Homeland Security

Federal Air Marshals Claim Unfair Work Environment

AP | By EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 02.09.2012 | Latino Voices

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Video, Discrimination, Federal Air Marshal Service, Racial Discrimination, Homeland Security, Latino Voices News

WASHINGTON -- Some senior officials at the Federal Air Marshal service made fun of veterans, homosexuals and minorities, creating what employees descr...

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Dire Warnings Over Muslim American Terrorists Overblown, Study Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.08.2012 | Politics

Read More: Homegrown Terrorists, Video, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Muslim Americans, Charles Kurzman, Islamic Extremists, Muslims, Homegrown Terrorism, Nypd Spying, Nypd Spying on Mosques, House Radicalization Hearings, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A new study of homegrown terrorism involving Muslim Americans suggests that the alarm bells set off by Republicans in Congress over slee...

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'Security Theater': 8 Ways Washington Spends Money Without Making You Safer

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 02.01.2012 | Politics

Read More: Sikh Turbans, Tsa, Air Marshals, Bioterrorism, Homeland Security, Airport Security, Bruce Schneier, Radiation Detectors, Department of Homeland Security, Video, Counterterrorism, Full-Body Scanners, Security, Transportation Security Administration, Carry-on Liquids, Bomb-Sniffing-Dogs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The good news first. Government homeland security agencies are moving toward a more rational, risk-based system of protection. Now th...

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Janet Napolitano: Homeland Security, Economic Security Go 'Hand-In-Hand'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.30.2012 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Global Supply Chain, Cargo, Video, Economy, Davos, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Supply Chain, Janet Napolitano Homeland Security, Dhs, National Press Club, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A top administration official on Monday signaled that the focus of homeland security in 2012 would shift in emphasis to business and the...

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Two Ounces of Kafka: How a Little Oil Caused a Ton of Trouble

Paul Loeb | Posted 01.29.2012 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Pete Knutson, Washington State, Seattle, Exxon, Fishermen's Terminal, Franz Kafka, Homeland Security, Environment, Port of Seattle, Oil Spill, Politics News

For years, Seattle salmon fisherman Pete Knutson has developed pioneering environmental alliances between commercial fishermen, Native American tribes...

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The Road Ahead for Immigration Reform

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 01.19.2012 | Politics

Read More: Immigration Reform, Immigration, Anti-Defamation League, Homeland Security, Arizona Immigration Law, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Alabama Immigration Law, Alabama Immigration, Politics News

The current system fails more than just immigrants seeking opportunity and fair treatment. It fails all of us by refusing to embrace a future that welcomes diversity and equal access to the American dream.

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Michael Chertoff Says DHS Should Change Intelligence Mission

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.18.2012 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Video, Aspen Homeland Security Group, Homeland Security, Aspen Group, 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, Philip Mudd, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Nearly a decade after Congress created the Department of Homeland Security to prevent other 9/11-style terrorist attacks, a bipartisan g...

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Why Homeland Security Is Watching Twitter

Reuters | Mark Hosenball | Posted 01.12.2012 | Technology

Read More: Homeland Security Social Media, Video, Twitter, Homeland Security, Reuters, Homeland Security Facebook, Twitter Homeland Security, Facebook, Technology News

By Mark Hosenball (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, ...

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Homeland Security Budget Cuts Leaving Cities On Their Own

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.29.2011 | Politics

Read More: Natural Disasters, Police, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Funds, Department of Homeland Security, Video, Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Counterterrorism, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Grants, Gabrielle Giffords, Fusion Centers, Joplin Tornado, Dhs, Uasi, Federal Grants, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- When the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed in 2007, a specially equipped urban search and rescue team based in the Twin Cities respo...

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Survey: Law Enforcement Overburdened by Failure of Mental Health Departments

DJ Jaffe | Posted 12.21.2011 | Crime

Read More: Forensics, Police, Jail, Prisons, Crime, Law Enforcement, Mental Health, Homeland Security, Incarceration, Arrest, Sheriff, Crime News

A new nationwide survey of 2,406 senior law enforcement officials (75% of whom were officers longer than 20 years) documents police and sheriffs are b...

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Always Ready? For Aging Coast Guard Fleet, Not So Much

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.21.2011 | Politics

Read More: Video, U.S. Coast Guard, Baltimore, Cruise Ships, Federal Budget Deficit, Deepwater, Homeland Security, Great Lakes, 9/11, Offshore Patrol Cutter, Drug-Interdiction, Coast Guard, Coast-Guard-Cuts, Arctic, 2012-Spending-Levels, Politics News

BALTIMORE -- Cmdr. William Lane climbs down a steep ladder deep within the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bear. Stepping over a pipe with paint blistered ...

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Rep. Peter King's Spurious Religious 'Enemy Within'

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 12.19.2011 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Rep Mike Honda, Rep. Peter King, Kareem Khan, Muslim Americans, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Politics News

Two weeks ago, on the 70th Anniversary of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Rep. Peter King once again sought the spotlight with a congressional hearing claiming to explore 'homegrown terrorism's threat to military communities inside the United States.'

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Verizon 'Emergency' Text Alert Causes Panic In New Jersey

AP | DAVID PORTER | Posted 12.13.2011 | Technology

Read More: Alert, Verizon, Homeland Security, Panic, Wireless, Emergency, Text, New Jersey, Cell Phone, Technology News

NEWARK, N.J. — Not quite the "War Of The Worlds" broadcast of a Martian invasion in New Jersey, a Verizon "emergency" alert Monday that the comp...

