Jim Kouri

Jim Kouri, CPP, is founder and CEO of Kouri Associates, a homeland security, public safety and political consulting firm. He's formerly Fifth Vice-President, now a Board Member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, an editor for ConservativeBase.com, a columnist for Examiner.com, a contributor to KGAB radio news, and news director for NewswithViews.com.

He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at St. Peter's University and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.

Kouri appears regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc.

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Project Gunrunner’s objective was to deny Mexican drug cartels the tools of the trade

Boko Haram: translated: "Western or non-Islamic education is a sin"

Iran's ultimate goal is the takeover of the fledgling democracy, and replacing Iraq's duly elected government and its constitution with an Islamist regime and Sharia

Group of U.S. Senators is asking the Obama Administration to stop ignoring local ordinances that undermine federal laws by offering undocumented aliens sanctuary

Iran will retaliate if the United States attacks it

Hezbollah Member of the Lebanese Parliament, Hassan Fadlallah

FBI’s international law enforcement activities

The U.S. should understand that a war against Iran and Syria will not remain in the Iranian and Syrian territories, but it will engulf the whole region

Corporate security industry, Chinese-owned telecommunications companies working within the United States

Former Fox News Channel Middle East analyst, businessman Mansoor Ijaz

Hezbollah's "Martyr's Day," the group's secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah

U.S. intelligence analysts believe Iran's ultimate goal is the takeover of the fledgling democracy, and replacing Iraq's duly elected government and its constitution with an Islamist regime and Sharia law

News of the joint drill came amid recent local media reports that Israel is planning to strike Iran's nuclear facilities in the near future

1990's Redux?

Free Gaza

South Carolina now joins Arizona and Alabama in being civilly prosecuted for attempting to halt the flow of illegal aliens into the state.

If President Barack Obama wins re-election in 2012 look for him and his ideological Attorney General, Eric Holder, to push for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention center

Close connection between terrorism and organized crime, trafficking illicit drugs, money-laundering, illegal arms trafficking, illegal movement of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly material

Cyberspace is growing in strategic importance as other nations increase their capabilities

Unmanned drones

Bachmann's speech against drug gangs was echoed by Republican candidate Rick Perry, who said narco-terrorists represent a “clear” and “imminent” danger to the United States

The Obama administration continues to inflate its deportation numbers. The administration includes voluntary removals in its deportation statistics

The GAO report suggested that anti-WMD policy did not sit high on Holder's "to do" list.

Drug trafficking and drug trafficking networks, crime networks

Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri

Operation Fast and Furious

Obama's green energy subsidy experiment has done little to create jobs or speed recovery. In fact, by many measures, it has destroyed jobs

Crime scene protection is fundamental to a criminal investigation and must be initiated by the first officer to arrive on the scene.

Violence against women

Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales, she called Operation Fast and Furious “an attack on Mexicans’ security.”