As a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes is in the room for classified briefings in which U.S. intelligence officers detail the good, the bad and the ugly of terrorism threats both foreign and domestic.
But what keeps Himes awake at night is not so much a spectacular international terrorist attack like 9/11, but the lone-wolf gunman with a legally purchased AK-47 opening fire in a crowd. More.
Jerry Goldman, a Jewish attorney from Philadelphia who represents the families of men and women killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, never expected to meet with a top Al Qaeda terrorist convicted in connection with that attack, and at the terrorist’s own request.
But that’s what happened when Goldman met Zacarias Moussaoui, known as the “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attack, on October 20. More.
"In an abrupt retreat Friday, the Pentagon revoked an order to war court judges to drop their other military duties and take up residence at this remote base until their cases are over. The 9/11 case judge swiftly responded by lifting a freeze on preparations for the terror trial of alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four accused accomplices.
They broke the FDNY gender barrier — but, for many, firefighting broke them. A startling 70 percent of female Bravest have retired from the FDNY on three-quarters disability pensions claiming injuries on the job, The Post has found. They include Brenda Berkman, who won a landmark lawsuit that forced the FDNY to hire its first 41 female firefighters in 1982.
One historian called her “the Jackie Robinson” of the department’s women. More.
As pressure builds to make public 28 pages of a joint congressional inquiry on 9/11 which was classified by President George W. Bush, the Bush family's well-documented relationships to Saudi and other foreign terror suspects are again coming to the fore.
Prominent in the rise of the political fortunes of both the 41st and 43rd presidents is the support of figures listed by the US government as terrorist financiers, as well as some connected to the now closed, Saudi-controlled criminal enterprise known as BCCI. More.
A retired city cop who developed fibromyalgia after being exposed to toxins after the World Trade Center attack won a five-year legal battle Tuesday for an enhanced disability pension.
The Appellate Division in Manhattan ruled that a fibromyalgia diagnosis qualifies as a “new onset” disease and entitles first responders who served at Ground Zero to a tax free accident disability pension unless officials can prove it’s not related. More.
More than a dozen Scarsdale Middle School students took a field trip today to learn the legacy of a Sept. 11 hero.
John C. Whitehead, a Wall Street banker who led Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s international expansion in the 1970s and '80s and later was founding chairman of the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum, died Saturday. He was 92.