Homeland Security

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It's the Guns, Stupid: Why Handguns Remain One of the Biggest Threats To Homeland Security

Louis Klarevas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homegrown Terrorists, Handguns, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Guns, Extremism, Politics News

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"?

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Singing Of The GOP Sirens, Joe... Joe... Joe...

Mary Ann West | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homer, John McCain, Public Option, Freedomworks, Homeland Security, Wwwsourcewatchorg, Right Principles PAC, Odyssey, Factcheck.org, Benedict Arnold, Ned Lamont, Sirens, Connecticut, Joe Lieberman, myleftnutmeg.org, 60 Plus, US Chamber of Commerce, Politics News

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?

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Playing 'Gotcha' on Gitmo

Rep. David Price | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Appropriations, Partisanship, Homeland Security, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

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."

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Homeland Security Privacy Policy Investigation Sought

Washington Post | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: u.s. Intelligence, Privacy Investigation, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Committee, u.s. Surveillance, Surveillance Policy, Privacy Law Investigation, Privacy Policy Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Privacy Policy, Privacy Coalition, Intelligence Policy, Privacy Law, Surveillance Law, Patriot Act, Privacy Policy, Politics News

Privacy advocates have asked lawmakers to investigate the Department of Homeland Security office in charge of protecting Americans' privacy, saying it...

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New Disaster Commission Lays Out Kids' Path to Safety

Mark Shriver | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hurricane Katrina, Natural Disasters, Save the Children, Children, Homeland Security, Terrorism, Politics News

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?

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Send a Bad Law Away, Not People

Alison Parker | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Supreme Court, Homeland Security, Jose Padilla, Human-Rights-Watch-World-Report-2009, Immigration, Jose Padilla 17 Years Sentence, Jose Padilla Prison, Politics News

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.

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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

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, 9/11, Visas, Homeland Security, Foreigners, Politics News

Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verif...

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Napolitano, Holder In Denver Stressing Vigilance, Cooperation Against Extremists

AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver

Read More: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security, Islamic Extremism, Janet Napolitano, Robert Mueller, Police Chief, Police, Najibullah Zazi, Justice Department, Terrorism, Eric Holder, Fbi, Al Qaeda, Denver News

DENVER — U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday stressed the importa...

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Bernie Kerik Trial: No Talk Of 9/11 Allowed By Ex-Police Commissioner's Defense

AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 09.29.2009 | New York

Read More: Corruption, Bernie Kerik Trial, Rudy Giuliani, Bernard Kerik, Homeland Security, September 11, 9/11, World Trade Center, Bernie Kerik, New York News

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...

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What Is Security?

Gary Hart | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Security, Terrorism, Cold War, Homeland Security, Politics News

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.

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Patriot Act Changes: Congress Weighs Extension, Changes

L.A. Times | David G. Savage | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Reporting from Washington - The Patriot Act -- a favorite tool in the George W. Bush administration's fight against terrorism -- may be renamed later...

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Secesh 3.0: Fear Of A Black President

David A. Love | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, Birthers, Obama Stimulus, Homeland Security, McCain Palin, Secession, Confederate Flag, Secede, Obama, Southern Poverty Law Center, Joe Wilson You Lie, Strom Thurmond, Stimulus, Rep. Joe Wilson, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Rob Miller, Department of Homeland Security, Tax Day Tea Party, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Hate Groups, Stimulus Package, Joe Wilson, Birther, Economic Stimulus, Joe Wilson South Carolina, Health Care, Tea Party, Southern Strategy, Town Hall Meetings, Race, Racism, Politics News

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...

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GAO Report: State Department Language Skills Are Dangerously Insufficient

Foreign Policy | Josh Rogin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gao Report, Foreign Service Officers Language Skills, Homeland Security, State Department Language Skills, State Department GAO Report, GAO Report Language Skills, Government Accountability Office, Daniel Akaka Homeland Security, State Department, GAO Report State Department Language Skills, Politics News

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...

