Hawaii becomes first state to put gun owners in federal database

Hawaii signed a bill Thursday to become the first state to enter gun owners into an FBI database that will automatically notify police if an island resident is arrested anywhere else in the country. Gov. David Ige said in a statement that the legislation is about community safety and responsible gun ownership. He said it […]

Anatomy of the terror threat: Files show hundreds of US plots, refugee connection

Newly obtained congressional data shows hundreds of terror plots have been stopped in the U.S. since 9/11 – mostly involving foreign-born suspects, including dozens of refugees. The files are sure to inflame the debate over the Obama administration’s push to admit thousands more refugees from Syria and elsewhere, a proposal Donald Trump has vehemently opposed […]

Friend of Orlando shooter tipped FBI in 2014

A friend of mass murderer Omar Mateen says he tipped the FBI about suspcicious behavior Mateen displayed two years before his brutal shooting spree in an Orlando nightclub. Mohammed Malik, in a commentary piece provided to Treasure Cost Newspapers and The Washington Post, wrote that he became concerned about Mateen in 2014 after a young man from their mosque […]

Psychologists behind CIA interrogation tactics deny torture

Two former Air Force psychologists who helped design the CIA‘s enhanced interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects acknowledge using waterboarding and other harsh tactics but deny allegations of torture and war crimes leveled by a civil liberties group, according to new court records. The American Civil Liberties Union sued James E. Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen […]

Two men convicted of conspiring to fight with Islamic State

A federal jury in Santa Ana convicted two men of conspiring to help Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, with one of the men trying to board a plane to the Middle East. Nader Elhuzayel, 25, and Muhanad Badawi, 24, both residents of Anaheim, were convicted after a two-week trial that detailed their efforts to join the terrorist […]

As the nation debates the place of Islam, the CIA’s Muslim officers fight terrorism

Shortly after supporters of the Islamic State gunned down 14 people in California last year, the CIA’s deputy director assembled a group of Muslim employees to talk about Islamophobia. The Dec. 2 shootings by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik had illustrated the United States’ vulnerability to terrorist attacks inspired by the Islamic State and […]

Orlando Police Defend Actions as Clock Ticked in Massacre

Some details of the Orlando nightclub massacre are known to the minute: The first reports of gunfire came at 2:02 a.m. The gunman made a 911 call at 2:35 a.m., in which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. By 5:15 a.m., as hostages fled to safety, he lay dead or mortally wounded in a scene of […]

Supreme Court Won’t Consider Challenge to Assault Weapons Ban

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge to Connecticut’s ban on semi-automatic rifles commonly called assault weapons, acting a little over week after the mass shooting in Orlando was carried with such a firearm. Gov. Dan Malloy signed the law in April 2013. Four months earlier, a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook […]

‘F@*# the Law and Veterans’ – VA Snubs Law, Seeks #1 Spot In Corruption

This tragedy marks the second recent legal victory for the Darkside of the VA, for this particular case. Last year, an administrative judge ordered the VA to pay Overseer Sharon Helman, $5,624 in back pay, which was garnished while she was on administrative leave and facing termination. She was paid to get fired for criminal acts.