CQ Politics | Balance of Power – A Stumble on the Road to More Open Intelligence Briefings For a president who promised to create “a new era of openness,” Barack Obama sure is putting up a fight against a House proposal to open up intelligence briefings to lawmakers. But his veto threat against the bill […]
Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its most Orwellian pronouncement yet. They plan to rollback responsible, reasonable workplace verification rules and replace them with unworkable, intrusive, expensive and likely no more effective verification rules.
Letter by six House Dems claims Panetta admits the CIA misled Congress – Alex Isenstadt – POLITICO.com A letter released late Wednesday by six Democratic House members claims that Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta testified that “top CIA officials have concealed significant actions… and misled” members of Congress since 2001 — a claim the […]
Just recently, the DEA put more agents on the ground in war zones to crack down on the funneling of drug money to key terrorist operatives.
Recently, I spoke with Francis Rose on Federal News Radio’s In Depth With Francis Rose, to discuss TSA’s new use of millimeter wave technology for the American rail system. Millimeter wave technology is a creative solution to keeping people safe with little to no distruption to travelers.
In retirement, I can still refer to “The War on Drugs” as “The War on Drugs,” a phrase not popular with the current administration. Despite what you want to call it, this administration made progress last week in narcotics enforcement when an inter-agency agreement was signed between the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security to substantially increase the number of ICE Special Agents with Title 21 authority.
Homeland Security Today – preparedness and security news – DHS Records on Right-Wing Report Denied Under FOIA Indicate Civil Rights Issues 734 pages related to civil rights office objections declared exempt Descriptions of some of these documents that DHS deemed exempt from public disclosure under the FOIA imply that concerns that were raised by the […]
Ramifications of a Possibly Armed Muslim Brotherhood :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism An Egyptian newspaper claims the Muslim Brotherhood may have constituted a large, well-armed wing, with perhaps thousands of operatives, and its purpose is to engage in terrorist operations. The report, published May 27 in Egypt’s Al-Masry Al-Youm, carried the headline, “Why is […]
CQ Politics | SpyTalk – Should the CIA Meddle in Iran Now? A half century ago the CIA could bring down an Iranian prime minister with a few rent-a-crowds, well placed payments to key generals and a pliable replacement. Could it do the same today? Not likely, but events in Iran have often contradicted the […]
Ted Alden of the Council on Foreign Relations offers an excellent analysis of what’s wrong with our immigration process – or at least, one of the things that is wrong with our broken immigration process. In a nutshell, his is an argument – a desperate plea really – for a return to risk-based security procedures that use intelligence and information to prioritize threats rather than the hopelessly ineffective but increasingly popular notion on Capitol Hill that we can prevent 100 percent of all threats we may face.
Sponsored by:
