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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., predicted Congress will act swiftly to reverse the Supreme Court’s declaration that President Bush exceeded his authority by ordering military tribunals for the approximately 400 detainees held in Guantanamo Bay. “We’re gonna have hearings, we’re going to examine the court decision very carefully,” McCain said in an exclusive appearance on “This… Keep Reading

DHS reviews sharing sensitive information

The top UN official responsible for monitoring the clandestine nuclear programs of Iran and Pakistan is a Russian spy, according to a new book on Moscow’s espionage operations in the United States and Canada.

The Bush Administration will recommend cutting antiterror money for communities like New York and Long Island, but not as much as previously proposed.

Computer scientists and engineers are working with intelligence agencies on an international collaborative database that will use biometrics or unique individual facial, voice and physical "signatures,” to identify and trace terrorists and persons of interest.

The BESTT Coalition supports Congressional Border Representatives such as Senator Patrick Leahy and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter in their efforts to find a reasonable solution to the new border-crossing rules.

The agency responsible for handling immigrants’ applications for residency visas and citizenship is grappling with its second huge backlog of naturalization petitions in four years.

British security services are investigating if terrorists have got hold of military personnel files following the theft of a Ministry of Defence laptop, the Defence Secretary announced.

The FBI has been accused of covering up a key case file detailing evidence against corrupt government officials and their dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets.

“I find it insulting that Secretary Chertoff dismisses critics of this ill-conceived plan for border crossing documents by telling them 'to grow up',” said Rep. Slaughter.

The first secretary of the Homeland Security Department says waterboarding is torture.

The Homeland Security Department spent more than $90 million to create a network for sharing sensitive anti-terrorism information with state and local governments that it has decided to replace, according to an internal department document.

In separate statements two northern border state senators Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Susan Collins have challenged the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to require birth certificates at the Northern Border beginning Feb. 1. Sen. Leahy criticized the looming requirement for birth certificates at the Northern Border as poorly planned, unmanageable and likely to cause economic damage by damaging trade and travel between the US and Canada.

Rep. Brad Sherman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, said Thursday in an emailed statement that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on Iran sanctions issued this week arguing for for an assessment of existing sanctions "should be undertaken with a view to making the sanctions regime more effective. We need to legislatively expand sanctions, close loopholes, increase the resources devoted to enforcement, and most importantly, actually enforce the existing Iran Sanctions Act.

The White House has acknowledged in a new court filing that it routinely recycled computer backup tapes containing its email records until October 2003, a practice that could mean that many electronic messages from the first two years of the Bush administration are lost forever.

Representative and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinch asked the Department of Homeland Security to investigate one of his Democratic congressional opponents, Cleveland Councilman Joe Cimperman.

As Congress opens the 2008 session, it’s hard to find Iraq anywhere on the official agenda.

A former CIA official who is believed to have ordered the destruction of videotapes showing interrogations of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists will not testify at a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday.

When police raided a flat in West London in October 2005, they arrested a young man, originally from Morocco, called Younes Tsouli. They had no idea, at the time, just how significant he was.