Michael Chertoff

Andrea Stone

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.30.2012

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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Andrea Stone

Michael Chertoff Says DHS Should Change Intelligence Mission

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.18.2012

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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Andrea Stone

House Bill Would Authorize Czar To Watch Islamist Extremists But Not Other Domestic Terrorists

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Peter King, House of Representatives, Fema, Homegrown Terrorists, Rep. Peter King, Homeland Security Committee, 9/11 Commission, See Something Say Something, Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Flying-Imams, Video, Senate, Jane Harman, 2012 Budget, Violent Islamist Extremism, Janet Napolitano, 112th Congress, Customs and Border Protection, Border Security, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A House bill set for markup on Wednesday would give protection against civil lawsuits to those who report suspicious activity, designate...

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Gerry Smith

Former Government Officials Stand To Profit From Cybersecurity Boom

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Michael Chertoff, Cyberthreat, Video, Booz Allen Hamilton, Richard Clarke, Michael McConnell, Cybersecurity, Cyber Industrial Complex, National Cybersecurity, Cyberattack, Cyberwar, Technology News

As former director of the National Security Agency and former director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell is widely portrayed as an authoritativ...

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Andrea Stone

Experts Say Al Qaeda Prison Break In Yemen A 'Setback' In Fight Against Terror, 'Harbinger' Of Worse To Come

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Michael Chertoff, Yemen, Christopher Boucek, War on Terror, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, Yemen Protests, Prison Escape, Yemen Terrorism, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Al Qaeda, World News

WASHINGTON -- A prison break in South Yemen that saw dozens of al Qaeda militants escape Wednesday is the latest troubling sign that the political uph...

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Andrea Stone

Hayden, Chertoff Buck Republican Call To Bring Troops Home From Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Michael Chertoff, War on Terror, Michael Hayden, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ayman Al-Zawahri, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman want a faster withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and a growing nu...

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Freedom of the Press vs. State Secrets

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Ayatollah, David Sanger, October Surprise, Donald Gregg, State Secrets, Alan Dershowitz, Intelligence Squared, Iran, Cyrus Hashemi, Michael Chertoff, Freedom of the Press, Democratic Party, Reagan-Bush Campaign, National Securities Staff, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Tehran, President Carter, American Hostages, Intelligence Squared Debate, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Does the press have the right to disclose some secrets? I believe that too many documents are designated "top-secret" when they really should be designated "embarrassing."

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Green Alert: Banks Use Bush Terror Team, Threat Tactics to Push Debit Card Fees

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Rudy Giuliani, Visa, Bank Overdraft Charge, Zach Carter, Ryan Grim, Bernie Kerik, Gen. Michael Hayden, Arthur Delaney, Michael Chertoff, Mastercard, Debit Card Fees, Debit Card Interchange, Business News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Big banks and credit card companies have made a PR misstep in the fight over debit card charges. They're trying to use the Bush administration's anti-terror team to convince Americans that debit card fees are needed for our nation's security.

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10 Shadow Elitists of the Decade

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crossroads GPS, Barry McCaffrey, Michael McConnell, Michael Chertoff, Robert Rubin, Tom Daschle, Karl Rove, Larry Summers, Gerhard Schroeder, Geir Haarde, Shadow Elite, Slidepollajax, Neoconservatives, Politics News
Linda Keenan

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Shadow Elite: Should We Believe Chertoff On Cyber-War?

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rapiscan, Michael Chertoff, WikiLeaks Cables, Cyberattacks, Homeland Security, Defense Contractors, Cybersecurity, Full-Body Scanners, Wikileaks, Politics News
Linda Keenan

In the shadow elite age, when power brokers can have a dozen roles of influence, criss-crossing and sometimes overlapping, sorting through them to pick the most telling ones is both more difficult -- and more imperative -- than ever before.

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TSA as a Metaphor

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rapiscan, Michael Chertoff, Tsa, Full-Body Scanners, Metaphors, Privacy, Civil Rights, Middle Class, Tsa Patdowns, Politics News
Rob Kall

If you're thinking of traveling, get ready to do what air travelers do -- prepare to pay more and to be violated beyond any level you could have imagined a few years ago. And be assured the blame is bi-partisan.

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Marcus Baram

Fear Pays: Chertoff, Ex-Security Officials Slammed For Cashing In On Government Experience

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Chertoff, Body Scanners, Chertoff BAE, Chertoff Group, Chertoff Hayden, Shadow Homeland Security, Chertoff Firm, Chertoff Rapiscan, Michael Hayden, Tom Ridge, Politics News

After last month's plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States aboard a cargo plane, former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whi...

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The Price Of Privacy

USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Security, Faa, L-3 Communications, Lobbying, Rapiscan Systems, Air Security, Airplane Security, Michael Chertoff, Air Travel, Tsa, Body Scanners, Politics News

The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying ...

