By Glynn Cosker
Editor, In Homeland Security
A voter-passed ballot initiative by Washington D.C. voters to legalize small amounts of marijuana in the nation’s capital may be stopped by a measure introduced into the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill.
By William Tucker
Chief Correspondent for In Homeland Security
One police officer was killed and another wounded as a female suicide bomber attacked a police station in Istanbul Tuesday. The attack followed another strike against the Turkish police that occurred on Jan.1. That attack was carried out by the Marxist DHKP-C group, though no group has yet claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s violence.
By John Ubaldi
Contributor, In Homeland Security
This month, President Barack Obama’s Defense Secretary nominee, Ashton Carter, will go through confirmation hearings to replace Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon.
By Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief, and Kylie Bull, Managing Editor
Homeland Security Today
Special to In Homeland Security
Given the nature of the deadly attack on the Paris-based Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices last week, US counterterrorism intelligence sources told Homeland Security Today on condition of anonymity that there’s been what they described as “pretty actionable” intelligence in various forms
By Dr. Gary Deel
Laws like Prohibition and the “war on drugs” failed to gain public compliance. Learn what circumstances are necessary in order for criminal laws to be effective.
