, Andy Borowitz, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Terrorism, Ivana Trump, Myspace, Comedy News

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.

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Somalia, Outside the Violence Box

Abukar Arman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, Hizbul Islam, Al Shabab, Somalia, Muslim World, Horn of Africa, World News

Instead of sending more weapons to Somalia, as did the Obama administration recently, imagine a two-track benevolent campaign launched concurrently to positively impact hearts and minds.

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Planes, Guns and Terrorists

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, National Rifle Association, National Security, Rahm Emanuel, Terrorism, Nancy Pelosi, Gun Control, Gao, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Illegal Guns, Politics News

Should suspected terrorists be blocked from buying guns before they commit a violent crime? The gun lobby apparently doesn't think so.

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Muslims Disproportionate Victims of Flawed Terrorist Watch List

Parvez Ahmed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, Terrorism, American Muslims, Muslims, Dhs, Justice Department, Fbi, Cbp, Politics News

It is time for America to reclaim its true legal tradition of judging a person by their actions, not on the basis of their color, practices of their faith or on the basis of their names.

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The Breath-Taking Incompetence of Our American Government

James Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, Tsa, TSA Security, Terrorism, No Fly List, Politics News

No matter how many times you prove you are an American citizen, have no arrest record, pay your taxes, get a lump in your throat when you see Old Glory, you still can't get off the No Fly Watch List.

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Extraordinary Rendition and No Apologies

William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorism, Terrorist Watch List, Extraodinary Rendition, Maher Arar, State Secrets, Politics News

Maher Arar, the poster boy for the program of "extraordinary rendition" has again been denied his day in court -- and Congressional efforts are floundering to reign in the Bush administration.

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