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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff, John Harris, were arrested on Tuesday by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on federal corruption charges alleging that they and others are engaging in ongoing criminal activity. The allegations include conspiring to obtain personal financial benefits for Blagojevich by leveraging his sole...
(The following article is based on reports and affidavits obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police’s Research Division.) Blagojevich and aide allegedly conspired to sell U.S. Senate appointment, engaged in“pay-to-play†schemes and threatened to withhold state assistance to Tribune Company for Wrigley Field to induce purge of newspaper editorial writers. Illinois Gov....
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 direct them to treatment. Concerns arose that HHS’s and DHS’s responses to the incidents were...
The United States Army considers the current transformation its most extensive restructuring since World War II. The Army has estimated that restructuring units from a division-based force to a more agile and responsive modular brigade-based force will require a significant investment through fiscal year 2011, according to a Congressional report obtained by the National...
Nearly 30 North Carolina law enforcement agencies have succeeded in locating offenders and wanted suspects without leaving their desks. The agencies are part of a five-county pilot project utilizing an integrated justice solution called JusticeXchange. The computerized service provides law enforcement with up-to-date access to booking records, warrants, and other data from thousands of...
The current economic downturn has brought significant financial stress to the auto manufacturing industry. Recent deteriorating financial, real estate, and labor markets have reduced consumer confidence and available credit, and automobile purchases have declined. While auto manufacturers broadly have experienced declining sales in 2008 as the economy has worsened, sales of the “Big 3″...
The Homeland Security & Defense Business Council and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute today held a transition briefing to discuss the historical context of the US Department of Homeland Security, the evolution of the homeland security mission, and recommendations to the Obama Administration for where the Department should go from here. “Although we are...
Terrorists are likely to use a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the world in the next five years, a congressional blue-ribbon panel reported. The panel, chaired by former Florida Senator Bob Graham, released a preliminary report on December 1 that created a huge amount of Washington buzz. However, the Graham panel’s report is...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is alerting people this holiday season that cyber criminals continue to aggressively seek ways to steal money and personal information, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Scammers are using several techniques to fool potential victims including sending unsolicited e-mails that contain attachments...
Covering nearly 4,000 miles of land and water from Washington to Maine, the U.S.-Canadian border is the longest undefended border in the world. Various Department of Homeland Security (DHS) component agencies share responsibility for northern border security, primarily U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in collaboration with other federal, state, local, tribal, and Canadian...
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