Brian Bennett
Washington Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times
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Drones are taking to the skies in the U.S.
February 15, 2013 |By Brian Bennett and Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft heads out to aid in fighting a wildfire… (Jim Ross, NASA ) WASHINGTON — While a national debate has erupted over the Obama administration's lethal drone strikes overseas, federal ... Read more »
Al Qaeda bomb plot was foiled by double agent
“They don’t usually build just one; they build multiple.” (Rick Bowmer, Associated Press / May 8, 2012) By Ken Dilanian and Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The CIA takedown of an Al Qaeda plot to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner involved an international sting operation with a ... Read more »
FBI analyzing new aircraft explosive from Al Qaeda
By Ken Dilanian and Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The FBI is analyzing a sophisticated explosive device, similar to the underwear bomb used in an attempt to blow up a passenger jet over Detroit in 2009, that U.S. officials believe was built by Al Qaeda's affiliate in ... Read more »
Gang of Eight Senators Fine-tune Details of Immigration Reform Bill
To help us sort through the next steps, we're joined by Brian Bennett. He covers immigration for the Los Angeles Times. Brian, what was it that the bipartisan group has now agreed to and what are the issues that are still outstanding? BRIAN BENNETT, Los Angeles Times: So, the ... Read more »
Boston bombing suspects: 'I don't understand' Americans, one said
" Los Angeles Times staff writers Shashank Bengali, Brian Bennett, Melanie Mason, Laura Nelson, Richard A. Serrano and Richard Simon contributed to this report. Bengali, Bennett, Mason and Serrano reported from Washington. Nelson reported from Los Angeles. Simon reported from ... Read more »
Croatia rejects UEFA hooliganism warning
The senators hope to finish the bill and present it to the Senate Judiciary Committee by early April, the Los Angeles Times' Brian Bennett reports. Immigration advocates marveled to Bennett that only nine months ago, it would have been "nuts" to imagine a bipartisan deal on ... Read more »
Border Patrol struggles to measure what it can't see
(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times / April 30, 2013) By Richard Marosi and Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times SAN DIEGO — Kathy Gomez estimates that U.S. Border Patrol agents catch 75% of the migrants who try to run through the strawberry fields at her farm near the border with Tijuana. ... Read more »
Investigators cast wider net in Boston bombings
(FBI / April 16, 2013) By Brian Bennett, Kim Murphy and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The FBI has found female DNA on at least one of the two homemade bombs detonated during the Boston Marathon on April 15, complicating the task of identifying how and where the deadly ... Read more »
Immigration bill would be largest such effort ever attempted
(John Moore, Getty Images / April 11, 2013) By Brian Bennett and Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of eight senators is poised to offer a sweeping bill to rewrite the nation's immigration laws this week, taking advantage of a ... Read more »
Drones are taking to the skies in the U.S.
(Jim Ross, NASA / April 23, 2009) By Brian Bennett and Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — While a national debate has erupted over the Obama administration's lethal drone strikes overseas, federal authorities have stepped up efforts to license surveillance drones for law ... Read more »
Obama promises Newtown, Conn., he'll do more to protect children
A couple grieves at a memorial for those killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. (Genaro Molina, Los Angeles Times / December 15, 2012) By Tina Susman, Brian Bennett and Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times NEWTOWN, Conn. — Before a town devastated by a rampage ... Read more »
U.S. undertakes review of border officers' use of force
(Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times / September 19, 2007) By Richard Marosi and Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times U.S. Customs and Border Protection has launched what it calls a comprehensive review of its officers' use of force amid a sharp increase in fatal confrontations along the ... Read more »
Secret Service director says Colombia prostitution scandal was isolated incident
Mark Sullivan assures a Senate panel that there's no evidence of a wider culture of reckless partying and that President Obama's safety was not compromised. “This is not a systemic issue with us,” Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan assured the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental ... Read more »
Violence Against Women Act becomes latest immigration battleground
WASHINGTON -- The debate over updating a law that protects victims of domestic abuse has become the latest battleground over immigration policy. Republicans in Congress are proposing to strip away existing protections for immigrants who are the victims of domestic violence. The ... Read more »
International sting operation brought down underwear bomb plot
The successful blocking of an ambitious Al Qaeda plot to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner was an international sting operation worthy of Hollywood, with spies tricking terrorists into showing their cards. Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency, working closely with the CIA, used an informant to pose as a ... Read more »
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warns troops about misconduct
Images such as those of soldiers abusing corpses can damage U.S. standing and cost lives, he says at Ft. Benning, Ga. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta meets soldiers at Ft. Benning, Ga., aftar a speech appealing to troops to refrain from misconduct during combat deployments. (Mike Haskey... Read more »
Bin Laden worried about legacy and sought to kill Obama, papers show
In papers seized by Navy SEALs who killed him in a raid, Al Qaeda's leader fretted about the organization's failures and its loss of support among Muslims. A journalist in Washington looks at Osama bin Laden-related documents released by the Combating Terrorism Center. (Karen Bleier / AFP/Getty ... Read more »
Obama administration proposes changes to legal status applications
Los Angeles Times ^ | March 30, 2012 | Brian Bennett Reporting from Washington The Obama administration is proposing to make it easier for illegal immigrants who are family members of American citizens to apply for legal permanent residency. On Monday, the Department of Homeland ... Read more »
Lawmakers Debate Leaks As National Security Whistleblower Reveals His Identity
" Lisa Mascaro and Brian Bennett write for the Los Angeles Times about possible pitfalls for immigration reform. And David Drucker writes for the Washington Examiner that even though he opposes the bill, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, expects a civil floor debate and thinks the ... Read more »
Bipartisan Immigration Plan Tweaked on Border Security
Brian Bennett of the Los Angeles Times said the bipartisan group wrote the measure to include "what they consider to be a strong border security package that has to go into place within 10 years for any of the people who are legalized to be able to become citizens. " That comes with a ... Read more »
