Sudan secretly has worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq — an example of how the United States continues to cooperate with the regime even while condemning its killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur, the Los Angeles Times’ Greg Miller and Josh Meyer reveal. Paying tribute at Washington’s new memorial to victims of communism yesterday, President Bush linked the Cold War to the struggle against terrorism, Agence France-Presse reports.

Feebs: A $40 million jet the FBI originally sold to lawmakers as an essential tool for battling terrorism is now routinely used to ferry FBI chief Robert Mueller III to speeches, public appearances and field office visits, The Washington Post’s John Solomon finds — while The Washington Times’ Jerry Seper finds Mueller at a conference in Miami preaching the imminence of nuclear terror. “The FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells,” The Associated Press’ Michael J. Sniffen mentions.

Feds: A Senate Judiciary vote tomorrow will determine whether subpoenas will be issued to secure documents related to a domestic wiretapping program, The New York Times tells. Two years after the nation’s commando forces were given broad counterterror authority, they remain hampered by uncertainty over coordination, AP’s Richard Lardner and Anne Flahertyquote their new commander. “Bush has been stymied in his bid to supersede U.S. legal protections during the war on terror,” The Wall Street Journal’s Jess Bravin surveys.

Homies: A Dem plan to sharply boost the DHS budget ran into a stern White House veto promise Tuesday as House debate looms on the first of a dozen annual spending bills, AP says. When local agencies and groups asked for the names of Hurricane Wilma victims living in DHS trailers, FEMA insisted privacy laws forbade identifying the people who needed help, The Palm Beach Post recounts. The family of a mentally disabled man claims that DHS and Los Angeles County mistakenly had a U.S. citizen deported and says officials should help find him in Mexico, AP reports.

State and local: Pennsylvania will pay for security at the Flight 93 crash site to end a dispute over a donation box at the temporary 9/11 memorial, APrelates. Just half of the members of a registry tracking post-Sept. 11 health problems have filled out followup surveys a year after being asked to do so, AP also says. Post Virginia Tech, officials at Mississippi State University have developed a new comm program to notify campus dwellers of dangerous situations, The Jackson Clarion-Ledger relays. “You may want to know what the Steamship Authority is doing with $335,000 in Homeland Security money, but you don’t need to know. So they’re not going to tell you,” The Cape Cod Times leads.

Ivory (Watch) Towers: The FBI is warning the Boston area’s top universities to be on the lookout for foreign spies or potential terrorists trying to steal their research, The Boston Globe reports. The Homeland Security Academy launched in West Virginia last week is a milestone “in the implementation of a comprehensive DHS education and training system,” Government Executivequotes the department’s chief learning officer. A Potomac State College prof has been named to a coalition designed to coordinate West Virginia’s schools, businesses and officials in developing homeland projects, The Keyser Mineral Daily News notes. In a Washington State middle school drill last Friday, four armed terrorists took students and teachers hostage, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News notes. A Dover, N.H., martial arts school will award a free Family Ready Certificate to those completing a family “Ready” checklist and emergency plan, The Portsmouth Herald reports.

Coming and going: Amidst “fear that the ragtag collection of commercial trucks rumbling through the city each day could be instruments of terror,” the NYPD has stepped up inspections and introduced new technology, AP reports. A trio of National Guards on border duty in South Texas instead ran an immigrant smuggling operation, USA Today cites court records filed last week. Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, calls for the expansion of the Visa Waiver Program to improve homeland security and increase U.S. popularity in Eastern Europe, The Post Chronicle recounts. “Frustrated travelers who paid an extra $60 to get their U.S. passports expedited — and still had to wait for them — can now get a refund from the government,” AP adds. GOP Senators yesterday urged the president to ask for emergency funds to ramp up border enforcement, the Los Angeles Times tells.

Bugs ‘n bombs: “Unless we address these problems at their source, which is the poor countries, there are no walls high enough to protect the American people,” USA Today quotes a specialist on drug-resistant TB. States should have the power to quarantine patients with contagious diseases even before they have the chance to disobey doctors’ orders, AP quotes the CDC chief. Japanese researchers have developed a type of rice that can carry a vaccine for cholera, perhaps one day easing delivery of vaccines in developing countries, AP leads. The United States wants North Korea to account for some two dozen centrifuges purchased from a Pakistani nuke network as part of the stalled nuclear agreement, The Washington Times tells.

