It’s Time for TSA 2.0: Let General Harding Focus on Operations

On March 18, 2010, in Original Analysis, by admin

What the TSA needs now is a good makeover; hopefully Major General (retired) Robert Harding is going to be the one to bring in the new broom . TSA has languished for years under a cloud of mistakes, errors and just plain carelessness with respect to their public image and their overall effectiveness. Most recently, [...]

CIA Director Leon Panetta: Battered Al Qaeda on defense, can’t attack U.S.

On March 18, 2010, in Homeland Security News, by admin

“Al Qaeda leaders are dodging so many missiles in Pakistan’s tribal areas they can no longer plot spectacular attacks on U.S. soil, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
‘Those operations are seriously disrupting Al Qaeda,’ Panetta told the Washington Post. ‘We really do have them on the run.’
Panetta was the latest chest-thumping Obama adviser to boast [...]

Success of lone gunmen may shift al-Qaida strategy

On March 11, 2010, in Homeland Security News, by admin

“On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook the U.S. government, set federal agencies against each other and triggered months of political second-guessing.
In fact, short of mass casualties, the attack allegedly [...]