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U.S. Sues Maker of Body-Armor Material
2008-06-09 20:58:00 From DefenseNews.com, by Antonie Boessenkool (via Blackwater Newswletter) Honeywell International is facing a lawsuit by the United States claiming that the company knew Zylon Shield, which Honeywell made and sold as the as the key ballistic material in bullet-proof vests, degraded in hot and humid conditions but didn’t tell the maker of the vests, Armor Holdings, ...
Presidential Race Boils Down to 15 States
2008-06-09 17:12:00 From AOL.com, by Charles Babington (AP)While many people will work on their tans this summer, or on summer reading lists or on not working too hard, two exceptions - John McCain and Barack Obama - and their underlings will be working. Working industriously on an election that only one can win. With 11 weeks to the start ...
FBI Releases Preliminary Annual Crime Statistics for 2007
2008-06-09 16:26:00 From FBI Release According to the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report released today, the nation experienced a 1.4 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes and a 2.1 percent decline in the number of property crimes for 2007 compared with data from 2006. The report is based on information that the FBI gathered from ...
DHS to Upgrade Homeland Security Network
2008-06-09 04:17:00 From DHS Release Washington ? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it is taking steps to enhance its Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN). Known as HSIN Next Generation (NextGen), the enhancement will provide a secure and trusted national platform for Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) information sharing and collaboration between federal, state, local, ...
Hometown Grieves Loss of FBI Agent Killed on Duty
2008-06-07 17:53:00 From NYTimes.com, by Richard G. Jones, photo: Robert Stolarik POTTSTOWN, Pa., April 12 ? A bagpipe wailed. A siren droned. Police motorcycles revved. And within moments a procession was under way to carry Barry Lee Bush ? the F.B.I. agent who was killed last week while staking out bank robbers in central New Jersey ? to ...
?eBill of Rights? Proposed by Liberty Coalition
2008-06-06 09:12:00 From Liberty Coalition Release Transpartisan Alliance Seeks Internet Privacy/Security Guarantees; Demands Government and Business ?Stand Up and Play Right? (Washington, DC) … A broad range of advocacy organizations, ranging from the Rutherford Institute and the Equal Justice Alliance to the International Association of Whistleblowers, are uniting in support of a newly drafted eBill of Rights, created to ...
Border Patrol Contract Workers Allegedly Released Illegals
2008-06-05 07:21:00 SAN DIEGO â?? Two Border Patrol contract workers were arrested for allegedly conspiring to shuttle illegal immigrants from San Diego to Los Angeles for $2,500 apiece instead of returning them to Mexico. Christopher Saint Lucero and Manley Lamont Smith work for Wackenhut Corp., which holds a Border Patrol contract to escort illegal immigrants to Mexico after ...
By: TexasFred's
Web Hosting Services Firm, AT&T, Attains Homeland Security Contract (Share
2008-05-30 23:13:00 Web Hosting Services Firm, AT&T, Attains Homeland Security Contract Vienna, Virginia - (The Hosting News) - May 29, 2008 - Web hosting provider, Internet services and ISP company, AT and T Inc.’s government solutions division, has garnered a $292 million contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland ...
Homeland Security: Stop using term “war on terror”
2008-05-29 23:29:00 Of course “terror” could somehow offend muslims so we better come up with a better term. Now be a good Dhimmi and do what you’re told! The west needs a more comprehensive strategy to counter al-Qaeda propaganda and the US should stop using the term “war on terror”, according to a top intelligence official. Charles Allen, the senior intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security, says the phrase is counter-productive because it creates “animus” in Islamic countries. “[It] has nothing to do with political correctness,” Mr Allen said in an interview. “It is interpreted in the Muslim world as a war on Islam and we don’t need this.” Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security secretary, does not agree with suggestions that the phrase is equated with a war on Islam, says Russ Knocke, his spokesman. “We are at war with terrorism, and its underlying ideology – not Islam – and we’ve gone out of our way to make that point,” says Mr Knock...
The Security Breakfast Series NY - June 9
2008-05-29 22:04:00 Securing Energy & Chemical Infrastructure Solutions to Fortify Production and Transport June 9, 2008 8am-8:30am Breakfast and Networking 8:30-9:30am Panel Discussion The Harvard Club 35 West 44th Street New York Please RSVP to Gordon Platt gplatt@gothammediaventures.com- Join the Security Breakfast Linkedin Network Link to http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1-00508/4A0F035EC21E Moderator Scott Greiper Managing Director Legend Merchant Group Panelists Gianni Arcaini CEO Duos Technologies Skip Elliott Vice President of Public Safety and Environment CSX Transportation Brian Noone Chief Security Officer Keyspan Corporation Joe Tadrick Protective Security Advisory Department ...
Reality Show Will Document Homeland Security
2008-05-29 07:36:00 From HollywoodReporter.com, by James Hibberd A new ABC unscripted series will take an unprecedented look behind the scenes at the government’s fight against terrorism. The network has ordered 11 hours of “Border Security USA” from executive producer Arnold Shapiro (”Big Brother”). Shot on location throughout the United States, the series will focus on the efforts of border ...
Al Qaeda Supporters? Tape to Call for Use of WMDs
2008-05-28 10:39:00 From abcnews.go.com, by Pierre Thomas and Theresa Cook Intelligence and law enforcement sources tell ABC News they are expecting al Qaeda supporters will post a new video on the Internet in the next 24 hours, calling for what one source said is “jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West.” Officials say they ...
Homeland Security Charter School
2008-05-24 13:19:00 I suppose this is simply a police themed high school. It is an interesting idea, but I think it depends mostly upon the teachers and the cirriculum as to what the end product will be.
By: Brillianter.com
New Homeland Security Threat Level Colors (For Spring)
2008-05-18 18:19:00 Rococco, Cantaloupe, Freesia… If J. Crew lines your closet you’ll be right at home with these fresh hues. ©2008 Garling Gauge. All Rights Reserved..
By: Garling Gauge
DHS Awards $844 Million to Secure Critical Infrastructure
2008-05-16 20:08:00 From DHS Release WASHINGTON ? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today more than $844 million in grant awards as part of its Infrastructure Protection Activities (IPA) grant program. Grant awards will strengthen security at ports and enhance transit, trucking and intercity bus systems. Funds provided will be used to prevent, protect against, respond ...
FBI Releases Preliminary Statistics for Law Enforcement Officers Killed in
2008-05-16 04:30:00 From FBI Release According to preliminary statistics released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 57 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty during 2007. Geographically, 31 of the victim officers were killed in the South, nine in the West, nine in the Midwest, and seven in the Northeast. One ...
Congress Reports on Major Event Security
2008-05-14 23:58:00 From Congressional Release May 13, 2008 (WASHINGTON) ? Today, the Majority Staff of the Committee on Homeland Security, Chaired by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), released a comprehensive report examining homeland security challenges for mass gatherings. The report, entitled ?Public Health, Safety, and Security for Mass Gatherings? details 30 recommendations for what should be done by ...
Bob Barr Enters Race For White House
2008-05-13 07:45:00 For Americans who may have been hungry for a credentialed conservative candidate in the 2008 Presidential contest, the wait is over. Bob Barr today announced his candidacy for the presidency. Barr will run as a Libertarian and have to secure the their party?s nomination at a convention in Denver in two weeks. In discussing the 2008 race ...
Paul Bremer to Al Jazeera, ?The system was not working?
2008-05-09 08:50:00 From Al Jazeera Paul Bremer was appointed by George Bush, the US president, as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority immediately after the invasion of the country by US-led forces, taking up his position on May 11, 2003, until June 2004 when limited sovereignty was restored. As part of Al Jazeera’s special series War Without End, ...
FBI Probes Dozens of WMD Threats Each Year
2008-05-08 17:51:00 By Ron Kessler, NewsMax.com The FBI gets at least several dozen cases a year involving weapons of mass destruction, Dr. Vahid Majidi, the bureau?s assistant director in charge of the WMD Directorate, tells Newsmax. Full Story
Spotlight on Homeland Security 11.25.02
2008-05-08 01:47:00 Stars Over Washington has previous posts concerning the Department of Homeland Security but today I published a Page at Jude's Threshold with details on DHS' natal chart if you wish to take a peek. While there, please add imperialism to the list of -isms for Pluto/Chiron. My original wet-behind-the-bloggedy-ears HoSec post from Nov 20, 2005 may be found here--image of this money-grubbing
Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century: Implications for Homeland Security
2008-05-06 21:32:00 In the latest in its series of lectures by senior US counterterrorism officials, today The Washington Institute's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence hosted the Department of Homeland Security's Undersecretary for Intelligence, Mr. Charlie Allen. Mr. Allen is the Department of Homeland Security's chief intelligence officer, reporting directly to DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff. Previously, he served as assistant director of central intelligence for collection, a position he assumed...(read more)
Are You Worth Saving? Homeland Security Might Not Agree!
2008-05-05 17:00:00 NEW HOMELAND SECURITY RECOMMENDATIONSDuring the deadly flu pandemic the accompanied the Spanish Flu after World War I, actual numbers of those who died are still not known. My grandfather Froehlich was almost a statistic. Fortunately, my grandfather had a remarkable relationship with the Lord and a cast iron constitution. He was in the Army at the time, having recently graduated from the University of Maryland. Like just about everyone else in the ward, he was simply wheeled outside to die. He started praying and survived. According to family stories my grandfather was never sick another day of ...
