In a radio interview last week, Charles "Cully" Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, said that companies should consider boycotting major law firms that represent suspected terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay. He also suggested that…
Testifying on Tuesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told committee members that he has a "very important secure phone" in his kitchen at home for use in case of emergencies. Specifically,…
Wanting to slap fellow passengers (and their crying babies) is entirely understandable, but here’s a reason to stop and think before you do it. A US Airways passenger was arrested yesterday after he threw a "mid-air temper tantrum" on a…
Lt. Col. Steven Jordan is currently on trial for 12 charges relating to the torture — sorry, "maltreatment" — of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. His defense attorneys have argued that Jordan was actually not in charge of the interrogation…
Reportedly, on Sunday 60 Minutes will air a segment on the Homeland Security Department that will include a suggestion that the "no-fly list" assembled after 9/11 may not have been put together, and may not be maintained, all that carefully….
Mardin Amin may face a trial on charges of felony disorderly conduct after an incident at O’Hare Airport on August 16 in which a security official said she heard him state that he had a bomb. Amin argues that she…
The always-vigilant Transportation Security Agency has promulgated rules governing the security procedures to be implemented when a disabled traveler is traveling with a service animal, in case al Queda figures out how to pack a bunch of explosives into a…
A spokesman for Cathay Pacific Airlines said they had to call the Hong Kong police to remove a woman from a Tokyo-bound airliner on Monday. The woman, who was carrying a luxury Gucci handbag, repeatedly refused all requests to put…
The Indiana state Homeland Security Department has told officials in Vermillion County to stop using their official Homeland Security Department Electronic Emergency Message Boards to advertise the local volunteer fire department’s charity fish fry. The 11 message boards, which the…
No he didn’t. A (sadly, unnamed) bartender called authorities early Monday morning after he spotted a flashing red light on the wall of a restaurant at Swan Lake Resort in Plymouth, and suspected it to be a bomb. Thirty-five people…