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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

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Feinstein, Bond: No Definitive Evidence Yet Tying Pakistani Taliban to Times Square Bomber

By | 05.11.10 | 5:38 pm

Following a classified briefing on the attempted car-bombing of Times Square for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the panel’s leadership said there was not yet definitive evidence tying the Pakistani Taliban to the failed terrorist attack believed to be perpetrated by naturalized U.S. citizen Faisal Shahzad.

But committee chairwoman More…

Gen. Eaton Joins the National Security Network

By | 07.16.09 | 11:40 am

One of the leaders of the so-called “generals’ revolt” against then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2006, ret. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, is about to join the progressive National Security Network, NSN sources confirm.

Eaton, a former infantry officer, had a 30-year Army career that including deployments to More…

Rand Beers Heading Obama’s Homeland Security Transition

By | 11.13.08 | 11:56 am

Good news for people who don’t like their airliners hijacked or their chemical plants blown up. Rand Beers, longtime counterterrorism aide to presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, is heading Barack Obama’s transition team for the beleaguered Dept. of Homeland Security.

Mark Hosenball at Newsweek reports: