• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About Bensman
  • Awards & Honors
  • Bensman’s New Book
  • Schedule Todd To Speak
  • Contact
  • Subscribe to Newsletter

Todd Bensman

From Journalism to Counterterrorism Intelligence - and Back.

  • Securing U.S. Borders
  • Terrorism & Homeland Security
  • Bensman in the News
  • Testimony To Congress
  • Essay: My War In Bosnia

Terrorism & Homeland Security

FBI Renews Activity on Forgotten ’94 Panama Plane Bombing

November 9, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

In a move that drew almost no media notice, the FBI's Miami field office suddenly put up a new "Seeking Information" bulletin naming Ali Hage Zaki Jalil, a 52-year-old Arab parachutist and apparent arms trafficker, reportedly of Lebanese nationality. "Despite the passage of time, investigators believe that Ali Hage Zaki Jalil may have information related to this investigation." See also: Why … [Read more...] about FBI Renews Activity on Forgotten ’94 Panama Plane Bombing

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security Tagged With: bombing, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Iran, Panama, terrorism

Todd Bensman explains what a Biden administration approach to immigration would look like

November 7, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

Center for Security Policy and Secure Freedom Radio, November 12, 2020 TODD BENSMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Writing Fellow, Middle East Forum, Author, the Federalist: What impact would a Biden-Harris administration have on immigration?Would construction of the border wall end with a Biden presidency?The reasons behind US travel restrictions from certain … [Read more...] about Todd Bensman explains what a Biden administration approach to immigration would look like

Filed Under: Bensman in the News, Terrorism and Homeland Security Tagged With: illegal immigraiton, immigration

DHS: Iran Manipulating US Election in Biden’s Favor While Hezbollah Aims at the Heartland

October 15, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

Beyond White Supremacy: DHS’s New Threat Assessment Also Warned of Antifa Terrorism

October 13, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security Tagged With: antifa, DHS, FBI, homeland security, terrorism

Another Returning American ISIS Fighter Heading to Prison Begs Question: Where Might Biden Take Us On This Issue?

September 8, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

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?

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

Out of Yemen, a Reminder About What May Happen Without “Extreme Vetting” and “Travel Ban” Policies

August 27, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

‘Catatonic with Hate’ Rare Impressions From an Anonymous DHS Agent on the Riot Lines in Portland

July 28, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

"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

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

Idea to Label ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization Neither “Crazy” nor “Illegal”

June 27, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

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”

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

Another Released Terrorist Convict Almost Massacred Americans: ‘I Want to Take at Least 50’

June 2, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

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’

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security

On Center for Security Policy Webinar Panel: Why the Country Needs a Terrorism Offenders Registry May 20, 2020

May 21, 2020 by Todd Bensman

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

Filed Under: Bensman in the News, Terrorism and Homeland Security

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 6
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Terrorism & Homeland Security

Texas Public Policy Foundation Panel: Border War, How a More Porous Border Will Endanger Americans

TUNE IN: C-Span 2’s Book TV: America’s Covert Border War

Book Review by Andrew Harrod

About those 11 Iranian Migrants Captured at the Mexico-Arizona Border – What Homeland Security Does With Them

More Posts from Terrorism & Homeland Security

© 2021 · Todd Bensman · Site By WP Attendant