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Homeland Security

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Information Clearing House

(Why do they do this. Because they can) Under new rules proposed by the TSA, all airline passengers would need advance permission before flying into, through, or over the US regardless of citizenship or the airline's national origin.

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Homeland Stupidity

...those same high-ranking government officials are upset at the level of publicity this story has been getting, and especially with the publication of videos documenting harassment and threats by U.S. Marshals and “Treasury agents.”

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Baltimore Sun Blog

The White House maintains that it is "building a culture of preparedness" with its new national strategy for homeland security. Yet the new report arrives on a day on which it is reported in Washington that a private intelligence firm

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Star-Telegram(Texas)

Last month, six W80-1 nuclear-armed AGM-129 advanced cruise missiles were flown from Minot Air Force Base, ND, to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana and sat on the tarmac for 10 hours undetected. Press reports initially cited the Air Force mistake of flying

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USA Today

The TSA plans to expand its use of screening machines that look under passengers' clothing for hidden weapons. New York's Kennedy and Los Angeles International airports will get "backscatter" X-ray machines that the ACLU has called

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TSA

The Transportation Security Adminstration today announced the creation of the Office of Global Strategies. The mission of this office is to increase security by working proactively with our foreign partners and overseas operations affecting the US

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The Agitator

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and federal prosecutors went to "extreme lengths" to protect the informant, adding that a dozen persons might be alive today had those in charge pulled the plug on the investigation.

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CQ

The CIA is a relatively calm place these days, with its senior officials concentrating more on nailing foregin targets than each other. (Note: read at the bottom about Sen. Richard Shelby, and his attempt to discredit Anthony Lake)

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Eweek

The Dept of Homeland Security self-inflicted what one observer called a mini distributed denial of service, with a reported mass of more the 2.2 million messages stuffing the inboxes of the nation's security experts. All this is simply due to th

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USA Today

(What's next, pace makers) Airport security screeners stepped up scrutiny of remote-controlled toys Monday after authorities said terrorists could us them to detonate bombs. "Credible specific information" indicate that terrorists are

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AP

In an age of of al-Qaida, sleeper cells and the threat of nuclear terrorism, Huntsville is dusting off its Cold War manual to create the nations most ambitious fallout-shelter plan.

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FreemarketNews.com

...the software is being developed to track the content of political speech in Internet blogs and social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, with the intention of identifying 'anti-American' sentiment and rooting out 'terroris

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Identity Project

An Identity Project investigation into the incredible amount of personal information collected by DHS is now available. The report documents how DHS keeps track of your race, what you read, where you sleep and with whom you associate.

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Reuters

Americans are facing a brave new world of post-September 11 technology marvels that could soon find their way into billions of dollars of projected homeland security spending. Gee-whiz know-how -- from swarms of tiny airborne sensors to ever-sharper

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Wired

International travelers concerned about being labeled a terrorist or drug runner by Homeland Security algorithms may want to be careful what books they read on the plane. Newly revealed records show the government is storing such information for year

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Tucson Citizen

The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to oppose the U.S. Border Patrol's plan to set up a permanent checkpoint on Interstate 19. Critics told supervisors such a checkpoint would be worse than ineffectual in stopping illegal immig

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BBC

The US an UK governments are developing increasingly sophisticated gadgets to keep individuals under their surveillance. When it comes to technology, the US is determined to stay ahead od the game.

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Practical Nomad

The Secure Flight proposal would apply to domestic flights the same requirements for government-issued travel credentials and individualized, explicit, prior, per-flight permission to travel as the DHS plans to apply to international flights

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WorldNetDaily

Contrary to rumors surrounding the Air Combat Command's stand-down of all 100,000 active-duty airmen ordered for tomorrow, the US will not be devoid of fighter aircraft to protect the nation. Michael Kucharek, spokesman for NORAD

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