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...doomsday scenarios: "We have two major interstate highways, and a significant proportion of the traffic is hazardous materials. We have two major railroads. Also, Wyoming has major mining, major electrical generating plants and coal-bed methane. Any one of those becomes a vulnerability for a terrorist." A former FBI agent, Moore works in an office decorated with a sketch of a longhorn sheep and a picture of the burning Twin Towers with the phrase CONSTANT VIGILANCE. When I ask him how he would prioritize limited federal money, he declines to answer. "We don't have crystal balls. We just believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Are We?: How We Got Homeland Security Wrong | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...official says. Since suicide bombers are a finite resource, terrorists could be more inspired than ever to mount devastating attacks by remote control. In other words, Madrid rolled out an innovation that other terrorists will surely copy, says Tarine Fairman, who retired last month as a top international counterterrorism agent at the FBI. "They've introduced a technique that we knew about and were concerned about," he warns, "but are not prepared to deal with." --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington; Bruce Crumley/Paris; Walter Gibbs/Oslo; Helen Gibson/London; Samuel Loewenberg and Jane Walker/Madrid; Scott Macleod/Cairo; Pelin Turgut/Istanbul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror On The Tracks | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

CHARGED. SUSAN LINDAUER, 41, former Washington journalist and congressional aide; with conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Iraqi intelligence service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions with the Iraqi government; in New York City. Lindauer, a cousin of White House chief of staff Andrew Card, denied the charges, telling reporters "I'm an antiwar activist, and I'm innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 22, 2004 | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...course Zucco was a killer, but it’s not too much of a stretch to say he was a terrorist in a way,” says Wilson. “Throughout the play, there are these enigmatic pronouncements that Zucco makes about being a secret agent. We’re left in the dark as to whether or not that’s the case. But the government has taken on a sort of role with the Patriot Act, where there’s a lot of room to believe today that someone you know could...

Author: By Michelle Chun and Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Spring Season at the Loeb | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

After the president’s daughter is kidnapped from Lowell House, shadowy super Secret Agent Scott (Val Kilmer) is assigned to track her down using whatever means necessary, in writer-director David Mamet’s newest film. Although the dialogue often bounces with Mamet’s rat-a-tat flair, this movie’s deep flaws destroy the elgently crafter political thriller that might have been. Cheap budgets, mind-numbing incoherence and incoherent plotting overshadow the few genuine surprises and admirable political idealism to leave only a square-jawed action movie for pseudo-intellectuals that doesn?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Listings | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

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