Charles Faddis spent years thinking like a terrorist when he worked for the CIA, looking for vulnerabilities in other nations’ infrastructure and learning how to exploit them. Now a private consultant, he writes in his most recent book, Willful Neglect: The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security, that the country is surprisingly vulnerable to a...
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Terrorist Suspect JihadJane Shatters the Stereotype
Terrorism cases since 9/11 have ranged from the criminally mundane to the James Bond-ishly exotic—but few have been as puzzling as the story of Colleen LaRose, a 46-year-old Pennsylvania woman who used the screen name JihadJane. LaRose was indicted by a federal court last week on charges relating to the planned murder of a...
Supreme Court Takes Aim at Chicago Gun Ban
It’s rare for Supreme Court justices to rib their robed brethren in open court. But that’s what Justice Stephen Breyer apparently had in mind when he said recently that the court’s conservative bloc was advocating the very thing that conservatives have long reviled: judicial activism.
