Democracy Now: Military Initiates Martial Law Missions Oct. 1
We posted the Army Times article a few days ago… you can read the article here
Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind
Allison Barrie | FoxNews.com Click here for an exclusive look at MALINTENT in action. Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind. Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new [...]
Brigade Homeland Tours Start Oct. 1
ArmyTimes.com The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys. Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home. Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT [...]
Chertoff: European Terrorists Trying to Enter US
EILEEN SULLIVAN | AssociatedPress.com WASHINGTON (AP) — European terrorists are trying to enter the United States with European Union passports, and there is no guarantee officials will catch them every time, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday. Chertoff’s comments on Capitol Hill comes as the country is entering a potentially vulnerable period with the [...]
CNN Reporter Criticizes TSA, Finds Self on Terror Watch List
David Edwards and Nick Juliano | RawStory.com The post-9/11 airline watch list that is supposed to keep terrorists off of airplanes has swelled to more than 1 million names, including at least one investigative reporter who had been critical of the Transportation Security Agency, which maintains the watch list.CNN’s Drew Griffin reported on the bloating [...]
Obama Calls For National Civilian Stasi
Paul Joseph Watson | InfoWars.com Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama has called for a “civilian national security force” as powerful as the U.S. military, comments that were ignored by the vast majority of the corporate media but compared by one journalist to the Nazi Hitler Youth. “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order [...]
Cops to Use “Top Secret” Weapons on Activists During Conventions
As CNN reports (see video), Congress is forking over $100 million for “security expenses” in Denver and St. Paul this summer. CNN’s Ed Lavendera says the types of weapons being purchased are “top secret” and this does not sit well with the ACLU, who is suing both cities to find out how the money is [...]
Utility Workers Hired As Stasi Informants In Colorado, California, Arizona
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as “Terrorism Liaison Officers” in Colorado, Arizona and California to watch for “suspicious activity” which is later fed into a secret government database. According to a Denver Post report, “It’s a tactic intended to feed better [...]
Is Osama bin Laden Dying … Again?
MASSIMO CALABRESI | Time.com Which is closer to dying: Osama bin Laden or the CIA’s effort to catch him? Nothing has characterized the fruitlessness of the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader so much as the recurrent — and mostly inaccurate — reports that he is seriously ailing, or even at death’s door. In 2002, Pakistani [...]
D.C. Agents Impound Investigative Reporter’s Laptop for No Reason
Alex Kingsbury | U.S.News.com Returning from a vacation to Germany in February, freelance journalist Bill Hogan was selected for additional screening by customs officials at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. Agents searched his luggage, he said, “then they told me that they were impounding my laptop.” Shaken by the encounter, Hogan examined his bags and [...]
DHS Begins Collecting 10 Fingerprints From International Visitors at Chicago O’Hare International Airport
dhs.gov Release Date: February 1, 2008 Contact: US-VISIT Public Affairs, (202) 298-5200 CBP Public Affairs, (312) 983-5344 Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has begun collecting additional fingerprints from international visitors arriving at Chicago O’Hare International Airport (O’Hare). The change is part of the department’s upgrade from [...]
Rolling Stone latest to catch on to State Manufactured Terror
The FBI now has more than 100 task forces devoted exclusively to fighting terrorism. But is the government manufacturing ghosts? GUY LAWSON | rollingstone.com “So, what you wanna do?” the friend asked. “A target?” the wanna-be jihadi replied. “I want some type of city-hall-type stuff, federal courthouses.” It was late November 2006, and twenty-two-year-old Derrick [...]
F.B.I. Seeks $1 Billion Biometric Database To Scan U.S. For Terrorists, As Borders Remain Undefended
1 Billion Project to Include Images of Irises and Faces By Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, December 22, 2007; A01 CLARKSBURG, W. Va. — The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to [...]
Death Cab For Cutie Guitarist Baffled By Homeland Security’s Seizure Of His Album
By James Montgomery/MTV When Death Cab for Cutie guitarist/producer Chris Walla woke up on Monday, his “To Do” list probably read something like this: 1. Call MTV News to discuss upcoming, long-delayed solo record. 2. Call U.S. Department of Homeland Security to discuss seizure of hard drive containing said long-delayed solo record. 3. Head into [...]
