Uttam Dhillon, the acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, warns that Mexican drug cartels pose the “biggest” threat to the national security and health of U.S. citizens. “Mexican drug trafficking organizations are the biggest criminal threat the United States faces today,” Dhillon, told Hill.TV co-hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on “Rising” during an […]
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DHS Watchdog Says CBP’s Drone Program Is an Insecure, Possibly Rights-Violating Mess…
The CBP has drones. How many, it’s not really sure. It depends on when you ask. Or how you ask. The EFF’s FOIA lawsuit against the agency caused it to suddenly “remember” it had deployed drones 200 more times than it had previously disclosed. The CBP’s drones are a lending library for US law enforcement […]
Las Vegas Shooting: Memorial Events Mark 1-Year Anniversary As Massacre Motive Still Shrouded in Mystery…
One year ago today, something compelled Stephen Paddock to grab a gun and start firing out of his room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds more in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Police investigating the shooting have released hundreds of […]
U.S. Diplomat Found Dead in Home in Madagascar, Suspect in Custody…
An American diplomat serving in Madagascar was found dead at home, the Department of State said in a statement. “We are deeply saddened to confirm that a U.S. Foreign Service Officer was found dead in their residence in the overnight hours of Friday, September 21,” spokeswoman Heather Hauert stated. “Our deepest sympathies go out to […]
U.N. Bilat – President Trump and President Moon Jae-in: Key Topic North Korea and Chairman Kim Jong-un…
President Trump has empowered South Korean President Moon Jae-in to be the tip-of-the-spear for friendship-based face-to-face negotiations with North Korea with the goal of a denuclearized peninsula. Though it was a very unconventional approach, President Trump created the foundation for stability and amicable regional relationships by fracturing the controlling influence of Beijing, China over Chairman […]
Prosecuting Parents — and Separating Families — Was Meant to Deter Migration, Signed Memo Confirms…
On April 23, the heads of the three major immigration agencies wrote to their boss, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, to present her with three options for how to step up immigration enforcement at the border. They recommended “Option 3” — prosecuting every adult who crossed the border illegally, including those who came with […]
Kim Asks for 2nd Summit With Trump, Promises Swift Surrender of Nuclear Arsenal…
Even though North Korea has reneged on similar promises in the past, Kim Jong Un’s promise to allow international observers into the isolated country to monitor the dismantling of the North’s Yongbyon nuclear reactor and several missile-launching sites has apparently persuaded the US to restart negotiations to drop sanctions against the regime after they stalled […]
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Sessions Tells Chicago: “If You Want More Shootings, More Death, Listen To ACLU, Antifa, Black Lives Matter”…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a Chicago audience that groups like Black Lives Matter, Antifa and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are responsible for increased violence in Chicago. Speaking at a conference in North Chicago, Sessions said “There’s a clear lesson here: if you want more shootings, more death, listen to the ACLU, Antifa, […]
Las Vegas Bump Stock Class Action Dismissed…
A federal judge dismissed a class action lawsuit against bump stock manufacturer Slide Fire yesterday, finding that it couldn’t be held liable for casualties in the massacre at last year’s Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro’s ruling defined bump stocks as a component part of the rifle, not […]
Why the U.S. Seeks to Hem in Russia, China and Iran by Patrick Lawrence…
The Trump administration has brought U.S. foreign policy to the brink of crisis, if it has not already tipped into one. There is little room to argue otherwise. In Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and in Washington’s ever-fraught relations with Russia, U.S. strategy, as reviewed in my previous column, amounts to little more than […]
Days After 9/11 Tulsi Gabbard Slams “Betrayal of American People” Over Syria…
In a rare and unprecedented speech delivered on the House floor just two days after the nation memorialized 9/11, Democratic Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday slammed Washington’s longtime support to anti-Assad jihadists in Syria, while also sounding the alarm over the current build-up of tensions between the US and Russia over the Syria crisis. […]
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French Foreign Minister Warns: Assault on Syria’s Idlib Risks “Scattering Terrorists” Abroad…
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned this week in a surprisingly frank statement that a Syrian government offensive on anti-Assad insurgent held Idlib could scatter thousands of foreign militants abroad, posing a security threat to the West. His comments were made on Tuesday, after France previously pledged it would join any potential US coalition […]
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Inside the FBI’s Bomb Lab: Unprecedented Access to Elite Forensic Team and the IEDs That Shaped Global Security…
In a highly classified lab, protected by many layers of security within the sprawling Redstone Arsenal Army post southwest of Huntsville, the FBI’s chief explosive scientist is surrounded by powerful reminders of the ever-evolving threat posed by terrorist bomb makers plotting the next 9/11. The 2001 shoe bomb worn by Al Qaeda terrorist Richard Reid. […]
‘Serial Killer’ Border Patrol Agent Charged in Murder of 4 Sex Workers…
Texas authorities have charged a supervisory Border Patrol agent in connection with the killing of four women and the attempted abduction of a fifth, in what prosecutors say is a serial murder case. Juan David Ortiz, 35, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, was arrested Saturday in Laredo, Texas, a border town about 145 […]
Rift Between Police, Feds Allowed New Mexico Terror Compound to Fester…
Questions keep coming about how the U.S. justice system responded to a New Mexico compound that housed five alleged would-be jihadists and 11 reportedly malnourished children along with the remains of a twelfth child who died on the compound. A federal grand jury recently indicted the five alleged jihadists on weapons and conspiracy charges, alleging […]
John Kerry Deserves Jail for Secret Iran Diplomacy by Michael Rubin…
In a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt, former Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that he’s been working behind-the-scenes to salvage the Iran nuclear deal. “What I have done is tried to elicit from him what Iran might be willing to do in order to change the dynamic in the Middle East for the better,” […]
What If China Sets Up a Naval Base in Venezuela?…
Might China strike a deal to establish a military base in Venezuela? If so, what would that mean for U.S. security interests? I ask the questions in light of Venezuelan President Nicolas ‘the Mad Rabbit’ Maduro’s ongoing visit to Beijing. Seeking new Chinese loans to prop up his decrepit, hyperinflated economy, Maduro is in full […]
U.S. Marines Conduct Live-Fire Drills with Syrian ‘Rebels’ in Rare Display Aimed at Russia…
On Thursday an anti-Assad group in Syria’s south confirmed to Reuters via its ‘rebel’ commander that it is conducting rare military exercises with American forces in order to “send a strong message to Russia and Iran that the Americans and the rebels intend to stay and confront any threats to their presence,” according to a […]
Shadow Government?: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Blasts John Kerry’s Intervention in Iran: “literally unprecedented”….
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a press conference today reacting to how Obama administration officials were intentionally undermining current U.S. policy. Those actions include former Secretary of State John Kerry traveling to various hostile nations, specifically Iran, and telling our adversaries to “wait out the Trump administration”. There’s a bigger, biggger picture here, that […]
Separated Parents Would Get Another Chance at Asylum Under Settlement Proposal…
Migrant parents who failed an asylum screening after being separated from their children at the border would get another chance to seek refuge under a proposed settlement agreement filed Wednesday evening. The proposed agreement — issued jointly by plaintiffs in three related lawsuits and the Trump administration — outlines a plan to address the asylum […]
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