National Security

VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT: President Obama Speaks On Drones, Guantanamo

KUNC Staff — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:48:28 +0000

President Obama spoke from the National Defense University in Washington D.C. Thursday on counter-terrorism, drones, and Guantanamo.

Who Are The Terrorism Informants In Witness Protection?

Margot Williams — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:59:00 +0000

Known or suspected terrorists who cooperated with federal investigators in at least six major terrorism investigations over two decades were granted protection under the federal witness protection program –- and two of them temporarily could not be found by federal authorities, according to a report from the Justice Department's inspector general.

Identities of some of the alleged terrorists were not disclosed to the agency that compiles names for the Transportation Security Administration's "no-fly" list of potentially dangerous suspects, the report says.

Federal Prosecutors Arrest Uzbekistan National On Terrorism Charges

Scott Neuman — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:46:00 +0000

Authorities in Idaho have arrested an Uzbekistan national on federal terrorism charges, the Justice Department announced Thursday evening.

Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested in Boise on Wednesday, prosecutors say.

Report: Problems At Justice Allowed Terrorist Suspects To Fly

Scott Neuman — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:12:00 +0000

Officials at the Department of Justice didn't share crucial information on some terrorist suspects in the federal witness protection program with the agency that maintains the "no fly" list, allowing an unknown number of them to board commercial flights, a new report says.

"We found that the department was not authorizing the disclosure to the Terrorist Screening Center of the new identities provided to known or suspected terrorists" in the federal Witness Security Program, known officially as WitSec, the report by the Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, says.

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Women In Combat: Obstacles Remain As Exclusion Policy Ends

Larry Abramson — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:19:00 +0000

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