Punishment for Being Alert? That's Not How Homeland Security Is Supposed to Work

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Federal officials have evidence that terrorists may have been staging dry runs - terrorist attack "rehearsals" - since September by trying to smuggle explosive components or their look-alikes onto airliners.

Yet, when good, civic-minded folks aboard a US Airways flight from Minneapolis last Nov. 20 reported suspicious activity among half a dozen Muslims, they became the subject of intimidation and lawsuits from the Muslims.

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Punishment for Being Alert? That's Not How Homeland Security Is Supposed to Work

And Congress very nearly hung those good citizens,...

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