Lance further chronicled the Fitzgerald censorship controversy and tied it into his investigation of the FBI's counterterrorism failures in "The Chilling Effect", a June 2009 article published in "Playboy". In 2010, Lance was contacted by Emad Salem, the ex-Egyptian army officer who had infiltrated the cell around blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspiracy. Lance worked with Salem and ex-NYPD homicide detective James Moss to solve the homicide case of Mustafa Shalabi, who was killed by al-Qaeda operatives in 1992. Lance's investigative reporting into the WTC bombing and Shalabi was published in "The Spy Who Came In for the Heat", an article for the August 2010 issue of "Playboy", recapping his findings on the television show "Morning Joe". Lance expanded his reporting in "First Blood", another investigative piece published in "Tablet Magazine." In that story Lance revealed new evidence of a second gunman in the 1991 assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane. Lance offered proof that El Sayyid Nosair, the convicted killer of Kahane, also intended to murder former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a revelation that made page-one news in "The Jerusalem Post". In "The Private War of Anthony Shaffer", published in "Playboy", January, 2011, Lance detailed how The Pentagon censored "Operation Dark Heart", the Afghan war memoir by Bronze Star recipient Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer (intelligence officer). In Lance's book "Triple Cross", Lance writes of Lt. Col. Shaffer's involvement in Operation Able Danger, a secret data-mining operation run from 1998-1999 that uncovered evidence that Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the 9/11 plot, had been on the DOD's radar months prior to when the 9/11 Commission claimed he'd entered the U.S.  Lance's research into the FBI and its close relations with Mafia informants began at ABC News "Nightline," and was further informed by the nonfiction bestseller, "Murder, Inc. The Story of the Syndicate" by Brooklyn Assistant D.A. Burton Turkus and Sid Feder, first published in 1951. "Murder, Inc." is a true account of the prosecution by Turkus of the organized crime syndicate "killing machine" known as "Murder, Inc.". In 2012, Lance's imprint, Tenacity Media Books republished "Murder, Inc." In the forward to that book Lance discusses how his examination of the FBI's counter-terrorism investigations led him to discover an extraordinary link between the FBI and a 1996 Bureau sting of an al Qaeda terrorist, in Federal jail in Lower Manhattan, conducted with the help of a captain in the Colombo crime family:  In the course of my research I uncovered dozens of FBI 302 memos documenting a sting by Greg Scarpa Jr. that was authorized by the FBI in which the mobster intercepted a series of notes from Yousef (al Qaeda terrorist and World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef) including threats to hijack planes and plant bombs on US airliners so that he could achieve a mistrial in the prosecution of the "Bojinka" plot which the feds decided to try first in the summer of 1996.