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The Effects of a Single Terrorist Nuclear Bomb

Posted by Editor on October 1, 2017 in Terrorism 0 Comment

“The escalating threats between North Korea and the United States make it easy to forget the “nuclear nightmare,” as former U.S. Secretary of Defense William J. Perry put it, that could result even from the use of just a single terrorist nuclear bomb in the heart of a major city.” More …

The CIA’s Torture Program, as Explained by the Psychologists Who Designed It

Posted by Editor on June 21, 2017 in Military, Terrorism 0 Comment

“The former military psychologists who designed the CIA’s torture program are now describing it in their own words for the first time, reopening one of the grimmest chapters in Washington’s war on terror and providing disturbing details about what was done to detainees in the name of US national security.” More …

Trump Helped Build a Hotel in Azerbaijan that Appears to Be a Corrupt Operation Engineered by Oligarchs Tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

Posted by Editor on March 6, 2017 in Executive Branch, Terrorism 0 Comment

“Throughout the Presidential campaign, Trump was in business with someone that his company knew was likely a partner with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.”

DHS Report Disputes Threat from Travel Ban Nations

Posted by Editor on March 5, 2017 in Executive Branch, Muslim Ban, Terrorism 0 Comment

“Analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States.”

Department of Homeland Security Preparedness Grants: A Summary and Issues (October 2016)

Posted by Editor on February 14, 2017 in Executive Branch, Terrorism 0 Comment

This Congressional Research Service report is a brief summary of the development of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) role in providing homeland security assistance, a summary of the current homeland security programs managed by DHS, and a discussion of the following policy questions: (1) the purpose and number of programs; (2) the use of homeland security assistance program funding; and (3) the funding amounts for the programs.

Debunked: TSA’s $1.5 Billion “Behavior Detection & Analysis” Program

Posted by Editor on February 14, 2017 in Executive Branch, Terrorism 0 Comment

FOIA documents reveal that materials in TSA’s own files discredit this junk-science program.

Global Terrorism Database

Posted by Editor on February 12, 2017 in Terrorism 0 Comment

The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on over 150,000 terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2015 (with annual updates planned for the future). Includes systematic data on domestic as well as international terrorist incidents. From the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland.