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Released Emails Show Insiders Worried Over Political 'Meddling'
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Insiders at the Homeland Security Department warned for months that senior Obama administration appointees were improperly delaying the releases of government files on politically sensitive topics as sought by citizens, journalists and watchdog groups under the Freedom of Information Act, according to uncensored emails newly obtained by The Associated Press. The highly unusual political vetting was described as "meddling," "crazy" and "bananas!" It is the subject of a congressional hearing later this week and an ongoing inquiry by the department's inspector general. Concerns ...
DHS, Interior Among 5 of the Worst-Run Federal Programs
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Government Accountability Office released its biennial list of the poorest performing government agencies today -- and this year, the Interior Department's management of the nation's oil and gas resources made the list for the first time. This should come as no surprise, given the breathtaking scope of the lapses by the Minerals Management Service that came to light during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The transgressions, catalogued by Interior's inspector general, included gifts, trips and football tickets given to inspectors, who sometimes let oil and gas companies fill in ...
US Also Vulnerable to Stuxnet Virus, Official Warns
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Dec. 7) -- The computer virus Stuxnet, which some experts believe was created specifically to target Iran's nuclear facilities, could also threaten U.S. infrastructure, a senior Department of Homeland Security official says. "That virus focused on specific software implementations, and those software implementations did exist in some U.S. infrastructure," Greg Schaffer, the department's assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications, told reporters at a breakfast Monday morning. "So, there was the potential for some U.S. infrastructure.to be impacted at some level." Schaffer ...
Five Options for Replacing Stalled Virtual Border Fence
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News
(Nov. 6) -- Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has already frozen work on the controversial "virtual fence" that was supposed to secure roughly 1,900 miles along the United States' southwest border. Now, she's expected to announce its cancellation by mid-November. SBInet was supposed to integrate data from radar, cameras and other sensors to create a virtual fence that would alert border patrol agents of attempted illegal entries. But the program has been plagued by cost, schedule and technical problems. Mark Ralston, AFP / Getty Images A U.S. Border Patrol officer keeps watch ...
US Government Monitoring Social Networking Sites
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News
(Oct. 15) -- Think the people looking at your Facebook page just happen to share your interest in Quentin Tarantino movies? Maybe, but if you're applying for citizenship, it could be a government agent trying to cybersnoop on your daily activities. The Department of Homeland Security has been mining online social networking sites to detect citizenship fraud, according to government documents released by a nonprofit civil liberties group. The documents also show that DHS monitored social networking data to look for potential violent incidents during the inauguration of President Barack Obama. ...
'Feds Radiating Americans' with Scanners at Road Checkpoints: Is It True?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 29) -- Are scanners being employed at roadway checkpoints to "radiate Americans" with dangerous X-rays designed to peer inside their vehicles? Yes, according to Alex Jones conspiratorial website Prison Planet, and this time, the mainstream media agrees, at least in part. In his most recent Google Trends coup, Alex Jones encouraged users to repeatedly search the phrase "feds radiating Americans," to draw attention to Prison Planet reporter Paul Joseph Watson's new article. In it, the author claims that instead of dedicating their efforts to control illegal immigration and drug ...
Feds Focusing on Source of Afghan War Data Leak
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(July 27) -- The Pentagon has launched an official investigation into the thousands of Afghanistan war-related documents made public over the weekend by the website WikiLeaks, with the mission of uncovering who actually supplied the massive data dump. Defense Department spokesman Col. Dave Lapan told The Associated Press that the investigation, led by the Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID), would focus on identifying the source of the leak, which has been compared in scope and importance to the Pentagon Papers. While WikiLeaks has made repeated claims that it has been targeted by ...
Full-Body Security Scanners: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 21) -- Modesty and air travel are two concepts that appear to be mutually exclusive these days, thanks to an increasing level of scrutiny at the security checkpoint. Exhibit A: the controversial full-body scanner, likely coming soon to an airport near you. In the U.S., 142 are currently in operation at 41 airports, and another 309 will be in place by the end of the year, notes The New York Times. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security released the names of the next 28 airports to receive this high-tech screening tool. Airports Next-in-Line for Full-Body Scanners The * ...
Northern Mariana Islands Support Arizona Immigrant Law, But Why?
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 15) -- Nine states announced today that they were filing a legal brief in support of Arizona's controversial immigration law. Surprisingly, the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote South Pacific commonwealth of the U.S. government, decided to join them. Word that the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) was hopping on the pro-Arizona bandwagon got Surge Desk wondering: Does CNMI really have a dog in this fight? The decision to join the full-fledged states of Michigan, Florida, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Alabama, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia was made by CNMI ...
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