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Domestic Security Policy

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Accused Orange County Terrorism Suspect: FBI is Using Secrecy to Mask a Bad Case

    A lawyer representing an Orange County CVS pharmacist accused in 2011 of lying to the FBI about her role in funding international terrorism claims the government's case is weak and that prosecutors are abusing foreign intelligence secrecy rules.Defending Oytun Ayse Mihalik against the charge when th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Huntington Beach Businessman Nailed For Exporting Thermal Imaging Cameras To China

    A 52-year-old Huntington Beach businessman got sentenced this week for exporting seven thermal imaging cameras to China in violation of U.S. national security controls.Jason Jian Liang, a 1985 immigrant from China and president of Sanwave International Corp., admitted that he did not seek export lic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Korean Tourist Nabbed at LAX with 63 Pounds of Erection Medicine

    ​Was a 40-year-old Korean national visiting Southern California hoping to obtain the biggest, longest-lasting erection in world history?Or did he just want everybody he knew to be, well, excited for weeks?Authorities briefly detained the unidentified tourist earlier this month at Los Angeles Inter ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 24, 2011

    Morrissey

    Fox Theater

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    [UPDATED with Judge's Ruling:] Justice Dept. Must Pay for Lying in Suit Against FBI by OC Muslims

    ​UPDATE, NOV. 18, 10:57 A.M.: "The Court must impose monetary sanctions to deter the Government from deceiving the Court again," Judge Cormac Carney of the U.S. District Court in Santa Ana writes in his Islamic Shura Council v. FBI ruling. He gave the council 14 days to come up with ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 8, 2011

    My Daughter, the 13-Year-Old Terrorist

    [Hey, You!] What OC bank told the feds their teen customer was evil?

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    [UPDATED With Charges, Arraignment Date] Miguel Lerma Jr., Border Patrol Officer, Held in Sexual Assaults of Women in Garden Grove and Long Beach

    ​UPDATE, APRIL 4, 3:24 P.M.: U.S. Customs & Border Protection officer Miguel Lerma Jr. has been charged with one felony count each of forcible rape, sodomy by force and forcible oral copulation for allegedly attacking a woman in Garden Grove, plus one felony count of rape by use of drugs f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Some Salvadorans Here Can Breathe a (Temporary) Sigh of Relief

    ​If you're a Salvadoran whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is about to expire, you're in luck.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today that the Department of Homeland Security will extend the TPS for eligible nationals from the current Sept. 9, 2010, date through the new exp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Rainbow Harbor Terror Attack is Just a Drill

    ​If you swing by Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach today and notice an unusually large presence of law enforcement types running around like chickens with their heads cut off, you are witnessing neither an actual terror attack nor filming of pick-up scenes for Monday night's 24 finale.

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Orange Engineer Chung Gets 16 Years for Handing China Space and Defense Secrets

    ArmsExpo.ruDongfan "Greg" Chung​Orange aerospace engineer Dongfan "Greg" Chung was sentenced today to nearly 16 years in federal prison for his conviction on charges of economic espionage and acting as an agent of the People's Republic of China for more than three decades.The 73-year-old stole res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Loretta Sanchez: "American Hero"

    ​Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) is an "American Hero."

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    OC Environmentalists Celebrate Momentous Decisions

    Ancestor walks take on new meaning after efforts to carve a toll road through Pahne failed.​Holiday celebrating started early for local environmental groups.On Friday, a diverse coalition of allies marked the one-year anniversary of a U.S. Department of Commerce decision that effectively stopped t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 29, 2009

    Disaster Preparedness Academy

    Anaheim Convention Center

  • Calendar

    May 28, 2009

    Release the Punks

    Que Sera

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    FBI Spy: "Islam Itself is a Threat to National Security"

    John Gilhooley / OCWCraig MonteilhIf Craig Monteilh was hoping the Weekly's recent cover story about him would provide a springboard to media fame, he probably wasn't thinking of Inside OC with Rick Reiff on KOCE. But that's exactly where Monteilh found himself last week when Reiff interviewed Hussa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Dana Rohrabacher Praised for Saying the Sky is Falling

    Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach), shown here possibly pointing to a dangerous object in the sky, is being commended by the no doubt august Institute for Human Continuity for his "Planet X forsight" and belief that Earth's preparedness for dealing with cosmic debris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    The Border Patrol Gets Pimped Out On Reality T.V.

