Red Tape Nearly Stops Testimony by Top Former Islamic Radical

It took last-minute arm-twisting by congressional offices and the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday to unravel State Department red tape that nearly prevented a top former Islamic radical from testifying to a Senate committee on the threat his former comrades present to the West.

CQ Politics (07/09/2008)

We Rage, Europeans Yawn, Over Domestic Counterterrorism Ops

Outside the United Kingdom, which invented civil liberties with the Magna Carta, ordinary Europeans couldn’t care less about wiretapping, national ID cards, preventive detention and police spies in mosques.

CQ Politics (06/20/2008)

Iran’s Top Terrorist Emerges From the Shadows

Brigadier Gen. Qassem Suleimani, head of Iran’s supersecret overseas intelligence and sabotage service, is beginning to show a little more ankle, but he remains pretty much an enigma among Iran experts in Washington — including U.S. intelligence agencies, some say.

CQ Politics (04/11/2008)

Mike Chertoff Takes See-No-Evil Stance on NSA Wiretaps

As more allegations of questionable wiretapping emerged last week, the former federal judge faced an unprecedented interrogation on the Homeland Security Department’s relationship with the NSA.

CQ Homeland Security (03/07/2008)

Mike McConnell’s Temporary Spokesman Has a Full-Time Job

Ross Feinstein ought to get a Purple Heart for all the hits he’s taken as press agent for Mike McConnell, the serial mis-stater who runs American intelligence. It’s all the more astounding that only a few years ago, the 25-year-old was vice president of the Union College student union.

CQ Homeland Security (02/29/2008)

Indicted Former Congressman Played God's James Bond

Long before he was indicted last month on charges that he rinsed money for an al Qaeda-connected charity, former Michigan Republican Rep. Mark Siljander had immersed himself in clandestine operations, according to his ill-timed and -titled memoir, “A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman’s Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide,” scheduled for publication in June.

CQ Politics(02/22/2008)

Wiretapping's Collateral Damage

The strange spy tale of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright and the administration's push for open-ended electronic surveillance powers combine to create cause for worry — but not just for the reasons many people think.
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CQ Politics(01/25/2008)

Another Homeland Boondoggle in the Works

Who needs to spend $22 million on a commission to study homegrown terrorism? Only Congress, of course -- no matter that the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, think tanks, universities, journalists and independent scholars have studied it to death.
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CQ Homeland Security (10/26/2007)