The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has decided to let the FBI keep domestic terror suspects in custody longer than the average criminal suspect without reading them their Miranda rights. The FBI memo is yet another move that shows the Obama administration keeping, institutionalizing and More…
ABC’s Jake Tapper reports that Dennis Blair, the embattled director of national intelligence, is getting fired tomorrow. I could give you the rundown of all of Blair’s bureaucratic woes, but Jake really has them all covered. It’s not clear as yet whether this is a response to either Faisal More…
I didn’t get a substantive response from the National Counterterrorism Center or its director, Michael Leiter, to yesterday’s Senate report singling it out for failure in the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab case. Instead, I got pointed to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s Wheatena-flavored reply. That might reflect the More…
It’s so dry it borders on passive-aggressive. “Immediately following the attempted attack, Director Blair initiated reviews to identify [intelligence community]-wide shortcomings and potential solutions,” reads a statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, responding to this afternoon’s declassified Senate report on systemic intelligence failures More…
A long-awaited report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence into the failed bombing attempt aboard Northwest Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab essentially finds that the nation’s premier center for terrorism intelligence didn’t do its job ahead of the Christmastime danger.
“Prior to 12/25,” reads the report, spearheaded by More…
Mark Hosenball gets a hold of a report from a northern California-based “fusion center” of federal, state and local homeland security and law enforcement organizations. Looking at al-Qaeda’s Yemen affiliate, which provided the training for failed Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the fusion center views the threat from More…
For a moment, leave aside the legal questions about the Obama administration’s apparent decision that it possesses the legal authority to order the extra-judicial killing of American citizen and possible al-Qaeda affiliate Anwar al-Awlaki. Karen Greenberg, director of New York University’s Center on Law and Security and the person 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…
I snarked Wednesday about CIA Director Leon Panetta’s assertion that the CIA has lately dealt al-Qaeda a hefty blow, since we don’t really have the visibility into that process to independently evaluate the claim. But the Los Angeles Times’ Greg Miller has a great piece about how U.S. More…
The Justice Department has brought charges against a Pennsylvania woman whose internet handle is “Jihad Jane.” Her actual name is Colleen LaRose, and she’s accused of “conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted More…
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