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Investigate the TSA, Not Tyner

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Rapiscan, Michael Chertoff, Tsa, Pilot's Union, Boondoggle, Porno Scanners, John Tyner, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

The TSA is opening an investigation targeting John Tyner, the man who earned himself an aggressive "pat down" at the airport when he refused to go through the TSA's new AIT "porno scanners." This is a full-on outrage.

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Shadow Elite: Will the Real Juan Williams Please Stand Up?

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Chertoff, Npr, Fox News, Juan Williams, Juan Williams Fired, Shadow Elite, Tom Daschle, Media News
Linda Keenan

Williams, who pulled off representing two vastly different brands, qualifies as agile and edgy. But he's hardly an anomaly: These days, the idea that a journalist would operate with a single standard of conduct seems as dated as an 8-track tape.

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Scanners: No Place to Hide

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Chertoff, Strip Searches, Surveillance, Underwear Bomber, License-Plate Scanners, TSA Security, Full-Body Scanners, Technology News
John W. Whitehead

As the surveillance state expands around us, entangling us in a web from which there is no escape, what we used to call "privacy" is fast becoming a thing of the past.

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Chertoff Suggests Special Ops Takeout Cyber-Attacking Servers?

Josh Rushing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Rushing, Nsa, Google, Al Jazeera English, Cyberattacks, Special Ops, Computer Hacking, Fault Lines, Cybersecurity, Google China, Cyberwar, Michael Chertoff, Cybercrime, Ghostnet, Al Jazeera, Hacking, Computer Hackers, Cyber Espionage, Hackers, Politics News
Josh Rushing

Did Michael Chertoff, former director of Homeland Security, seriously suggest the possibility of responding with special forces to takeout the servers...

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Sam Stein

Terrorist Trials: Lieberman Criticizes Obama Admin For Prosecuting Terrorists In Civilian Courts

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Lieberman, Lieberman Criminal Justice System, Michael Chertoff, Terrorist Trials, Chertoff Lieberman, Terrorism, Politics News

Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn) argued on Sunday that the Obama administration had erred in its decision to place several terrorist suspects into the c...

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Flying and Excess Radiation

Robert Alvarez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Chertoff, Underwear Bomber, Whole-Body Scanners, Full-Body Scanners, Radiation, Radiation Risks of Flying, Technology News
Robert Alvarez

If airline crew members already face unreported radiation risks from long-distance flying, we have a right to know just how whole-body radiation scanning machines are part of this risk.

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Who Told Yoo To Do Those 'Bad Things'?

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dod, Office of Professional Responsibility, John Yoo, Justice Department, Nsc, Steven Bradbury, Office of Legal Counsel, Michael Chertoff, Jay Bybee, White House, Cia, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Daphne Eviatar

If White House officials were instructing the 'torture memo' authors to create legal justifications for a program those officials knew was likely illegal, then we have evidence of a high-level criminal conspiracy.

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Jason Linkins

Chertoff Warns Of 'Importing' Terrorists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Chertoff, Fearmongering, Terrorism, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, Closing Guantanamo, Detainees, Eat the Press, Video, Politics News

The fear-mongering over closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and bringing those detainees to the United States to stand trial tends to expres...

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Are Tech Solutions the Best Solutions to Terrorism?

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Full Body Scanners, Michael Chertoff, Terrorism, World News
Harry Shearer

In the wake of the Underpants Bomber, lobbyists for companies that make full-body scanners -- including -- Michael Chertoff -- have unhesitatingly pushed their products. But fashion and profit aside, why not sniffer dogs?

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Shadow Elite: Do You Know Whose Agenda You're Being Sold?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Michael Chertoff, Huffpost Book Club, Christmas Bomber, Haiti Earthquake, Truthiness, Iraqi Constitution, Arianna's Reading, Homeland Security, Shadow Elite, Haiti, Peter Galbraith, Full-Body Scanners, Books News
Janine R. Wedel

In the community of fewer than 2,000 in which I grew up, the proverbial six degrees of separation melt away. You can't help but play multiple roles in...

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Is The Government In Charge, Or Is It The Shadow Elite?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Robert Rubin, Michael Chertoff, Arianna's Reading, Tom Daschle, Shadow Elite, New York Times, Airlines, Arianna Huffington, Barry McCaffrey, Books News
Janine R. Wedel

There was a time when Americans could have more confidence in the objectivity of the experts who advised government and pronounced on issues of vital importance.

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The Twisted and Dangerous Republican Record on Terrorism

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter King, Fearmongering, Wingnuts, Richard Burr, Underpants Bomber, War on Terror, Terrorism, George W. Bush, 9/11, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Michael Chertoff, Christmas Day Terror Attack, Fear Mongering, Counter-Terrorism, Northwest Flight 253, Republican Party, Republicans, Politics News
Bob Cesca

We all understand that Americans have a short attention span, and an even shorter memory, but the Republicans are really counting on it as they exploit the post-underpants bomber freakout.

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