Posted by Jim Harper on June 30, 2010
By Jim Harper
Thomas L. Norman’s Risk Analysis and Security Countermeasure Selection is a relentlessly practical book intended to aid security consultants, of which Norman is one. There are literally dozens of codes, standards, and risk assessment methodologies that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security accepts for different institutions and infrastructures.
As he details the excruciating process of assessing the [...]
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Tags: Al Qaeda, Cato Publications, Counterterrorism, counterterrorism strategy, Foreign Policy and National Security, Joshua Alexander Geltzer | 
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Posted by Christopher Preble on June 22, 2010
By Christopher Preble
Apparently not. Unlike Douglas MacArthur, Stanley McChrystal has tendered his resignation. President Obama should accept it, and move swiftly to put this unfortunate incident behind him.
This story moved so quickly that I wasn’t able to keep up. In the early morning, we learned that McChrystal had been called to Washington for face-to-face meetings with President [...]
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Tags: Afghanistan, Counterterrorism, failure, Foreign Policy and National Security, General, military, President Obama, robert gates, stanley mcchrystal | No Comments »
Posted by Christopher Preble on May 26, 2010
By Christopher Preble
Earlier today, I attended a lecture at CSIS by John Brennan, a leading counterterrorism and homeland security adviser to President Obama. His speech highlighted some of the key elements of the administration’s counterterrorism strategy, in advance of tomorrow’s release of the National Security Strategy (NSS).
I hope that many people will take the opportunity to read (.pdf) or listen to/watch Brennan’s [...]
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Tags: Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, Coverage, Foreign Policy and National Security, General, homeland security, Islam, John Brennan, muslim world, national security strategy, Obama administration, President Obama, religion, Strategy, terrorists, Terrorizing Ourselves, transparency, war | No Comments »
Posted by David Rittgers on May 26, 2010
By David Rittgers
Behavioral screening is a useful tool in deterring and preventing terrorist attacks. As I noted in this piece at Politico, a border patrol agent successfully used behavioral screening to stop the would-be Millennium Bomber. She noticed something “hinky” about a man driving south across the Canadian border. That “hinky” – fidgety and nervous behavior when [...]
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Tags: behavioral screening, bruce schneier, Counterterrorism, department of homeland security, Law and Civil Liberties, millennium bomber, suspicious behavior, terrorism, TSA | No Comments »
Posted by David Rittgers on May 20, 2010
By David Rittgers
First, they came for the sex offenders. I am not a sex offender, but I opposed the civil commitment of sex offenders by the federal government because it is not an activity within the enumerated powers of Congress. The Supreme Court decided otherwise in Comstock, with the exception of Justices Thomas and Scalia.
Next, they will [...]
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Posted by David Rittgers on May 20, 2010
By David Rittgers
First, they came for the sex offenders. I am not a sex offender, but I opposed the civil commitment of sex offenders by the federal government because it is not an activity within the enumerated powers of Congress. The Supreme Court decided otherwise in Comstock, with the exception of Justices Thomas and Scalia.
Next, they will [...]
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Tags: civil liberties, Comstock, Counterterrorism, Foreign Policy and National Security, habeas corpus petitions, jack goldsmith, joseph lieberman, justice antonin scalia, justice clarence thomas, Law and Civil Liberties, Lindsey Graham, national security court, neal katyal, preventive detention, Scott Brown, Senator John McCain, terrorism | No Comments »
Posted by David Rittgers on May 19, 2010
By David Rittgers
The attempted Times Square bombing prompted Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Scott Brown (R-MA) to propose that anyone suspected of providing material support, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2339A, to State Department-listed terrorist groups be stripped of their citizenship. As Julian Sanchez points out, existing law provides for expatriation for a number of reasons, [...]
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Tags: Counterterrorism, Foreign Policy and National Security, joseph lieberman, Law and Civil Liberties, material support of terrorism, military commissions, Scott Brown, terrorism, terrorist expatriation act, times square bombing | No Comments »
