Counter-terrorism

Alleged Tampa bomb plot foiled by FBI

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 4:37pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A man seeking explosives and weapons for a suicide bomb plot in the Tampa, Fla., area has been arrested by the FBI, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

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(BEBETO MATTHEWS/The Associated Press) In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, people walk below a New York Police Department security camera, upper left, which is next to a mosque on Fulton St. in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. Working with the CIA, the New York Police Department maintained a list of “ancestries of interest” and dispatched undercover officers to monitor Muslim businesses and social groups, according to new documents that offer a rare glimpse inside an intelligence program the NYPD insists doesn’t exist.

Post-9/11 tradeoff: Security vs. civil liberties

Last updated Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 5:14pm

NEW YORK — In the early months after the 9/11 terror attacks, America’s visceral reaction was to gird for a relentless, whatever-it-takes quest to punish those responsible and prevent any recurrences.

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(BEBETO MATTHEWS/The Associated Press) In this Oct. 6, 2011, file photo, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly listens during his testimony about NYPD intelligence operations to the New York City Council public safety committee in New York. Three months ago, one of the CIA’s most experienced clandestine operatives started work inside the New York Police Department. His title is special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. Since The Associated Press revealed the assignment in August, federal and city officials have offered differing explanations for why this CIA officer, a seasoned operative who handled foreign agents and ran complex operations in Jordan and Pakistan, was assigned to a municipal police department. Kelly said the CIA operative provides his officers “with information, usually coming from perhaps overseas.” He said the CIA operative provides “technical information” to the NYPD but “doesn’t have access to any of our investigative files.”

What’s the CIA doing at NYPD? Depends whom you ask

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 7:43am

WASHINGTON — Three months ago, one of the CIA’s most experienced clandestine operatives started work inside the New York Police Department. His title is special assistant to the deputy commissioner of intelligence. On that much, everyone agrees.

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