A riot is not a riot because the media says so, and a crowd is not well controlled because the media say so. However, those distinctions look awfully thin when the bank or the local PD are being roundly criticised for being unable to handle a protest that gets out of hand, particularly if it was mishandled and the police either were, or were not but allow themselves to be portrayed as, an incendiary rather than de-escalatory influence.
Recently, the TSA has begun the initial launch of Secure Flight which gives the agency the ability to mitigate risk in a significant way. Authorities have known since then that checking passenger behaviors and backgrounds is an important key in defeating the terrorists.
Color him flabbergasted. CQ Homeland Security reports that Harold Rogers of Kentucky, the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, is disturbed that ICE is not only releasing illegal workers arrested during worksite enforcement raids but also giving them permission to return to work. And he plans to do some raiding of his own today when senior ICE officials come before his committee. “They better come well-armed,” he warns.
HS Today interviews Catalyst Partners’ Dave McWhorter about the progress that the Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technology (SAFETY) Act has made since its enactment in 2003.
Security Debrief contributor Scott Borgerson has been busy recently informing Congress and readers of the New York Times about the effects of global warming on foreign affairs and homeland security.
The first phase of the G20 protests passed off peacefully on Saturday, not least because the organisers, the British Trade Unions Council (TUC), does not permit violence or anarchy in any form. In their desire to have their message heard in a manner that is respectful of others, they do not block major arterial routes, they hold their protests in very visible areas that do not interfere with the activities of others, and they actively disavow violence, tasking the police to effect arrests of groups that gather with the clear intention of violence.
Security Debrief contributor Ellen Howe spoke with Francis Rose at Federal News Radio’s In Depth about Web 2.0 use in the federal government.
Cops do not write the laws. They are hired and trained to enforce what politicians have written and passed to protect the country. The agents liking or disliking a law is not relevant, their only job is to enforce them. Clearly writing a law and then criticizing those that enforce them only brings new meaning to the word hypocrite.
The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 mandates the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a system to physically screen 50 percent of cargo transported on passenger aircraft by February 2009 and 100 percent of such cargo by August 2010. This testimony provides preliminary observations on the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) progress in meeting the mandate to screen cargo on passenger aircraft and the challenges TSA and industry stakeholders may face in screening such cargo.
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