Army Corps of Engineers opened a portion of the Morganza Spillway this weekend to relieve pressure on the levees from a swollen Mississippi River. In 2009, the same Army Corps of Engineers was found guilty of negligence that led to catastrophic flood
She also GPSed the 2 other storage bins while she was there. She said it was so that in an emergency, the government would know where all the grain is at so they could take control of it. (http://www.stevequayle.com)
A former MIT researcher from Cambridge, alleges in the suit that federal agents seized his laptop, USB storage device, video camera, and cellphone while they interrogated him about his association with Private First Class Bradley Manning.
Oh, for the innocent days of 1993, when reports of “black helicopter” sightings were generally dismissed as symptoms of mass derangement. Residents of Miami’s Brickell neighborhood “saw and heard several military-style, `pitch-black’ helicopters flyi
So now the Army is deciding whom to flood, and whom to save, from its dam system. Ever since the feds socialized all the rivers and other moving water in the 19th century, we have been at the mercy of the famously corrupt and inept Corps of Engineers
The Texas House passed a bill late Thursday night that would make it a criminal offense for public servants to inappropriately touch travelers during airport security pat-downs.
Veterans from the most infamous private security firm on Earth and one of the military’s most controversial datamining operations are teaming up to provide the Fortune 500 with their own private spies.
Kim Del Greco, Chief of Biometric Services Section (BSS), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division of Science & Technology Branch(S&T), (FBI) spoke with IDGA to discuss advancing technologies for border security.
As I explained Monday, the Neoconservatives used fear to scare people into submission. Obama used the emotions of "hope" and "change" to rally his base, but has now largely abandoned those themes in favor of fear.
In the Age of Acquiescence, a corporation willing to do anything other than bend over when the government comes a'knocking is a shocking welcome. After all, if one can buy a bit of good will with the powerful, whether from cash on hand or mere back
DHS today released its ninth monograph in its 9/10/11 Project, focusing on the growth of the use of biometrics and ID authentication, detailing how the partnership of government and private industry has brought sophisticated new biometric...
Many States require license applicants to show a birth certificate, but they will also accept alternative proof of identity. Proof of citizenship has never been a requirement to attain an ID card in the US until the Real ID Act was passed May 11th, 2
The consortium in charge of restructuring the world’s most infamous private-security firm just added a new chief in charge of keeping the company on the straight and narrow.
Security consultant David Boehm said the future could include security check points entering all soft targets — like your local department store. Boehm said even with a police presence, the areas are vulnerable.
"Son of Hamas" author Mosab Hassan Yousef — the son of Sheik Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas — agreed to be an Israeli spy in 1996 but instead might be a double agent.
Your iris will literally be your key to many things in the future. It will be your personal password to your computer and mobile device. The key to your car and house. Your access code to ATM machines. And who needs credit cards when...
In reality, if everything and everyone is nothing but a target-of-opportunity for these international-outlaws; then who or what will be left to create anything worth stealing-anywhere?
In the video below, the former beauty queen who held the Miss America title in 2003, Susie Castillo, said a TSA “screener” fondled her vagina during an intrusive pat-down.
The office of the Secretary of State, on December 17, 2009, sent a cable under the name of Hillary Clinton asking the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi to find out the motivation behind the project and to collect as much information on it as possible.
Students can help to further this research by donating their data and helping to further identification research so they are more effective. Biometrics is the study of unique human traits that could be used by the FBI to identify individuals...
Scanning the ID’s of all attendees at an anti-war rally, a gay night club, or a fundraiser for a civil liberties organization would have a deeply chilling effect on speech. Participants might hesitate to attend such events if their attendance were...
To begin with, the US Government now employs cash-sniffing dogs at most international airports. If you are carrying more than $10,000 in cash and don’t declare it to the Government when coming in or out of the US, your cash will be seized.
The use of invasive cameras is expanding and becoming more readily accepted — the TSA having already broken ground with its naked body scanners at airports around the country, with other longstanding invasive plans still in the works.
The Transportation Security Administration is soliciting new footwear-scanning technology so travelers can keep their laces tied and their heels strapped.