Homeland security: September 2008 Archives

By Matt Korade

Terrorists attempting to smuggle a nuclear or radiological "dirty" bomb into New York City could soon be met with a thousand-man mobile radiation-detection net.

The Department of Homeland Security granted $29.5 million to New York's finest, as well as 11 fellow law-enforcement and public-health partners across the Hudson, out east, upstate, and across the Sound, to set up a roving network of portable radiation detecting devices with one goal in mind: to help ensure the devastation seen on 9/11, or worse, never happens again.

By John Bicknell, CQ Staff

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joseph I. Lieberman is claiming victory in his effort to persuade Google to crack down on violent Islamist videos posted on YouTube.

The Connecticut independent senator said in a statement Thursday that new YouTube guidelines bar videos that incite people to violence.