Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he is worried lawmakers’ opposition to bringing terrorist suspects held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to U.S. prisons could hurt the effort to close the detention center.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Tuesday that an alleged hydrogen peroxide bomb threat was “very serious” and “could have resulted in the loss of American lives.”
Holden unveils its US cop car Holden has taken the covers off a purpose-built police car it hopes could lead to a billion-dollar export business in the United States. Company executives revealed the Australian-built Chevrolet police car, based on the long wheelbase Holden Statesman/Caprice, at the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police convention in […]
The Department of Homeland Security is looking to hire 1,000 cybersecurity professionals in the next three years according to the agency’s secretary Janet Napolitano.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has made little progress on an emergency-alert system despite a 2006 executive order that called for improvements in the system in light of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, congressional investigators said Wednesday.
Registered Traveler could be making a comeback. Henry Inc., an investment firm, says it signed an agreement to buy some assets of Verified Identity Pass and restart the service, which gives customers front-of-the-line privileges at airport security checkpoints for about $200 a year.
The Homeland Security Department has identified about 3,200 contractor jobs that will be converted to federal positions, a senior acquisition official said on Monday.
A small vessel, such as a commercial fishing vessel or recreational boat, can be used as a waterborne improvised explosive device, as a platform for conducting an attack, or to smuggle weapons or terrorists into the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General recently released a report on DHS’ strategy to address small boat threats in U.S. waters. The threat of a small boat attack in the U.S is real and DHS leadership knows that understanding and control of small boat activity in and around the U.S. is key to addressing the small boat terrorism threat.
Behind the scenes, system sniffs for biological attacks – USATODAY.com Today, eight years after the anthrax attacks, the system Slezak’s research team started, known as BioWatch, is quietly operating in more than 30 cities. A federally funded, locally run program with an $80 million annual budget, it depends on a network of vacuum pumps that […]
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