Homeland Security Committee Schedule - Thursday, May 1
2008-05-01 06:52:00 · Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response MARKUP · H.R. 1333, the “Civil Air Patrol Homeland Security Support Act of 2007″ To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of the Air Force to use Civil Air Patrol personnel and resources to support homeland security ...
Homeland Security Committee Schedule - Wednesday, April 30
2008-04-29 13:59:00 · Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response MARKUP · H.R. 1333, the “Civil Air Patrol Homeland Security Support Act of 2007″ To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of the Air Force to use Civil Air Patrol personnel and resources to support homeland security ...
Press Release: DHS Announces New Aviation Security and Traveler Screening
2008-04-29 08:32:00 BALTIMORE - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today improvements aimed at strengthening aviation security while decreasing the hassle factor for travelers. Among the key improvements, DHS is providing airlines more flexibility to allow passengers to check in remotely who have been unable to do so because they have a name similar to ...
A Courageous Marina Litvinenko Takes Up Husband?s Cause
2008-04-25 09:09:00 From HSLEADER.com, by John Taylor Washington - Marina Litvinenko, the widow of Alexander ?Sasha? Litvinenko, gave a long overdue talk to the attendees of GovSec on Thursday on behalf of her late husband. Mr. Litvinenko was scheduled to address GovSec in 2007, when he was assassinated in November 2006 with tea poisoned with polonium-210. Mrs. Litvinenko gave ...
Homeland Security Committee Schedule - Wednesday, April 23
2008-04-23 06:44:00 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 10am 311 Cannon House Office Building Moving Beyond the First Five Years: Improving the Functionality, Governance, and Accountability of the Department of Homeland Security Full Committee Witness: Paul A. Schneider, Acting Deputy Secretary and Undersecretary for Management, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
DHS Proposes Biometrics Collection on Exiting Non-US Citizens
2008-04-22 19:27:00 WASHINGTON ? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today a notice of proposed rulemaking that will establish biometric exit procedures at all U.S air and sea ports of departure. The majority of non-U.S. citizens are already required to submit digital fingerprints and a digital photograph for admission into the country. The US-VISIT Exit ...
Homeland Security Committee Schedule - Monday, April 21
2008-04-21 07:54:00 10 am Site visit to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment The Subcommittee will tour the Minnesota Joint Analysis Center (MNJAC) and meet with Corporate Security at the Mall of America to discuss information sharing and critical infrastructure issues. The Subcommittee will also visit the Xcel Energy Center, the site of the ...
Ex-marshal: Air Marshal Training ?A National Disgrace?
2008-04-19 02:08:00 From CNN, by Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnson SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) — Their mission is to protect airline passengers from acts of terror on U.S. flights. But in a special investigation, former and current air marshals told CNN that the number of marshals assigned to police flights is ...
Homeland Security Committee Schedule - Wednesday, April 16
2008-04-16 17:55:00 Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 2pm 311 Cannon House Office Building Moving Beyond the First Five Years: Ensuring Successful Implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism Witnesses (subject to change): Mr. Bob Jacksta, Executive Director of Passenger Security and Facilitation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Kathleen Kraninger, ...
IBM report recommends homeland security-business 'joint effort'
2008-04-15 09:13:00 IBM today released a report outlining new risks to people, cargo, global financial and information flows, and modes of transport. The report highlights the complexity and vulnerability of these systems, and provides recommendations for the future. Based on research and interviews with more than 200 former and current government officials and policy experts, "Global Movement Management: Strengthening Commerce, Security and Resiliency in Today's Networked World," provides detailed recommendations for policymakers, companies, and governments to enhance global economic security and resiliency. The authors challenge public and private organizations to focus on key similarities in their operations and to align their policies and investments in a way that makes performance, security and resiliency a joint effort. "Our findings indicate that a better understanding of emerging risks makes it possible to improve security and resilience without harming commercial interests,...
By: Circle of 13
Homeland Security Committee Schedule - Tuesday, April 15
2008-04-15 06:50:00 Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 2pm 311 Cannon House Office Building Moving Beyond the First Five Years: How the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will Continue to Enhance Security for All Modes of Transportation Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection Witnesses: Hon. Kip Hawley, Assistant Secretary for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security; ...
Next Steps for Homeland Security
2008-04-15 06:45:00 From The Heritage Foundation, testimony by James Jay Carafano Testimony before Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight United States House of Representatives My name is Dr. James Jay Carafano. I am the Assistant Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and a Senior Research Fellow for the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center ...
Fighting Global Islamist Ideology the Key to War on Terror
2008-04-15 06:41:00 From International Analyst Network, by Steve Emerson (Note: This article summarizes my testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. My written remarks can be found here. Also, Congressional Quarterly’s coverage of the hearing can be found here.) American outreach efforts with the Muslim world have been nothing short of a disaster because we continue seeking ...
