On December 23, President Bush signed into law a bill that enhances measures to combat human trafficking. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Assistant Secretary John Torres were among 16 federal agency and private organizational leaders in the Oval Office who witnessed the signing of H.R. 7311,...
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A major member of an Afghan Taliban cell was sentenced today in US District Court for the District of Columbia to two terms of life in prison on drug and narco-terrorism charges, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division announced in a statement submitted to the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs...
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The Castorena Family Organization is a large-scale criminal organization with more than 100 key members who oversee cells of 10 to 20 individuals in cities across the United States, according to public court documents filed by the US government in Colorado and in other judicial districts around the country. Several of the senior leaders...
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US Officials Should Strengthen Their Ability to Respond to TB Incidents by Jim Kouri, CPP In spring 2007, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and state and local health officials worked together to interdict two individuals with drug-resistant infectious tuberculosis (TB) from crossing U.S. borders and...
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Potential terrorist attacks and the possibility of naturally occurring disease outbreaks have raised concerns about the “surge capacity” of the nation’s health care systems to respond to mass casualty events, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. The Government Accountability Office identified four key components of preparing for...
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In 1990, National Association of Chiefs of Police treasurer, Debbi Chitwood, suggested that a program be put into place where age-appropriate new gifts be selected, wrapped and sent to survivor children at Christmas time and at the time of each child’s birthday in honor of their mother or father who was killed in the...
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The Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice (DOJ) launched the Secure Communities program in Bucks and Montgomery counties to better identify and remove criminal aliens from these communities. This program, administered by DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will now check the immigration history of every individual booked into detention facilities in the...
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced yesterday to several law enforcement organizations — including the National Association of Chiefs of Police — that it is expanding the categories of non-US citizens required to provide digital fingerprints and a photograph upon entry to the United States through the US-VISIT program. US-VISIT records biographic...
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I wrote and released this article on November 6. The story got very little coverage by the elite (liberal) news media until today. So here’s the article once again. Now that we know who will lead our nation beginning in January 2009, it’s time to evaluate the problems President Barack Hussein Obama will face...
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The Missile Defense Agency announced that it has completed an important exercise and flight test involving a successful intercept by a ground-based interceptor missile designed to protect the United States against a limited long-range ballistic missile attack. The flight test results will help to further refine the performance of numerous Ballistic Missile Defense System...
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The US Marshals Service announced the addition of Joseph Allen Garcia to the 15 Most Wanted Fugitive List, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Garcia is wanted in Texas on charges of murder, manslaughter, three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and failure to appear....
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William A. “Bill” White, the self-proclaimed Commander of the neo-Nazi group the American National Socialist Workers Party, was indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening five individuals and for attempting to intimidate litigants in a federal housing discrimination lawsuit, the Justice Department announced today. White, who was also recently indicted in the Northern...
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Hollywood, FL police investigators announced that they are closing the more than 25-year investigation into the abduction and murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, who disappeared from a local shopping mall in 1981. His severed head was found two weeks later in a canal 120 miles away from the mall abduction site. In the well-publicized...
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Acting Special Agent in Charge Douglas R. Dawson, Seattle Field Division, of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today announced that agents from the Anchorage Field Office joined the Wasilla Bible Church arson investigation. On Dec. 13, 2008, the Central Mat-Su Fire Department and the Alaska State Fire Marshals Office contacted...
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On October 26, 2001, President Bush signed into law H.R. 3162, the USA PATRIOT Act. The US Secret Service was mandated by this Act to establish a nationwide network of Electronic Crimes Task Forces (ECTFs). The concept of the ECTF network is to bring together not only federal, state and local law enforcement, but...
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Judicial Watch is performing its own investigation into the Illinois political scandal involving the state’s governor and his connection to President-Elect Barack Obama. While the mainstream news media are busy conducting their phony investigation — designed to subdue any negative effects on their golden-boy. empty-suited Commander in Chief — groups such as Judicial Watch...
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Yesterday, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, speaking after a joint United States and European Union (EU) ministerial meeting, highlighted “Operation Joint Hammer” — the US component of an ongoing global enforcement operation targeting transnational rings of child pornographers. The operation already has led to the arrest of more than 60 people in the United...
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Wahhabism is a fundamentalist movement, named after Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab (1703-1792). It remains the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia. Wahhabis hold that some Muslim groups such as Shia Islam follow novel or non-Islamic practices.Wahhabi theology advocates puritanical and legalistic stances in matters of faith and religious practice. Wahhabists see their...
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The shysters at the American Civil Liberties Union yesterday released a statement from 25 9/11 victims’ family members challenging the legitimacy of the Guantanamo military commissions and their ability to achieve justice. Personally, if I had my way, I’d release these terrorist killers into their custody and hold the ACLU legally liable for any...
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The Department of Energy oversees contractors that operate more than 200 “high-hazard” nuclear facilities, where an accident could have serious consequences for workers and the general public. DOE is charged with regulating the safety of these facilities. A key part of DOE’s self-regulation is the Office of Health, Safety and Security (HSS), which develops,...
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