There is always a danger whenever you put something in writing – your words may come back and haunt you or be used against you. Such was the case of Bruce Fein, one of the witnesses at today’s hearing, “The Future of Fusion Centers: Potential Promise and Dangers” before the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment.
Homeland Security shifts focus to employers – Los Angeles Times Stepping into the political minefield of immigration reform, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano soon will direct federal agents to focus more on arresting and prosecuting American employers than the illegal laborers who sneak into the country to work for them, department officials said Monday. The […]
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.”
Quite frankly, I don’t believe that there are many US police forces that are truly ready to police crowds in a manner that is constitutionally, morally, and even legally compliant. By failing on any of these a department faces litigation and worse. I hope that I am wrong, but I am convinced that I am not.
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, […]
A Quiet Revolution Grows in the Muslim World – TIME Disillusioned with extremists who can destroy but who fail to construct alternatives that improve daily life, members of the post-9/11 generation are increasingly relying on Islamic values rather than on a religion-based ideology to advance their aims. And importantly, the soft revolution has generated a […]
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CQ Homeland Security follows up on Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling ICE agents “un-American” for doing worksite enforcement operations.
What’s with members of Congress beating up on the front line officer’s of the Department of Homeland security in recent days? Yesterday contributor Chris Battle wrote about Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s tirade against ICE agents on this blog, and this morning the Washington Post details Rep. Pete DeFazio’s impatience with transportation security officers in Portland, Ore. and just last week it was Senator David Vitter’s antics at Dulles that made the papers.
ICE agents are … un-American Nazis who like to terrorize our communities. According to our Members of Congress, anyway. If there were any sincerity to such hysterical campaign trail talk, one might ask why Congress doesn’t disband US Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Probably because if they did so, they’d lose their favorite scapegoat for their own failure to pass workable immigration law.
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