Category: American National Security

After what it described as an intense investigation that’s in its seventh month, the United States Army’s Criminal Investigation Command (CIC) announced Wednesday evening that the primary suspect in the so-called Wikileaks case is facing an additional 22 charges in …

During the last few months, there have been news reports of intelligence leaks that have demonstrated the inability U.S. security officials to protect the nation’s secrets. The Wikileaks saga continues to reinforce the notion that America’s leaders are incapable of …

Al-Qaeda is probably plotting a number of terrorist attacks against the U.S. homeland in order to maintain worldwide attention focused on their political issues, according to a review of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s testimony before a U.S. Senate …

The attackers of two American federal agents while traveling in Mexico yesterday are believed to be members or associates of the Mexican crime gang Los Zetas, a confidential source tells the Law Enforcement Examiner.

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s recent visit to the U.S.-Mexican border was less than admirable, according to many law enforcement commanders. She accused them and others of exaggerating the danger and violence within border states such as Arizona, California …

In an effort to gain insight on the strength and volatility of the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Homeland Security Committee grilled members of President Barack Obama’s so-called national security team on Wednesday.

In this era of global terrorism and crime, the need for trained security professionals has never been greater. While government agencies and local police departments find they must reduce staffs and budgets, corporations, institutions and health care facilities are finding …

U.S. Border Patrol agents captured a radical Muslim cleric attempting to sneak into the United States across the California-Mexican border this morning.

Said Jaziri was discovered hiding in a Mexican registered BMW. The terrorism supporting cleric has been banned from …

New York’s Congressman Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee demanded that Obama White House present Congress with a detailed plan to properly secure the U.S.-Mexico border after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the scrapping …

China gains advanced weapons technology through espionage

Chinese President Hu Jintao, who is expected to visit with President Barack Obama next week, boasted that China’s military tested its first Stealth fighter jet, according to the Pentagon.

The fourteen decapitated bodies that were discovered yesterday morning in the vacation city of Acapulco, Mexico, are clearly evidence of the continuing drug war being waged by the government and Mexican organized crime organizations.

As a result of the Christmas season bombings of the Ukrainian, Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome, Italy, the U.S. State Department directed all U.S. Embassies to review security protocols including procedures for screening and opening mail.

Under intense pressure by the law enforcement community and many lawmakers, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visited the Arizona-Mexican border on Thursday and Friday after the latest incident of violence by Mexican nationals.

One thing that saddens me about the TSA security controversy is that we’re missing a great opportunity. Sure, the insanity of patting down three-year-old, blonde-haired lasses and octogenarian grandmothers with prosthetics has caused a great backlash, as more and …

The public furor over enhanced security screening policies implemented by the Transportation Security Administration has its roots in the September 11 terrorist attacks. On that date, 19 Muslim foreigners who were terrorist sleeper cells boarded four jetliners, overpowered the aircrew, …