Surveillance was performed by putting people on the street and watching from parked cars and vans disguised at Bell Telephone service vehicles with portholes cut out for still cameras.

The Federal Communications Commission launched the Text-to-911 program, allowing certain counties in 16 states to accept text messages as an alternative to placing a voice call when reporting an emergency.

The head of security for the company that manages the 1 World Trade Center building has resigned from his post.

A House lawmaker wants to make sure that planes carry flight recorders that eject before crashes so they are easier to find.

The 111-lb. metal artifact from the World Trade Center became part of a permanent memorial at the entrance to NCS4 at the Trent Lott National Center in Hattiesburg, Miss. on September 11, 2013. 

Seventy-five percent of Americans agreed with the statement “occasional acts of terrorism in the U.S. will be part of life in the future,” according to an April survey conducted after the Boston Marathon bombing.

Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who blew the lid off of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs, has released the U.S. intelligence community’s classified “black budget” for fiscal year 2013.

The majority of Americans worry that the U.S. will go too far in violating privacy rights through NSA surveillance. 

New TSA historian Michael Smith has worked for two years to compile artifacts and oral histories pertaining to the origin, history and mission of the Transportation Security Administration.