Feds assess terror watchlists after airline attack – AP
Federal authorities met Monday to reassess the nation’s system of terror watchlists to determine how to avoid the type of lapse that allowed a man with explosives to board a flight to the U.S. even...
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Preventing the Next Terrorist Attack – by Andrew Cline
Additional security measures reported in the aftermath of the Christmas bomber’s failed attempt to down a U.S. airline will amount to naught because they don’t address the central security failure....
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Bring Back Profiling And Leave The Rest Of Us Alone
In a flip-flop worthy of John Kerry (I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it), Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told airline passengers that the security system...
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A Failed Anti-Terror Strategy – by Jamie Glazov
Robert Spencer is a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of ten books, eleven monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic...
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When Security Trumps Common Sense – by Dennis Prager
If the government prohibits airline passengers from getting out of their seats during the last hour of a flight, I hereby announce that I will get out of my seat either to escort someone who needs to...
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Stopping the Next “Underwear Bomber” – by Alan M. Dershowitz
My dire New Year prediction is that Islamic terrorists may well succeed this year in blowing up a civilian airliner. They have already twice proved that suicide bombers can get through security. And...
View Article“Shock” U.S. report due on attempted airline attack – AP
WASHINGTON Reuters – The White House was poised to release a report on Thursday that top aides said will shock Americans about security lapses that allowed a Nigerian man to come close to blowing up a...
View ArticleObama takes steps to bolster security – latimes.com
Declaring that “the buck stops with me,” President Obama on Thursday released the results of an internal investigation into the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt and ordered a series of incremental...
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Stephanie Gutmann: Doing Security the Israeli Way – The American Spectator
“Let’s do things the way the Israelis do.” That’s the latest buzzword in airline security. It’s nice to hear the Israelis being praised for something, but if we don’t understand what the Israelis do,...
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Bin Laden: Bad Attention Is Better Than No Attention
Bin Laden has released a new audio tape to claim responsibility for the Christmas Day airline plot that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula tried to carry out. It’s sort of...
View ArticleCharles Krauthammer: The Real Detainee Scandal
WASHINGTON — The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush...
View ArticleIntelligence Officials Warn Attempted Al Qaeda Attack Months Away – FOXNews.com
WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months, senior U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday. The terrorist organization is...
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John Brennan and the Politics of Capitulation
It’s bad enough that John Brennan, President Obama’s national security deputy, thinks Gitmo jihadi recidivism is “not that bad.” But in his talk last week with Islamic law students at New York...
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