Xinjiang Province - The Islamic Jihad Battlefront in China
2008-04-15 06:38:00 From American Thinker, by Janet Levy When the 2008 Summer Olympic Games were awarded to Beijing seven years ago, hope arose that China’s new-found status as a modern, world power and position in the world media spotlight would prompt increased tolerance and democracy nationwide. Clearly, that optimism has been dashed by the turmoil in Tibet. Stellar economic ...
Petraeus Points to War with Iran
2008-04-15 06:37:00 From World Net Daily The neocons may yet get their war on Iran. Ever since President Nouri al-Maliki ordered the attacks in Basra on the Mahdi Army, Gen. David Petraeus has been laying the predicate for U.S. air strikes on Iran and a wider war in the Middle East. Iran, Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee, has ...
Homeland Security in the Year 1692
2008-04-14 01:44:00 Imagine living in fear of an enemy who is covert and ruthless. An enemy who hates us for all that we hold dear. An enemy who hides among us, using our freedoms and institutions against us. Our civilian legal tradition is helpless and impotent against such an enemy.
By: Kmareka.com
Who Trumps bin Laden as a Cyberthreat? Look in the Mirror
2008-04-10 04:36:00 From CNet News, by Charles Cooper SAN FRANCISCO–It turns out al-Qaida’s leader and his cohorts aren’t the biggest threat to our cybersecurity. You are. Six years ago, Osama bin Laden represented the nightmare scenario for the computer security establishment. But more immediate cyberdangers lurk on the horizon. Experts attending the RSA conference that began here today ...
Secretary Michael Chertoff, Department of Homeland Security to Speak at RSA
2008-04-08 10:00:00 His keynote will begin at 11:30 AM. Let us know if you're going to be there and leave us your impressions.
Random Search Stops $600 Million In Trade Secrets Bound For China
2008-04-08 06:08:00 From InformationWeek, by Thomas Claburn The feds have indicated a software engineer who was flying to China with confidential technical documents, a thumb drive, four external hard drives, 29 recordable compact discs, and a videotape. A former software engineer for a telecommunications company based near Chicago was indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets worth an estimated ...
DHS Domestic Spy Platform Remains Concern for Congress
2008-04-08 05:56:00 Today, Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment Chair Jane Harman (D-CA), and Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight Chairman Chris P. Carney (D-PA) sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff detailing their concerns over the progress of the Department?s National Applications Office ...
Chertoff gives ?the finger? to South Texas
2008-04-07 20:20:00 Confronted with environmental concerns about proposed border fencing, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff used his power Tuesday to waive dozens of federal laws to clear the way for building it. Chertoff’s announcement followed a March 3 letter from a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official pointing out that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials had ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Memo: Laws Didn?t Apply to Interrogators
2008-04-07 07:32:00 From The Washington Post, by Dan Eggen and Josh White The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president’s ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes. The 81-page memo, ...
Buzzworthy: ?Lobster-Eye? Helps Peek Inside Cargo
2008-04-07 07:09:00 From POC.com The Handheld ?Lobster-Eye? X-ray Inspection Device (LEXID) provides through - the - wall focusing and acquisition of backscattering photons from a hidden object irradiated by a cone beam from a low power X-ray generator. The X-ray optic focusing, combined with the X-ray detector significantly lowers the exposure dose, greatly enhancing image resolution. At the ...
Al Qaeda Leader Answers Questions, Says bin Laden Healthy and Calls For Mor
2008-04-05 06:23:00 From The National Terror Alert Al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri has defended attacks on the UN, describing the body as an enemy of Muslims. The Egyptian-born militant also used an internet message to say his leader, Osama Bin Laden, was in good health. His audio message answered questions about al-Qaeda?s future solicited from websites linked to the group. Full Story…
Defense Department Official Pleads Guilty to Espionage Charge Involving Chi
2008-04-05 06:13:00 From FedAgent.com A Defense Department official, Gregg William Bergersen, of Alexandria, Virginia, pled guilty Monday to a one-count criminal information charging him with conspiracy to disclose national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it. Bergersen, age 51, was arrested on February 11, 2008. According to a Statement of Facts filed in Court with Bergersen’s Plea ...
Homeland Security: We're ready to launch spy satellite office
2008-04-03 06:00:00 Homeland Security: We're ready to launch spy satellite officeDespite privacy concerns from Congress, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff says plans are underway to let police, border security, and other domestic agencies access detailed satellite i...
Homeland Security blinks on Real ID: No hassles on May 11
2008-04-03 05:00:00 Homeland Security blinks on Real ID: No hassles on May 11By giving Maine a thumbs up, even though the state has flatly rejected Real ID, Homeland Security backed down from an expected fight over national ID cards next month. http://-www.news... |
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