BEHIND THE LINES: Our Take on the Other Media's Homeland Security Coverage

The White House boasted yesterday of “building a culture of preparedness” with its new homeland strategy just as The Washington Post reported that administration leakage mooted a private firm’s years-long counter-jihadi surveillance op, The Chicago Tribune’s Mark Silva blogs. (The administration yesterday denied the loose-lips accusation, Reuters mentions — while the Post, again, has U.S. intel officials promising to probe the allegation.) The new homeland document, meanwhile, also “warns that help from U.S. allies and the public is needed to thwart an attack on American soil that is being planned by a reconstituted al Qaeda,” the Los Angeles Times’Josh Meyer adds.