Terrorism is scary - that's how it works. It aims to cause political change by creating public fear; and for so long as there are extremist groups that see terrorism as an effective way to promote their cause, it will remain a feature of our lives. But the less terrorism succeeds in achieving its objective, the less attractive it will become as a political tool. No effort, however large, can hope to eliminate terrorism altogether, as the attacks in Boston have shown, so we should do more to undermine its impact by finding ways to reduce public fear and moderate the political response.

Bill Maher discusses The Boston Marathon Bombing and Counterterrorism with Don Borelli.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly told interrogators from his hospital bed that he and his brother Tamerlan were driven to bomb the Boston Marathon by hardline Islamist views and anger over the United States wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also allegedly said they were self-trained and self-indoctrinated.If the Tsarnaev brothers in fact trained themselves in terror, it would put them in an extremely rare breed of extremists. Al Qaeda expert Richard Barrett explains why. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly told interrogators from his hospital bed that he and...

NEW YORK - Fed up with a decade of the police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to the police with their concerns about terrorism, a campaign that is certain to further strain relations between the two groups.

National security agencies are warning businesses and federal officials that laptops and e-mail devices taken to the Beijing Olympics are likely to be penetrated by Chinese agents aiming to steal secrets or plant bugs to infiltrate U.S. computer networks. Travelers returning from the games also should have their equipment checked for bugs or viruses before reconnecting to U.S. computer networks, says Ray Mey, who ran Olympics security at the FBI before ...

A security camera at a Boylston St. store taped a suspect planting a bag with a homemade bomb near the finish line, officials said Wednesday. "They're going to go in and uncover or retrieve the explosive components, the detonator, the wiring, the explosive material, the packaging, everything down to the masking tape," said ex-FBI agent James McGee...

BOSTON - Moments after investigators went before television cameras to broadcast photos of two men in ball caps wanted for the Boston Marathon bombing, queries from viewers started cascading in - 300,000 hits a minute that overwhelmed the FBI's website.

As the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings continues, the White House on Monday defended the FBI's 2011 inquiry of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the case.

Robert McFadden spoke with host, Robert Siegel. The Massachusetts state police held a press conference on the latest developments in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.

Robert McFadden, senior VP at The Soufan Group, talks with Tom Keene about the transfer of information from foreign countries on potential terror suspects in the United States. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance."