Topic: National Counterterrorism Center
Michael Leiter, the head of the US National Counterterrorism Center across two administrations, is resigning, officials said Thursday as President Barack Obama paid a warm tribute.Leiter heads the prime government clearing house and analytical point for terrorism threat information set up ...
0 . The White House says its top counterterrorism agency chief is resigning after nearly five years at his post.. . The president called National ...
The United States government defines terrorism as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by...
The government should use proven tools to improve its counterterrorism performance. One approach that might help is for the National Counterterrorism Center, an organization established in 2004 specifically to work on connecting dots, to adopt a version of the "mystery shopper" technique ...
Senators favor punishing US officials for security failures in Christmas Day airliner plotAs the Obama administration begins to address the failings behind the Christmas Day airliner attack, two senators said Sunday the U.S. needs to punish officials, correct security lapses and ...
Obama administration says IT didn't sufficiently enable correlation of data. An unclassified version of the Obama administration's review of the failed attack said intelligence failures related to the incident didn't appear to be caused by a lack of information ...
The recent failed bid to blow up a US airliner is a reminder of " insidious terrorist threats" faced by the United States according to a top US counterterrorism official, who vowed Saturday to redouble efforts to prevent further attacks.Michael Leiter, the ...
The bungled response that allowed a suspected bomber onto an airliner has exposed persistent holes in US security operations despite the post-September 11 revamp, officials and experts say.The father of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab raised concerns about his son's radicalism to ...
Attempted bombing puts focus on terrorist listsWhat does it take to be banned from air travel? U.S. intelligence and law enforcement as well as trusted allies can nominate "known or suspected terrorists" for this database, which is maintained by the National ...
The Washington Post delves into controversy surrounding a major upgrade for the computer system that serves as the U.S. government's central repository of information about more than 400,000 suspected terrorists around the world.. The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or ...
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