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Opinion: Glorious Amateurs Needed

(Jan. 18) – As Congress prepares to start hearings on the Christmas Day attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, there will be an inevitable focus on how to use the latest technology – better databases, full-body scanners and the like – to detect and prevent future attacks. But the fact is that despite...

What Intelligence Analysts Didn't Do in Airliner Plot

(Jan. 7) -- It's not that intelligence analysts couldn't connect the dots in the failed Christmas bombing plot. It's that they didn't try hard enough to do so. That, in essence, was the conclusion of a White House review of why the attack wasn't discovered and stopped before it fizzled in the skies above Detroit. The...

Pentagon Report Warns of 'Technological Surprise'

(Nov. 17) -- An area of science long rejected by the mainstream scientific community has caught the eye of a U.S. intelligence agency, which is now warning of the possibility of a new type of weapon of mass destruction. More than 20 years after two chemists in Utah claimed they were able to generate nuclear reactions at...