The TSA doesn’t want to hear or respond to our concerns about the health, privacy or security implications of their decision to use body scanning technology in American airports. But consumer advocate We Won’t Fly does. And we will make sure your com
13 employees of the Secret Service were entangled in a prostitution scandal in Colombia earlier this year but their actions did not compromise the safety of the president, a Department of Homeland Security investigation found.
Homeland Security officials routinely associate camera-wielding citizens as bomb-strapped terrorists, so it’s a little surprising they are now asking citizens to use their smart phone cameras to report suspicious behavior. The only catch is
Federal agents and prosecutors in Phoenix ignored risks to the public and were primarily responsible for the botched effort to infiltrate weapons-smuggling rings in the operation dubbed “Fast and Furious,” according to the inspector general.
Following controversy over its purchase of around 1.2 billion bullets in the last 6 months alone, the Dept of Homeland Security has put out a new solicitation for over 200 million more rounds of ammunition, some of which are to be used by snipers.
Video has surfaced of TSA agents conducting security tests on beverages bought inside of US airports, two months after RT first reported that passengers were being subjected to added drink screenings at a Colorado airport.
A senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigned amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior lodged by at least 3 Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees.
If there’s a Blackhawk in your airspace, don’t be alarmed now; it’s just “urban warfare” training. That was the message issued to residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota by the local affiliate of the Homeland Security State
A man and his wife were treated as potential terrorists and kicked off a Delta Airlines flight over a satirical T-shirt because it made passengers and employees feel “very uncomfortable”.
Wireless routers already support a technology that might make the idea feasible—creation of guest networks that home owners can use to grant visitors access to the Internet. But the proposal—laid out in a new paper in the peer-reviewed International
Unless you've been doing wall paintings in a Spanish cave, you'll be aware that earlier this year, the federal Department of Homeland Security has ordered 450,000,000 rounds of hollowpoint .40 S&W pistol ammunition. Look at that number again: four hu
Federalism—the division of power between federal and state governments—is making the nation’s electrical grid less safe and more vulnerable to attack by thieves as well as by terrorists.
The Obama administration on Tuesday directed young illegal immigrants to fill out new forms and pay $465 if they want to apply under a new program that would let them avoid deportation and obtain a U.S. work permit.
The TSA is effectively an unconstitutional, carcinogenic petting zoo. Deep down, we all feel that the airport security system is an FDA-approved rubdown and radiation parlor.
A man whose jet ski failed him in New York's Jamaica Bay swam to John F. Kennedy airport, where he was easily able to penetrate the airport $100 million, state-of-the art security system.
The US Secretary of Homeland Security ran her department like a female "frat house" where men were routinely bullied and sexually humiliated, according to a lawsuit filed by a former official.
The federal government, specifically the Department of Homeland Security, is buying up huge amounts of ammunition and there seems to be no end in sight.
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has opened an investigation into claims that racial profiling by security staff is a widespread and often encouraged practice at Boston's Logan airport
New York’s top Department of Homeland Security cop is suing Department of Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano in an explosive but heretofore unnoticed federal lawsuit alleging Homeland Security employment discrimination against straight male age
According to Homeland Security News Wire, the federal government considers “extremist domestic organizations” as dangerous, if not more so, than foreign terrorist organizations.
Besides the fact that they are being operated by an agency that demonstrates on a daily basis a disdain and disregard for discretion, privacy, and professionalism, the Transportation Security Administration's full-body backscatter x-ray machines are
With the odd purchases of ammunition by the Department of Homeland Security I decided to see what else they have purchased. To my surprise a solicitation for a flexible explosive was posted. This explosive is known as Prima Sheet. Prima sheet comes i