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A leading Republican on the House oversight committee is demanding answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on why a 6-year-old girl was given an “enhanced” pat-down at an airport by TSA agents, an incident Napolitano defended as conducted “professionally and according to the protocols.” A video of the incident was posted on YouTube April 9 by the 6-year-old Anna Drexel’s parents, provoking outrage. Napolitano backed the procedure, and a blog post by the TSA said, “TSA has reviewed the incident and the security officer in the video followed the current standard operating procedures.” But Jason Chaffetz, chairman...

On January 2, 2011, Stan Soklovski’s gun vault was violated. Thieves had removed 40 weapons. Most were pistols along with several rifles including a couple of assault weapons. He had constructed the gun vault in his basement to prevent theft, he had a state concealed gun license, he was registered with the federal government as a gun collector and he loaded his own rounds. This gentlemen knew the gun laws and obeys them. A peaceful law-abiding U. S. citizen. He called the cops. The Keystone cops came and called the State Police and their CSI, the fire department, the ATF....

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the end of color-coded terror alert system that has marked U.S. airports since the Sept. 11, 2011 attacks, replacing it with what she calls a more specific system that will address targeted threats. Under the new system, there will only be two categories when alerts are necessary: "elevated threat" and "imminent threat." Alerts will be issue to specific areas of concerns, not nationwide. They will also be delivered via traditional and social media. Napolitano said the terror threat has changed over since the 9/11 attacks, so it was time for the alert system to...

Facing outrage after a video surfaced online of a Transportation Security Agency (TSA) worker performing the new enhanced pat-down techniques on a six-year-old girl, TSA defended its decision in a statement Wednesday. “Some folks are asking if the proper procedures were followed. Yes. TSA has reviewed the incident and the security officer in the video followed the current standard operating procedures,” a TSA spokesman wrote on the agency’s official blog. Six-year-old Anna Drexel was flagged to undergo an extra screening procedure at the New Orleans airport earlier this month that required an agent to place her fingers inside the rim...

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. -- The Airtrain at JFK Airport is a fully automated system: It has no train operator, no passenger screening and an almost nonexistent police presence. And that, says the Port Authority police union, makes it one of four major vulnerabilities the Port Authority is overlooking threats so sensitive, union officials won't name the other three. "There's no scanning of bags, there's no scanning passengers. We should have uniformed personnel on that transportation corridor. We don't, in any way," said Senator Greg Ball. Friday, Ball's homeland security committee heard testimony from union officials and others who detailed...

Gone are the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s color-coded terror warnings. Two new types of warnings will take their place starting April 27, and they’ll be coming to you via Facebook and Twitter. Instead of the five threat levels that were originally implemented as part of the Homeland Security Advisory System in 2001, now there will be just two levels — “Elevated” and “Imminent” — according to a Homeland Security plan draft obtained by the Associated Press. When the government determines that issuing a warning will risk exposing U.S. spies or their operations, there will be no warning at all.

Besides having to fight Muslims in the information war, we are also battling the intentional ignorance of the mainstream media (MSM). I say "intentional ignorance" because it is obvious that many who report for the MSM have done little, if any, research on Islam. Let's take a look at an outrageous example of this irresponsible reporting! Islam is all-American for one U.S. Muslim leader (Reuters) - - Al Azhar, the centuries-old center of Islamic learning in Cairo, is a world away from Oklahoma City where William Suhaib Webb grew up. But it was not until the American Muslim leader immersed...

Fans attending this year’s March Madness games will be greeted by a video of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and NCAA President Mark Emmert encouraging them to “say something” if they see suspicious activities. The video, which will also appear at most other winter championship events, is part of a national campaign sponsored by Homeland Security to raise citizen awareness in high-profile environments such as major events and public transit. Security at the games has always been a priority for the NCAA, but the rapid growth of the Final Four in recent years has prompted the Association to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading House Republican warned the Obama administration on Thursday about demoting a federal worker who complained to her agency's internal watchdog that political appointees were interfering with records requests by journalists and others. Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said the demotion at the Department of Homeland Security "appeared to be an act of retaliation." The committee is investigating the political reviews of records requests under the Freedom of Information Act. "Obstructing a congressional investigation is a crime," said Issa, R-Calif. The department said it had done nothing wrong. -snip-...

The TSA has garnered a large amount of criticism ever since it was started. The 9/11 terrorists didn't bring any prohibited items on the plane, so security had no material reason to stop them. Of course, if the government had done its job, the hijackers would have been identified and rounded up before the attack. If we were willing to profile, like the Israeli airline El-Al we might have been more concerned with single males between the age of 18 and 30, from the middle east traveling alone. Profiling scares people though. Somehow, it's racist to acknowledge that some countries,...

