…and as for me, well, I learn a valuable lesson.
You may recall our November story on security at the Port of Long Beach in which I gave aid to those determined chaps training at terrorists camps in Afghanistan (so some have said) by helpfully explaining to them (1) what a bomb does, (2) what a [...]

Six years after 9/11, America’s second-largest port is still open for terrorist business

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
I’m a big one for historical remembrances–1066 (William the Conqueror lands on the English coast), 1945 (the atom bomb dropped twice in a single month), and 1977 (premiere of Three’s Company, with the first episode “A Man About the House”–hilarious)–and, [...]

Homeland Security’s sense of fun
Accused of being a little too similar to President Bush– i.e., having gotten a job she’s unqualified for through a combination of nepotism and cronyism– Julie Myers, head of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, recently provided a remarkable example of the kind of judgment she brings to her [...]

Emergency agency issues fake apology for fake news conference
Paul Brennan has blogged extensively (here and here) about last week’s press conference in which FEMA employees played the roles of reporters asking questions about the agency’s handling of the California wildfires. Today, in yet another press conference, Homeland Security boss Michael Chertoff called FEMA’s fake news [...]