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Opinion Roundup: More Intelligence, Less Safety

(July 19) -- Dana Priest and William Arkin's Washington Post expose of the fast-growing intelligence community in their first installment of "Top Secret America" has plenty of people talking. Making Us Less Safe What's most noteworthy about all of this is that the objective endlessly invoked for why we must acquiesce to...

Bulk of Anti-Terror Funding Pegged to 9/11 Suspect

(Feb. 1) -- At first glance, the $213 million that the Obama administration wants to add to the federal budget in anti-terrorism funding for high-risk cities next year seems like a substantial increase. It would boost the pot of urban homeland security money by 24 percent over the current level. But a closer look at the...

Hamilton Amplifies Chorus of Criticism From 9/11 Panel

WASHINGTON (Jan. 7) -- The vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission charged that "complacency set in" after the 2001 terrorist attacks and blamed "human failure" for not preventing the Christmas Day bomb plot to blow up an American airliner over Detroit. While there has been some progress, former Democratic congressman Lee...

Opinion: Obama Missteps on Airport Security

(Jan. 5) – In confronting the aftermath of the Christmas bombing plot, President Obama is surely discovering one thing: It isn't easy being George Bush. In its reaction to the failed attacks, the Obama administration has responded with many of the same panicked measures that were seen in the Bush response after...

Al-Qaida Claims Responsibility for Attempted US Attack

CAIRO (Dec. 28) -- Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner on Christmas day, saying it was retaliation for a U.S. operation against the group in Yemen. In a statement posted on the Internet, the group said 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...