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Suicide Rates Increase Across Military Branches in 2009 - CQ Homeland Security More U.S...
Three-month extension in pipeline for FAA - Things With Wings I’m hearing some very strong rumors that the Senate is proposing another three-month extension to FAA’s operating authority. Th...
Wikileaks Says It Has Half-a-Million 9/11 Pager Messages - Wired The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it’s preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
DNA Sensors Getting Ready to Sniff Out Terrorist Attacks - Homeland Security Outlook Researchers at the MITRE Corporation are developing genetically engineered bio-sensors, and while they're still a few years from the marketplace, these sensors promise to be even more accurate than today's...
Gobble, Gobble: TSA Helpful Holiday Travel Tips - The TSA Blog It’s that time of year again where turkeys head for the hills and people head for the airports. ...
Senators Call for Changes in H1N1 Vaccine Distribution - CQ Homeland Security The leadership of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Friday asking her to re-examine the way the department is...
A recent article in Congressional Quarterly’s Homeland Security edition looked into a very different aspect of our government’s cyber security efforts. CQ visited the Cyber Crimes Center belonging to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Th...
Preparing for The Bio-terrror Threat - National Terror Alert The threat of a bio-terror attack on the U.S remains high and may be more likely than you think. That’s because another al-Qaida attack on the U.S. could be much worse than 9/11. ...
Ashcroft Joins Criticism of KSM Trial - MainJustice.com Former Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Friday that trials for the Sept. 11, 2001, plotters could endanger the public and give anti-U.S. elements a public stage to voice their rhetoric, according to the Associated Press.
On November 17, the Senate Judiciary Committee took up the subject of cyber security...
Recently, the House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on the issue of aircraft foreign repair station security. And while the Committee's oversight on this issue is commendable, the hearing lacked one important item: an updated risk assessment...
Once again it is time to revisit the issue of Congressional meddling into the operations of DHS...
Why We Should Put Jihad on Trial - NYTimes.com The Justice Department’s decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, in a federal court in New York City has elicited several criticisms. ...
Axelrod Backs Away from Committing to Immigration Reform in 2010 - Change.org While we listen to Representative Luis Gutierrez giving yet another talk for immigration reform today, the Obama Administration has slowly backed away from a firm promise, which sends us mixed signals...
Pentagon Budget Stressed by More Than Wars, Experts and Lawmakers Say - CQ Today Senior members of the House Armed Services Committee expressed grave concerns Wednesday at a hearing that examined the growing pressures on defense budgets. Despite the expansion of Pentagon spending since the Sept...
