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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 ...
Battles Over Open Government Cast Shadow on 'Sunshine Week'
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsIn the middle of Sunshine Week promoting transparency in government, open-government advocates say the apparent demotion of a high-level Department of Homeland Security employee for whistle-blowing is particularly dark. "Our government is sending the message to federal workers that they do not want them to come forward and report these problems," Dave Colapinto, the general counsel of the National Whisteblowers Center, told AOL News today by phone. "In other words, they do not want the public to know what is going on." According to The Associated Press, the Department of Homeland Security ...
Rebellious Arizona -- the Perfect Venue for Next Week's Tea Party Summit
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyArizona -- with its battles over immigration and its liberal gun laws -- has become something of a poster child for the anti-government movement. Which is why the Tea Party Patriots, the largest tea party group in the country, will hold their American Policy Summit at the Phoenix Convention Center Feb. 25-27. The Tea Party Patriots, which claim more than 3,000 locally organized chapters and more than 15 million supporters nationwide, state on their summit website that they picked Phoenix because the state's tea party invited them and also to support Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's immigration ...
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 ...
Immigration Blues: Obama Scraps Full 'Virtual' Border Fence
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe "virtual" border fence isn't a virtual reality anymore. The $1 billion project to install sensors, radar, video and other technology as a way of spotting illegal immigrants crossing over from Mexico to the United States has been scrapped by the Obama administration, Reuters and the Associated Press reported. The SBInet program, started in 2006 under the Bush administration, faced a series of cost overruns and missed deadlines. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says proven, commercially available technology -- aerial drones, thermal imaging and other surveillance systems -- ...
Opinion: Tucson Memorial Service -- The Worst of America, the Best of Obama
By Bob Maistros - AOL NewsFor America, the past four days can only be regarded as some of the worst of times in recent memory. Nineteen people mowed down by a madman with a frighteningly lethal weapon. A vivacious young congresswoman fighting for her life in a Tucson, Ariz., hospital. And worst of all, a precipitous descent into a nasty, hasty and ill-considered tit for tat from opposite ends of the liberal-conservative continuum. Into this calamitous downdraft stepped the president of the United States, one Barack Obama. Those of us who have observed with alarm this chief executive's frequent petulance, pettiness, ...
Arizona Is the New California, and It's Already Changing Our Lives
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyOnce upon a time, California was the trendsetter for the rest of the country. What happened there tended to spread, whether it was property tax cuts or stringent environmental regulation. But now it's time for the Golden State to exit stage left. We have a new outsized player in national life. It's Arizona, and it's taking us in a whole new direction. The Grand Canyon State has been in the news this year for enacting what's been called the country's toughest immigration law and for Medicaid cutbacks that amount to death sentences for transplant patients. If Arizona's controversial ...
US Scraps Color-Coded Terror Alerts
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Nov. 25) -- Late-night TV hosts better get their jokes in quick, before the color-coded terror alert system that's been the topic of so many punch-lines is gone for good. U.S. officials say they're phasing out the five-tiered alert scheme created in 2002 under the Bush administration, after years of criticism from lawmakers and citizens alike who say the system is vague, needlessly alarming -- or just plain silly. In March 2002, "Saturday Night Live" lampooned the system in a skit in which an actor portraying a Homeland Security official described it as "six shades of beige." Conan ...
Orange Alert? Government May Scrap Color-Coded Terror Warnings
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDid you know we are on "orange" alert? That's right -- though the high-risk warning is only for air travelers. The country as a whole is only at "yellow" -- significant risk of attack. But all of that may change soon. The color-coded alert system, instituted by the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks, has long been derided by critics as too vague -- or worse, as a scare tactic. But the Obama administration may soon scrap it, the Associated Press reports, replacing the system with something more descriptive but not as, uh, colorful. "I think it is something that is under review, simply ...
TSA Airport Screening: Come Die With Me
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyYou are witnessing the death of an industry. What the eco-freaks could never do -- drum up significant support for mass transit -- the TSA has done in just one decade. Hard to believe there was a time when flying was glamorous, but glamorous, exciting and sexy it was from the 1940s through the 1960s. Stewardesses wore cute little suits, and passengers dressed up too. Airline meals weren't great, but they sure beat the tiny bags of pretzels we get now. Back in the day, the word airplane conjured up images of passengers disembarking in Honolulu, welcomed by young women holding leis. An ...
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