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Adding More Names to Watch Lists Isn't Change, It's a Step Back

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Published Jan. 11, 2010 at 9:03 a.m.

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Adding more names to the government’s terrorism watch lists as a way to prevent another underwear bomber, as President Obama promised to do, won’t work. It will only make things worse. It’s the anti-terrorism equivalent of the D.C. cliché of throwing money at a problem — far short of what we’d expect from the country’s first high-tech president ...

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Video: Day 7: 12:00PM-1:00PM

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Published Jan. 20, 2009 at 1:50 p.m.

As the threat of terrorism escalates, Jack Bauer is forced to take matters into his own hands to avert the imminent crisis facing the country. Meanwhile, lives are on the line as conflicted Agent Renee Walker copes with the volatile investigation, and FBI honcho Larry Moss is forced to keep a closer eye on his team as the nation s security is in jeopardy. At the White House, international stakes are raised and the First Gentleman proceeds with his personal mission ...

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Plea Deal Clears Intelligence Analyst of Felony Hacking

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Published Sept. 24, 2009 at 12:07 p.m.

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A federal intelligence analyst pleads to a misdemeanor charge, allowing him to dodge felony hacking charges for poking around in system being used in a terrorism investigation ...

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Intelligence Analyst Says Hacking Charge Doesn't Compute

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Published Sept. 18, 2009 at 1:10 p.m.

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A Defense Department intelligence analyst hit with a federal computer hacking charge last week says he's being made a scapegoat for a security slip-up that sent a password in a nationwide terrorism investigation to "tens of thousands" of analysts without the need to know ...

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Intelligence Analyst Charged With Hacking Top Secret, Anti-Terror Program

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Published Sept. 14, 2009 at 3:20 p.m.

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An analyst at a Defense Department spy satellite agency faces federal hacking charges. He allegedly poked around in a top-secret system used in a classified terrorism investigation involving the FBI and the U.S. Army ...

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ABC Sets Date for V's Prime-Time Invasion

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Published Aug. 9, 2009 at 3:12 p.m.

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ABC's re-imagining of the 1980s sci-fi miniseries and series V will invade the airwaves beginning Tuesday, Nov. 3, the network announced Sunday ... See the full schedule and scoop on new shows in our fall preview ... The series, which focuses on the world's first encounter with a presumed friendly alien race, stars Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell as FBI counter terrorism agent Erica Evans. She is the first to discover that, beneath the skin of the strange Visitors (or Vs), there lies something

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How Science Fiction Writers Can Help, or Hurt, Homeland Security

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Published June 18, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

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A couple of years ago, the Department of Homeland Security hired a bunch of science fiction writers to come in for a day and think of ways terrorists could attack America ... If our inability to prevent 9/11 marked a failure of imagination, as some said at the time, then who better than science fiction writers to inject a little imagination into counterterrorism planning? ... I discounted the exercise at the time, calling it "embarrassing." I never thought that 9/11 was a failure of imagination

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Happy Weekend: How Do You Like These Bananas?

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Published June 12, 2009 at 2:46 p.m.

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It's been a tense week here at Tuned In. We've wondered who will pay for journalism if journalism's business model fails. We've debated whether neo-Nazi and abortion-provider murders should be called terrorism. And we've argued about David Letterman's jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter, over and over again. It would be understandable if all our [ ... ] ...

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Is the Media Soft on White Male Terrorism?

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Published June 11, 2009 at 8:51 a.m.

Suppose two men committed separate acts of extremist murder in the United States within a month. Suppose the gunmen attacked a church and a national landmark, motivated by politics and religious prejudice, targeting a nationally controversial figure and innocent civilians. Suppose there was a history of attacks by similarly motivated men in America, ranging from [ ... ] ...

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What Marmots Teach Us About Terrorism

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Published April 21, 2009 at 10:58 a.m.

Our national security could benefit from the wisdom of marmots, penguins, impala and other animals. Animal behavior expert Daniel Blumstein of UCLA discusses how by studying the solutions different species have developed for handling risk, we may better handle our own ...

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