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The Shield We Need
The best defense against terrorism is not in D.C. - it's the NYPD model

July 25, 2010  •  New York Daily News

The war on terrorism has been anything but quiet lately here on its western front. The Washington Post concluded in a seminal investigation this week that the top-secret world the government has created in response to 9/11 has become so secretive and unwieldy that no one knows how large it is, what it does or how effective its programs are. To counter terrorism, the Post reports, America has created some 263 new or reorganized government groups, expanded the U.S. intelligence budget to $75 billion - more than 2-1/2 times its size on Sept. 11 - and awarded top-secret security clearances to some 854,000 civil servants, military personnel and private contractors.

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What the Russian Spy Story Tells Us

June 29, 2010  •  Fox News

Maybe Russia's leaders forgot to push the "reset" button.

Just days after President Obama treated Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to cheeseburgers at Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia, hailing the improved relationship with Moscow as one of his administration's most important achievements, the Justice Department unveiled the existence of a vast Russian spy network that has been operating in cities across the United States since the mid-1990's.

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McChrystal Leaves, Questions About War Strategy Remain

June 23, 2010  •  Fox News

Here's some required reading from the military's Manual of Courts-Martial: "888. ART. 88 Contempt Toward Officials: Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct."

Gen. Stan McChrystal is undoubtedly a great general, an inspiring leader of men (and women) and a fierce advocate of the new army's counterinsurgency doctrine. But he needed a better media advisor.

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When Will the White House Finally Consider the Fight Against Terror a War?

June 22, 2010  •  Fox News

The U.S. Supreme Court and Faisal Shahzad, the naturalized Pakistani-American who tried to blow up his SUV in Times Square earlier this year, may not agree on much. But in separate statements Monday, both seemed to come to a similar conclusion about the wave of terrorist attacks that have failed or been foiled since 9/11: the United States is locked in combat with militant foes determined to continue killing Americans until their objectives are achieved.

Therefore, the Supreme Court ruled, the U.S. government has a right to bar Americans from supporting some 45 groups that sponsor or encourage men like Faisal Shahzad.

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Terror Target: Manhattan

June 19, 2010  •  The Wall Street Journal

What rankles Raymond W. Kelly? Two things, he tells me as we sip lukewarm coffee in his conference room on the 14th floor of One Police Plaza, the dilapidated police headquarters overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge.

The first, New York's police commissioner tells me, is "incompetence," an inescapable fact-of-life, or so it would seem, in any large bureaucracy (he has 50,000 employees). A second is the media's tendency to downplay New York's hard-won victories against terrorism — the failure or foiling of some 11 serious plots against the city since 2001 — by describing the would-be perpetrators as incompetent or stupid.

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