California has a cottage industry of counterterrorism training aimed at teaching people how to spot would-be terrorists before they attack. By all accounts, it has failed.
The recent expansion of Google’s Timeline feature can provide investigators unprecedented access to users’ location history data, allowing them in many cases to track a person’s every move over the course of years.
A document created by an intelligence fusion center with the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis appears to serve as a primer for law enforcement on encryption, noting that increasing “public awareness of government surveillance has contributed to the rising consumer demand for covert messaging apps.”
As of last July, over 3,500 suspected terrorists included in the U.S. government’s central terror database were “confirmed dead” and another 13,000 were “reportedly dead,” yet many of their names continued to be actively monitored in databases like the no-fly list.
The director of the federal air marshals said the incident was discovered during the investigation of a disability claim in June, which led to the uncovering of pornographic materials on government-issued phones.
The air marshals have been suspended without pay after allegedly using their government phones to film and share the sex acts with a prostitute while on assignment in Europe.
The guns were old, untested, and in some cases dirty. Some were carried on international flights.
In bimonthly employee newsletters, behavior detection officers, who are supposed to help spot possible terrorists, do things like make fun of inexperienced or nervous travelers.
Federal workers lost their personal information to hackers — then when they were given free credit monitoring, the Army blocked the monitoring offers as "phishing."
Two Indonesian pilots were the subject of a recent Australian intelligence report obtained by <em>The Intercept</em>.