From The Hill: The chances of a shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security are growing by the day, with congressional leaders at a stalemate over legislation that would provide funding after Feb. 27. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson has warned that a lapse in funding would cause a “terrible disruption,” while White House officials have […]
From USA Today: Mohamed Ahmed, a gas station manager who moonlights as an anti-terror propagandist, is ready to launch another strike against Islamic State terrorists. He’s just waiting for his tax refund to do it. Frustrated by a slick social media campaign on the Internet by the Islamic State that authorities say has helped lure […]
From The New York Times: The New York Police Department will soon have two new groupings of officers: a heavily armed unit given the task of combating terrorism, and a mobile unit trained to handle more common events, like protests and neighborhood crime spikes. The deployment changes that the police commissioner, William J. Bratton, outlined […]
From The Hill: The House on Monday passed legislation to enhance social media and internal communications practices at the Department of Homeland Security. One measure, H.R. 623, passed 328-51, would authorize an existing working group overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide guidance on the use of social media during and after […]
From HSToday: Last week the FBI added a 29-year old former taxi driver from the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC to its list of Most-Wanted terrorists for being a recruiter for the Somali-based Al Shabaab terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda. Liban Haji Mohamed, a naturalized US citizen born in Somalia, was charged with […]
From The Hill: Cybersecurity funding got a near $1 billion increase in the White House’s fiscal 2016 budget. The administration’s proposal earmarks $14 billion to support governmentwide efforts to defend the country against cyberattacks. For the past several years, White House budgets have kept cyber spending around $13 billion. The 2016 budget also sets aside […]
From Reuters: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he wanted to debate the possibility of Japan’s military rescuing Japanese citizens abroad, a day after Islamic State militants said they had beheaded a Japanese journalist…Abe reiterated his denunciation of the militants and said Japan was firmly committed to fulfilling its responsibility as a member […]
From Defense One: Senate Republicans promised to take up funding the Homeland Security Department next week, but the path to reach a passable appropriations measure remains unclear with less than one month until the agency will be forced to shut down…If Congress fails to do so by the end of February, very little of DHS […]
From The University of Southern California: The USC Price School of Public Policy offered a timely and insightful discussion on the Paris massacre and its implications for the United States at a Jan. 21 event featuring noted homeland security expert Erroll Southers and Professor Raphael Bostic. Southers, the director of transition and research deployment for […]
From The Wall Street Journal: The New York Police Department will create a unit of 350 specially trained officers dedicated to counterterrorism efforts across the city, Commissioner William Bratton said Thursday. Mr. Bratton also announced an effort to ramp up neighborhood policing by requiring that officers from the city’s 77 precincts spend more time in […]
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