American’s Disrupt Rail Terrorist

Thanks to courage and quick thinking, three American service members took down a terrorist on a French passenger train. I truly hate to sound like a broken record but once again I am writing that it is not a matter of if but a matter of when it happens here in the...

Guess Who’s Looking Now

I was surfing on the web about the recent CSX oil tank train derailment in West Virginia. I saw the normal news media, Fox, ABC, etc., but what I saw next shocked me. Al Jazeera America, the Arabic language news media which is partly funded by the ruling family of...

Fear Mongering

I was recently published in “Progressive Railroading” and “Rail Professional” magazines about open source intelligence. The reason I am writing this is the day before the attacks in Paris I contacted the editor of Rail Professional (a U.K....

Rails and Domestic Terrorism

The Sovereign Citizen movement.  Last week I attended a conference of school security. One of the modules was on the Sovereign Citizen movement. For those of you that are not familiar with this group, as of this moment, it consists of approximately 100,000...

NSA Has It Right

As an intelligence professional, I understand that NSA really doesn’t care what you do with your life as long as it does not deal with terrorism. Such is the case with the recent disclosure that, through monitoring of communications, NSA discovered that Al Qaeda...