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New guidelines make counterterrorism information more shareable

The National Counter Terrorism Center, which serves as a terrorism data clearing house for the intelligence community, enacted new guidelines March 22 on the access, retention, use and dissemination

Witness: 'We slipped up' on potential bomber

The federal government is going round and round these days to find out exactly what went wrong in not stopping the Christmas Day bomber before he almost blew up a jet heading for Detroit. It's been

U.S. embassies fail on visa watch

In the wake of the Christmas Day terrorist bombing attempt, new attention is being focused on the visa application process at U.S. embassies. In a letter sent this week to Secretary of State Hillary

White House wants IT to connect Intel dots

The unsuccessful Christmas Day terrorist bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner highlighted the failure of the intelligence community to share and piece together information that was sitting in a number

Failure to connect the dots

It was a bad Christmas morning this year, but it could have been far worse. An alleged Nigerian-born terrorist on a plane from Amsterdam to Detroit would have blown up the airliner if it had not been