Annie Jacobsen writes about aviation security and homeland security for a variety of newspapers, magazines, and blogs. She is the author of the book Terror in The Skies, Why 9/11 Could Happen Again.
Traffickers are frighteningly able to help their new partners smuggle deadly weapons.
The Coast Guard's ongoing effort to hunt them has profound national security implications.
Wait until they realize some of their favorite comic book characters were created by Jews as well.
Piracy in Somalia replaces fishing as the most profitable industry.
Aafia Siddiqui's interest in the Plum Island facility shows terrorists aspire to a frightening form of mass-casualty operation.
The Transportation Security Administration seems to have taken a page from the mob.
America is finally showing interest in adopting Israel's approach to airline safety which looks for bombers, not bombs — and won't confiscate your tiny bottles of shampoo.
What's a passenger to do now that the airline is charging $15 for the first checked bag? For starters, travel light.
Pilots who are licensed firearms instructors have been deemed unfit to carry weapons in the cockpit. Yet the TSA is fast-tracking unqualified screeners to become air marshals.
Setting new women-only gym hours to placate Muslims is an act of segregation disguised as accommodation. So much for fifty years of equality.