May 1st, 2012
►White House Counter-Terrorism Adviser, John Brennan recently discussed the processes for authorizing a drone strike. Until now, what goes into the decision has mostly remained mystery, but President Barack Obama has asked that Brennan’s team be more open about how and when the U.S. dispatches drones. The U.S. uses a “threat threshold” to gauge if a person can be targeted. Another factor is if the target has “unique operational skills that are being leveraged in a planned attack,” Brennan said in a briefing.
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April 30th, 2012
Maryland law enforcement officials worry that a recent court ruling on DNA collection could jeopardize convictions and make it harder to solve crimes.
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April 30th, 2012
►The Wal-Mart bribery scandal has all the makings of a gripping criminal prosecution, James B. Stewart writes in the New York Times.
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April 27th, 2012
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday aimed at helping the government and private sector share information about cyber threats. But privacy advocates say it gives the government and industry excessive ability to monitor online communications.
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April 27th, 2012
►The FBI and DHS have issued a warning of possible violence from al Qaeda affiliates in the coming weeks because of the upcoming anniversary of Osama bin Laden’ s death.
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April 26th, 2012
►Four screeners at LAX “placed greed above the nation’s security needs” said a prosecutor after they were found working as part of a drug smuggling ring, taking cash to allow shipments of cocaine, meth, and marijuana to pass though x-rays. The screeners have been arrested and charged with drug-trafficking and bribery. “The charges allege 22 separate payments of up to ,400 allowed drug-runners to bypass airport security,” the BBC reports.
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April 25th, 2012
Facebook has added the data protection company Sophos to its list of partners working to make it easier for users to protect themselves from malicious links on the social networking site.
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April 25th, 2012
►First discovered in 1986, mad cow disease has killed more than 150 people and 184,000 cows worldwide. The neurological disease damages the central nervous system of cows and in humans can cause loss of brain function leading to a coma and death. A case of the disease has been reported in a cow in California. Mad cow or bovine spongiform encephalopathy is usually acquired when a cow or person ingests the brain or spinal tissue of an infected animal.
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