Administration Quietly Campaigning for Anti-Terrorism Provisions: CQ Homeland Security The Obama administration is pressuring lawmakers, both publicly and privately, to renew expiring provisions of the anti- terrorism law known as the Patriot Act with as few changes as possible. The Justice Department has nodded to civil libertarians’ concerns about the law’s broad reach with vague […]
Melissa Hathaway finally speaks out about her previous role in two administrations in building a national cybersecurity strategy. She commendably declines to criticize her previous bosses and insists the Obama Administration understands the urgency of cybersecurity. Is she being too kind? The cybersecurity realm is desperate for leadership — and progress.
This week has been a telling one for those of us who follow border security closely. Congress and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have made a series of bold moves that arguably make our borders less secure. At the same time, the changes will be hailed by some as overdue upgrades to a flawed border management policy that built fences between neighbors and sought to imprison illegal aliens for ‘just’ entering the country.
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Lawmaker urges Obama to appoint cybersecurity coordinator — Federal Computer Week The chairwoman of a House subcommittee that oversees cybersecurity today called on President Barack Obama to quickly appoint a cybersecurity coordinator. Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) said it was important to have a cybersecurity official in the White House with access to the president to […]
While Melissa Hathaway has left her government position, she certainly has not left the fight to secure America’s interests in cybersecurity.
President Barack Obama’s order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by January faces snags in Congress that some of the president’s supporters say result from a lack of White House muscle.
When Pittsburgh police ordered an Oakland crowd to disperse hours after the Sept. 25 end of the G-20 summit and then arrested scores of people, they marched down a path that has led other cities into lawsuits and seven-figure settlements.
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) public-facing websites present a highly accessible point of entry and attack to its information resources, according to an Office of Inspector General report released last Thursday.
Eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the front line in America’s war on terrorism runs through a little-known federal laboratory where engineer Nelson Carey holds what appears to be a bratwurst in a bun.
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