Homeland Security Show | Episode 10

Behind the Scenes of Congress and Why Visa Security is Important

This week Janice Kephart spent the first half of the show doing an extended “Homeland Security RoundUp” of pertinent issues with extensive analysis on stories that included:

• In border news, five bodies burned beyond recognition in the Arizona desert after Pinal County lost the pursued vehicle where the bodies were found in the desert. The horrific event has been ruled a homicide.

• Three flashlight bombs detonating in Phoenix, Arizona, the most recent at a Salvation Army drop-off station. Injuries so far have been minor.

• Al Qaeda’s new call for cyberterror against the U.S., claiming that our computer networks are just as vulnerable as U.S. aviation security was prior to 9/11.

• Somali Al Shabaab threats to take down western skyscrapers in Nairobi, Kenya in the next couple weeks after a successful detonation in a retail shopping mall killing one and injuring 37. Kenya has been fighting Al Shabaab diligently in an attempt to keep the violence from overflowing into its homeland, but has struggled since 1998 when al Qaeda committed a major terrorist attack against the U.S. embasssy in Nairobi.

• Azerbaijan’s large take down of Syrian jihad/Pakistani Jihad/Iranian trained and Iranian supported conspiracies to hit U.S. and Israeli targets and assassinate the country’s president. Azerbaijan is a small oil-rich country that borders Iran and Russia and has increased its ties to the U.S. in recent years. The conspiracy that made news targeted the location for the country’s singing competition, Eurovision, during its airing.

(I do a Homeland Security Roundup at the front of every show, but usually in about five to seven minutes. It is news you will not hear on mainstream TV or radio.)In the second half of the show, I shared some behind-the-scenes of Congressional hearings based on my most recent appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on visa security and a pending bill before Congress that would have significantly jeopardized implemented 9/11 Commission recommendations on visa security.

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