9/11

Coverage of fusion centers continues

Following my story yesterday on Iowa’s Intelligence Fusion Center, our sister site, The Colorado Independent, today published the third in a nationwide series of stories focusing on the domestic intelligence network that has quietly emerged in America since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Erin Rosa takes a look at the Colorado Information Analysis Center [...]

Iowa’s intelligence fusion center ‘connects the dots’

On the third floor of an unnamed building in the shadow of the state Capitol sits the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center, an organization tasked with helping to stop future acts of terrorism.

Iowa fusion center part of nationwide series

My lead story today on the Iowa Intelligence Fusion Center follows Minnesota Independent’s investigation of their fusion center, the Minnesota Joint Analysis Center, published yesterday.
In “You don’t know MN-JAC,” reporter Dan Haugen found that the agency, created in the wake of 9/11 to collect and analyze suspicious activity reports from across Minnesota, is [...]

Videos: Iowa College Republican Answers the Conservative Calling

Ben Johnson is looking for a reflection of his ideals in Republican leaders.  He wants someone who will mirror his conservative philosophy to be the next president.

Johnson, a double-major in psychology and physics at the University of Iowa, exuberantly leads more than 7000 Iowa college Republicans as the state chairman of the Iowa Federation of [...]

Kucinich Lone No Vote On 9/11 Resolution

Courageous resistance to the rah-rah hype, stubborn foolishness, or deliberate alienation?  In any case, Dennis Kucinich was on the short end of a 334 to 1 roll call in the U.S. House yesterday on the annual “9/11 was bad” resolution.  (98 members missed the vote.)
“It is important that Congress wake up to the truth and [...]

Fallen Iowa Soldier’s Half-Staff Tribute Overshadowed by 9/11 Patriot Day

On Friday, Gov. Chet Culver called for flags to be flown half-staff Tuesday to honor Sgt. Kevin Gilbertson, a Cedar Rapids native, who died Friday in Iraq. The timing of Culver’s order coincides with Presidents Bush’s directive that requires all flags located on government-owned property to be flown half-staff in recognition of Patriot Day.
I also [...]