Kevin Rudd’s policy to create a department of homeland security is trying to fix something that isn’t broken. ONE of America’s greatest failings in the past decade was the response of its Department of Homeland Security to the human tragedy that followed Hurricane Katrina. Now Kevin Rudd wants to mimic this flawed framework by creating [...]
Local law enforcement agencies are working to prevent individuals in their communities from acting on extremist views but are calling for additional federal resources to help combat the threat of terrorism, a Senate panel was told Tuesday. Recent attacks and thwarted plots against European and U.S. cities indicate a rise in homegrown terrorism, where individuals [...]
Some local emergency responders got a lesson in preparedness on Monday night directly from crews who responded to the Minneapolis bridge collapse three months ago. First-responders shared their stories with about 50 Illinois and Wisconsin EMS professionals in Baraboo on Monday night, WISC-TV reported. “You don’t train to go through a 100-foot embankment, going in [...]
What does it say when a leader tells his people he must suspend their civil rights in order to combat extremism, then locks up judges, lawyers and human rights activists – society’s most moderate forces – while Osama bin Laden and the Taliban run free? And what are those oppressed people supposed to conclude when [...]
Government inspectors guarding the nation’s ports of entry are understaffed, fatigued from excessive overtime, poorly trained and frequently fail to question visitors entering the country, according to an audit of U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations. The Government Accountability Office, in an audit released this week, said that although CBP inspectors have had some success [...]
Ohio University’s School of Telecommunications and Game Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab have won a two-year, $702,000 grant to create a virtual world capable of making the real world safer. The grant will help fund development of interactive digital environments in 30 high-profile Columbus buildings or sites that could be most susceptible to terrorist [...]
In a string of early morning raids today, federal and local authorities cracked down on a wide-ranging scheme to provide illegal aliens with fake ID badges that allowed them to work at O’Hare Airport. The fraudulent security badges gave the illegal or undocumented immigrants access to the tarmac at O’Hare, where they loaded pallets, freight [...]