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www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-assistant-president-homeland-security-and-counterterrorism-john-brennan-csi # Note: The following text is a quote: Home • Briefing Room • Statements & Releases The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release May 26, 2010 Remarks by Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan at CSIS “Securing the Homeland by Renewing American Strength, Resilience and Values” Thank you very much John, and I would like to take a moment to express my appreciation to CSIS for inviting me back. You invited me here a little after six months after I came into this administration and I greatly appreciate the invitation...

The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad warned that terror groups may have “established links” to a Pakistan catering firm owned by a suspect connected to the May 1 botched car bombing in Times Square. The suspect was among 6 people detained in Pakistan tied to U.S. bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani security official said.

In an alarming example of how sanctuary cities can protect terrorists, a Pakistani man arrested for the Time Square bombing admitted on a city license application that he entered the U.S. illegally and authorities took no action. That’s because he applied for the cabbie license in a state (Massachusetts) that openly protects illegal immigrants from deportation. Local law enforcement agencies throughout Massachusetts have don’t-ask-don’t-tell policies regarding illegal aliens and in this case the Boston Police Department has for years known that the terrorist, So Pir Khan, was in the country illegally. Khan was recently arrested in an FBI terror sweep...

Times Square bomb suspect eyed other targets, official saysBy the CNN Wire Staff May 18, 2010 8:33 p.m. EDT New York (CNN) -- The man accused of attempting to set off a car bomb in Times Square considered other targets in and around New York before the failed attack, an investigator said. Faisal Shahzad, 30, pondered attacks on Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, the World Financial Center and Connecticut helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky, going so far as to case some of the targets, a senior counterterrorism official with oversight of the investigation said Tuesday. Dressed in a gray sweatsuit, free of...

A Pakistani army major was arrested Tuesday in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing on May 1, The LA Times reported Wednesday. The major’s link to suspect Faisal Shahzad, was unclear but Pakistani law enforcement sources confirmed to the newspaper that the pair had met in the capital Islamabad and that they were in cellphone contact.

The Washington Post: Two months after a Muslim soldier complained to the Pentagon about being harassed in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings, Spec. Zachari Klawonn said the Army has not followed through on its promises to address problems at the country's largest military base. See Video Here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrxQDEoZoj4&feature=player_embedded

BROOKLINE -- Residents, some of whom have been coming here for 20 years, turned out in droves this morning at the Mobil station on Harvard Street to voice their support for a local merchant whose life was turned upside-down this week. Dozens filled their tanks to help Elias Audy make up for the past two days, during which business at his two gas stations has been disrupted after federal agents appeared Thursday, seeking evidence that might link one of his newly hired employees to the failed car bomb attack this month in New York’s Times Square. "We all love him,"...

Join Pat, aka Honest Conservative, 8 PM EDT Sunday evening, for the May 16 edition of Freedom Radio. Retired FDNY firefighter and 9/11 survivor Tim Brown of theBravest.com joins us to discuss the plan to build a sharia-complaint 'Cordoba House' within sight of where 19 followers of sharia law slammed Flights AA 11 and UAL 175 into the Twin Towers. We'll discuss with Diana West her latest column on TownHall.com, 'Do We Deserve a Mosque at Ground Zero?' Bill Roggio of the LongWarJournal.org received an email from the Taliban within 8 hours of the May 1 attempt by Faisel Shahzad...

The FBI's arrests of two Boston-area men tied to the Times Square bombing attempt -- both held on immigration violations -- underscore continuing homeland-security lapses. FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents say two men of Pakistani descent, who may have provided cash to Times Square bomb plotter Faisal Shahzad, were taken into custody in raids on Thursday. One was here on an expired visa. The other was on the loose while an immigration court adjudicated his deportation-and-removal order. He'd reportedly been ordered deported in 2002, yet managed to embed himself in American society for more than seven years. But...

