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The GOP House can stop the project and rein in a runaway bureau. The federal government is proceeding with plans to build a new FBI headquarters complex twice the size of the Pentagon building. Riveted into the colossal new project are woke regulations to ensure that the FBI center will comply with diversity, equity, LGBTQ+, and climate change political goals. The plan, unveiled last September, has received little attention. For years the FBI has sought to vacate its present headquarters, a brutalist concrete bunker on stilts and occupying two city blocks between the White House and the Capitol. Plans for...

UPDATE 1 - China internal security spending jumps past army budget Sat Mar 5, 2011 2:46am EST * To spend $95 bln on public security, $92 bln on military * Security spend includes police, jails, state security * China to remain vigilant against calls for protest By Chris Buckley BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China's spending on police and domestic surveillance will hit new heights this year, with "public security" outlays unveiled on Saturday outstripping the defence budget for the first time as Beijing cracks down on protest calls. China's ruling Communist Party also issued its loudest warning yet against...

Subject: Are American Arabs loyal? By American Airlines Pilot - Captain John Maniscalco "I've been trying to say this since 9-11 but you worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country. But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me. I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. government officials, citing unusually detailed information, warned Sunday of plans by terrorists to attack financial institutions in New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia and, for the first time, raised the threat level on a localized basis. Buildings targeted for possible car-bomb or truck-bomb attacks include the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup Inc. offices in New York, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, and the headquarters of Prudential Financial Inc. in Newark, N.J., officials at the Department of Homeland Security said. "This afternoon we do have new and unusually specific...

Yielding to public pressure to an extent seldom seen in China, Hong Kong's chief executive announced today that he was withdrawing internal-security legislation that had provoked huge protests in July. Tung Chee-hwa, the chief executive, said that while he still believed that legislation was needed here to protect China's national security, he would not introduce a new bill until a clear public consensus supported the legislation. He canceled today the government's plans to issue by the end of this month a "consultation document" seeking the public's views on which provisions should be included in any security legislation. Lawmakers said that...

H.R.5710 Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House) SEC. 812. LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS OF INSPECTOR GENERAL AGENTS. (a) IN GENERAL- Section 6 of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended by adding at the end the following: `(e)(1) In addition to the authority otherwise provided by this Act, each Inspector General appointed under section 3, any Assistant Inspector General for Investigations under such an Inspector General, and any special agent supervised by such an Assistant Inspector General may be authorized by the Attorney General to-- `(A) carry a firearm while...

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A special commission took the FBI to the woodshed for significant flaws in the case of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who was convicted of spying for Moscow for 22 years. Some say that was the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history. The commission was chaired by former FBI and CIA Director William Webster, which, under the circumstances seems a little like asking the fox to guard the henhouse because Hanssen was spying while Webster was director. Anyway, the commission came out with a somewhat scathing 107 page report simply titled "A Review of FBI Security Programs." The report recommends many...