U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security

Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting

2013-05-19 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...

Report warned Boston Marathon was vulnerable to terrorism

2013-05-09 20:46:00

WASHINGTON — Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report identified the finish line as an "area of increased vulnerability" and warned Boston police that homegrown extremists could use "small-scale...

Intelligence report identified vulnerability before Boston bombing

2013-05-09 10:50:00

WASHINGTON -- Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report identified the finish line of the race as an "area of increased vulnerability" and warned Boston police that extremists may use "small scale...

U.S. government begins intelligence review in Boston bombing case

2013-04-30 18:58:00

WASHINGTON — The CIA and departments of Justice and Homeland Security have begun a high-level internal review of whether intelligence was mishandled prior to the Boston Marathon bombings, though President Obama and his top advisors said they had...

Boston bombing: Lawmakers say Tsarnaevs might have had help

2013-04-28 15:05:00

WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders briefed on the FBI’s investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing said Sunday it was still possible that the two Tsarnaev brothers received help and support from others in building the bombs and carrying out the...

Boston bombs showed some expertise

2013-04-24 19:10:00

WASHINGTON — Investigators said the two Boston Marathon bombs were triggered by long-range remote controls for toy cars — a more sophisticated design than originally believed — bolstering a theory that the older suspect received bomb-...

Boston suspects threw pressure-cooker bomb at police, officials say

2013-04-20 13:32:00

The Tsarnaev brothers were armed with at least three firearms and several improvised bombs — including a pressure-cooker explosive — during confrontations with police, an arsenal that will be traced to determine whether someone outside the U....

Live updates: Krystle M. Campbell mourned as 2nd Boston bombing victim

2013-04-16 12:33:00

Friends of 29-year-old Krystle M. Campbell mourned her Tuesday as the second victim of the Boston Marathon bombings. On Facebook, employees of the Summer Shack restaurant in Hingham, Mass., where she was general manager said they were devastated “by...

Obama administration pressed for border data

2013-04-05 12:07:00

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee asked the Obama administration Friday to provide data to back up its assertions that the southwest border is more secure than it has been in decades. In a letter to Janet...

Radar shows U.S. border security gaps

2013-04-03 17:22:00

WASHINGTON — A sophisticated airborne radar system developed to track Taliban fighters planting roadside bombs in Afghanistan has found a new use along the U.S. border with Mexico, where it has revealed gaps in security. Operated from a Predator...

Bin Laden kin to face terror-related charges in New York

2013-03-07 09:19:00

WASHINGTON -- The FBI and CIA helped capture an Al Qaeda spokesman who was Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and have flown him to New York City from Jordan to face terrorism-related charges, U.S. officials say. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, an Al Qaeda...

'Zero Dark Thirty' hunts for Bin Laden -- and more

2012-12-06 13:28:00

In 2008, the screenwriter Mark Boal sought an appointment with a retired special-forces operator. Boal was researching a movie about the fruitless search for Osama bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora six years before, and he wanted insight into how U.S....

Photos of the bombing victims and the officer shot to death at MIT are on display at a congressional hearing, during which local police complained that federal officials hadn't told them more about the suspects.

2013-05-09 00:00:00

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., presides over a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration on Monday rejected a demand from a senior Republican lawmaker that the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to resign. Rep.

2012-10-26 19:41:00

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on July 25 in Washington, D.C.

2012-08-22 08:02:00