President Obama is now calling what happened on Christmas Day a “systemic failure.” In the cover story of the new issue of dead-tree TIME, Michael Duffy and Mark Thompson tell us what we can learn from Flight 253. And Amanda Ripley explores how regular people turn into heroes at times like this.
UPDATE: A number of Swampland …
Once lost, credibility is a difficult thing to get back. Especially when you hold a position where the public’s safety rides on your instincts and reflexes in a crisis.
The Homeland Security Secretary this morning is trying to walk back yesterday’s bone-headed assertion that the “system worked” in the near-miss that allowed a bomber …
Our colleague Bobby Ghosh sends in this report:
Two Georgia men have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison on terrorism charges. Ehsanul Islam Sadequee got 17 years and Syed Haris Ahmed got 13, for trying to aid terrorist groups by conducting surveillance in 2005 on several landmarks in the Washington DC area. Both men are
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