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More than a year into President Obama's Administration - and three months after the Nigerian underwear bomber failed in his attempt to blow a U.S. airliner out of the sky over Detroit - the nation still doesn't have a top cop at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Why is the Administration having such a tough time filling this vital slot...
...wife's boyfriend. Southers had initially told Senators he asked a co-worker's husband in the San Diego police department to run a background check, but later admitted that he himself had conducted two database searches into the man's background. (See pictures of the so-called underwear bomber...
...Maybe it's America's frontier heritage; moving west and constantly facing new bands of Indians, this nation has always seemed to have an exaggerated awareness of potential threats. The Cold War gave us warnings of missile and bomber gaps, later found to be largely mirages, that were supposedly leaving U.S. citizens vulnerable to Soviet attack. Fear of the supposed Soviet missile advantage spurred President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars initiative and the $100 billion Washington has spent preparing to counter incoming enemy missiles even as the Soviet Union disappeared. Then, 9/11 put us in the crosshairs of Islamic terrorists...
...attacks on Holder are coming so fast, it's hard to keep track of the complaints. Republicans criticize him on the one hand for Mirandizing the Christmas Day bomber and on the other for asserting, as he did on March 16, that the U.S. would kill Osama bin Laden rather than capture and interrogate him. But Holder says he's adhering to principles he adopted over the years as an unforgiving criminal prosecutor. And it's Holder's experience in the law-enforcement system that makes him such a strong believer in its ability to put terrorists like KSM away...
Other patriots are worried that their own agendas will be confused with the as-yet-unexplained agenda of the Oklahoma bomber. "If you get one crazy out there who doesn't have a brain, then everybody gets lumped in," complains Dean Compton, 33, who heads an armed militia in California's Sierra Nevada foothills. In dread of just such an event, he announced the formation of a group in March called the National Alliance of Christian Militia. Compton, who claims 85% of the militia movement is Christian, says the new alliance is an attempt to distinguish their efforts from...