Hosenball: Is DHS Scared Of The Far Right?
The Obama administration didn't hesitate recently to pick a fight with Fox News, but its Homeland Security Department now appears to have backpedaled ...
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Promises Unkept: Obama Administration and a Unified Security Budget
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
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While the president has made some strides toward curbing waste, fraud and abuse in Pentagon contracting, he has yet to change the crucial balance between military and non-military security spending.
U.S. Ports Still Wide Open to Nukes, Report Says
Jeff Stein | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
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Over $3 billion and seven years since U.S. intelligence discovered that Osama Bin Laden was seeking a nuke, terrorists can still drive a radioactive truck through the holes in America's border defenses
Frank Rich: The Missing Link Between Fort Hood And The War In Afghanistan
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
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For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...
Fat, Stupid, Impotent & Dangerous: The Future Without Green Chemistry
Elizabeth Grossman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
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The mere presence of chemicals linked to health disorders does not mean disease will result. Yet research scientists and medical professionals now say that based on the evidence, there is reason to be concerned.
It's the Guns, Stupid: Why Handguns Remain One of the Biggest Threats To Homeland Security
Louis Klarevas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
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I no longer wonder "if" a Mumbai-style attack will occur in the U.S. Absent the implementation of serious gun control measures, I now ask "when"?
Singing Of The GOP Sirens, Joe... Joe... Joe...
Mary Ann West | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
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As an Epic Fail saga, Joe Lieberman is basking in the fading limelight that is diminishing with time. What will he come up with next to flip those who used to support him as he continues this mad journey?
Playing 'Gotcha' on Gitmo
Rep. David Price | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
he administration's efforts to close the facility have been hampered by another more cynical reality: Congressional Republicans have turned the debate over closing Guantánamo into a partisan game of "gotcha."
Homeland Security Privacy Policy Investigation Sought
Washington Post | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
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Privacy advocates have asked lawmakers to investigate the Department of Homeland Security office in charge of protecting Americans' privacy, saying it...
New Disaster Commission Lays Out Kids' Path to Safety
Mark Shriver | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
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Stop and imagine what would happen if a dirty bomb struck your nearest downtown. What would a child care center do with your kids to keep them safe?
Send a Bad Law Away, Not People
Alison Parker | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
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Every day the U.S. government is forced to grapple with the consequences of harsh and sweeping immigration laws passed by Congress 13 years ago. And Jose Padilla is the latest senseless case.
U.S. Still Lacks Reliable System For Tracking Foreign Visitors On Expired Visas
New York Times | JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and JULIA PRESTON | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
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Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verif...
Napolitano, Holder In Denver Stressing Vigilance, Cooperation Against Extremists
AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver
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DENVER — U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday stressed the importa...
Bernie Kerik Trial: No Talk Of 9/11 Allowed By Ex-Police Commissioner's Defense
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 09.29.2009 | New York
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The terror attack on the World Trade Center, which made New York City's police commissioner a national figure, cannot be br...
What Is Security?
Gary Hart | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
In a perfect world, between the end of the Cold War and the era of terrorism in 2001 there would have been a national discussion about what national security meant. Now the default meaning is defeat of terrorism.
Patriot Act Changes: Congress Weighs Extension, Changes
L.A. Times | David G. Savage | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics
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Reporting from Washington - The Patriot Act -- a favorite tool in the George W. Bush administration's fight against terrorism -- may be renamed later...
Secesh 3.0: Fear Of A Black President
David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
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When the Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) disrupted the President’s health care address before a joint session of Congress, it was not the first time th...
GAO Report: State Department Language Skills Are Dangerously Insufficient
Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
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About a third of Foreign Service officers in jobs that require language skills don't have the proficiency required to do their jobs, hurting America's...
Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security
Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
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The rest of the world is laughing at us. Literally, in some cases -- when I reflexively took my shoes off at a security line in Berlin, the guard chuckled. Stupid American.
White Rivers, Brown Skin, and Black Deeds: Into the Rabbit Hole of Border Detentions and Racial Profiling
Hamdan Azhar | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
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The evil of profiling is that it dehumanizes its victims, stripping them of their individuality. The border officials didn't see me as a writer or as a wide-eyed student in the grip of wanderlust.
Politics and Pressure
Daniel Menaker | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
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At least Ridge on the "Rachel Maddow Show" and "Hardball" had the decency to squirm, and thus give himself away. The way that he said that he didn't mean what he said showed me that he did.
Ridge: Take That Untrustworthy Jacket Off My Trustworthy Book!
Talking Points Memo | Ben Frumin | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's backpedaling book tour continues! As we've reported, Ridge's new book, The Test of Our Times: America ...
Maddow Interviews Tom Ridge About Iraq Intelligence, Hurricane Katrina, Politicized Threat Levels (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
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***UPDATE*** TPM makes the good point that Maddow got Ridge to contradict what was written on the jacket of his book. After repeatedly denying that p...
Tighter oversight on border laptop searches
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday put new restrictions on searches of laptops at U.S. borders to address concerns that federal a...
Fake DHS Intel E-mails Spread Malicious Software
AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — Some e-mails purporting to be from the Homeland Security Department's intelligence division were fake and contained malicious softw...
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