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Supreme Court Kills Border Wall Challenge. One Step Closer to US Security State?
Today the US Supreme Court declined to hear a legal challenge by the County of El Paso, Texas to the construction of the US-Mexico border wall, thus upholding an earlier decision by a US federal court judge that permitted the Bush administration...
Tags: Supreme Court, border wall, border fence, U.S-Mexico border, El Paso County, Mayer Brown LLP, Jose Rodriguez, Michael Chertoff, Department of Homeland Security, US Supreme Court
Boxer 'muzzled' on coal ash sites
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
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Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer says the Department of Homeland Security and the Army Corps of Engineers have put “a huge muzzle” on her and her staff by forbidding them from discussing the locations of hazardous coal ash...
Tags: coal ash, Barbara Boxer, ash sites, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers
Obama's New Anti-drug Border Strategy: What it will and won't do (concisely)
A few heavyweights in Obama's administration converged last week to announce a new counter-narcotics strategy for the US-Mexico border. In short, their new plan, outlined in a 65-page document entitled "National Southwest Border Counternarcotics...
Tags: Mexico Solidarity Network, Obama administration, counter-narcotics, US-Mexico border, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Merida Initiative, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, Gil Kerlikowske, new strategy announced
Obama administration grants reprieve to immigrant widows
San Leandro :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The Obama administration on Tuesday gave a temporary reprieve to immigrant widows across the country who were targeted for deportation because their immigration status was not resolved before their spouses died. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano...
Tags: U.S, Department of Homeland Security, obama administration, Janet Napolitano, immigration widowers, Obama
Nominee for Homeland Security intelligence chief withdraws
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Obama's pick, CIA and FBI veteran Philip Mudd, may have faced opposition in a Senate committee over his knowledge of the CIA's interrogations program following Sept. 11. PM PDT, June 5, 2009 Mudd became the latest candidate for a high-level intelligence...
Tags: Philip Mudd, CIA Tactics, Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Department, Obama, Phillip Mudd
Information Week: Homeland Security Names New Cybersecurity Officials
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility The Department of Homeland Security filled out its cybersecurity team Monday, two months after Rod Beckstrom resigned as director of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center. He had clashed with the National Security Agency and complained about...
Atlanta airport testing digital fingerprint system
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Department of Homeland Security launched the $5.5 million pilot program at Hartsfield and Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. It already collects fingerprints from most non-U.S. citizens who arrive at U.S. ports of entry or apply for visas. Atlanta...
Tags: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Department of Homeland Security
Bernard Kerik indicted
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik has been indicted on charges of making false statements to White House Officials vetting him for the position of Homeland Security secretary. The new indictment was handed up Tuesday by a federal...
Tags: Bernard Kerik, Department of Homeland Security, New York City, Washington, police commissioner
State sets up storm hotline
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility The Indiana Department of Homeland Security is trying to assess damage from storms beginning May 12 and has set up a toll-free number for property owners to report damage. The number, 866-210-1925, is staffed from 7 a.m. to 5 weekdays through May 29.
Tags: House Homeland Security Committee, Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Department
Americans Boycotting Discretionary Air Travel: Random Strip Searches Next?
Recently an article was published in CNN Money quoting the Air Transport Association, an association of executives from the airline industry, predicting there would be approximately 7% fewer airline passengers this summer due to the economic conditions...
Tags: economy, United States, travel, vacations, security, domestic, Department of Homeland Security
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