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Obama-Harper Border Deal Raises Privacy Concerns In Canada, Yawns In Washington

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.07.2011 | Politics

Read More: Stephen Harper, Video, Trade, Homeland Security, Beyond the Border, u.s.-Canada Trade, Information Sharing, u.s. Canada Border, Northern Border, Keystone Pipeline, Border Security, North-American-Security, Privacy, Barack Obama, Canada, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Considering the political obsession within the 2012 Republican presidential field over border security, the announcement of a new initia...

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The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show 12/2/11

Bob Cesca | Posted 02.01.2012 | Media

Read More: Bob Cesca, President Barack Obama, Homeland Security, Progressives, Chez Pazienza, Glenn Greenwald, Health Care Reform, Public Option, Michael Moore, Naomi Wolf, Occupy Wall Street, Progressive Movement, Barack Obama, The Bubble Genius Bob and Chez Show, Media News

This week we discus Occupy Wall Street and the Homeland Security conspiracy theory; Michael Moore and Naomi Wolf rumor-mongering; progressive outrage; Twitter fights; and other issues.

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Congressman Sees U.S. Threat In Nigerian Terrorist Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.30.2011 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Africa Command, Homeland Security, Nigeria, Gen. Carter Ham, Al Shabab, Boko Haram Nigeria, Nigerian Taliban, Video, Underwear Bomber, Al Qaida, Al-Qaeda-in-the-Islamic-Maghreb, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Islamists, Christmas Day Bomber, Times Square Bomber, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Few terrorism experts would deny that a radical Islamist sect that has made a series of increasingly audacious attacks in Nigeria, inclu...

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Hey TSA, That Was Some Birthday Party! Now What?

Christopher Elliott | Posted 01.22.2012 | Travel

Read More: Airlines, Homeland Security, Tsa, Roy Egan, Airport Security, John Pistole, William Touzani, Travel News

On its 10th birthday, the TSA is an agency in complete disarray, by most accounts. It needs a little sunlight, and the mainstream media is doing a ridiculously bad job of covering it.

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Counterterrorism Czar Resists Muslim Labels, As Critics Say Right-Wing Threat Looms Larger

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.17.2011 | Politics

Read More: Peter King, White Supremacists, Homeland Security, Islamic Extremists, Fbi, Southern Poverty Law Center, Department of Homeland Security, Video, Islamic Radicalism, Counterterrorism, Janet Napolitano, Neo-Nazis, Newt Gingrich, Nypd Spying, Dhs, Eco-Terrorism, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The federal government's point man working to counter homegrown violent extremism and defend communities from terrorist attacks isn't in...

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The Next Osama Bin Laden Already Has Your Social Security Number

Adam Levin | Posted 01.17.2012 | Politics

Read More: Cybersecurity, Cyberattacks, National Security, Data Breaches, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Identity Theft, Osama Bin Laden, Pii, Politics News

The U.S. government needs to be certain that our response to the genuine and massive threat of cyber attacks is not as bureaucratic and fractious as everything else that goes on in Washington these days.

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"Build the Danged Fence": History's Record on Walls as Borders

Paul Gunther | Posted 01.02.2012 | Culture

Read More: Architecture, History, Immigration, Homeland Security, Illegal Immigrants, Culture News

With a deteriorating 19th- and 20th-century infrastructure and its evident ties to the overall national well-being, a wall is a colossal investment in something for which history offers little evidence of lasting results.

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Homeland Security May Monitor Citizens Via Twitter, Facebook

AP | By P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 01.01.2012 | Technology

Read More: Us Government Twitter, Us Government Social Media, Homeland Security Social Media, Social Media, Video, Social Media u.s. Government, Us Government Facebook, Homeland Security, Social Media Us Government, Homeland Security Facebook, u.s. Government Social Media, u.s. Government Twitter, u.s. Government Facebook, Homeland Security Twitter, Technology News

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The wave of uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East that have overturned three governments in the past year have ...

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John Mica Has No Legal Power Over TSA, But Pushes The Jurisdictional Boundaries

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.29.2011 | Politics

Read More: Peter King, Department of Homeland Security, Aviation Safety, Tsa, House-Transportation-Committee, Homeland Security, Private Security Contractors, John Pistole, John Mica, 9/11 Commission, TSA Security, Transportation Security Administration, Dhs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The powerful chairman of a key congressional committee is expected to release another scathing report on the federal agency that protect...

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The Patriot Act Was Just the Start: 10 Years of Unrestrained Surveillance

Michelle Richardson | Posted 12.29.2011 | Politics

Read More: Surveillance, Cybersecurity, Patriot Act, Spying, Privacy, Homeland Security, Government Surveillance, Patriot Act 10 Years, Obama Cyber Security, White House Cybersecurity Proposal, Politics News

As members of Congress and the administration debate a new cybersecurity proposal, for once, our privacy must be considered just as high a priority as our security.

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Government Won't Help Alabama Enforce Controversial Law

AP | By ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 12.26.2011 | Politics

Read More: Alabama Immigration, Alabama, Jan Brewer, Video, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Obama Administration, Immigration, Alabama Immigration Law, Federal Immigration Law, Arizona Immigration Law, Immigration Law, Politics News

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) WASHINGTON -- The government hasn't offered to help Alabama put in place a strict immigration law that...

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The Problem With Shifting Scientists From Invasive Species To Anti-Terrorism

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 12.10.2011 | Green

Read More: Video, Homeland Security, Invasive Species 9/11, Health, Invasive Species, Environment, Food Supply, Invasive Species Homeland Security, Pests, 9/11 Invasive Species, Invasive Species Us, Green News

FRESNO, Calif. — Dozens of foreign insects and plant diseases slipped undetected into the United States in the years after 9/11, when authoritie...

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