The government flouts the Fourth Amendment in the name of security. It was Adolf Hitler who first used science and technology to monitor people, places, and things. Closed-circuit television, or CCTV, was developed for the Third Reich by Siemens AG to observe V-2 rocket launches and operators at the Peenemünde Research Center in Germany. In the 1940s, CCTV used strategically placed video cameras to capture footage and then broadcast it back, allowing for real-time surveillance.Flash forward 70 years and surveillance systems have, like it or not, become broadly accepted as part of 21st century life — from traffic cameras, to...

. . .Al Antsey of the Al-Jazeera network came to the Comcast building on Tuesday [Feb 22] looking for a major U.S. platform for the 24-hour, Qatar-based news channel that at one time was viewed as just a mouthpiece for Osama bin Laden. It's time, he told officials with the nation's largest cable operator, to cast aside misperceptions of the Arabic news station as tainted with anti-American bias, and join the rest of the world. . . The network has viewership in three U.S. markets: Washington; Burlington, Vt.; and Toledo, Ohio. . .

Homeland Security: An assistant port director says "weapons of mass effect" have been found on American soil, possibly smuggled in across our porous border. The drug war in Mexico may be the least of our worries. Doing the job the so-called mainstream American media won't do, Britain's Daily Telegraph recently reported that, according to WikiLeaks documents, a gift that seems to keep on giving, U.S. officials were warned years ago that al-Qaida could build a dirty bomb capable of doing great damage to an American city. Now another British paper, the Daily Mail, reports on a televised interview by San...

Sarah Palin should receive immediate Secret Service Protection if she runs for President.            Jesse Jackson got early Secret Service protection when he ran for President. Obama asked for and got early Secret Service protection  in the last election. They should do the same for Sarah Palin.  Do I think there is a great risk to her life? Yes I do. I used to worry about it a little. But now I worry about it a lot.  Top people in the Democratic Party and the media  were quick to call Palin a racist during the last election.  And that planted...

In an effort to gain insight on the strength and volatility of the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, the U.S. House of Representatives' Homeland Security Committee grilled members of President Barack Obama's so-called national security team on Wednesday. The numerous attacks against al-Qaeda and its affiliated terrorist organizations -- including the killing or capturing of top commanders -- for more than a decade, may have taken its toll on the terrorists, but the organization continues to be a serious threat to the United States, a top administration official told the panel of lawmakers yesterday.

U.S. President Barack Obama met with members of Egypt's Islamist opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, earlier this year, according to a report in Thursday editions of the Egyptian daily newspaper Almasry Alyoum. The newspaper reported that Obama met the group's members, who reside in the U.S. and Europe, in Washington two months ago. According to the report, the members requested that news of the meeting not be publicized. They expressed to Obama their support for democracy and the war on terror.

Seeking to end a debate that has brewed for nearly a decade, the director of the Transportation Security Administration announced on Friday that a union would be allowed to bargain over working conditions on behalf of the nation’s 45,000 airport security officers, although certain issues like pay will not be subject to negotiation. The question of whether unions can negotiate on behalf of airport security workers has been a repeated topic of partisan debate on Capitol Hill, at times threatening to hold up major pieces of legislation or even the Senate confirmation of the agency’s director.

EL PASO, Texas (AFP) – The United States deported more illegal immigrants than ever before during the first two years of President Barack Obama's administration, his government said Monday. "In both fiscal years 2009 and 2010, Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed more illegal immigrants from our country than ever before, with more than 779,000 removals nationwide in the last two years," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. The Obama administration must prove it is tough on illegal immigrants and can secure the country's porous borders if it is to stand a chance of passing a comprehensive overhaul of America's tattered...

Springfield, MO Airport Wants to Opt Out of TSA Reported by: Jennifer Denman Wednesday, January 26 2011 watch video (Springfield, MO) -- Flying these days comes with a lot more than just getting to your destination. There are security and bag fees, but what about customer service? The Springfield-Branson National Airport wants to improve just that by getting rid of the TSA. The airport wants to opt out of TSA security and go to a private company. This could affect jobs and those working for TSA, but the airport says it wants to refocus on customers and making flying more...

If investigators in Massachusetts are correct, a Charlotte teenager who had never flown before somehow penetrated an airport security system designed to thwart the most savvy terrorists. Two months later, the question of how he did it continues to flummox airline employees and security experts. And it may soon become the focus of a congressional hearing. Massachusetts investigators believe 16-year-old Delvonte Tisdale breached security at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport on Nov. 15 and snuck into the left wheel well of a US Airways plane bound for Boston. Tisdale's battered body was found beneath the flight path in Milton, Mass. He might...