Archive for June, 2007
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Debra Burlingame at Air & Space Operations Center
Earlier this month, Debra Burlingame co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America, and director of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, served as the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony for the new Air and Space Operations Center at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida.
(Media-Newswire.com) - 6/4/2007 - TYNDALL AIR FORCE […]
No Comments » - Posted in U.S. Homeland Security by Annie Jacobsen
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
TSA Tosses Secret Docs in Airport Dumpster
Hundreds of secret documents detailing aviation security procedures and marked "Sensitive Security Information" (SSI) were found by a teenager in a dumpster near the Orlando International Airport. The documents were apparently tossed there by officials who work for the Transportation Security (TSA). The Washington Times has more details.
[T]he unnamed teenager found "three-ring binders and […]
No Comments » - Posted in Federal Air Marshals, Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Canada Gets a No-Fly List
On Monday, Canada began checking all airline passengers who appear to be over the age of twelve against a "Specified Persons List" — which is a euphemism for a no-fly list. From Canada's Passenger Protect:
The Specified Persons List includes the name, date of birth and gender of individuals who may pose an immediate […]
No Comments » - Posted in Airport Security & Screening by Annie Jacobsen
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Fogging FOIAs
Steven Aftergood, senior research analyst at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), writes in Secrecy News about an unidentified US Senator who recently threw a monkey wrench into a bill aimed at strengthening government transparency. Aftergood later outed the Senator as being Senator John Kyl of Arizona.
Anonymous Senator Blocks FOIA Bill
An unidentified Republican Senator […]
No Comments » - Posted in Government Secrecy by Annie Jacobsen
Monday, June 11th, 2007
CAIR Membership Free-falls by Ninety Percent
It's an ahh-hah moment, an unexpected bright spot in the war against the terrorists. The hateful agenda of CAIR is indeed being spearheaded by a few wealthy donors and is not co-signed by 7 million Muslim Americans as the group has falsely claimed.
Thanks to a FOIA request (for tax records) by The Washington Times […]
No Comments » - Posted in U.S. Homeland Security by Annie Jacobsen
Friday, June 8th, 2007
Rep. Jefferson Denied Spot on Homeland Security Panel
In February, it was widely reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had decided to put Congressman William J. Jefferson (D-Louisiana) on the Homeland Security Committee despite the fact that Jefferson was being investigated on multiple, federal bribery charges. Lawmakers and citizens alike expressed outrage — as was reported in The Washington Post, GovernmentExecutive.com (the Congressional […]
No Comments » - Posted in U.S. Homeland Security by Annie Jacobsen
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
What Happened on Northwest Flight 720?
I just got off the phone with Robert Hayden, the heroic subject of today's Boston Globe article, Graying Duo Keep Passenger in Check. Hayden — a former police chief and former Undersecretary of Public Safety in Massachusetts — was the passenger who handcuffed one man and subdued another man on Northwest Airlines Flight 720, last […]
No Comments » - Posted in Dry Runs and Probes by Annie Jacobsen
Monday, June 4th, 2007
The New Jihadist Resume Item: Airport Worker
I was on Neil Cavuto's show on FOX News earlier today discussing the JFK Airport terror plot. As I have written about here at The Aviation Nation, and discussed on television, an alarming number of convicted and indicted terrorists around the globe are surfacing with "airport worker" on their resume. This includes Russell "Mohammed" Defreitas, […]