Report Card on Homeland Security

A leading expert at the Council on Foreign Relations has issued his report card on how the Department of Homeland Security is doing -- and they're not grades you'd want...

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October 25, 2006 in Homeland Security | Permalink | User Comments (11)

Passengers Bound for the U.S. Are Wheels Up by the Time DHS Checks Watch Lists

Airplanes bound for the U.S. from the U.K. and Europe are still not required to submit their passenger information to the Department of Homeland Security until they are wheels up...

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August 15, 2006 in Homeland Security | Permalink | User Comments (2)

U.S. Border Agents Fail to Detect Fake IDs

A second report in two weeks gives failing grades to inspections at U.S. land border crossings, increasing fears that terrorists can still enter the United States undetected five years after...

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August 4, 2006 in Homeland Security | Permalink | User Comments (6)

New Audit Says Border Inspectors Not Given Enough Resources

U.S. border inspectors are spending too much time looking at false positives on individuals who may share the name or a similar name to suspected terrorists, and they lack the...

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July 25, 2006 in Homeland Security | Permalink | User Comments (4)

Three Foiled Hijack Plots Revealed in U.S. Document

Al Qaeda terrorists were planning to use cameras to disguise bombs and flash attachments as stun guns in a disrupted hijack plot that targeted the U.S. east coast, Britain, Italy...

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June 21, 2006 in Homeland Security | Permalink | User Comments (92)

NY-DC Trains Still Top Terror Concern

New York's rail terminals and commuter rail lines are at the top of the terrorist hit list, according to a Department of Homeland Security strategic report published just a week...

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June 2, 2006 in Homeland Security | Permalink | User Comments (2)

DHS Explains Itself

The Department of Homeland Security issued a press release to "set the record straight" on its funding allocations. In it, DHS explained that the Empire State Building was included as...

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June 1, 2006 in Homeland Security | Permalink | User Comments (8)

No Icons, No Monuments Worth Protecting

New York has no national monuments or icons, according to the Department of Homeland Security form obtained by ABC News. That was a key factor used to determine that New York City should have its anti-terror funds slashed by 40 percent...

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June 1, 2006 in Homeland Security | Permalink | User Comments (222)