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...North Korea was already displaying customary prickliness after South Korea gave asylum last month to 468 North Korean defectors who had fled their homeland and taken temporary refuge in Vietnam. South Korea's policy of peaceful dialogue with the North has been chilled by the controversy, which prompted Pyongyang to accuse its neighbor of "international terrorism and an unpardonable human-rights abuse." Fearing the North might do more than hurl invective, South Korean intelligence officials issued an unusual warning last week that Pyongyang could launch a terrorist strike against South Korean citizens who aid refugees. South Korea has long blamed...
...this pageant of alleged malfeasance, Golan Cipel was the first sign of trouble. The day McGreevey took his oath of office--Jan. 15, 2002--he quietly named Cipel his special assistant on homeland security. Although it was just four months after 9/11, Cipel did not undergo an extensive background check. Cipel had served as only a low-ranking officer in the Israeli navy and had no counterterrorism expertise. Despite his thin qualifications, he received a $110,000 salary. When reporters started asking questions, McGreevey refused to order a full vetting of Cipel and wouldn't make him available for interviews...
Rumors had gone around Woodbridge for years that McGreevey might be gay. Even before controversy broke over Cipel's homeland-security job, at least two reporters had asked McGreevey about the gossip. "That old thing," the Governor told Twersky some time in the summer of 2001. "I can't believe they're bringing that...
...public for another big attack. Bomb-sniffing dogs and explosives-detection teams reappeared in subways and outside public landmarks. In Washington, police set up barricades and checkpoints around the Capitol that could remain in place through Inauguration Day in January. Inside the secure war room at the Department of Homeland Security, officials from various agencies marked dozens of potential targets, ranging from the IMF and the World Bank to New York City's Federal Hall National Memorial, where George Washington was inaugurated as the first U.S. President, and the Eldridge Street Synagogue in lower Manhattan--a site singled...
...politics at the Department of Homeland Security." TOM RIDGE, Secretary of Homeland Security, responding to allegations that last week's terrorism alert was politically motivated...