A "staff memo" to the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) new director recommends that politicians and others of Leviathan's acolytes be exempted from screening at airports. Meanwhile, UPI reports that we "ordinary passengers" will continue to be wanded, questioned, groped, ordered about and insulted.
Hard to believe, in a democracy as dedicated to fairness and equality as ours, that the TSA sees two classes of citizens out... (more)
Sarah Zapolsky's 1-year-old son had better get used to being looked at as a possible terrorist every time his family gets on a plane.
That's because experts and officials say there's no way the toddler's name will be taken off the federal no-fly list - even after he and another tot made headlines for being stopped as potential terror threats.
"His name is the same or similar to someone on the no-fly list," said Ann Davis, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Securit... (more)
A high-ranking military officer has come forward saying "a real danger exists" for a large-scale terrorist attack in the coming weeks, adding Vice President Dick Cheney spends his entire day consumed with issues of terrorism and U.S. nuclear retaliation in the Middle East if an attack on American soil occurs.
The retired officer, who remains anonymous, claims military factions are battling over how to address the terrorist threat, claiming the Iraq War, the threats being leveled ... (more)
A US army intelligence officer has claimed that two out of three cells involved in the September 11 attacks had been identified a year before the event.
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, 42, of Able Danger, a secret data-analyzing operation of the US army said his unit had identified Mohammed Atta and three other suicide hijackers involved in the 9/11 in mid 2000. Shaffer claimed the army intelligence unit had tried to transmit this information to the FBI but the Pentagon lawyers cancele... (more)
Published on Friday, August 5, 2005 by the Baltimore Sun
A story that the U.S. government hoped would never see the light of day finally has been published, 60 years after it was spiked by military censors. The discovery of reporter George Weller's firsthand account of conditions in post-nuclear Nagasaki sheds light on one of the great journalistic betrayals of the last century: the cover-up of the effects of the atomic bombing on Japan.
The July 7 London bombers may have been homegrown, but investigators are now certain they had direct ties to al Qaeda.
Mohammed Siddique Khan, the 30-year-old suspected ringleader of the London bombings, had key connections that could have led to his earlier arrest, CBS News Correspondent Sheila MacVicar reports from London.
A source familiar with the investigation has told CBS News that an American al Qaeda operative, now in U.S. custody, told the FBI that he escor... (more)
A U.S. District Court judge in Salt Lake City, Utah, has ordered the Oklahoma City FBI office to turn over unredacted copies of all documents currently at issue in a Freedom of Information lawsuit involving additional evidence and the names of additional conspirators in the Oklahoma City bombing case.
According to the judge, the materials would be reviewed in his chambers and then returned to the FBI.
The order could also include evidence in the possession of the F... (more)
The families of 9/11 victims are outraged that military spies were blocked from sharing key intelligence they believe could have averted the terrorist attacks – and are calling for a new commission to investigate.
"I’m angry that my son's death could have been prevented," Diana Horning, whose son was killed at the World Trade Center, told the New York Post.
"It outrages me because it's taken four years to come out."
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned this week that China must make significant structural changes in its economic policies, lest it remain "a problem for the international economy."
In an interview on Wednesday, Ms. Rice also laid out the administration's concerns about China's military buildup, its human rights record and its restrictions on religious freedom. Her unusually sharp criticism was a clear indication of the administration's ambivalence and frustration with Chin... (more)
Donald Rumsfeld, the American defence secretary, accused Venezuela's radical president Hugo Chavez yesterday of "anti-social, destabilising behaviour" that threatened regional security.
Mr Rumsfeld said that the oil-rich Venezuelan strongman and his Cuban ally Fidel Castro, had interfered in the affairs of Bolivia, lending support to a presidential candidate who has fought US efforts to eradicate cocaine production.
Speaking in the Peruvian capital Lima at the end o... (more)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs voiced a high degree of concern on Thursday over an ongoing China-Russia joint military exercise and urged China to withdraw its missiles aimed at Taiwan.