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Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security

Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Shoe Bomber, Department of Homeland Security, Fearmongering, Tom Ridge, Homeland Security, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Airport Security, Bush War on Terror, September 11th, Living News

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.

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White Rivers, Brown Skin, and Black Deeds: Into the Rabbit Hole of Border Detentions and Racial Profiling

Hamdan Azhar | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Muslims, BORDER ISSUES, Racial Profiling, Canada, Homeland Security, Aclu, Civil Liberties, National Security, Customs and Border Protection, Politics News

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.

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Politics and Pressure

Daniel Menaker | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Media, Tom Ridge, Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Homeland Security, Politics News

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.

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Ridge: Take That Untrustworthy Jacket Off My Trustworthy Book!

Talking Points Memo | Ben Frumin | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2004 Election, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Tom Ridge, Chris Matthews Hardball, Homeland Security, Politics News

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 ...

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Maddow Interviews Tom Ridge About Iraq Intelligence, Hurricane Katrina, Politicized Threat Levels (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Bush, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Iraq War Intelligence, Tom Ridge, Ridge, Homeland Security, The Test of Our Times, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Video, Rachel Maddow, Iraq, Wmds, Politics News

***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...

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Tighter oversight on border laptop searches

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Customs, Civil Liberties, Bush Administration, Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Travel, Obama Administration, Laptop Searches, U.S. Border, Canadian Border, Mexican Border, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday put new restrictions on searches of laptops at U.S. borders to address concerns that federal a...

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Fake DHS Intel E-mails Spread Malicious Software

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Counterintelligence, Defense Department, Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security, Politics News

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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Andy Card: A Tale Of Two Quotes

Jackson Williams | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, New York Times, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Andy Card, Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, Andrew Card, Politics News

George Bush minions are doing quick damage control in the wake of Tom Ridge's revelation that he smelled a rat in White House efforts to raise the terror threat level on the weekend before Bush's '04 reelection.

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Ridge: Osama Terror Tape Was Actually Cheney in Beard

Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Andy Borowitz, Tom Ridge, Homeland Security, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Comedy News

Mr. Ridge said that President George W. Bush "personally selected" the beard that Mr. Cheney went on to wear in the chilling video.

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The Faces of Detention and Deportation

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

Read More: Caribbean Immigrants, Caricom, CARICOM Crime, Criminal Deportees, Deportation, Deportee Integration Program, Detention, Department of Homeland Security, Dhs, Homeland Security, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Ice, Immigration Reform, International Office of Migration, Iom, Janet Napolitano, Mandatory Detention, Migration Policy Institute, Obama CARICOM, Obama Immigration, Obama Trinidad, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad Criminal Deportees, Crime-in-Caribbean, Criminology, Juncata Juvant Friendly Society, Martin Joseph, Ministry of National Security, Vision on Mission, Wayne Chance, World News

One persistent question regarding individuals who are in detention and subject to deportation is, "What is the nature of their offenses?"

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D.C. Delegate Calls For Ban On Guns Near Obama

The Hill | Jordy Yager | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, Eleanor Holmes Norton, President Barack Obama, Homeland Security, Secret Service, Politics News

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) called on the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday to provide tighter restriction...

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Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Detention, Biometric Identification, 2006 Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigration, Numbersusa, Jeff Sessions, Immigrants, Immigration, James Sensenbrenner, Jim Webb, Deportation, 2007 Immigration Bill, Obama Administration, Peter Schey, DREAM Act, Illegal Immigrants, Tom Daschle, McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill, Racism, Visas, Earned Legalization, Undocumented-Immigrants, Legalization, Immigration Debate, 1986 Immigration Reform, John McCain, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Homeland Security, La Raza, Xenophobia, Amnesty, Lou Dobbs, E-Verify, Chuck Hagel, Jon Kyl, Ted Kennedy, John Cornyn, Immigration Reform, John Ashcroft, Rahm Emanuel, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, 2005 Sensenbrenner Bill, Lulac, Organized Labor, Broken Borders, Chuck Schumer, Mexican Immigration, Torture, National Identification Card, Politics News

The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.

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