Why was Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad allowed to board an Emirates flight to Dubai last week even after he was placed on the no-fly list? Mark Hosenball reports that the FBI was worried about tipping him off:
[A]t the FBI’s request, some, but not all airlines, were
A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week:
- If Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) don’t introduce an immigration bill in three weeks, Democrats will bring their own bill forward, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday, according to aides and lobbyists. More…
Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) sent a letter asking Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to stop the deportation of young immigrants who would be eligible for legal residence under the DREAM (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act, a bill that would give More…
Philip Mudd, one of the intelligence community’s leading al-Qaeda analysts, has quietly retired from the FBI, where he was associate executive director of the National Security Branch. Mudd confirmed in an email that he left “about six weeks ago,” but didn’t immediately respond to additional questions about his departure.
Mudd More…
The New York Times runs a very good piece about the strained, tentative and sub rosa relationship between the Obama administration and American Muslim organizations. There’s an insightful bit about how meetings between Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, and U.S. Muslim groups contributed to her department’s repeal More…
Ethnic profiling doesn’t have many open defenders — Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) is a notable exception — so it was surprising that part of the Department of Homeland Security’s response to the near-detonation of Northwest flight 253 was to single out citizens of 14 mostly-Muslim countries for special scrutiny More…
- The Obama administration is working toward immigration reform, according to Janet Napolitano, secretary of Department of Homeland Security. Napolitano told an audience yesterday at Arizona State University: “We’re going to keep pushing this until we get it over the finish line,” according to The Arizona Republic. The paper More…
The senator-cum-radio host, who has one of the most smart-aleck twitter feeds in conservative politics, makes fun of the Secretary of Homeland Security’s tennis injury. (In typical, sleepy Thompson fashion, he’s reacting to old news.)
Here’s a video of one of the better scenes from the CPAC exhibit hall: Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty hosts sumo wrestling matches that pitted “America” (volunteers) versus “Janet Napolitano” (intern Sam Swedberg).
After the jump, a slideshow of photos from the first day of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
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