Pittsburgh will host the G20 Summit in September; only by realizing that policing, reporting and protesting itself is not a zero-sum game can the City of Pittsburgh realise the opportunities the G20 presents. If the police understand the participants and media and work with them, then the protests and reporting can be effective, while those who have ill-intent can be targeted and punished.
By Stephanie Rowe
TSA’s Secure Flight program began operations in January and continues to gain momentum. It will provide better security for the traveling public and a smoother boarding process for passengers that have names similar to those on the government watch lists.
In his forthcoming book former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warns about the U.S. becoming complacent and returning to a September 10 mindset, but he is equally cautionary about going too far in the other direction.
Almost everyone involved in national security affairs, within and outside the government, talks about the threat that Iran poses to U.S. interests in the Middle East. Given this view of the Iranian threat and Iranian’s unabated belligerent behavior, national security policymakers and opinion makers in the United States almost unanimously agree that the past policies of sanction regimes and containment employed by successive U.S. Administrations since 1979 have failed to produce the change in Iranian policies and attitudes towards the United States and the region.
Security Debrief contributor Randy Beardsworth discusses his role in helping merge the Homeland Security Council with the National Security Council as the new Administrations works to create a more holistic national security infrastructure.
Residents and businesses shouldn’t be nervous as the June 1 Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative implementation nears. The changes will ease border crossings while also securing our borders.
Security Debrief Contributor and former Chief of Operations at the DEA, Michael Braun, recently took part in the New York Time’s online “Freakonomics Blog” where he was asked, “What Would Happen if Marijuana Were Decriminalized?”
David Heyman will make an excellent DHS Assistant Secretary of Policy. The problem is that he’s in the wrong job — instead of assistant secretary of policy, a Department the size and scope of DHS needs an Undersecretary of Policy.
Today, it is the privacy groups who are playing the role of conservatives, attempting to roll back the tide of technological and social change. They won’t like being called conservative, but that truly is what they are – reactionaries hoping to stop the tide of history, much like King Canute. Today, they are fighting the social change generated by September 11 and the technological changes produced by American companies.
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