Homeland Security

Opinion polls by two major U.S. television networks show that the majority of the country's citizens have faith in President Barack Obama's ability to protect them from "future acts of terrorism". The survey results come despite a wave of strong criticism of the administration's conduct following the recent failed attempt by a Nigerian national, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to the U.S. city of Detroit. Read more >>

Eight years ago, most experts were convinced that the terrorists would have hit us with a dirty bomb by now. Dirty underpants just aren't as menacing, writes Washington Post Columnist Dana Milbank. "Blowing up an individual plane is terrible, but it's nothing compared to the catastrophic terrorism risk that most of us feared we'd see soon after 9/11," said Joe Cirincione. Read more >>

The U.S. Government Printing Office inadvertently published a highly sensitive but unclassified draft declaration to the International Atomic Energy Agency, disclosing addresses and specifications of U.S. nuclear weapons-related facilities. Read more >>