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...joint U.S.-Thai press conference Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul, head of immigration police, said Karr had admitted killing Ramsey, but had told his interrogators it was "unintentional." "He said he loved the girl," Suwat said. Ann Hurst, a Bangkok attach? of the Department of Homeland Security, said Karr was cooperating with U.S. investigators and had waived his right to a lawyer...
...When Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced plans Sunday to replace private airport screeners who check passenger IDs with federal workers, an expansion of the government screener takeover after 9/11 that created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Frank Argenbright, Jr., saw his livelihood threatened - yet again...
...Whether or not he's right, ongoing studies by the Government Accountability Office in 2005 and this spring, along with an internal 2005 Homeland study of screeners, back up Argenbright's overall assesment of screeners' performance, noting that in one instance planted weapons got past screeners in all 21 airports tested. The reports also state screeners are not getting all of the TSA-mandated training and often have criminal backgrounds, and that starting salaries of $24,000 fail to retain employees...
...trains in Madrid, London and Bombay? Banning cologne from planes and testing bottles of baby formula for explosives may make us feel proactive, but are we being smarter? "We can't just radically shift our strategy every time there's an event," Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), tells TIME. "The key is balance and constantly looking at the entire landscape...
...many counterterrorism officials, the scale and depravity of the plot seem chilling enough to justify the drama. "Very seldom do things get to me," Chertoff told Congressman Peter King, chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, in a phone call late Wednesday night. "This one has really gotten to me." A British official says investigators believe the bombers planned waves of attacks. By blowing up planes over the Atlantic, they would make it nearly impossible to gather forensic evidence. Then after people returned to flying, the terrorists would strike again. That benign items--iPods and soda bottles, the stuff...