From The Washington Post: Much of the public discourse in Washington in recent weeks has focused on possible new threats to the U.S. homeland from the Islamic State and other extremist groups. But Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says he is even more concerned about a danger that has been around for years, since even […]
From The Boston Globe: The announcement Wednesday that Secret Service Director Julia Pierson had resigned her post and that the Department of Homeland Security will conduct an investigation of the service shows that problems within the agency are being taken seriously. But the review shouldn’t just result in further layers of security around the White […]
From The Washington Post: A security contractor with a gun and three convictions for assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with President Obama during a Sept. 16 trip to Atlanta, violating Secret Service protocols, according to three people familiar with the incident. Obama was not told about the lapse in his security, these […]
From The Daily Beast: The announcement that a case of Ebola virus has been diagnosed in a Dallas hospital sent a chill through the medical, public health, and basic citizen communities. I know my jaw surely dropped as far as it has dropped since 2001, when the word of the first anthrax case in New […]
From Roll Call: Customs and Border Protection drones operated along U.S. borders and coasts 80 percent of the time over the last three years — but strayed 20 percent of the time into restricted airspace due to things like malfunctions, or else entered into Federal Aviation Administration-approved airspace for things like disaster missions. That’s according […]
From Venture Beat: Disgruntled ex-IT employees are now considered national security threats. The FBI and that paragon of government bloat, the Department of Homeland Security, assert that IT employees who have been shown the door and who retain passwords to company systems can do serious damage. Havoc, in fact, that can impact the entire American […]
From The Huffington Post: Members of Congress may have helped create the nightmare that is flying in America after Sept. 11, but they no longer have to endure it. Under a special Transportation Security Administration “whitelist,” lawmakers and other government officials breeze past airport security. The TSA claims it’s all about efficiency — but critics […]
From Reuters: U.S. security agencies issued an intelligence bulletin on Tuesday about threats from Syria-based al Qaeda operatives, a Homeland Security spokeswoman said. The Department of Homeland Security and FBI alerted state, local and federal law enforcement to the latest threats, said to DHS spokeswoman Marsha Catron.
From The Washington Post: More than a decade after DHS was created in the wake of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, it is faced with high turnover and low morale. That has led some in homeland security circles to question the idea of a single department — composed of autonomous agencies with clashing work […]
From HSToday: After conducting a review of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) management of its advanced imaging technology, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a report indicating TSA and Rapiscan Systems may not have sanitized sensitive security information from one unit’s computer system prior to donating it to a […]
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