May 17, 2012 – Paul Bedard When they published their revealing book last August about the nation’s fight against terrorism, the authors, two New York Times national security reporters, immediately felt heat from the Pentagon for dishing too much operational info about the killing of Osama bin Laden. “I was stopped by a very senior [...]

May 15, 2012 By ANDREW MALCOLM Here’s a disturbing update to last week’s amazing story about the U.S. mole who infiltrated al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and thwarted an airliner attack with a more sophisticated underwear bomb. Someone in Washington whose boss stood to gain from an election year story about alert intelligence operatives successfully protecting American [...]

Politically convenient release of classified information hurts national security By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Tuesday, May 15, 2012 When word broke last week that a terrorist underwear bomb plot had been foiled, it seemed to be an impressive American victory. The initial Associated Press report revealed a CIA informant penetrated high levels of [...]

By Mike Baker Published May 11, 2012 FoxNews.com The White House would like you to please ignore what I’m about to discuss.  They’d prefer you fawn over President Obama’s evolving position on gay marriage or protest against the one-percent. But don’t pay any attention to that noise about the White House completely screwing up one [...]

By Linda Chavez (Archive) · Friday, May 11, 2012 The U.S. dodged another terrorist bullet when a would-be “underwear bomber” turned out to be a double agent. The news became public this week after rumors had circulated in April that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a Yemini-based group that is now the chief terrorist [...]

May 10, 2012 A former top CIA covert officer who ran one of the spy agency’s secret domestic networks says there are now more foreign spies on U.S. soil than at the peak of the Cold War. The former officer, Hank Crumpton, who also served as deputy director of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center and led [...]

May 9, 2012 Mark Levin discussed the thwarted bomb plot in Yemen and says that whoever leaked the information to the press is partaking in treason. There’s no good to come out of releasing details of the intelligence operation to the public. We need to know who leaked it and for what reason other than [...]

By Greg Miller, Published: May 8, 2012 The latest al-Qaeda bomb plot targeting U.S. aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives — including an agent who posed as a willing suicide bomber — working on behalf of the CIA and its counterparts in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, said U.S. and Middle Eastern officials. [...]

By BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) , RICHARD ESPOSITO and RHONDA SCHWARTZ May 7, 2012 U.S. and European officials say that even though an al Qaeda bomber was stopped before he could board a plane for the U.S., the threat is far from over — there are believed to be several other would-be bombers with similar non-metallic [...]

May 8, 2012 By ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane. Officials told The Associated Press a day [...]