Three months before the Times Square terror bombing by a Pakistani-American with ties to terrorists in Pakistan, the Obama administration knew the style of attack, the type of explosives to be used and when the attack would come, yet when the attack happened the administration played dumb with its initial reaction being to downplay the attack as an unsophisticated "one-off" that was a "potential" terror attack.On February 10, I wrote an article at FR based on Vice President Joe Biden's comments about coming terror attacks on the U.S. that were broadcast later that day on CNN's Larry King Live.King mentioned...

CENTEREACH, N.Y. (CBS) ― Who paid for it? The investigation into the Times Square bomb scare brought federal raids across the Northeast and netted three arrests Thursday. The raids took place in the Boston area, on Long Island, and in South Jersey, and CBS 2 has learned the focal point of the investigation is a complex system that suspect Faisal Shahzad used to fund the plot.

FBI, ICE agents execute search warrants in Boston suburb, as well as other locations across the Northeast | 2 people with direct connection to the bomber arrested. Caught moving money.

Two people have been taken into custody on possible immigration violations following a sweep today in Watertown and at other locations across the Northeast in connection with the investigation into the attempted May 1 Times Square bombing, federal officials tell the Herald. FBI agents were also seen at two gas stations in Brookline - one on Harvard Street and another on Cypress Street. The agents were seen carefully examining a silver Honda at the Harvard Street station, but it is unclear whether the activity is related to the Times Square probe. FBI agents have also been seen at a home...

Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the failed plot to bomb New York City's Times Square, has told U.S. investigators that he received bomb-making training at a camp in Pakistan's Waziristan region. Given the botched, even amateurish nature of Shahzad's attempt -- he forgot to take the keys to his getaway car, for instance -- many observers are now asking: What exactly does one learn at a terrorist training camp? First of all, today's terrorist training camps are not what they used to be. Sprawling al Qaeda camps complete with such amenities as firing ranges, like Tarnak Farms near Kandahar, Afghanistan,...

'A Muslim has no nationality except his belief," the intellectual godfather of the Islamists, Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, wrote decades ago. Qutb's "children" are everywhere now; they carry the nationalities of foreign lands and plot against them. The Pakistani born Faisal Shahzad is a devotee of Sayyid Qutb's doctrine, and Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, was another. Qutb was executed by the secular dictatorship of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1966. But his thoughts and legacy endure. Globalization, the shaking up of continents, the ease of travel, and the doors for immigration flung wide open by Western liberal societies...

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TTP Leader Hakimullah Mehsud Declares: 'From Now On, the Main Targets of Our Fidaeen [Suicide Bombers] Are American Cities' The first, which the YouTube page titled "Hakeemullah Mehsud is Alive and Healthy and Delivering news about Attacks on USA," is 2:17 long, and shows a still satellite image of North America with a still image of Hakimullah Mehsud. Speaking in Urdu, he states that the date is April 19, 2010 and threatens bombings in U.S. "states & cities"; as he speaks, explosions are shown taking place across the map. (To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2463.htm. NOTE: You...

Speaking to the graduating class of Virginia's Hampton University today, President Barack Obama took another opportunity to whine about the quantity of information available to Americans: "Some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets. "All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy." Let's examine a few of those crazy claims and exactly who is spreading them.

"The Ben Shapiro Show," Sundays 1-4 PM EST on WEUS 810 AM in Orlando, FL, begins in 45 minutes! You can listen online at big810am.com! It should be exciting and fast paced and hard core -- we'll cover the Obama Administration's brutally incompetent response to the Times Square bomber, the new Seattle police tapes the left will surely cease on to push against Arizona's immigration law, inside information about Obama's prospective Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. We'll also ask the question: did the left kill Mother's Day? Call in at (407)774-1085!

Sometimes a conspiracy is a conspiracy. If it's the first step toward mad ness to see connections between random events when there are none, what is it to pretend that undeniable connections don't exist? After the failed Times Square car bombing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano immediately opined that it was a "one-off." Sen. Chuck Schumer chimed in, "The odds are quite high that this was a lone wolf." Translation: Nothing to see here, just a random crazy and a failed plot of no larger consequence. Soon enough, Faisal Shahzad, a 30- year-old US citizen, had been arrested en route...