Today’s USA Today features a compelling video on the Port of Savannah. This port, like many ports in America is suffering tremendously from the economic slump. Given these challenges to America’s ports, it seems illogical to implement the 100 percent scanning mandate.
It wasn’t surprising to hear that in a recent discussion with Mexico our government accepted some responsibility for aiding Mexican drug cartels by way of demand for drugs and gun smuggling. Are we employing the correct risk management tools to efficiently and effectively use the resources we have? Are we using a risk management analysis that includes guilt and shame instead of objective factors?
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.
The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S. – Presidential Politics | Political News – FOXNews.com While 90 percent of the guns traced to the U.S. actually originated in the United States, the percent traced to the U.S. is only about 17 percent of the total number […]
Today’s House Homeland Security Appropriations subcommittee hearing on “Priorities Enforcing Immigration Law” got off to a delayed and roaring thud. ICE Director of Investigations Marcy Foreman was unequivocal in her response to Rogers. Contrary to a statement in a Washington Post story, Foreman stated that ICE has not received any instructions from DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano about a change in policy in enforcing immigration laws.
DHS official: Cargo mandate should be reconsidered (4/1/09) — www.GovernmentExecutive.com A senior Homeland Security Department official told lawmakers on Wednesday it is time for Congress to reconsider a legal mandate created by Democratic lawmakers that requires all cargo containers to be scanned for weapons of mass destruction at foreign ports before they are shipped to […]
The word “intelligence” can have multiple meanings. If you were watching last week’s hearing (March 18, 2009) – “Homeland Security Intelligence: Its Relevance and Limitations,” held before the House Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment you will understand the word much better, especially in terms that Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) described as “what we want and what we don’t want.”
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.
Homeland Security chief defines ‘trigger point’ for border response (3/20/09) — www.GovernmentExecutive.com The federal government will send additional material resources and personnel to the nation’s southwest border if drug cartels in Mexico begin targeting U.S. law enforcement and public officials, or if there is a significant increase in violence and crime among competing cartels in […]
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, […]
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