Homeland Security Today – news and analysis – DHS Sees Growing Role for Biometrics DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Kathleen Kraninger outlines critical place of biometrics in DHS initiatives. In the period shortly following Sept. 11, 2001, biometrics, the science and technology of verifying unique identity by biological traits, quickly attained a high profile, […]
Several days ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spoke at a town hall-type meeting at St. Anthony’s Church in San Francisco, CA. In addressing the assembled crowd, which news coverage described as being filled with both legal and illegal immigrants, the Speaker described the raids that have been conducted on homes and businesses where illegal-immigrants are located as “un-American.” I always thought the answer to that question was the ‘rule of law’ but apparently if I agree with enforcing existing laws, I am, in the words of Speaker Pelosi, “un-American.”
Security Debrief contributor, Ellen Howe, spoke with Randy Larsen and David McIntyre of Homeland Security: Inside & Out, about the need for human intelligence in the fight against explosives in airports.
Security Debrief Editor Chris Battle talks with Tickle The Wire, an online publication dedicated to federal law-enforcement issues, about the growing use of social media among law enforcement outlets. “When you care about targeting an audience, it doesn’t get any more targeted than this,” Battle says of social network audiences.
Given backscatter technology’s proven track record in detecting potential threats, why has TSA chosen not to deploy it at U.S. airports, along side millimeter wave – thereby introducing competition to the procurement process and the “random factor” that TSA talks so much about. Simply put – because it didn’t focus group well enough for TSA.
Hearing topics include the congressional mandates to screen 100 percent of air cargo; Human trafficking; FEMA preparedness and response; and DHS intelligence infrastructure.
Over this past weekend I was pleased to be asked to participate in a first-of-its-kind exercise. The Summit County Utah Health Department’s Emergency Response Coordinator / Public Information Officer, working with state and local partners and Zions Bank, had designed and built an exercise to test a new method of dispensing emergency medications in the event of a major disease outbreak. The idea was simple and resourceful: can drive-thru tellers at local banks be used as a safe and rapid means of delivering medications to the local population?
Napolitano backs fusion centers — Federal Computer Week Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said March 11 that state and local intelligence fusion centers are important to her department’s information-sharing efforts. She made the remarks before the National Fusion Center Conference in Kansas City. “At the Department of Homeland Security, information and intelligence sharing is a […]
Let’s put aside Charles Freeman’s previous in-your-face assertions denouncing Israel’s policies as “high handed,” “self-defeating,” and “inherently violent.” What’s more telling is that he seems surprised that such public statements would not provoke equally in-your-face responses, and that they would come back to bite him, as they have done in the current controversy over his appointment. He was surprised? Really? And we were thinking of appointing him as one of our Intelligence Czars? What were we thinking?
With Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Bush Administration drastically transformed the Middle East and dramatically altered the balance of power in that region. Unfortunately, instead of quickly reassessing the new dynamics on the ground and developing a new and more appropriate prism for viewing the region, the Bush Administration pursued the same old policies of the past and continued to view the region through the same old prism. As a result, the Bush Administration failed miserably in reaping the benefits of the Operation’s potential strategic gains for the United States and it suffered major regional setbacks.
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