http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/security/ en-us Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:22:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421749/posts Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin railed against President Obama today, saying "his fundamental approach to terrorism is fatally flawed" and that "the real nature of the terrorist threat requires a commander-in-chief, not a constitutional law professor." The same day the president met with his national security team to discuss the security reviews he ordered after the alleged attempt to blow up a plane on Christmas Day, Palin posted a note on Facebook criticizing the administration's response to the event. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly attempted to blow up the plane headed for Detroit, Mich., "is an enemy of the United... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421749/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:22:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2421702/posts "In the aftermath of the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack, full body scanning technologies such as millimeter wave and backscatter are regaining popularity, writes blogger Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in a recent post. But, he asks, do they really work? The TSA seems to think so. It has just issued a contract to purchase more millimeter wave scanners from L3 Communications. slashdot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2421702/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 22:05:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2421573/posts With increased attention on Yemen over the past couple of weeks, there have been a series of interesting pieces about the state of the country. First take a look at this policy brief (pdf) from the Center for a New American Security.... ...At any rate, it's clear that Yemen is likely the next hotbed of focus for our national security leaders. What is alarming, in a way, is that this White House refuses to accept responsibility for any of what has happened over the last couple of weeks. Major Garrett on Twitter quoted Robert Gibbs as saying "the president doesn't... And So it Goes in Shreveport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2421573/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2421530/posts This seems to have happened about an hour ago. Apparently, Michael Yon was arrested at the Seattle Airport after refusing to tell airport security how much money he earns! This seems like a resonable reason to detain someone... On Michael Yon's Facebook Fan Page, the following updates were posted: Got arrested at the Seattle airport for refusing to say how much money I make. (The uniformed ones say I was not "arrested", but they definitely handcuffed me.) Their videos and audios should show that I was polite, but simply refused questions that had nothing to do with national security. Port... NetRight Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2421530/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:40:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420903/posts Britain told American intelligence agents more than a year ago that the Detroit bomber had links to extremists, Downing Street has announced. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was named in a file of people based in Britain who had made contact with radical Muslim preachers. The file was sent to the US authorities in 2008. The disclosure will embarrass President Barack Obama, who is already under pressure after failures by US intelligence to identify the bomber. It will also add to concern over the state of the “special relationship” between Downing Street and the White House following last year’s dispute over the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420903/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:05:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2421341/posts NetRight Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2421341/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:42:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421141/posts No Holds Barred: The American air farce Jan. 4, 2010 Shmuley Boteach , THE JERUSALEM POST I'm sitting at Newark Airport waiting for my wife and nine children to disembark from an aircraft that landed hours ago. They arrived from Chicago, where we all attended a beautiful family wedding. The kids have school tomorrow and would have had a decent night's sleep, except that some guy wandered backward through an exit and into the secure area of the Continental Airlines terminal, sending the entire airport into lockdown. (Sometimes I wonder if God is playing a trick by making me the... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421141/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 05:08:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421120/posts There was no terrorist attack on 9/11. It was the fruition of a criminal enterprise. That, at least, is Barack Obama’s working theory on what happened that day. It would be one thing if our lives were not at stake. Barack Obama has decided he is going to show the world that George Bush was wrong in how he conducted the war on terror. Bush decided to send foreign terrorist enemies to GTMO for questioning by the military and, in a few cases, to be water boarded to get answers. Obama is above that He is better than that. Barack... Red State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421120/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 04:32:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2421090/posts Ethnic Profiling used. Screw Political Correctness. Video at: http://www.onejerusalem.org/2010/01/how-israel-screens-for-terrori.php onejerusalem.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2421090/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 03:33:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2421084/posts This Iraqi Security Force (ISF) update provides a summary of changes to the ISF during December 2009. The Iraqi Security Force Order of Battle is updated as of 31 December 2009. Highlights in this update include: Indications that the Peshmerga are being incorporated into the ISF; weapons orders; a realignment of the military academies; possible transfers of Iraqi Divisions; the first Iraqi Artillery Regiment forming; receipt of training aircraft; receipt of 2 patrol ships; training of Federal Police; the addition of two DBE Brigades; reorganization of the Emergency Police; and the first training academy for the FPS. Montrose Toast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2421084/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 03:20:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421081/posts Turns out we might really not be any safer with new semi-nude scans On Christmas Day Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, attempted an audacious terrorist attack on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Fortunately, the Nigerian native's scheme failed due to faulty explosives and he was taken into custody after being restrained by passengers. However, in the wake of the attacks, U.S. President Barack Obama is considering rolling out current test-phase 3D scanners on a national basis.Privacy advocates are outraged as the scanners show basically a nude image of the passenger -- with genitals and breasts blurred by software (though the... Daily Tech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421081/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 03:16:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421028/posts CNSNews.com DHS Plans to Catch Only One in Four Travelers Committing ‘Major’ Criminal Violations While Entering U.S. on International Fights in 2010 Monday, January 04, 2010 By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (CNSNews.com) - Documents produced by the Department of Homeland Security indicate that in fiscal 2010 the department is planning to catch only 26 percent of travelers committing major criminal violations while seeking to enter the United States through international airports. DHS documents also indicate that the department believes it will fail to screen against law enforcement databases 15 percent of travelers entering the United... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421028/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:39:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421017/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - The government has added dozens of people to the ominous lists of suspected terrorists and those barred from U.S.-bound flights, a crackdown that comes as President Barack Obama prepares to personally question and challenge his team about the state of national security. At the White House on Tuesday, Obama planned to meet with the high-ranking officials charged with the two reviews he ordered after the botched Christmas airliner attack over Detroit—one on air-travel screening procedures and another on the nation's terror watchlist system. breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421017/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:19:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420926/posts The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned. Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to "virtual strip-searching" and have called for safeguards to protect the privacy of passengers involved. Ministers now face having to exempt under 18s from the scans or face the delays of introducing new legislation to ensure airport security staff do not commit offences under child pornography laws.More... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420926/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:29:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420915/posts Yesterday Charles Schumer came out with this: Schumer: Penalize foreign airports that have lax security By Tony Romm - 01/03/10 03:05 PM ET The United States should penalize countries that fail to implement tough screening standards at their airports, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday. Moreover, U.S.-based airlines should threaten not to fly into those airports either, in order to send a strong message about the importance of international passenger safety, he added. "You don't have to be Albert Einstein to realize that flights that originate in foreign countries pose a greater danger," Schumer said during a press conference Sunday,... Start Thinking Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420915/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:15:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420880/posts Last night, having been stranded in Gilo, I took a cab home. The gate off Highway 60 was open, but with sentries on duty. Before they let my cab driver through, one of them, armed with a rifle that he clutched nervously, opened first his door and then mine, quizzing us each in turn. He demanded to know what I was doing coming in at that hour (10:30), and when I told him I was coming home for the night, he demanded that I tell him quickly my building and apartment number (in Kiryat Arba, building numbers are sequential, regardless... Personal first-hand experience http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420880/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:28:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420814/posts <p>The Salahis weren't the only gate-crashers living it up at the White House state dinner last November. The Secret Service revealed Monday that a third individual who was not on the guest list made it into the dinner, though the agency says the individual went through security screening and did not appear to have any interaction with President Obama. The Secret Service, which did not name the individual, said the information about the third party-crasher came out in the course of the investigation into the breach at the Nov. 24 dinner honoring India's prime minister.</p> foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420814/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:48:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420765/posts n his 1978 novel, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera writes: "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." We are doomed to repeat the history of failed republics if we do not remember why they failed. If we choose to forget how much our enemies hate us and how determined they are to destroy us, we will expose ourselves to terrorism once more. From the Heritage Foundation Morning Bell: "This past weekend the American public learned that not only was the Obama administration briefed about the bombing technique attempted on Flight 253,... Constitutional Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420765/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:26:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419964/posts **Brennan just appointed counter terrorism czar.** (This same individual that helped engineer the 'disappearance' of Obama's passport file ??) Newsmax: Obama's Passport File Breached, 'Cauterized' Obama's Intelligence Adviser Involved in Security Breach Monday, 12 Jan 2009 Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March for breaching sensitive files in the State Department’s passport office, according to a State Department Inspector General’s report released this past July. The security breach, first reported by the Washington Times and later confirmed by State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, involved a contract employee of Brennan’s firm,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419964/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:45:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420662/posts This is a purely unscientific poll designed strictly for fun and to allow our readers to sound off on current news and political events. www.daveweinbaum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420662/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:32:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420192/posts Wil Haygood Washington Post Posted January 3, 2010 at midnight WASHINGTON - Virginia socialites Tareq and Michaele Salahi's crashing of President Obama's first state dinner in the White House on Nov. 24 prompted a ripple of concern among black Americans nationwide that lingers still. "You are talking probably 100 percent concern about the president's safety from my listeners," said Joe Madison, known as "the Black Eagle," who hosts a popular nationwide radio program that attracts mostly black listeners. "People are worried. My callers think there's not the intensity to protect this president given his unique history. It shouldn't be business... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420192/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 21:24:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420115/posts President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, will lead the White House review of intelligence community information practices and aviation security, even though he was CEO of the private company the government used to help manage a key terrorism database before he joined the administration. In response to questions about Brennan's potential conflict of interest, White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen has issued a waiver for Brennan, official said. Before he served as CEO of The Analysis Corporation, or TAC, Brennan was the interim director of the first incarnation of the National Counterterrorism Center. In that position, he oversaw... The Atlantic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420115/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:22:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420004/posts Shortly before Thanksgiving, a concerned Nigerian banker warned the local U.S. Embassy about his missing son's ties to Yemeni radicals and a possible terrorist threat. It wasn't until Christmas that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab resurfaced - in seat 19A of a Detroit-bound airliner, his underwear loaded with enough explosives to kill all 289 people aboard. The 35 days between were rife with missed clues, missteps and miscommunication as authorities - in a 9/11 repeat - failed to connect the terrorist dots surrounding the Al Qaeda-trained bomber. .."Somebody screwed up big time," said Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri, the top Republican on... NYDailynews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420004/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:05:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419561/posts The Transportation Security Administration has launched an internal investigation after a security checkpoint at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport was left unattended and unsecured for 90 minutes earlier this month. Three agents have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation. The agency said the agents left the checkpoint at Gate E8 from 8:30pm to 10pm on Dec. 16. Personnel from the airport's Department of Public Safety discovered the gate was not secure during a routine patrol, the TSA said. The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419561/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:20:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419546/posts Barack Obama was accused of double standards yesterday in his treatment of the CIA. The President paid tribute to secret agents after seven of them were killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. In a statement, he said the CIA had been ‘tested as never before’ and that agents had ‘served on the front lines in directly confronting the dangers of the 21st century’. He lauded the victims as ‘part of a long line of patriots who have made great sacrifices for their fellow citizens and for our way of life’. Yet the previous day he had blasted ‘systemic failures’... dailymail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2419546/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:51:30 GMT