From The Hill: House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) says that the attack in Paris on Wednesday highlights the need to keep the Department of Homeland Security open through the battle over immigration. Republicans are in the midst of figuring out a strategy to fight President Obama’s executive action on immigration. Under the […]
From Bloomberg: Paris was put on the highest terrorist alert after France’s worst attack in decades killed at least 12 people in shootings at the office of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in the city’s east. Four more victims are in critical condition and an additional 20 were injured, police said.
From HSToday: In late December, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the first installment in a series of videos about security awareness titled, “Combating Spy Airplanes”…Indeed, intelligence and Al Qaeda’s own disclosures clearly show they are devoting considerable time and resources toward developing a variety of countermeasures against drones, especially US Reapers that […]
From WTOP: Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is warning Americans that they’ve been working long and hard on a new tool to attack the U.S. In the latest issue of the terror group’s Inspire electronic magazine, an individual called the AQ Chef was quoted as saying they developed a bomb in 2009, but “the brothers […]
From Politico: President Barack Obama’s immigration allies have a message for Republicans eager for a fight over Department of Homeland Security funding: Bring it on. Republicans voted during the lame-duck session to fund the agency only through the end of February, punting a fight over Obama’s executive actions on immigration into the new year when […]
From Politico: Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has withdrawn from consideration in the fits-and-starts search for a new defense secretary, according to a report Monday, making him the latest leading candidate to pass on the opportunity to run the Pentagon under President Barack Obama. Johnson has told the White House that he prefers to stay […]
From HSToday: The House Monday overwhelmingly passed legislation that would strengthen the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, secure critical infrastructure against the threat of electromagnetic pulses and authorize the use of DHS grants to collaborate with national laboratories. The Strengthening Domestic Nuclear Security Act (HR 5629), by a vote of 374-11, […]
From The Wall Street Journal: Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson defends the administration’s executive action on immigration as “simple common sense” and says he personally recommended each of the policies that impact his department—which is to say, the heart of the controversial policy announced last month by President Barack Obama. In testimony prepared for the […]
From The New York Times: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama’s Democratic majority in the Senate and a beleaguered national security team that has struggled to stay ahead of an onslaught of global crises. The president, who is expected to announce Mr. […]
From HSToday: The suspected involvement of a British and French jihadist in another barbaric video of an American beheaded at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (IS) attests not only to the brutality of IS terrorists, but also heightens fears over the possibility of Western jihadists traveling back home to […]
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