Senator John McCain said that, due to the nature of the crime that he attempted, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspect behind the attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253, should be tried in a military court. The Senator expressed his opinion during an interview with CNN, saying that giving Abdulmutallab civilian rights – which includes [...]

The White House has released a review on the attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day. Included in the document are findings regarding what had not worked and recommendations on what may need to be done better to ensure that the same thing will not happen again. A news feature on The [...]

The White House has released an unclassified report on the things that may have gone wrong in, among other things, the terrorist watchlisting system that is currently being followed in the United States, which culminated in the attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day. The White House review was released last Thursday, [...]

The Department of Homeland Security has issued internal notices to its employees in an attempt to gather volunteers from within its ranks to train as air marshals as well as to serve on U.S. diplomatic posts overseas. The move came after the President’s call for immediate reforms to ensure that an incident such as the [...]

The unclassified report that will provide an account on the things that went wrong in the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 by someone who had ties with a terrorist group will reportedly cause quite a stir to the American public. We think that what it will say will undoubtedly explain why the President is [...]

As a result of the close call that an airliner had on Christmas Day, several sectors are now calling for United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to step down. This is not exactly the first time that lawmakers have called for Napolitano’s ouster. Republicans have tried to do that in the spring of [...]