It was around 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 4, 1979, almost 40 years ago, when Mark Lijek, a 29-year-old American Citizens Services officer for the U.S. Consulate in Tehran, heard commotion outside his office. That day, Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and captured 66 Americans. The takeover was, in part, a response to […]
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Authoritarian Corruption Takes Advantage of Free States
A new report from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) predicts the future turmoil driven by competition between free societies and the authoritarian-corruption nexus will be a “defining threat to freedom in the 21st century.” The report was presented by Clay R. Fuller, a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at AEI, on July 8. Dismantling the Authoritarian-Corruption Nexus […]
DHS and DOJ Increase Restrictions for Asylum Seekers
The Departments of Homeland Security and Justice announced Monday new restrictions for asylum seekers from third countries who pass through Mexico trying to enter the United States across the southern border. Specifically, the joint Interim Final Rule (IFR) allows U.S. entry to asylum seekers from third countries who qualify under three exceptions. They must demonstrate […]
Hollywood, Surveillance Technology, and Privacy
WASHINGTON—On a night in 1998, an engineer from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and his wife went to the movie theater and watched Will Smith star in Enemy of the State, a film that features wide-area surveillance systems. “Where everyone else in the audience was no doubt terrified by what they saw on the screen, he […]
Privately Funded Wall Construction Begins Near El Paso
From In Homeland Security For many years, there have been several attempts to recruit donors and privately raise money to build additional sections of fencing and barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Historically, they have not amounted to much activity until very recently. According to FOXNews.com, a privately funded organization called “We Build the Wall” began work […]