    If you didn't think reality television could get any more crass than the grating weekly doses of collagen-injected OC busybodies, guess again. ABC is scheduled to air its new border patrol  reality T.V. show during the same time slot as our desperate little OC housewives beginning in January. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Sheriff Mike Carona Loved Don Haidl

    "I'm tired of being scared. I'm tired of, you know, you know, like, like this. I'm tired of, you know, being embarrassed to hang out with my friends. You know, fuck it. I love you man and you, like, you know, if it weren't for you I wouldn't be the Sheriff of Orange County." --Knowing of federal pr ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 16, 2008

    Atrocity Becomes Art at OCCCA's 'Just How Does a Patriot Act' Show

    "I'm tired of being scared. I'm tired of, you know, you know, like, like this. I'm tired of, you know, being embarrassed to hang out with my friends. You know, fuck it. I love you man and you, like, you know, if it weren't for you I wouldn't be the Sheriff of Orange County." --Knowing of federal pr ... More >>

  • Features

    July 12, 2007

    Los Otros Deportados

    Three more countians the LACPFB assisted

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2007

    MLK Day and the Bush administration

    One of the things that fuels the belief of some people in some sort of government conspiracy in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the fact that Army Intelligence (along with the usual suspects, the FBI, etc.) was monitoring Dr. King. And now, just in time this year's MLK day comes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2006

    Happy Xmas (War is Over?)

    It was a long fight-- a generational struggle, as President Bush might say-- but UCI Professor Jon Wiener has finally prevailed: the government agreed yesterday to release the last of the classified FBI surveillance files on John Lennon. For 25 years, Wiener, a historian who has written two books ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2006

    Can You Hear Me Now?

    In this case, the President has acted, undisputedly, as FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] forbids. FISA is the expressed statutory policy of our Congress. The presidential power, therefore, was exercised at its lowest ebb and cannot be sustained. --from Federal District Court Judge Anna D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2006

    The Quota System (Friendly Skies Edition)

    Everyone's heard stories, always officially denied, that you're more likely to get a traffic ticket near the end of month because the cops have a set quota of tickets they need to write each month. According to KMGH, the ABC affiliate in Denver, your traffic misery may be following you into the skie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2006

    Standard Operating Procedures

    There are those who say that the Department of Homeland Security, which the Bush administration frankensteined into existence in 2002, is a dysfunctional government agency, but this morning's New York Times brings evidence that DHS is clearly following in the steps of such well established and widel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2006

    Protecting your toner from terror

    Big terrorism news yesterday– and this time it involves a real terrorist, not one of that motley assembly of the largely misidentified down at Guantanamo Bay. And as is usual when we're talking about real terrorism in America, the terrorist is a disgruntled white guy. Yesterday, a jury in Jac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2006

    Ask not for whom the (Radio Shack) bell tolls

    President Bush, as he never tires of reminding us, considers protecting the American people to be his top priority. So, how's that working out? The New York Times gives us an idea: Mismanagement of a $1 billion technology contract by the Transportation Security Administration resulted in the expendi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2006

    Earthquake weather or whatever...

    Yesterday, as Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was submitting to a public humiliation ritual before a Senate committee, his only punishment for letting New Orleans drown (in other countries, such incompetence would result in dismissal from office and permanent disgrace, but in the land o ... More >>

  • Features

    February 24, 2005

    Hes Got Gas!

    Congressman Chris Cox says our troops have found sarin and ricin in Iraq. His high-level source: Fox News

  • News

    January 20, 2005

    Im a Complete Intellectual Fraud

    Viet Dinh reveals the truth about himselfand the USA Patriot Actin UC Irvine Speech

  • Features

    October 7, 2004

    59 Reasons Why Bush Sucks

    Why youd have to be a freaking idiot to vote for this guy

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The Presidents Conservative Critics

  • Unknown

    July 15, 2004

    The presidents conservative critics

    The Presidents Conservative Critics

  • News

    June 24, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The presidents conservative critics

  • News

    February 12, 2004

    The Vegas Line

    We call the Dornan-Rohrabacher race by Jan. 21

  • News

    August 7, 2003

    Dear John

    An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    An Informed Citizenry

    An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

  • News

    June 5, 2003

    Graham Drubs Dubya

    An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Oiling the Colonial Gears

    An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

  • News

    April 17, 2003

    Throwing the Book at Us

    An open letter to US Attorney General Ashcroft

  • News

    April 10, 2003

    Suspicious Minds

    Local libertarians look licked

  • News

    February 27, 2003

    Deadly Plants

    Local libertarians look licked

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    My Favorite Martin

    Controversial cop voted off school board, but his spirit may linger

  • News

    August 1, 2002

    The Martian Plan

    Controversial cop voted off school board, but his spirit may linger

  • News

    May 16, 2002

    Upon Further Review . . .

    Sanchez staunchly supports Harald Martins INS jail program

  • News

    May 2, 2002

    Crack Cop

    New FBI documents add to the mystery surrounding a former Laguna cop who says he ran coke for the Nicaraguan rebels

  • Columns

    January 3, 2002

    Oh, Death!

    The year that sucked

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    Tip-Toe Thru the Bureau

    Paranoid FBI chief ordered Tiny Tim probe

  • News

    March 18, 1999

    Taylor Remade

    Nixon's historian works his magic on incriminating tapes

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    The Tatum Chronicles

    News of OC businessman's high-profile assassination in a Moscow subway remains top-secret

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