Homeland Security

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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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New Anti-Terror Weapons: You, Me, iPhone & Twitter

W. David Stephenson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Wireless, Department of Homeland Security, Secretary of Homeland Security, Technology, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Twitter, Iran Twitter, US Protection, Facebook, Social Media Networks, Tweets, Iphone, Web 2.0, Twittering, Media News

Crafting an effective strategy to productively involve the general public in homeland security should center on two technologies: mobile communication devices and Web 2.0 social media.

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White House To Announce Plans For "Truly Civil" Immigrant Detention System

The New York Times | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Immigration Obama, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Illegal Immigrants, Obama Administration, Immigration, Immigrant Detention, Deportation, Politics News

The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violator...

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Obama Keeps Tough Immigration Policies Despite Promise To Break From Bush

The New York Times | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: E-Verify, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Obama Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Joe Arpaio, National Council of La Raza, Immigration, Immigrants, Obama, Hispanics, La Raza, John McCain, Politics News

After early pledges by President Obama that he would moderate the Bush administration's tough policy on immigration enforcement, his administration is...

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Con Games: Homeland Infirmity

Michael Conniff | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration, Hurricane Katrina, Coast Guard, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Politics News

There is the real possibility that the Homeland Security Department will miss the necessary clues because they had more important things to do -- like prepare for the next hurricane.

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Kennedy, Menendez And Gillibrand Introduce Bills To Stop Immigrant Detainee Abuse

The Washington Independent | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigrant Rights, Edward Kennedy, Abuse, Human Rights, Prison, Homeland Security, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Immigration, Prison Abuse, Robert Menendez, Kirsten Gillibrand, Immigration Detention Centers, Politics News

Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on Thursday responded to a growing number of reports about t...

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How Do We Be Safe?

John Graham | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Poverty, Conflict Resolution, National Security, Injustice, Human Security, Caux Forum on Human Seccurity, Homeland Security, Foreign Policy, World News

"Human security" means far more than physically protecting people from the violence of wars and terrorist attacks. It means addressing the root causes of insecurity that are real seeds of violence.

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Village Green: Security Measures Are Degrading the Urban, Architectural (and Human) Experience

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Architecture, Public Space, Urban Planning, Homeland Security, Cities, National Security, Politics News

One of the ways in which city life isn't what it used to be is that so much of what used to be public is no longer public. As a result, some of our humanity is lost, to say nothing of efficient travel.

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Probing the Pentagon: Are Gays Really More Dangerous than Neo-Nazis?

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, Congress, Pentagon, Domestic Terrorism, U.S. Military, Homeland Security, Neo-Nazis, White-Supremacists, Politics News

A neo-Nazi skinhead who wants to obtain weapons and combat training to use in a future, domestic "race war" can most likely continue serving in the US army with impunity.

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Color-Coded Terror Alert System May Be Replaced By Obama Administration

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Color-Coded Terror Code, Terror Warnings, Terror Code, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Terror Warnings, Janet Napolitano, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has begun a review that could spell the end of the color-coded terrorism advisories, long derided by late ...

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Illinois Homeland Security Among Best In Country: FEMA

AP | Posted 08.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Homeland Security, Fema, Pat Quinn, Homeland Security, Illinois Emergency Management, Chicago News

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has rated Illinois' homeland security program among the...

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20,000 American Guns Trafficked to Mexican Criminals

Paul Helmke | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeland Security, Eliot Engel, Assault Weapons, Gun Trafficking, Gun Control, Mexico, Joe Biden, Guns, Illegal Guns, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Rahm Emanuel, Janet Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Gao, Mexico Drug Wars, Politics News

With 20,000 illegal guns from America recovered at crime scenes in Mexico over the last five years, there is no excuse for Congress and the President not to take steps now to close the gun show loophole.

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Facts Are Stubborn Things -- So Why Is Napolitano Still Knocking the DHS Extremist Report?

Frank Naif | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Right Wing DHS Report, Intelligence, Politicization, Right Wing Extremism, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, Dhs Report, Domestic Terrorism, Dhs, Minutemen, Right-Wing Extremism, Politics News

Postulating that a latter-day McVeigh or Rudolph is lurking somewhere in America is not an ideologically-driven leap of logic, it's good old-fashioned intelligence analysis.

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CIA Ex-Chief Hayden Blames Bloggers, Congressional Aides for Damage Caused by His Policies

Frank Naif | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Cheetos, CIA Interrogations, Michael Hayden, Bloggers, Homeland Security, Financial Crisis, CIA Torture, Philip Mudd, Gen. Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News

Senior intelligence community hacks like Michael Hayden and his peers are responsible for scuttling senior CIA analyst Phil Mudd's nomination to the senior DHS intelligence post.

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The Food & Drug Administration: Broken, Now Break It Up!

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Politics of Food, Melamine, Homeland Security, Food Crisis, President Obama, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Mercury, Food Safety, Food, Fda, Peanut Butter Recall, Margaret Hamburg, Politics News

The FDA seems to have never heard of the precautionary principle and, in service to the interests of a few chemical companies like Monsanto, put the entire eating public at risk.

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US Spy Aircraft Patrolling Canadian Border Despite Ban

rawstory.com | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Faa Ban, Canadian-American Relations, Homeland Security, Spy Aircraft, Security Breech, US Spy Drone, Politics News

Even though the Federal Aviation Administration has banned the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), the Department of Homeland Security currently h...

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DHS To End Domestic Satellite Spying Program, Reports AP

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeland Security, Dhs, Napolitano Satellite Spying, Domestic Satellite Spying, Satellite Spying, Napolitano Dhs, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to kill a program begun by the Bush administration that would use U.S. spy satel...

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Latest Sell-Out: Dems Moving to Gut Chemical Security Bill, Risking Millions of Lives

Art Levine | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Chemical Security, Labor, Greenpeace, Chemical Industry, Unions, Chemical Plants, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Bill Maher, Green News

Democrats have apparently been cowed by intensive industry lobbying and Republican legislators' talking-points at recent hearings denouncing the new bill as a jobs-killer.

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Biloxi Removing FEMA Trailers, Undermining Obama and Victimizing Katrina Survivors

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

The Biloxi City Council will vote June 16th on an ordinance, backed by the City's community development office, forcing FEMA trailers to be removed from residential zones by August 9th.

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Bernard Kerik, Indicted Ex-NYC Police Boss, Accused Of Lying To White House

AP | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: New York City Police Cheif, Rudy Giuliani, Homeland Security, Bernard Kerik, Giuliani Kerik, Politics News

NEW YORK (AP) -- Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik (KEHR'-ihk) has been indicted on charges of making false statements to White H...

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Will Al-Qaeda Nuke America?

Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jihad, Homeland Security, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, 9/11, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Nuclear Terrorism, Osama Bin Laden, War on Terror, Politics News

It has been nearly eight years since Al-Qaeda struck the United States on September 11, 2001. In the aftermath of that transformational event, some ha...

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