Homeland Security

National Security by JT20162016

The Washington Post Shocks/Scares D.C. With Real Reporting

A hidden world, growing beyond control Monday, July 19, 2010; 1:53 AM The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist […]

Pentagon by JT20162016

US Looks to Hackers to Protect Cyber Networks

(AP) WASHINGTON D.C. By LOLITA C. BALDOR Apr 18 Wanted: Computer Hackers Buffeted by millions of digital scans and attacks each day, federal authorities are looking for hackers – not to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation’s networks. General Dynamics Information Technology put out an ad last month on behalf of […]

Politics by JT2016

First U.S. Army Battalion to Be Stationed Inside American Borders

Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army By Gina Cavallaro – Staff writer ARMY TIMES Posted : Tuesday Sep 30, 2008 16:16:12 EDT The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent […]

9/11 by JT2016

A City’s Police Force Now Doubts Terror Focus

July 24, 2008 By DAVID JOHNSTON PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Nearly seven years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the war on terror in this city has evolved into a quiet struggle against a phantom foe. Last year, when a sailor slipped over the side of a Turkish merchant ship in the city’s port, a […]