http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/homeland_security This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Homeland Security en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200709120009 Among the reasons cited by Charles Krauthammer that Al Qaeda has not and cannot "hit us" is because the Bush administration has waged an "incredibly effective war in Afghanistan" that he said has "expelled Al Qaeda and scattered it, and has kept it off-balance for six years now." In fact, the July 2007 National Intelligence Estimate concluded that Al Qaeda "has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability" including a "safehaven" in Pakistan. Krauthammer also credited "secret prisons and the interrogation which yielded and interrogated people like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed"; but even supporters of the CIA's interrogation and detention program reportedly acknowledge that much of the information that coercion produces, including information gathered from Mohammed, is unreliable. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200709120009 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:49:30 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200709050003 An article in <em>The</em> <em>New York Times</em> reported President Bush's assertion that withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq would "embolden our enemies and make it more likely that they would attack us at home," without noting expert opinion that a U.S. troop withdrawal is unlikely to result in a terrorist attack on the United States. http://mediamatters.org/items/200709050003 Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:20:20 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200705090004 On ABC's <em>World News</em>, while introducing a report on the foiled Fort Dix plot, Charles Gibson uncritically repeated an FBI official's claim that "[t]oday, we dodged a bullet. In fact, when you look at the type of weapons this group was trying to purchase, we may have dodged a lot of bullets." But neither Gibson nor ABC News' Brian Ross, in his subsequent report, noted that no attack was alleged to be imminent and that Fort Dix officials have reportedly claimed that the base was not, at any point, in immediate danger. http://mediamatters.org/items/200705090004 Wed, 9 May 2007 15:21:58 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030015 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701030015 Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:08:09 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200611280001 An Associated Press article asserted that the incoming Democratic Congress will face an uphill battle in its drive to implement all of the 9-11 Commission's recommendations because "[m]uch of what the commission proposed has been accomplished" and "there are no still-lingering proposals that can easily be enacted into law." But there are several "still-lingering" recommendations that members of the commission -- none of whom were quoted in the article -- say could be implemented by the Democratic Congress. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200611280001 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:24:13 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610190010 CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC dedicated a considerable amount of airtime to a purported threat to NFL stadiums in seven cities, despite the fact that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI both characterized the threat as not credible. Further, with one brief exception, at no point was there any reference on any of the three channels to evidence that the Bush administration has used terrorism-related announcements for political gain. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610190010 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:30:13 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610190009 http://mediamatters.org/items/200610190009 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:28:02 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200610120006 A <em>Wall Street Journal</em> editorial asserted that the Army's achievement of exceeding its goal of recruiting or retaining 80,000 troops for fiscal 2006 demonstrates that "many troops believe in the mission." But the editorial omitted the fact that the Army exceeded its goal by "recruit[ing] more than 2,600 soldiers under new lower aptitude standards this year," according to an AP report. http://mediamatters.org/items/200610120006 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:32:07 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200609010010 Discussing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's performance before, during, and after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with author Wayne Barrett, Norah O'Donnell asked Barrett: "[Y]ou can't honestly say he [Giuliani] could have predicted that that area [the World Trade Center complex] would have been attacked?" In response, Barrett pointed out that the World Trade Center complex "was at the top of the vulnerability list that [Giuliani's] own police department prepared." http://mediamatters.org/items/200609010010 Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:58:58 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200608310011 Fox News' Alan Colmes repeatedly challenged Fox News political analyst Dick Morris's false claims that "Democrats oppose" "the Patriot Act, the NSA wiretaps, the seizure of bank deposits, [and] data mining." http://mediamatters.org/items/200608310011 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:17 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200608280006 In an August 26 <em>Washington Post</em> article exploring the political effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Bush administration, Jonathan Weisman and Michael Abramowitz uncritically reported the GOP claim that public opinion of Bush's handling of the crisis has rebounded over the past year, ignoring recent polling showing otherwise. Further, they repeated the White House assertion that Bush now has a "strong story to tell" about his recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast but failed to quote a single Democrat in response. http://mediamatters.org/items/200608280006 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:20:49 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200608210008 CNN correspondent Elaine Quijano uncritically reported a dubious statement by President Bush suggesting a link between a recent terror plot in Britain and the administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program. And host Wolf Blitzer did not identify the program as warrantless, although it is the administration's failure to obtain warrants to conduct surveillance on U.S. persons that is the issue in controversy and the reason a judge struck down the program. http://mediamatters.org/items/200608210008 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:51:29 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200608180012 On MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews again falsely suggested that critics of the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program are opposed to all wiretapping of terrorist suspects. In fact, critics have accused the Bush administration of violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by conducting surveillance of U.S. citizens and legal residents without obtaining a warrant. http://mediamatters.org/items/200608180012 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:59:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200608180006 On his radio show, Bill O'Reilly mocked Rep. Dennis Kucinich's proposal to increase funding for first responders, stating of Kucinich's four-point plan to increase national security: "Number three: Fund first responders in the U.S.A. That means after you're dead, have enough ambulances to carry your corpse to the funeral home." http://mediamatters.org/items/200608180006 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:44:08 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200607070003 Now that it has been reported twice in the past two months that lapses in security placed the personal information of millions of veterans and the integrity of the FBI's computer system in jeopardy, will the media finally begin to question the national security credentials of the Bush White House and Republicans? http://mediamatters.org/items/200607070003 Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:59:47 EST