After a thorough and time-consuming analysis, the FBI has confirmed what many of us were not wondering: none of the 60,000 Ground Zero workers eligible for Federal aid are currently on a terrorist watch list. Not one! The FBI was required to check all the names due to a stipulation in the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. Rep. Cliff Stearns (R., Fla.) voted to pass the bill only on the condition that the FBI run background checks on anyone who might be getting compensation. If you think it was a pointless waste of time, you're not alone. more ›

Mayor Bloomberg made his way to Washington D.C. yesterday to demand that Congress close the "terror gap" that allows individuals on the terrorist watch list to buy guns. He said, "Shouldn't FBI agents have the authority to block sales of guns and explosives to those on the terror watchlists -- and deemed too dangerous to fly? I actually believe that they should," and referred to the Times Square car bombing attempt. more ›

The Turkish immigrant who used comped chips to cheat casinos nationwide has landed on Homeland Security's terrorist watch list. Seyit Ibrahim Yel used the name Mustafa Seda as an alias in the states, and the FBI began tracking him after the real Mustafa Seda sold Yel his ID. Yel used the fake identity to scam American casinos out of over $500,000, and recently escaped to Abu Dhabi. Though he was arrested for stealing gasoline, a judge didn't hold him without bail because arrest warrants were under the name Mustafa Seda. more ›

A Canadian woman in a custody battle in her home country tried to pull the ultimate trump card in the fight for her children: submitting documents that their father was on a terrorist watch list here in the US. What she didn't think of was that authorities might be curious to know just where she got the terrorist list she presented from. It also might have helped if she had double-checked that her friend who had passed along that information from the National Crime Information Center computers actually had proper access to it in the first place. Instead federal authorities have arrested her friend, Haytham Khalil--an eight-year NYPD vet--for hacking into e-Justice, the state database where he illegally obtained the terrorist list. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police tipped off the NYPD who then traced the computer Khalil had used. Khalil got into to the list by asking a departing officer who had access to it for his password. That officer was not named but has been disciplined, but Khalil was suspended without pay and faces a fine of up to $100,000. more ›