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Hmmm: ABC turns homeland security into boob-tube entertainment. (Hat tip: ALIPAC) In some ways, you can’t top the true-life farce that lax immigration enforcement has been under the Bush administration. It will be interesting to see how much of the open-borders agenda creeps into this experiment:
Every day the men and women of the Department [...]

Energy matters.

Piercing. (Photo source.)

Homeland insecurity alert.

Terrible Stupidity Abounds.

The mystery of the Goose Creek Two continues to unravel. From the very beginning, the case smelled. Remember: “Fireworks?” Just fireworks. Just two innocent boys on a drive to the beach. Who just happened to be driving on an isolated road that leads to a naval station…which houses a military brig where enemy combatants are [...]

Sorry.

Fox News alert.

Monkey business.

TSA: Thousands Standing Around. Those Silly Asses. Taking Scissors Away.

Update: New WashTimes article on the report here.
This weekend, dogged Washington Times reporter Audrey Hudson previewed a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s report on the handling–and mishandling–of Flight 327. Longtime readers will remember this incident as an airline security object lesson on the need for passengers to say something when they see something. Thirteen [...]

Back in 2003, a teenager was arrested and charged for joking about a bomb in his luggage.
In 2004, a British student was arrested and released after making a bomb joke before boarding a flight from Miami to Britain.
We are constantly warned not to make light of homeland security while passing through airport checkpoints and threatened [...]

Andy McCarthy rightly excoriates the dhimmis in the Bush administration for pandering to CAIR:
On a weekend when the Bush administration achieved a new CAIR-friendly low, a prominent Democrat, following the lead of other prominent Democrats, distanced herself very publicly from the unsavory Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The Transportation Security Administration is the executive agency created after [...]

Christopher Soghoian, a PhD student in the School of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington, created a fake boarding pass generator to expose flaws in airport security. A reader sent this link to the generator, but it looks like it has been taken down.
Looks like he could be in big trouble for blowing the whistle. Wired [...]

Bill Nienhuis asks an interesting question:
WHY ARE GLOBAL POSITIONING SATELLITE DEVICES (GPS) STILL ALLOWED (POST-9/11) ON MOST AIRLINES?
I scream this because returning from a cross-country vacation with my family yesterday, I spent five minutes explaining that the 2 oz. Infant Tylenol bottle (with syringe) was allowed under the less-than-four-ounces “essential non-prescription medication” language of the [...]

Here’s hoping this is another false alarm. Either way, it appears that transportation security is indeed on full alert, and possible threats are being handled quickly and decisively.
The Charleston, W.V. Gazette:
HUNTINGTON — Tri-State Airport in Huntington was evacuated just before 11:30 a.m. Thursday after a suspicious liquid was found in a passenger’s carry-on luggage.
A [...]

Allah was on this from the get-go.
The “unruly passenger” was reportedly carrying Vaseline, matches, a screw driver, and a note referencing Al Qaeda.
The flight was carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew.
The flight, with 182 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely, UAL Corp. spokesman Brandon Borrman said. Borrman said a female passenger was [...]

***scroll for updates, including new info from Annie Jacobsen (remember Flight 327?)…who were the ringleaders of Bojinka II (is there a better name? let me know)…here’s the reason for the liquid ban: ABC says the jihadists were going to hide the explosives in sports drink bottles…reports of dry runs…USNews now also reporting details involving hydrogen [...]

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I went to bed last night after blogging about the Dearbornistan terror arrests and the still missing 8 Egyptians. Twenty minutes after I went to sleep, the news broke about a massive terrorist plot to blow up several aircraft mid-flight between the United States and Britain using explosives smuggled in hand luggage.
Are [...]

***scroll for updates…230pm EST Dem Senators Schumer, Clinton, Reid scrambling to organize press conference…248pm EST. Harry Reid looks irked at being outmaneuvered: “We want an up-and-down vote…the devil is in the details.” Fox News cuts away to President Bush signing renewal of Patriot Act. Bush (after thanking Cabinet officials, law enforcement, and GOP leaders, including [...]

How many times have you heard civil liberties activists argue that national security profiling should be based on behavior, not race/ethnicity/nationality/national origin/religion?
That’s the argument the ACLU makes again and again and again.
But if your B.S. detector starts going off full-tilt, you are not alone.
Truth is, the ACLU doesn’t want behavior-based profiling, either. Case in [...]

If you were paying attention, you read rumblings about the Department of Homeland Security’s shakeup in one of this blog’s special reports back in May.
Well, now it’s officially done. DHS chief Michael Chertoff wil unveil the plan publicly at 1pm EST today. The key details via CQ:
Many of the expected changes have long been [...]

Groan. The head of the bloated, incompetent TSA–told you they aren’t going away–is whining:
Failures to detect weapons and explosives at airport security checkpoints are being incorrectly attributed to shoddy work by screeners, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Saturday.
So-called human failures were often the result of government watchdogs intentionally loading the bags a [...]

You’ve probably already heard–and cheered: The Transportation Security Administration is reportedly now “being slated for dismantling.” Sounds more dramatic than it is. According to the Washington Post:
Under provisions of President Bush’s 2006 budget proposal favored by Congress, the TSA will lose its signature programs in the reorganization of Homeland Security. The agency will likely become [...]

Lots of increased chatter over the last week about an imminent resignation from Tom Quinn, the top fashion cop at the Federal Air Marshals Service. Last Wednesday, marshals got word of a new special FAMS “advisory board” being formed to investigate marshals’ concerns over the infamous dress code, hiring practices, and other issues. Here’s the [...]

I wish I were making this up. From Scripps Howard:
The federal government wants to change its current rules to permit convicted arsonists to get special licenses so they can drive gasoline tankers and trucks loaded with explosives and hazardous materials…”Arson is not always an act of terrorism,” the Transportation Security Administration declared in proposing the [...]

The man who said this…
Kroft: Are you saying, at security screening desks, that a 70-year-old white woman from Vero Beach, Florida, would receive the same level of scrutiny as a-a-a Muslim young man from Jersey City?
Mineta: Basically, I would hope so.
…is staying in the Bush administration.
Flashbacks:
Rich Lowry on Mineta, January 2002:
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta [...]

The New York Times reports that Transportation Security Agency officials will take over screening of passengers on New York City helicopter tours. The new policy comes on the heels of intelligence suggesting that al Qaeda may utilize such helicopters to carry out terrorist attacks.
What kind of checks were being done by the private helicopter-tour firms [...]

Via Michael Smerconish’s radio show this morning, we learn that Annie Jacobsen will be posting a follow-up to her Terror In The Skies, Again article at womenswallstreet.com around 9amPST/12noonEST.
Jacobsen’s parents e-mailed me some family background:
Annie Jacobsen is our daughter!! She is NOT the science fiction writer nor the psychic (with the same name). [...]