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01/18/2008

Run for President if You Must, But Don't Take My DNA!

By Noam Biale at 6:59pm
Ears were pricked to Michael Bloomberg's State of the City speech last night for any hint that the New York City mayor might throw his hat into the Presidential primary ring. No change in the
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01/15/2008

Bird Flu and Civil Liberties

By Noam Biale at 10:35am
The emergence of Avian Flu overseas and high profile cases of individuals with drug resistant TB last year alerted the American public to the potential for a large-scale pandemic of influenza or some other infectious disease in the near future. The Bush Administration's response to this threa
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12/12/2007

Intelligence on Steroids

By Noam Biale at 12:01pm
If the mantra of post-9/11 intelligence gathering is “to find a needle in a haystack, just make the haystack bigger,” we now present the Barry Bonds of haystacks.

Today, we released a report on Fusion Centers - state, local, and regional intelligence hubs that share information on “suspicious activity&rdquo
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11/08/2007

Deja Vu, Plus 20,000 New Records

By Noam Biale at 7:07pm
Hanging around Capitol Hill tends to induce a feeling of déjà vu. The House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing today on the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) Watch List - a rerun of last month's hearing in the Senate on the s
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11/02/2007

We Must Try Every Stupid Idea at Least Twice!

By Noam Biale at 1:38pm
The Indianapolis Star reports today that next week, the Indiana state Bureau of Motor Vehicles will begin sending out "No Match" letters to Hoosiers with discrepancies in their records. The letters will go out to anyone whose license information doesn't match their Social Security records -
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10/29/2007

Eliot Spitzer: From Steamroller to Steamrolled

By Noam Biale at 11:21am
When Eliot Spitzer was inaugurated as Governor of New York in January, he vowed to transform the culture of Albany where, notoriously, state policy decisions are made by "three men in a room."


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10/24/2007

Who's Watching the Watch List?

By Noam Biale at 3:51pm
The good folks at the FBI's Terrorism Screening Center are doing a bang-up job: they keep identifying more and more terrorists among us. Don't believe me? Just look at the number of records the TSC has added to the terrorist watch list: From 158,374 in June 2004 to 754,960 last May, and likely above 860,000 at the rate it's growing. Read More»
09/28/2007

Who Loves Real ID? AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo Do.

By Noam Biale at 9:45am
The federal Real ID Act doesn't have many friends these days. Eighteen states have passed legislation rejecting the law, Congress has refused to put any money into implementing it, and just this week New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer announced he, not the Feds, would determine New Y
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