On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder signed expansive new guidelines for terrorism analysts, allowing the National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) to mirror entire federal databases containing personal information and hold onto the information for an extended period of time--even if the person is not suspected of any involvement in terror... (more)
The TSA ensured that a leading security expert, who has been vocally critical of the agency’s screening methods, was barred from speaking before a Congressional hearing yesterday.
The hearing, before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was held Monday in an effort to evaluate the agency’s performance and address concerns raised by lawmakers, experts in the field, and members of the public.
NEW YORK (WABC) -- There are disturbing claims from a police veteran that the NYPD intentionally tried to under report crime rates.
He claims, in an exclusive television interview, that in one precinct in Queens, the severities of some crimes were systematically downgraded.
Sergeant Borrelli is the latest in a growing list of police officers to claim widespread manipulation of NYPD crime data. In 2010, Officer Adrian Schoolcraft told Eyewitness News it happened all ... (more)
After the US shutdown of Megaupload, we noted that there were serious issues with the indictment, in that the US Attorneys seemed to make all sorts of le... (more)
All over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to "alternate locations" during terror drills. These exercises are often called "evacuation drills" or "relocation drills" and they are more than a little disturbing. Sometimes parents are notified in advance where the kids are being taken and sometimes they are only told that the children are being taken to an "undisclosed location". In the years since 9/11 and the Columb... (more)
A woman from Iraq who was found beaten, lying in a pool of blood in her in El Cajon, Calif., home next to a note saying "go back to your country," has died and police are investigating her death as a possible a hate crime.
Shaima Alawadi's 17-year-old daughter found her unconscious on the dining room floor of her home Wednesday. She was taken to the hospital and put on life support, but she was taken off life around 3 p.m. Saturday.
The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran’s nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead. ... (more)
New York City police officers were so busy kicking and beating a man with their batons that it took them 30 seconds to realize they were being recorded.
They had the man on his back, ordering him to put his hands behind his back while continually beating him with their feet and sticks, making it impossible to actually comply with their orders as he was t... (more)
HOUSTON (CN) - A deputy county constable who had been fired for misconduct, then rehired, stopped a woman driver and told her "that his penis was erect and that she needed to 'adjust it' or she would go to jail," then sexually groped her while she was handcuffed, the woman claims in Federal Court.
M.M. sued Harris County, Harris County Constable Precinct 3 and Precinct 3 Constable Kenneth Jones - but Jones is not the officer she accused of assaulting her. She says she was assau... (more)
At least one Oklahoma police officer is under internal investigation after surveillance video showed him dragging a man face-down out of the Will Rogers World Airport.
The incident occurred after police arrested 53-year-old James Jay Heidebrecht at the airport on February 20. The man had claimed he was a CIA agent and wanted to talk with with presidentia... (more)
The city has agreed to pay $1.8 million to the family of a man killed when a police officer, chasing an armed suspect, fired into an East Germantown home during a 2008 New Year's party.
The officer's bullets hit three people attending the party, including Abebe Isaac, a hospital maintenance worker and father of three young children.
Isaac, 33, died a week later after suffering from an infection and complications.
In the wake of a horrific rampage, in which Mohamed Merah (now dead after a 32-hour standoff with police) reportedly murdered three French soldiers, three young Jewish schoolchildren, and a rabbi, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has begun calling for criminal penalties for citizens who visit web sites that advocate for terror or hate. "From now on, any person who hab... (more)
Civilian disarmament advocates have implicated Florida's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law in the shooting death of 17-year-old Miami resident Trayvon Martin by self-appointed crime watch "captain" George Zimmerman on February 26. The Sanford, Florida Police have refused to charge Zimmerman, insisting that "under the law, it had no call to bring charges... (more)
There is growing outrage over the killing of black seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, a legal and unarmed guest of the Florida gated community whose (perhaps unofficial) neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman, shot Martin dead last month in an incident that raises all sorts of uncomfortable questions about racial tensions and violence in modern America. A common theme has focused on the r... (more)
