At a time when their actions are under question in the fatal shooting of an airline passenger, federal air marshals will expand their work beyond airplanes, launching counterterror surveillance at trains stations and other mass transit facilities in a test program this week, according to a published report.
A Texas prosecutor has issued subpoenas for bank records and other information of a defense contractor involved in the bribery case of a California congressman as part of the investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
A $400 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation includes plans to place pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the U.S. government as the source, USAToday reported on Wednesday
The reaction to the shooting death of Rigoberto Alpizar provides a sobering glimpse into America’s current obsession with keeping ourselves safe from terrorism. Alpizar was shot by federal air marshals after he ran off a plane that was about to depart from Miami to Orlando.
The longer Congress studies the Patriot Act, which it did not at all when the legislation passed immediately after 9/11, the more misgivings it has, and about time.
Civil libertarians complain there is no clear picture of how casually or widely the U.S. government snoops into the lives of ordinary Americans since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
As the dank grayness of late fall and early winter settled in over the Nation’s Capital, a winter storm of its own raged inside the White House.