Speaking at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania Wednesday, President George Bush defended his record on homeland security. Stating that “there can be no debate” on his record of preventing another attack on the US after the September 11 attacks, the president argued that it wasn’t “a matter of luck” that there hasn’t [...]
According to several former executive branch officials and experts outside government, some of whom have participated in transition proceedings with staffers for President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama, the question is whether to keep the White House’s Homeland Security Council intact or to merge it with the National Security Council, which handles foreign [...]
Millions face being struck down by a deadly winter vomiting bug sweeping the country. Scores of hospitals have been forced to close wards to new patients as they struggle to cope with the influx of norovirus sufferers. One of London’s leading hospitals has even had to turn away 999 emergency patients after being overwhelmed with [...]
Closing arguments in the Fort Dix terror plot trial are continuing this morning at the federal courthouse in Camden. Defense attorney Michael Huff has spent the morning distancing his client, Dritan Duka of Cherry Hill from any plot to attack the Army base. He said Duka had no knowledge of the conversations that were taking [...]
On the historic night Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, a sobering image was lost in the euphoria of the cheering crowd in Chicago’s Grant Park: Clear sheaths of bulletproof glass shielded both sides of the stage where the then-Democratic senator of Illinois declared victory. Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis says there [...]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was widely ridiculed for its pitiful response to Hurricane Katrina, may undergo big changes under President Obama. Agency critics say the nation’s disaster-relief efforts have been hampered ever since FEMA was lumped into the Department of Homeland Security—the slow-footed bureaucratic behemoth created by the Bush administration after 9/11. Last [...]
A bomb exploded at a Woodburn, Oregon, bank branch early Friday evening, killing a police officer and injuring the town’s police chief and a state bomb technician, Oregon State Police said. (CNN)
If Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano becomes secretary of homeland security next year, she’ll need to scramble to secure the nation’s southern border. Not from terrorists, but from illegal immigrants. Since the construction industry began hemorrhaging jobs last year, many undocumented workers who helped to build houses, condominiums and office complexes have returned to their native [...]
he five Guantánamo detainees charged with coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks told a military judge on Monday that they wanted to confess in full, a move that seemed to challenge the government to put them to death. The request, which was the result of hours of private meetings among the detainees, appeared intended to undercut [...]
A pioneering bipartisan report that will be released today calls on the incoming Obama administration to set up a high-level office to coordinate the defense of the nation’s computer systems from cyber-attacks by rival nations, industrial spies and criminal syndicates. A yearlong investigation found many potential targets, including such sensitive Houston installations as the port, [...]