Boffins: The Pentagon confirms having considered, and rejected, a hormone-fueled “Gay Bomb” designed somehow to make enemy combatants more interested in same-sex loving than in fighting, Hank Plante reports for San Francisco’s CBS 5. The Army seeks an “accelerometer recorder” for soldiers’ brains to collect data gauging “acceleration shock during blast events,” i.e., “how much a bomb blast bangs someone’s head,” Danger Room’s Sharon Weinberger relays. As “the first high-tech nonlethal weapon to be used on a large scale,” the Taser remains the vanguard for such devices, its maker having beaten back the 45th lawsuit contending the perp-zapper is, in fact, lethal, Danger Room’s David Hambling surveys.

Bots and sniffers: The Army is developing a remote-controlled robot to rescue fallen soldiers without putting the lives of their comrades at risk, New Scientists’ Dawn Stover records. “Vanguard No.1,” a new battlebot unveiled by China, “can complete missions of battlefield reconnaissance, defuse bombs and attack targets,” China Daily boasts. No longer viewing fingerprints solely as an identity marker, “scientists have discovered how to coax details of an offender’s lifestyle and health from the prints he or she leaves,” The London Sunday Telegraph’s Richard Gray spotlights. “MIT researchers have created a molecule that glows a distinctive light-blue color in the presence of two common but difficult to detect explosives,” Technology Review’s Kevin Bullis recounts.

Cyberia: A New York solon urges federal authorities to work with Google to blur maps that detail sensitive areas like airports, chemical plants and such, NY1 notes. Now two years in service, a search engine is one of the NYPD’s most potent crime-fighting tools, The New York Times’ Thomas J. Lueck spotlights. “Evidence is mounting that cyberwarfare tactics are part of the 21st-century arsenals of powers like Russia and China, yet the U.S. has not made Internet defenses a major priority,” The Christian Science Monitor’s Ben Arnoldy and Gordon Lubold lead. Estonia is asking European Union justice ministers to consider cyberattacks as “acts of terror,” Agence France-Presse reports. As RFID burgeons as a security tool, “the shortage of skilled technology workers is lessening, but the lack of talent continues to impact deployment of the technology,” Technology News Daily quotes a new survey.

Courts and rights: Prosecutors played intercepted phone calls to Jose Padilla in court Tuesday in which he discussed plans to travel to Egypt, where he received training in Arabic, Miami’s NBC 6 says. With Trinidad’s most notorious Muslim leader back on trial, the judge has threatened contempt charges against anyone linking the JFK plot and Jamaat Al Muslimeen, The Miami Herald mentions. The terror tribunals betray “the principles of fairness that made the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg a judicial landmark,” The Australian quotes an American Nuremberg prosecutor.

Guantanamo Bay Watch: The Pentagon has transferred three suspected terrorists to the prison camp since March, despite the president’s statement about wanting to close the controversial facility, The Boston Globe points out. In the “legal netherworld” of Guantanamo, a young Yemeni, “once a cook for the Taliban in Afghanistan, remains stuck in a limbo of mistaken identities, bureaucratic inertia and official neglect,” the Post profiles. The U.S. military is probing how guards failed to prevent the apparent suicide of a detainee last month, AP adds.

Iranistan: “It is not inconceivable Iran would be looking at terrorist targets in the United States these days,” an ex-spook essays in Time Magazine — while AP has Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman plumping for a strike against Iran because of its role in Iraq (and see The New York Sun on dismay in the anti-Iraq war corner.) The Sioux City Journal then finds a Fox News general urging “targeted bombing of key Iran sites for 48 hours.” This sort of talk isn’t helping U.S.-Iranian tensions, The Christian Science Monitor surveys. “Why would majority Shiite Iran support a Sunni-led force [i.e. Afghanistan’s Taliban] it has opposed for more than a decade?” a CFR Backgrounder explores — while Asia Times suggests the linkage is merely a NATO gambit. NBC’s Today Show hosts an ex-Navy Seal who tells how following the rules of war got his comrades killed by the Taliban.

“Herd on the Street: “Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman told ‘Face The Nation’ the United States should bomb Iran because they continue to aid anti-American forces in Iraq. What do you think?” The Onion’s intrepid street photography asks a few of your neighbors. “Wow, my uneducated 12-year-old son said the same thing!” masseur Larry Higgins exclaims. “Lieberman should stop going on that show. Bob Schieffer must antagonize the hell out of him during commercial breaks, and that leads to dumbs*** comments like this,” furniture salesperson Wendy Scanlon admonishes. “If I didn’t know that was solid foreign policy, I’d swear it was incoherent mumbling!” pharmacist Charles Garvey admits. See, also, on The Spoof: “Cheney Voodoo Doll “Way Too Scary.”