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Remove Lieberman from all Domestic Security and National Security Roles

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Iran, John McCain, National Security, Middle East Politics, Joseph Lieberman, Israel, Democratic Caucus, Iraq, Afghanistan, William Ayers, Michael Crowley, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Joe Lieberman, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Lieberman is dangerous on so many levels and hasn't offered any explanation that should make Americans feel comfortable with him as Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security.

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Obama Efforts To Reform Intelligence May Be Hampered By Clinton Legacy; McCain Offers Extension Of Bush Approach

Frank Naif | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Barack Obama 2008, Central Intelligence Agency, John McCain 2008, Intelligence Policy, Intelligence Privatization, Intelligence Community, Home News
Frank Naif

Obama appears to be concerned with the negative impact of recent US intelligence developments on national life and perceptions of the US abroad. McCain believes that US intelligence needs to be reorganized and, in fact, subject to fewer restrictions.

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Homeland Security, Sesame Street Join Forces To Teach Kids About Terror

DC Examiner | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Sesame Street, Terror, Terrorism, Dhs, Duct Tape, Chertoff, Home News

When it comes to securing the homeland, who better to help you sleep at night than various characters from the popular children's show, "Sesame Street...

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Obama, McCain on National Security and Nuclear Proliferation

Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 10.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Infrastructure, John McCain, Tom Ridge, War on Terror, Food Crisis, National Security, Homeland Security, Brownie, Election 2008, Obama National Security, Duct Tape, Water Crisis, Barack Obama, Defense Department, Terrorist Attack, Barack Obama Nuclear Weapons, 9/11, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Weapons, Us Security, Nuclear Deterrence, North Korea Nuclear Program, Barack Obama Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Proliferation, Home News
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling

Where do Obama and McCain stand on these issues? To start, McCain, the nominee of what used to called the "small government party," wants to create two entirely new government organizations.

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New Orleans Immigrants Weather the Storm

Angela Kelley | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Raids, Bush Administration, Hurricane Katrina, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Hurricane Gustav, Politics News
Angela Kelley

The response of New Orleans' immigrants to Hurricane Gustav is just another gross example of how attrition through enforcement doesn't work. A growin...

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Bias At Homeland Security Led To Poor Site For $451 Mil. Lab

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security, Mississippi, Bioterrorism, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi _ home to powerful U.S. lawmak...

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Message to DHS: It's the Economy Stupid

Angela Kelley | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economic Slowdown, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Economy, Immigration Reform, Labor, Economics, Economy, Immigration, Immigration Debate, Voluntary Deportation, Politics News
Angela Kelley

The government fails to recognize that undocumented immigration is based more on the economics of survival than the politics of immigration enforcement -- a costly misjudgment.

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DHS Take Laptops At Border: No Reason Required

Washington Post | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Border Take Laptop, Customs Laptop, Department of Homeland Security, Dhs Take Laptop, Border Security, Dhs Laptop, Politics News

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any ...

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Another Scary Government Program: the Government Gets to Seize Your Electronic Gear at the Border

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Illegal Search and Seizure, Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, Intrusive Government, Privacy Invasions, Seizures, Invasions of Privacy, Invasion of Privacy, Electronic Data, Electronic Privacy, Privacy, Politics News
Robert Schlesinger

There's no legal difference between looking through your backpack and seizing your electronic data in the US. This is the stuff of the Cold War Soviet Union, right? Or maybe a third world dictatorship?

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Border Wall Resistance Heats Up

Marisa Treviño | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Border Wall, San Diego, Mexico, Texas, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, Hispanics, Politics News
Marisa Treviño

Homeland Security is determined to construct as much fencing as they can along the US/Mexico border while the Bush is in office. But they're being stymied by strong resistance from local residents.

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Immigration Workplace Raids Will Lead to More Lost American Jobs

Susie Hoeller | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Border Walls, Bush Administration Violation of U.S. Constitution, Workplace Raids, Mexico, Immigration Prisons, Immigration, Barack Obama, WWII Japanese POW, Torture, Food Industry, Tancredo Immigration, Wall on Mexico Border, Tom Tancredo, Chertoff, Department of Homeland Security, Politics News
Susie Hoeller

The fact that we don't legally require living wages to be paid in this country and the fact that our immigration laws are totally out of synch with several realities does not make the current strategy of workplace and home raids and border walls either effective or humane.

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Huge Amount Of Immigrants To Get Permanent Residency Without Completed Background Checks

Mcclatchy dc | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration, Immigration Policy, FBI and Immigration, Immigration Background Checks, Politics News

In a major policy shift aimed at reducing a ballooning immigration backlog, the Department of Homeland Security is preparing to grant permanent reside...

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Sam Stein

Homeland Security Dept. Plagued By Corruption, Mismanaged Billions

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Wasted Taxpayer Money, Corruption, Department of Homeland Security, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Political Patronage, Politics News

The Department of Homeland Security has wasted and mismanaged billions in taxpayer dollars and is plagued by internal criminal activity, a study relea...

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Fake FEMA Reporters Promoted

Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Wildfires, Michael Chertoff, California Fires, Bush Administration, Fema, California Wildfires, Fake FEMA Conference, Politics News

On Oct. 23, the day of FEMA's now infamous phony news conference, the agency's former external affairs chief, Pat Philbin, announced plans to promote ...

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Feds Want Kerik's Lawyer Disqualified

Associated Press | Jim Fitzgerald | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Giuliani and Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, Bernard Kerik, Kerik Indictment, New York City, Politics News

Federal prosecutors on Thursday asked the judge in the case against former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to consider disqualifying K...

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Homeland Security Dept. Wants "Abandoned Insane Asylum" As New HQ

US News and World Report | Nikki Schwab | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Politics News

Once the first Government Hospital for the Insane, the western campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital today is an overgrown hillside of dilapidated brick b...

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Could You Pass The New Citizenship Test?

The New York Times | Julia Preston | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Naturalization, Immigration, Citizens, Home News

Patrick Henry and Francis Scott Key are out, but Susan B. Anthony and Nancy Pelosi are in. The White House was cut, but New York and Sept. 11 made the...

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US To Admit 12,000 Iraqi Refugees

Washington Post | Paul Lewis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Iraq, State Department, Iraqi Refugees, United Nations, Home News

Some 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted to the United States over the next year as efforts to end long delays processing referrals from the United...

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