Where Things Stand: Air Marshals Under Arrest
Dec. 26: This post has been corrected.
Editor’s note: As part of our year-end coverage, we’re checking in on the latest on each of our in-depth stories.
The Federal Air Marshal Service presents the image of an elite undercover force charged with making life-and-death decisions that demand sound judgment. A ProPublica investigation, published with USA Today in mid-November, found that dozens of air marshals have been charged with crimes -- from drunken driving and drug smuggling to aiding a human trafficking ring and … more…
Tragedy in the Sky
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Key events since the Lockerbie bombing:
Dec. 21, 1988 -- Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York is destroyed … more…
20 Years After Lockerbie, Aviation Security Gaps Remain
This story was co-published with the Newark Star-Ledger and also appeared in that newspaper's Dec. 21, 2008 issue.
Twenty years ago this … more…
Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders
BAGHDAD — An unpublished, 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the … more…
Another (Little-Noticed) Setback for Gitmo Prosecutors
There have been two significant developments at Guantanamo Bay today. Five detainees accused of being connected to 9/11 have announced … more…
Golf Cart Crash Nets Air Marshal Probation
One of the dozens of air marshals featured in a ProPublica investigation last month pleaded guilty Monday to felony injury to a child … more…
Warrantless Wiretapping Used in Terrorist Trial?
The National Security Agency may start its first investigation into "whether its eavesdropping program had improperly interfered with an … more…
ProPublica In-Depth: Has Bioterrorism Effort Increased Risk of Attack?
Today we’re releasing a three-part series about how the U.S. has dealt with the bioterrorism threat during the Bush administration. Our … more…
Snafus Mar Vaccine Program
The Nov. 4, 2004 announcement was supposed to be a confidence booster for a nation badly shaken by the 2001 anthrax letter attacks … more…
Biodefense Program Poses Its Own Risks
The news emerged in frightening fragments in the fall of 2001. Just a week after the horrors of 9/11, as the ruins of the World Trade … more…
Experts Divided Over Risk of Bio-Terrorist Attack
When news of an anthrax attack flashed across American TV screens in September 2001, the public was swept up in a debate that had … more…
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Former Blackwater Guards Plead Not Guilty Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post, January 07, 2009
January 06, 2009
Appeals Court: U.S. Can Keep IDs of Gitmo Detainees Secret Larry Neumeister, AP, January 06, 2009
January 05, 2009
White House Considers Pardoning Soldier AP, January 05, 2009
U.K. May Take More Gitmo Detainees Jay Solomon and Alistair MacDonald, Wall Street Journal ($), January 05, 2009
December 29, 2008
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December 19, 2008
Plans Being Drawn to Close Gitmo Peter Finn, Washington Post, December 19, 2008
December 15, 2008
War Vet Widows Wrongly Denied Benefits Hope Yen, AP, December 15, 2008
Supreme Court Opens Way for ex-Gitmo Inmates to Sue AP, December 15, 2008
December 10, 2008
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