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It’s Time for TSA 2.0: Let General Harding Focus on Operations
What the TSA needs now is a good makeover; hopefully Major General (retired) Robert Harding is going to be the one to bring in the new broom . TSA has languished for years under a cloud of mistakes, errors and just plain carelessness with respect to their public image and their overall effectiveness. Most recently, a disgruntled TSA worker injected
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Moore’s Law and Whole Body Imaging: Moving Technology to the Next Level
The news cycles, talking heads and many elected officials seem to be in a bit of a tizzy over the images created Whole Body Imaging (WBI) systems. Current technology produces a de-identified raw data image of the human form with items of concern as they appear. The technology will only be of value, however,
Failed Bomber and the Use of Whole Body Imaging
“Now that the Administration has fully engaged in evaluating the systems failures, which allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian Islamic terrorist, to board a US airliner with a bomb concealed in his underwear, I feel compelled to contribute my insight. Based on 33 years flying large transport
Raising Public Awareness in the Fight Against Extremism
It has become customary to fault intelligence and law enforcement agencies regarding security lapses after high profile incidents occur. The next steps after such lapses in security are predictable: Congressional hearings follow, and politicians posture before the public with staged indignation and
Hype, Social Media, and Networked Social Movements
“What good did social media actually do for the people of Iran?” TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr asks. “Despite
NO DNI love for uGOV
In the finger-pointing-fest after 9/11, the US Intelligence Community was blamed for failing to “connect the dots.” As incomplete a description of the intelligence analysis process as that may be, it brought to the fore a point that many of us in the business had been complaining about for
Mexico’s Seeds of Radicalism: Micro Movements with Macro Implications
Radical leaders and their followers were dismissed for years as small bands of crazies unworthy of serious study or scholarship. Most of these groups belonged to the non-state actor class and were viewed as largely inconsequential until radical, Islamic fundamentalists seized power in Iran and the micro
Toward Operational Art for Policing
The military, facing a complex and intractable mixture of “wicked problems” on the battlefield, has responded with a doctrinal revolution in the production and practice of operational theory. But most police agencies don’t incorporate the “operational level of maneuver” into their planning
Preventing Another Mumbai: Building a Police Operational Art
This recent paper authored by John Sullivan & Adam Elkus appears in the June 2009 issue of the CTC Sentinel published by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. (CTC)
Achieving Cyber Deterrence
Many cyber security experts and national security policy makers assume that it is impossible to achieve a comprehensive cyber deterrence strategy. Deterrence involves convincing an adversary not to initiate a particular action or actions due to the credible prospect that he will not succeed in achieving
