Napolitano Fires Senior Staff! Rep. King Turns Down Homeland Security Funds! …Really?
In this April Fools Edition, we’ve collected some stories the rest of the media somehow missed.
FBI Anticipates Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soft Targets
FBI Anticipates Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soft Targets – National Defense
Soft targets are now a priority for terrorists determined to inflict damage in the United States, said one of the FBI’s top counter-terrorism officials.
Senators Seek Assurances On Accuracy Of Training On Islamist Extremism
Senators Seek Assurances On Accuracy Of Training On Islamist Extremism – HSToday
While the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee has stirred up a lot of attention with a fairly benign hearing on Islamist extremism, the heads of the Senate homeland security committee have largely passed under the radar with their low-key but no less persistent insistence that the federal government address the threat of homegrown terrorism among Muslims.
Defense funding for cybersecurity is hard to pin down
Defense funding for cybersecurity is hard to pin down – NextGov
How much does the military plan to spend on cybersecurity next year? The answer depends on whom you ask and when.
Revisiting Immigration
Revisiting Immigration – HSToday
In the closing moments of 2010, congressional Democrats made a last-minute attempt to pass an immigration reform bill that potentially would have provided a path to legalization for millions of young college students and military service members whose parents brought them into the United States illegally. They failed.
FOIA Foibles at DHS
From my time in government at NASA and DHS, there was an adage I remember: “Don’t put anything in an e-mail or in writing that you are not prepared to defend if it ends up in the Washington Post.” That was healthy advice that I’m sure members of the Napolitano team got when they entered the Nebraska Avenue Complex. But they seem to have forgotten those words and found congressional trouble over FOIA requests.
DHS called FOIA vetting 'bananas'
DHS called FOIA vetting ‘bananas’ – Jennifer Epstein and MJ Lee – POLITICO.com Ahead of a congressional hearing this week on whether senior political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security have blocked the release of some documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act, a series of newly uncensored emails indicates that some staffers […]
80 Miles North of the Arizona Border, The Drugs Keep Coming
New footage from March 2, 2011, shows seven drug mules likely carrying about $50,000 worth of marijuana each. The trail where the motion-sensor hidden cameras were placed is 80 miles north of the border, due north of the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation, which has seen a marked increase in drug mule traffic since the creation of two “apprehension” zones on either side of the reservation’s boundaries.
Detroit Bombing Attempt Renews Calls For FPS Reform
Detroit Bombing Attempt Renews Calls For FPS Reform – HSToday
The case of a bomb left sitting in a federal building in Detroit, Mich., has renewed concerns about the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agency charged with protecting federal facilities.
F.B.I. Casts Wide Net Under Relaxed Rules for Terror Inquiries, Data Show
F.B.I. Casts Wide Net Under Relaxed Rules for Terror Inquiries, Data Show – The New York Times
Within months after the Bush administration relaxed limits on domestic-intelligence gathering in late 2008, the F.B.I. assessed thousands of people and groups in search of evidence that they might be criminals or terrorists, a newly disclosed Justice Department document shows.
- Trump Aides Push to Move Sessions from Attorney General to Homeland Security
- Meet the Woman Set to Lead Homeland Security
- Congress Must Re-Set Department of Homeland Security Priorities
- New DHS Sec. Should Focus on Improving Employee Morale
- Trump Picks Thomas Bossert as Homeland Security Advisor
- Monaco on Counterterrorism, Cyber at CFR
- Intelligence, Foreign Policy Experts Support Commission To Probe Foreign Interference In Election
- Names Floated For Homeland Security Chief
- Facing Terror Recruitment: Somali-American Community Balancing Hope And Despair In Minneapolis
- No Better Alternative: The U.S.-Saudi Counterterrorism Relationship
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