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• Escape From New York: Obama Retreats On KSM Trial

  Posted January 29th, 2010 at 9:11am in Protect America with 10 comments

  Today, the Obama White House asked Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department to look for an alternative site to hold the federal trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators. In the last week, the political support for the controversial decision to hold the trial in New York City evaporated. Now, [...] More

• The President’s Anemic Speech on the State of National Defense

  Posted January 28th, 2010 at 5:00pm in Protect America with 2 comments

  On foreign policy and national defense, President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address was anemic. It brushed over key issues like Iran and terrorism and skipped some important issues, like how best to handle detainees, entirely. There were, in fact, moments when the President’s rhetoric flew in the face of his actions, such as [...] More

• Video of the Week: President Bush Addresses Threat of Terrorism

  Posted January 7th, 2010 at 10:45am in Protect America with 9 comments

  In this week’s Video of the Week, President Bush is asked in 2006 if his administration was complacent to the threat of terrorism in the first eight months of 2001, specifically in regards to Osama Bin Laden.  When given the opportunity to finger point, he declines.  President Bush discusses the need to be on the offense, [...] More

• Detroit Terror Plot Makes 28 Plots Foiled Since 9/11

  Posted December 26th, 2009 at 2:43pm in American Leadership, Ongoing Priorities, Protect America with 18 comments

  On December 25, 2009, a Nigerian student attempted to ignite a mixture of powder and liquid on a Northwest Airlines flight landing in Detroit, Michigan. Passengers helped to stop the suspect from carrying out his mission after the device failed to fully detonate, marking the 28th foiled terror plot against the United States since 9/11. This [...] More

• Statement by Former Attorney General Ed Meese on New York Terror Trials

  Posted November 18th, 2009 at 5:40pm in Rule of Law with 33 comments

  Edwin Meese III, the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation as well as the United States Attorney General between 1985 and 1988 released the following statement today on the proposed trials of terrorists in New York City, including confessed 9/11 [...] More

• The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing: Connecting the Dots

  Posted October 23rd, 2009 at 3:00pm in American Leadership with 7 comments

  Today is the 26th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, by Lebanese terrorists supported and directed by Iran. The attack, which killed 241 American servicemen (220 Marines, 16 Navy personnel, and 3 Army soldiers), was the deadliest single-day death toll for the Marines since the World War II [...] More

• Obama’s Olympic Audience

  Posted October 1st, 2009 at 11:20am in American Leadership with 4 comments

  Today, President Obama flies to Copenhagen to lobby the International Olympic Committee to award the 2016 Summer Games to Chicago. So we know that President Obama wants the Olympics. But do the Olympics want the United States? The IOC’s history of the Games, titled “Athens to Athens,” was written by British journalist David Miller [...] More

• Five Things About Homeland Security That Nobody Is Discussing: #5

  Posted September 21st, 2009 at 3:56pm in Protect America with 14 comments

  #5: Interagency Cooperation, The Missing Piece of the Puzzle Eight years after the September 11 attacks, Congress has enacted legislation in order to keep America safe. They created the Department of Homeland Security not just to integrate the activities of over two dozen agencies and programs, but also to lead a national effort of federal, state, [...] More

• NYC Raids: Terrorists Don’t Take a Vacation

  Posted September 16th, 2009 at 6:10pm in Protect America with 0 comments

  Monday, September 14, in New York City, federal and city counterterrorism agents raided homes of those suspected to be involved in terrorist plots against the United States. As part of a joint terrorism task force activity, this is a big win for law enforcement, and it shows just how far information sharing has come in [...] More

• We Are Safer, But Will Our Gains Last?

  Posted September 11th, 2009 at 10:58am in Protect America with 5 comments

  On this 8th Anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attack, we are without question safer today than we were on that crisp, clear September morning in 2001. With each passing year, the challenge to remain vigilant grows harder as many Americans struggle to make ends meet after losing their jobs, large percentages of their retirement [...] More