♦ Public safety records reveal there were no safety problems at the Connecticut power plant where an explosion occurred yesterday, reports The New York Times.
♦ A historic blizzard shutters the federal government on Monday while the rest of the Mid-Atlantic states dig out.
In the recent incident in Detroit, a homegrown, self-radicalized jihadist attempted to blow up an aircraft on Christmas day by igniting explosives hidden in his underwear. Since then, there has been the usual hue and cry concerning bureaucratic accountability and a call for technology to help rescue us from evildoers.
In Bogota, Colombia, Miguel Caballero has found a fashion niche that may make him the choice tailor to VIPs around the world: bulletproof clothing, reports VBS.TV’s correspondent Ryan Duffy.
It sounds like a joke, but it’s not.
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♦ Federal air marshals tell CNN that they are assigned "short-haul flights" rather than international high-risk flights to make the Federal Air Marshal Service look more productive on paper.
♦ Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday that another terrorist attack is "certain" within the next three to six months. The other heads of the major U.S. intelligence agencies agreed.
♦ Mayor Michael Bloomberg presses Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for more money to defend New York City from nuclear terrorism.
♦ A Pakistani newspaper calls the United States use of aerial drones over Pakistani soil "terrorism."
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must pay closer attention to whether passengers are comfortable with future screening technologies before they are deployed to airports, a lawmaker said today during a hearing on passenger screening research and development.
In its proposed 2011 budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Obama Administration has requested nearly billion to secure the nation’s airports from terrorism-related threats on the heels of Christmas Day’s botched attack by a young jihadist from Nigeria.
♦ The Obama administration has requested billion for the Department of Homeland Security in 2011, a 3 percent increase over last year.
