From Politico: Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson does not believe he took an “appreciable” risk by accessing his personal Gmail account from his work computer, he told POLITICO’s Mike Allen during a Playbook Live discussion Tuesday morning. Nevertheless, after Bloomberg revealed Monday that Johnson and other DHS officials had received waivers to obtain their personal […]
From The Hill: House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on Sunday that the deadly attack on two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tenn., is the type that worries officials the most. McCaul said an intensive investigation is underway after Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez killed four Marines and a sailor last week.
From Slate: According to local and federal officials, Thursday’s bloody assault in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was ruthless and deranged. The U.S. attorney says investigators are treating the attacks, committed by a lone gunman at a military recruiting station and a Navy and Marine Corps Reserve center, as a possible “act of terrorism.” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter […]
From Foreign Policy: Last March, 47 Republicans led by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas wrote a letter warning Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that a future U.S. president could legally revoke any nuclear deal that had been negotiated by Barack Obama’s administration with the stroke of a pen…The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, […]
From Tickle the Wire: House Republicans expressed outrage over the Obama administration’s release of an immigrant who is accused of later murdering a woman in San Francisco, The Associated Press reports. The Mexican National Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez had a long criminal record and was released from federal custody in San Francisco, where he is accused […]
From The Hill: Over the past several years, a tiny handful of Americans have found hateful terrorist ideology sufficiently attractive that they have been convinced to commit violent crimes at home, or to travel abroad to join terrorist efforts there. This is a real problem. Much governmental energy has gone into developing a counter-messaging CVE […]
From The Daily Caller: FBI agents arrested the estranged son of a Boston police captain July 4 for allegedly planning an Islamic State-inspired attack on U.S. soil. Alexander Ciccolo, 23, was arrested after buying four weapons from an uncover FBI informant. A search of his apartment revealed explosive material and “jihad” literature, according to ABC […]
From Politico: By Sec. Jeh Johnson. Cybersecurity is a top priority for me, for President Barack Obama and for this administration. It is my personal mission to significantly enhance the Department of Homeland Security’s role in the cybersecurity of this nation. Our federal cybersecurity is not where it needs to be. In the case of […]
From Salon: On Monday, “Citizenfour” director Laura Poitras filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking to find out why she was searched, questioned and detained at U.S. borders and foreign airports more than fifty times between 2006 and 2012. Poitras, who won an Oscar this year for her documentary “Citizenfour,” about NSA whistleblower Edward […]
From HSToday: As terrorist attacks continue to surge around the globe, from attacks by the Islamic State on multiple continents to the kidnapping of hundreds of innocent school girls by Boko Haram in Africa, intelligence and counterterrorism officials charged with preventing attacks by these malicious actors are left to wonder, “What are they thinking?” and […]
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