Peace and security in the Taiwan Strait is of extremely vital importance to the Asia-Pacific region and the rest of the world, and no country in the region is allowed to do anything that threatens regional peace and stability, foreign ministry spokesman Michel Lu told reporters.
A global race is under way to reach the next milestone in supercomputer performance, many times the speed of today's most powerful machines.
And beyond the customary rivalry in the field between the United States and Japan, there is a new entrant - China - eager to showcase its arrival as an economic powerhouse.
The new supercomputers will not be in use until the end of the decade at the earliest, but they are increasingly being viewed as crucial investments for pro... (more)
British scientists have created the world’s first nerve stem cells in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a development which has been met with mixed reactions.
Some have touted the announcement as a major breakthrough in the race to treat diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s. The cells were developed at the Edinburgh University Institute for Stem Cell Research, led by Professor Austin Smith.
It is the first time ever that scientists have been ... (more)
A federal grand jury has indicted five more people in a scheme in which employees of the state Department of Motor Vehicles office in Oakland accepted bribes to provide licenses and identification cards to illegal immigrants, court records show.
The grand jury returned indictments against the Oakland residents Aug. 11, charging them with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and other crimes stemming from a scam in which DMV employees received as much as $4,500 for each document and iss... (more)
When he worked in the Reagan White House in 1983, John Roberts made the case for a national ID card, saying in a memo that it would help address the "real threat to our social fabric posed by uncontrolled immigration."
The personal views of Roberts, whom President Bush has nominated to the Supreme Court, continued to emerge Thursday as the National Archives released more than 38,000 pages from his work in the White House counsel's office from 1982 to 1986. Combined with another 13... (more)
Attackers fired three rockets from the southern port city of Aqaba this morning, one of which narrowly missed a docked American naval ship and killed a Jordanian soldier, American and Jordanian officials said. It was the first assault on an American military ship in the region since a suicide bombing in Yemen five years ago.
A second rocket slammed into a road outside an airport in the neighboring Israeli port of Eilat, injuring a taxi driver, and a third landed near a hospital in... (more)
Shortly before the new symbol of the anti-war movement left Crawford, Texas, Thursday for a family emergency, Vice President Dick Cheney suggested that the best way to honor fallen soldiers is not through protests and candlelight vigils but by supporting completion of the war in Iraq.
Click in the video box to the right to watch a report by FOX News' Carl Cameron.
"Every man and woman who fights and sacrifices in this war is serving a just and noble cause. This nati... (more)
Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes today described the Metropolitan Police as a "Laurel and Hardy" outfit and intensified calls for Sir Ian Blair to resign as Commissioner.
The family said that Sir Ian, the police chief, must take personal responsibility for the "catalogue of errors" which led to the 27-year-old Brazilian electrician's shooting on board a Tube train, and Scotland Yard's subsequent attempts to "cover up" the circumstances surrounding his killing.
Sir Ian Blair publicly defended the shooting dead of a man at a tube station despite senior police officers already believing that there was a significant likelihood that the wrong man had been killed after being mistaken for a suicide bomber.
The Metropolitan police commissioner gave a press briefing just after 3.30pm on the day Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead, on the morning of July 22 at Stockwell station, south London.
CMR has learned that several liberal members of Congress, led by feminists Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Susan Davis (D-CA), are working hard to deny any role for Congress in decisions regarding military orders to force (not allow) female soldiers into or near direct ground combat.
This is the message of a disingenuous “Dear Colleague” letter circulated by the two women last week with the support of fellow Armed Services Committee members Marty Meehan (D-MA), Ellen Tausch... (more)
The kingpins of this hemisphere's illegal drug trade are no longer Colombians.
In the largest shake-up since the 1980s, Mexican cartels have leveraged the profits from their delivery routes to wrest control from Colombian producers, senior U.S. drug officials say. The shift also is the result of the success Colombian and U.S. authorities have had in cracking down on Colombia's drug lords.
"Today, the Mexicans have taken over and are running the organized crime, and ... (more)
