Joe Lieberman
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 09: (L-R) Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, Massachusetts Undersecretary for Homeland Security Director Kurt Schwartz and Erroll Southers, professor and associate director of the University of Southern California's Homeland Security National Center for Risk & Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, testify before the House Homeland Security Committee hearing about last month's Boston Marathon bombings with B on Capitol Hill May 9, 2013 in Washington, DC. Witnesses told the committee that, although federal and local law enforcement handled the bombing and subsequent investigation and capture of a suspect, better counter-terrorism communication between agencies could have prevented the bombing.
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The core leadership of al Qaeda is on the run, but this ideology of violent Islamic extremism is spreading. And it’s beginning to infect people here in this country who are carrying out – trying to carry out terrorist attacks. You can’t defeat an enemy unless you call it by its name
The cost of silence can be enormous ... There were clearly people who could have prevented the massacre ... by just saying something.
Why didn't they involve local law enforcement, who could have stayed on this case? ... How do you explain it? People are imperfect.More quotes »
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The Asymmetry Between Past and Future, and Why it Means Mass Surveillance Won’t Work
Former Senator Joseph Lieberman recently charged that mistakes by U.S. security agencies were responsible for failing to stop the Boston Marathon bombing. I recently wrote about how mass surveillance makes this kind of recrimination inevitable, because o from American Civil Liberties Union Read more »
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Guns of Icarus Online: Adventure Mode Ahoy!
This is Joseph Lieberman, one of the guys here at Muse Games and Guns of Icarus Online. Today Guns Adventure Mode is closing on the final days of its Kickstarter and the final few weeks have been a whirlwind. First, some background. Guns of Icarus Online from MODDB Read more »
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Lieberman: Boston Bombing Suspects: ‘Motivated by Violent Islamic Extremism’
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) testified at a House Homeland Security hearing on the Boston Marathon terror attack on May 9, 2013. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) - Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said that the enemy threat to the United from CNSNews.com Read more »
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Boston Police Were Kept in the Dark
WASHINGTON -- The FBI did not initially share with Boston police the warnings it had received from Russia about one suspect in last month's marathon bombings, despite the work of four city police representatives on a federal terrorism task force, Boston' from AOL News Read more »
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GOP Leans on Lieberman in Boston Probe
The House Homeland Security Committee’s prominent testimony from former Sen. Joe Lieberman, I/D-Conn., in its first hearing on the Boston Marathon bombing Thursday gave Republicans a convenient way to have a former Democrat condemn the Obama administrati from National Journal Read more »
