Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
TSA’s Jeffrey Denning Witch Hunt: The Plot Thickens?
Tonight on Anderson Cooper 360°, CNN will air a Special Investigative Unit report on TSA's egregious investigation of former air marshal Jeffrey Denning. The investigation stems from an email forwarded from Denning's personal computer after he left the Federal Air Marshal Service and while he was serving in Iraq. He did not author the email, […]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Federal Air Marshal Service Faces More Charges
The Cincinnati field office for the Federal Air Marshal Service is now the subject of four federal lawsuits, including a salacious one.
Nancy Leidner, the sole female air marshal stationed in Cincinnati, "claims that slanderous rumors were spread that she had stripped for a co-worker at his going-away party." From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
When she complained […]
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
College Grad Retrofits CCTV Camera to ID by Race
Prick up your ears. And your eyes. CCTV is doing more than just watching you. It's figuring out your race.
Benjamin Males, a twenty-five year-old mechanical engineer and recent graduate of London's Royal College of Art, has written software and retro-fitted a CCTV (Closed Caption TV) camera that he bought on eBay to identify individuals […]
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
CNN Lead Story: TSA Retailates Against Its Own
This didn't take long. The TSA has launched an investigation into former Federal Air Marshal and Iraq war veteran Jeffrey Denning in an attempt to discover who leaked information about a story CNN's Drew Griffin did a few months back — about how Air Marshals cover less than 1% of U.S. flights. I wrote about […]
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Israel To Show Off New Spy Plane
In response to yesterday and today's missile tests by Iran, Israel has announced that it will show off its advanced reconnaissance aircraft that can spy on Iran.
Unlike Iran, which tested its missiles at the Strait of Hormuz — in the Persian Gulf — for all to see, Israel's spy plane exhibit will take place […]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Iranian General “Our finger is always on the trigger”
On Wednesday, Iran test-fired nine missiles, including the Shahab-3, during war games in the Persian Gulf which it called The Great Prophet III.
General Hossein Salami, commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard ground forces, oversaw the tests and had this to say:
"…our finger is always on the trigger and we have hundreds and even thousands of […]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
FBI Biometrics Program Reveals Big Surprises
In Sunday's Washington Post, staff writer Ellen Nakashima reveals some of the most interesting, post 9/11 information available regarding the FBI's efforts to collect biometrics on foreign fighters.
The article indicates that hundreds of "insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa," have had previous run-ins with U.S. law enforcement […]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
DHS Considers Stun Bracelet for Airline Passengers
The Washington Times has a new Aviation Security Blog written exclusively by U.S. Federal Air Marshal P. Jeffrey Black and former U.S. Air Marshal Jeffrey Denning.
These two have unique insight into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), its bizarre bureaucratic policies and its even more suspect ideas for the future.
Like their most recent […]