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Top Lawmaker Protests 'Whistle-Blower' Demotion
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department demoted a senior career employee who confidentially complained to the inspector general that political appointees were improperly interfering with requests for federal records by journalists and watchdog groups. The new Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigating those practices told the Obama administration that the decision "appeared to be an act of retaliation" and warned, "Obstructing a congressional investigation is a crime." The department responded that it had done nothing ...
Color-Coded Terror Warnings to Be Gone by April 27
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- By the end of April, terror threats to the U.S. will no longer be described in shades of green, blue, yellow, orange and red, The Associated Press has learned. The nation's color-coded terror warning system will be phased out beginning this week, according to government officials familiar with the plan. The officials requested anonymity to speak ahead of an announcement scheduled Thursday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. The Homeland Security Department and other government agencies have been reviewing the Homeland Security Advisory System's usefulness for more ...
Color-Coded Terror Alerts to End, Says Homeland Security
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAfter nine years and countless jokes at its expense, the Department of Homeland Security will retire the nation's color-coded terror threat alert in favor of a new public warning system. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano will announce details of the new system Thursday. The old procedures will be phased out beginning next week and changes will be fully implemented by the end of April. A task force appointed by Napolitano in 2009 to review the effectiveness of the rainbow-hued alert levels concluded they should be scrapped. "Task Force membership believes the color code system has suffered from ...
Alert Issued on Beverage Containers on Planes
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department has alerted air carriers to a potential terror tactic involving insulated beverage containers like thermoses. The alert stressed that there is no intelligence about an active terror plot, but travelers may notice airport screeners taking a closer look at empty insulated containers. The Transportation Security Administration "is carefully monitoring information related to terrorist tactics" in coordination with other nations, TSA spokeswoman Sterling Payne said in a statement Thursday. "The possible tactics terrorists might use include the ...
ACLU Sues Feds Over Detentions of Mentally Ill
By Scott Martelle - AOL News(Aug. 2) -- The American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights activists went to court late today seeking to force the federal government to protect the rights of mentally incompetent immigrant detainees -- at least one of whom, they say, languished in federal custody for nearly five years. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, seeks to compel the federal government -- primarily the departments of Justice and Homeland Security -- to design a system that would identify mentally incompetent detainees and assign them counsel to represent them during ...
More High-Tech Setbacks for Border Security
By G.W. Schulz - Politics DailyThe Obama administration's recent surprise decision to suspend new work on a multibillion-dollar high-tech border control system -- the third attempted since 1997 -- raises further questions about the government's use of computer networks and sensors in an effort to seal the border with Mexico. As part of a broad illegal immigration crackdown called the Secure Border Initiative, a seamless "virtual fence" launched in 2005 was supposed to be up and running by last year. Among other things, the project known as SBInet called for a vast surveillance system along the 2,000-mile Southwestern ...
Times Square Bomb Attempt Seen as Failure for Homeland Security, Poll Says
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA plurality of voters think the attempted bombing in Times Square was a failure for the Homeland Security Department because the suspect was able to leave his car in Times Square with explosives in it, and unlike the case of the would-be Christmas Day bomber, the public is divided on whether Faisal Shahzad should be tried as an enemy combatant,according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted May 4-5. Forty-seven percent labeled security efforts a failure because of Shahzad's ability to get the bomb-laden SUV into a busy part of the city and park it before a T-shirt vendor saw smoke ...
Immigration Reform: First Secure Border, Says Sen. Lindsey Graham
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySen. Lindsey Graham and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano clashed Tuesday over whether the Senate should move forward immediately on immigration reform, with Graham betting "everything I own" that a comprehensive bill will not pass this year unless the nation first secures its border with Mexico. An angry Graham (R-S.C.) earlier backed away from his support for a climate change bill after learning the Obama adminstration wants to begin a new push for immigration reform, with legislation likely to grant legal status to undocumented workers -- if certain conditions are met. The ...
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