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Government & Politics
With CAIR’s backing, Rep. Ilhan Omar targets FBI terror database
(CNS) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and ten other House Democrats have written to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, requesting information about how information from the FBI-administered terrorist watchlist is shared with foreign governments — including governments with poor human rights records. In […]
Demonstrations
Controversy and security concerns follow Ilhan Omar to Bellevue
(Crosscut) Wherever U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar goes, layers of security follow. The freshman congresswoman’s visit to Washington state on Saturday was no exception. At Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, where Omar spoke Saturday night at a sold-out fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations of […]
Legal
US soldier sentenced to 14 years for role in planned terror attack In online conversations, Cole Bridges discussed and offered ideas for attacks on the U.S. and his fellow service members. He didn't know there was an FBI agent on the other side of his messages.
(Courthouse News) A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 14 years in Manhattan federal court on Friday for trying to help the Islamic State group plan to attack the 9/11 Memorial in New York City and target his fellow servicemen in the Middle […]