Security News Since Bush Won Re-election                                             Back

11/11/04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The CIA is reviewing whether to take disciplinary action against a senior terrorism officer who it says violated the agency's regulations on contacts with the media, a U.S. intelligence official said. Michael Scheuer, is a 22-year veteran of the CIA who once headed the agency's Osama bin Laden unit. People he is paying the price for telling the people of the U.S. just how badly the Bush Administration is running the war on terrorism. Here is the reason he may face disciplinary action. June 27th (CNN) -- A book written by a top CIA counterterrorism official alleges that the Bush administration has bungled the war on terror, and because of poor decisions the United States faces a choice in Iraq and Afghanistan "between war and endless war."

11/9/04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators on Monday gave in to several House demands on compromise legislation dealing with the September 11 commission's anti-terrorism recommendations, including keeping the intelligence budget secret, increasing border security forces and banning aliens who have been trained by terrorist groups. People how long has it been since the 9/11 Commission released it's report?

11/11/04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senior CIA anti-terrorism officer Michael Scheuer, who publicly criticized the agency's handling of the war on terrorism, resigned Thursday but said he wasn't forced out despite the fact the CIA was considering disciplinary action against him. The 22-year CIA veteran who once headed the Osama bin Laden unit, resigned effective Friday, according to Christina Davidson, the editor of his book, "Imperial Hubris." Another Intelligence agent down. How many experienced agents can we afford to lose?

11/20/04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A bill aimed at overhauling the nation's intelligence agencies was pulled Saturday because of conservative opposition, on what was supposed to be the last day of Congress' lame-duck session. I ask again, How long has it been since the 9/11 Commission made it's recommendations?

11/30/04: (CNN)  WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In an effort to break a legislative deadlock, Vice President Cheney will meet with former 9/11 commission co-chairs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton Tuesday afternoon. Kean and Hamilton have launched a last-ditch lobbying blitz to pass legislation that would create a new director of national intelligence. They are warning of dire consequences if the bill is not passed next week when Congress returns to session. People, we have to get this legislation to the Presidents desk. Without it, we are no safer then we were before 9/11. Why isn't the president spending some of the political capitol he is always talking about?

The White House has said Bush will send a letter to Congress this week to urge legislators to finish the bill. Why a letter, wouldn't a personal appearance have more weight? That's what I was saying about the bully pulpit.

12/5/04: (A.P.) Washington -- President Bush played down a stark warning from his resigning health chief that the nation's food supply was largely unprotected from a terrorist attack.

Bush said the government was doing what it could to safeguard the public from threats, but much work remained.

Health & Human Services, Secretary Tommy Thompson said in a speech Friday announcing his coming departure from the Bush cabinet that he worried "every single night" about a possible terrorist attack on the food supply. It seems that President Bush is paying as much attention to Tommy Thompson as he did to Richard Clarke, when Clarke tried to warn the administration about bin Laden.

12/6/04: (CNN) Musharraf: World 'less safe' -- LONDON, England (CNN) -- The U.S.-le d invasion of Iraq was a mistake that has made the world a more dangerous place, but a swift withdrawal would make matters worse, Pakistan's president says.

12/14/04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. states are slowly getting better prepared to handle bioterrorism, but most still do not have statewide response plans and federal funding is declining, according to a new report. "More than three years after 9/11 and the anthrax tragedies, we've only made baby steps toward better bioterrorism preparedness, rather than the giant leaps required to adequately protect the American people," said former three-term Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., now president of Trust for America's Health. He's right people, but It seems that tax cuts for the rich is more important then our safety.

12/16/04: (CNN) -- A new audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden and referencing the December 6 attack on the American consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, appeared on Arabic Web sites Thursday. I can't believe this guy is still alive.

12/16/04: (CNN) Al-Zarqawi may be in Baghdad. The most wanted man in Iraq, Islamic militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is most likely in Baghdad after losing his sanctuary in the western city of Falluja, but he is having a tougher time planning and launching attacks, a top U.S. general says. We are chasing this guy all over Iraq.

12/24/04: (CNN) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Assailants claiming to be members of a revolutionary group opposed to the death penalty ambushed a bus filled with people bringing home Christmas gifts and killed at least 28 people, including six children.

12/24/04: (CNN) BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- An explosion in the southern Thai town of Sungaikolok has killed two people -- a boy and a government security worker -- and wounded seven others, police say.

12/28/04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Homeland Security Department has allowed federal grants for improving security at America's ports to be spent on low priority problems rather than the most serious vulnerabilities, the agency's outgoing watchdog says. Outgoing watchdog?) Not only are they spending on the wrong things but we're still bleeding important people.

12/29/04: (CNN) -- Two explosions rocked the Saudi Arabian capital Wednesday night, killing two militants and wounding several people, according to the Ministry of Information.

12-29-04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Six commercial airliners in the past four days have had their cockpits illuminated by laser beams while attempting to land, a government official told CNN Wednesday.

12-29-04: (CNN) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the CIA's analysis unit is resigning next year, the latest top official to step down since Porter Goss became the agency's director. At least five other top agency officials have resigned since Goss, a former congressman who chaired the House Intelligence Committee, became CIA director in September. Goss has appointed his former House aides to top positions. They're dropping like flies. Pretty soon everybody in our intelligence community will agree with Bush no matter what the facts are.