The new Department of Homeland Security assessment, written by professional intelligence community analysts, sees Iran and its Hezbollah terrorist proxy as threatening the United States along two lines: cyber-meddling in the coming presidential election and holding a sword to the nation’s throat. By Todd Bensman Thousands of recent headlines about the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s … [Read more...] about DHS: Iran Manipulating US Election in Biden’s Favor While Hezbollah Aims at the Heartland
Terrorism and Homeland Security
Beyond White Supremacy: DHS’s New Threat Assessment Also Warned of Antifa Terrorism
White supremacists are indeed a domestic security threat. But American media coverage somehow entirely bypassed the fact that this same highly credible DHS report expends perhaps more ink about the domestic terror threat posed by the Antifa movement.Here's what they didn't report: By Todd Bensman As originally published October 13, 2020 in Townhall Media Judging by most of the traditional … [Read more...] about Beyond White Supremacy: DHS’s New Threat Assessment Also Warned of Antifa Terrorism
Another Returning American ISIS Fighter Heading to Prison Begs Question: Where Might Biden Take Us On This Issue?
The federal prosecution of against 23-year-old Omer Kuzu, a returned American fighter for the defeated ISIS terrorist organization, begs a status report on what the U.S. strategy currently is for reducing the threat from presumably indoctrinated U.S.returnees under the Trump administration and especially a potential Biden one. By Todd Bensman as published September 10, 2020 for Homeland … [Read more...] about Another Returning American ISIS Fighter Heading to Prison Begs Question: Where Might Biden Take Us On This Issue?
Out of Yemen, a Reminder About What May Happen Without “Extreme Vetting” and “Travel Ban” Policies
Restoring visas from travel-restricted countries like Yemen, as Biden promises on grounds that Trump's restrictions are "vile" and "Islamaphobic," portends a return to the circumstances that brought a radical Houthi rebel fighter into the United States in 2014. By Todd Bensman as originally published August 27, 2020 by the Center for Immigration Studies All but lost in political convention … [Read more...] about Out of Yemen, a Reminder About What May Happen Without “Extreme Vetting” and “Travel Ban” Policies
‘Catatonic with Hate’ Rare Impressions From an Anonymous DHS Agent on the Riot Lines in Portland
"As the night goes on, the rioters become so hateful it is surreal. Their voices hoarse, their sentences jumbled, they seem almost catatonic with hate. The unrest seems to draw the mentally ill and drug abusers. Some seem to be both. The officers stand calmly, listening to it, taking it..." By Todd Bensman as originally published July 27, 2020 by the Center for Immigration … [Read more...] about ‘Catatonic with Hate’ Rare Impressions From an Anonymous DHS Agent on the Riot Lines in Portland
Idea to Label ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization Neither “Crazy” nor “Illegal”
By Todd Bensman as originally published June 4, 2020 by Creative Destruction Media President Donald Tump’s May 31 Tweeted intention to designate “Antifa” as a terrorist organization is neither “crazy” nor “unconstitutional,” as many corporate media outlets accuse. The Trump administration’s foreshadowing signal of intent did not come with quite enough information to support … [Read more...] about Idea to Label ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization Neither “Crazy” nor “Illegal”
Another Released Terrorist Convict Almost Massacred Americans: ‘I Want to Take at Least 50’
Tampa resident Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari was stockpiling firearms and other equipment for a terror attack he told various confidants “will get bloody” with the bodies of at least 50 Americans, probably on crowded beaches he had scouted in recent weeks. This should have come as no surprise to anyone; Al-Azhari spent three years in a Saudi Arabian prison on a 2015 conviction By Todd Bensman … [Read more...] about Another Released Terrorist Convict Almost Massacred Americans: ‘I Want to Take at Least 50’
On Center for Security Policy Webinar Panel: Why the Country Needs a Terrorism Offenders Registry May 20, 2020
Watch Here or click the photo "Nearly two decades have passed since the country was launched into a worldwide struggle against terrorism since 9/11. U.S. law enforcement has investigated, prosecuted, and convicted hundreds of terrorists, both those who planned and executed terrorist attacks, as well as those arrested for engaging in material support for terrorism. But given the passage of time, … [Read more...] about On Center for Security Policy Webinar Panel: Why the Country Needs a Terrorism Offenders Registry May 20, 2020
Traitor for Hezbollah: Minnesota Linguist Snagged in a ‘Honey Trap” Espionage Scheme
What makes this one particularly egregious and memorable is that mortal betrayal allegedly came at the hands of a Rochester, Minnesota resident, trusted to hold a Top Secret clearance while working as a contract linguist in Iraq.This case serves to underscore a continuing need to improve security clearance vetting for our foreign-born military assistants and to regard them, no matter the political … [Read more...] about Traitor for Hezbollah: Minnesota Linguist Snagged in a ‘Honey Trap” Espionage Scheme
The Tajikistani Terror Plot to Attack U.S. Air Force Bases in Germany: How They Got In Matters
The new phenomenon of terrorist border infiltration into Europe is barely recognized in the United States, a distant problem. But no longer. Border infiltrating terrorists in Europe must now be regarded as an American problem because these terrorists hoped to murder U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany. American interests are at risk from terrorist border infiltration overseas. How about at the … [Read more...] about The Tajikistani Terror Plot to Attack U.S. Air Force Bases in Germany: How They Got In Matters