Debating Traveler Terror Ratings
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Two prominent lawmakers call a controversial program that assigns risk scores to international travelers secret and unlawful. The Bush administration disagrees, saying it's talked about the program repeatedly. In 27B Stroke 6.
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For months, homeland security officials have privately debated how to blunt criticism of their planned aviation screening system that passengers and airlines complained was overly intrusive.
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First person: a frequent traveler through Israel's screening system tells what makes it so tough
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Oct. 18 issue - The first warnings filtered into the offices of Israel&#39;s Shabak security service last January. Terrorists were plotting to carry out an attack on Israeli tourists in Egypt&#39;s Sinai Peninsula
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The Transportation Security Administration will compare the information against the names in its terrorist -screening database. By Larry Greenemeier.
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By Erik N. Nelson  Advocates of tighter restrictions on highly hazardous chemical rail tankers are used to talking in theoretical terms about the terror threat posed by these ubiquitous shipments.
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For months, homeland security officials have privately debated how to blunt criticism of their planned aviation screening system that passengers and airlines complained was overly intrusive.-The Washington Post
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The fiction is that it makes any kind of sense The terrorism action show "24" is now thought to be such heady stuff to the average American, media sources have decided to complain about it. And what is the objection? The contrived plots or the utterly unrealistic grasp and use of technology? No, it's the torture.â¦
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NEW YORK, July 19 -- On most days  in this city, the line that separates the Whens from  the Ifs -- those who think another act of terrorism here is a certitude, and those who do not -- is pretty hard to spot. After nearly six incident-free years, New Yorkers tend to choose a side on the fear div...
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AS the week wore on, it came to resemble an obscene guessing game. How many: 20,000, 60,000, 125,000? This morning we are beyond any of the arbitrary points people nominate as their worst possible fear.
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Five years after the 9/11 terror attacks killed almost 3,000 people, the country's mood is awash in emotions, balancing resolve with vulnerability, a need to remember with a desire to move on. While there is disagreement over how to combat terrorist threats, there is wide agreement of the trauma the attacks caused. As one New York cabbie explains: "There's a hole in my soul."
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JAKARTA, Indonesia The US is one of several western nations issuing terror warnings for Indonesia during the holiday season. Australia says it has &quot;credible information&quot; militants could target the Hilton Hotel chain in Indonesia.
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A government program that's automatically flagged nearly 5,000 U.S. travelers as "suspected terrorists"  appears to defy a Congressional prohibition against computerized risk ranking of ordinary Americans.  Ryan Singel reports from Washington.
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Since Sept. 11, ordinary citizens have been told that their watchful eyes are the front line of national terrorism defense. The result? It's a bad time to be a blinking sign or a tasty condiment.
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Corrects paragraph two to show Chertoff playing down reports al Qaeda as threatening as pre-Sept. 11.
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The &quot;scare&quot; issues drawing headlines in the presidential race include flu shots, Social Security and the draft. But terrorism dwarfs all of them, in scale and ferocity.
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We should be feeling safer right now. British officials appear to  have foiled a plot to blow up as many as 10 U.S.-bound passenger jets  with liquid explosives hidden in carry-on luggage. Then why did it feel so bad?