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I’m briefly resurfacing again from a busy week work & travel-wise to note that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists are holding a presser today at 10am Eastern to advance the Doomsday Clock. From the press release announcing the shindig: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) will move the minute hand of its famous “Doomsday Clock” [...]
I’ve seen some wild speculation online tonight, expanding the “no gadgets in the last hour of flight” to an expectation that electronic gadgets could be banned from use during flight. There is, I suppose, one upside should that happen: It would pretty much kill the movement to permit in-flight use of cell phones. 
Seen at the BBC, thanks to @actuary21c: Mr Abdulmutallab went to the bathroom for about 20 minutes before the incident, court documents say. When he got back to his seat, he said he had an upset stomach and he pulled a blanket over himself, the affidavit continues. "Passengers then heard popping noises similar to firecrackers, smelled an odour, [...] 
By now you’ve probably heard of alleged Al Qaeda member’s attempt to cause mayhem on an Amsterdam-Detroit flight on Christmas Day. If you haven’t, the story is available from your favorite media site. For example, the New York Times writes: A Nigerian man tried to ignite an explosive device aboard a trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines flight as [...]
The Washington Post ran an article over the weekend on why the Obama administration is slowing down the pace of shutting down the detention camps at Gitmo: Instead, they found that information on individual prisoners is "scattered throughout the executive branch," a senior administration official said. The executive order Obama signed Thursday orders the prison closed [...]
We’ve been watching CNN’s coverage of the attacks in Mumbai…and I think someone at CNN could stand to exercise a bit of judgment in selecting which commercials should air. I’m not sure this is the right night for an ad by India Tourism to run. 
Last week, it was announced that a District Court of Appeals had found that the classification of a Uighur held at Guantánamo Bay as an “unlawful combatant” was inappropriate; the Government needed to either revisit his classification or release him. The appellant’s attorney was reported as looking forward to passing along the news…but was unable [...] 
Threat Level has relayed a most interesting document: AT a recent counter-terrorism and fusion center conference earlier this spring, intelligence and law enforcement officials were given a number of tools to help them fight terror attacks, including a dictionary of street gang slang that was compiled by Woodman State Jail in Texas. Somehow that document fell [...] 
Seen at SCOTUSBlog: In a stunning blow to the Bush Administration in its war-on-terrorism policies, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay have a right to pursue habeas challenges to their detention. The Court, dividing 5-4, ruled that Congress had not validly taken away habeas rights. If Congress wishes to suspend [...] 
Seen in the Washington Times: False identifications based on a terrorist no-fly list have for years prevented some federal air marshals from boarding flights they are assigned to protect, according to officials with the agency, which is finally taking steps to address the problem. [...] “In some cases, planes have departed without any coverage because the airline [...] |
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