Terrorism and Homeland Security

A tale of uncharged high treason where a U.S. Army soldier worked with ISIS jihadists to kill fellow soldiers By Todd Bensman On June 14, U.S. Army Private First-Class Cole James Bridges of Ohio pleaded guilty to terrorism and attempted murder charges of helping the terrorist group ISIS kill his comrades on the battlefields in Iraq and Syria during 2020 and 2021. This plea triggered the … [Read more...] about A Terrorism Case Reveals High Treason

Administration has okayed release of $2.7 billion in frozen funds – so far - to the Islamic Republic of Iran despite continual slaps across America’s face By Todd Bensman as published July 4, 2023 for Creative Destruction Media While President Joe Biden’s State Department works secretive backdoor diplomatic dealings for a nuclear deal breakthrough, let it not be forgotten that Iran … [Read more...] about Audacious Iran And Hizballah Schemes That Hurt America Haven’t Slowed Biden’s Backdoor Diplomacy

Media omitted that FBI Analyst communicated with Islamic terrorism targets for years running database checks and stealing terrorism case records for them By Todd Bensman as published June 28, 2023 by the Middle East Forum Last week, U.S. media seized on the June 21 sentencing of former FBI analyst Kendra Kingsbury to 46 months in prison – for storing stolen classified documents in … [Read more...] about Former FBI Analyst Exposed America to Jihadists

By Todd Bensman as published April 12, 2023, New York Post An unlikely FBI counterterrorism case wrapping up in Ohio casts a bright and shining light on a gaping national-security hole in the southwest border as the greatest mass migration crisis in American history overwhelms its ­defenses. The Ohio FBI field office last year busted a local Iraqi asylum seeker, former al Qaeda fighter … [Read more...] about New York Post: Al Qaeda fighter’s plot to smuggle in Bush assassins shows how our southern-border chaos entices terrorists

by Marilyn SternMiddle East Forum WebinarMarch 20, 2023 Todd Bensman is a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow, a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and author of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, the 2023 follow-up to his earlier book, America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the … [Read more...] about Todd Bensman on Muslim Migrants on the U.S. Terror List Infiltrating the Southern U.S. Border

About the National Security Vetting Failures Database: A Streamed panel discusses how national security threats have slipped between the cracks (from left to right) Director, Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian, CIS National Security Fellow Todd Bensman, retired State Department Senior Foreign Service Officer Phillip Linderman, and Director of Center for Homeland Security and … [Read more...] about A Database of National Security Vetting Failures is Published

America is currently facing a historic crisis of mass illegal migration at its southern border. Government data reveals an alarming number of migrants on the FBI's terror-watch list caught at that border since Joe Biden became president. A "Muslim-only migrant shelter" has even opened in Tijuana, Mexico. What impact does this migration have on U.S. national security? What needs to change? What are … [Read more...] about Bensman Webinar for Middle East Forum: Immigrants from Muslim-Majority Nations Flood the Southern Border and Present ‘Elevated Threat’

Bensman travels to Tijuana to fill an information deficit SEE MEDIA INTERVIEWS WITH BENSMAN ABOUT THE SHELTER By Todd Bensman as published November 30, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies See also in The Federalist December 6, 2022: Why Isn’t Homeland Security Monitoring A Muslim-Only Immigrant Shelter At The US Border? TIJUANA, Mexico – A small blue dome, minaret and pole … [Read more...] about Mexico’s 1st Muslim Immigrant Shelter: A National Security Perspective

Just a few years ago, major U.S. media outlets called President Donald Trump a liar when he proclaimed that Islamic terrorist suspects were illegally crossing the southern border among far more numerous Spanish-speaking immigrants. "Fact-check" columnists swore such terrorist crossings never happened. But since April 2022, when U.S. Customs and Border Protection … [Read more...] about Debut Newsweek Opinion: Record Number of Terrorists Crossed U.S.-Mex Border

A conversation with cartels expert Jaeson Jones Summary The extensive criminal and political power of Mexican cartels is a topic largely ignored by the American media and thus unknown to most Americans. Strengthened and enriched by the Biden administration's border crisis, the cartels have evolved into global criminal enterprises impacting America through epidemic levels of drug … [Read more...] about Bensman Hosts Podcast: Enriched by US Immigration Policies, Cartels Go Global