In the latest scandal to rock the agency charged with securing aviation from another terrorist attack, high-ranking officials at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are concealing nearly half of the breaches at major airports across the United States. It’s simply one of many shameful lapses for the monstrous federal agency created after 9/11 to protect

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More than a decade after the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history it’s a national embarrassment that our airport security system remains so hopelessly bureaucratic and disconnected from the people it is meant to protect.  That harsh assessment comes from the former head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the 65,000-employee agency created after 9/11

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) only takes action against a “small portion” of foreigners who overstay their visa—like several of the 9/11 terrorists—and allows hundreds of thousands to enter the United States without proper authorization under a provision that already relaxes scrutiny for dozens of countries. It gets better. When congressional investigators demanded answers

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Nearly a decade after Congress passed a crucial security measure to prevent a repeat of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Obama Administration finally plans to implement the law next year after much stalling. Known as the Real ID Act, the national identification measure was enacted in 2005 at the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission to

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While loads of drugs and illegal immigrants slip into the U.S. through the southern border, the Homeland Security agency created after 9/11 to protect the nation from such threats boasts about intercepting counterfeit perfume and unsafe hair dryers. Incredible but true. The huge agency—Customs and Border Protection (CBP)—created after the 2001 attacks to protect the

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It’s been more than a decade since Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. yet the agency created to protect the nation from another strike is asleep at the wheel, failing to adequately screen the monstrous amounts of cargo that enter the country each day. This may seem unbelievable to most Americans, that the Department of Homeland

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A new Homeland Security report compares terrorism to “ordinary crime” in metropolitan U.S. cities and omits the radical Islamic factor, instead finding “significant variability in the ideologies motivating terrorist attacks across decades.” This appears to be part of the Obama Administration’s Muslim outreach effort, which includes hiring a special Homeland Security adviser (Mohamed Elibiary) who

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A scandalous Homeland Security program that allocates well over half a billion dollars annually to help high-risk urban areas protect against terrorism is plagued with rampant fraud, waste and abuse that’s laid out in a scathing federal audit this week.  Known as the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI), the program provides funding—more than $660 million

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The Homeland Security agency charged with immigration enforcement has repeatedly lied to Congress, the American people and the media by drastically increasing the number of individuals that have been apprehended, deported or detained. The shameful revelation was made this week by a nonprofit university group dedicated to researching the U.S. government. The nonpartisan New York-based

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More than a decade after the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, federal agents in charge of protecting the nation’s ports of entry are not qualified to perform their required duties and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fails to keep track of officer proficiency. If this wasn’t documented in a federal probe, it would

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