AN AUSTRALIAN family on a mercy dash to a dying relative in the United States were detained without food or water before being sent to a detention centre and forced to spend the night with criminal suspects. Their ordeal finished with them being deported.
Mr Fazle Rabbi, his wife, Rokeya, and their two sons, Rakin, 14, [...]
The Homeland Security Department is tied for second among federal departments for having the most high-risk management challenges on the Government Accountability Office’s biennial high-risk list released Jan. 22.
The Defense Department is first, with eight high-risk areas, and DHS and the Health and Human Services Department are tied for second, each with four high-risk areas.
GAO’s [...]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the release of the National Disaster Housing Strategy for natural (hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.) or man-made (terrorist attack) disasters.
The Strategy summarizes, for the first time in a single document, the many sheltering and housing capabilities, principles, and policies that guide and inform the disaster [...]
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today issued a second round of action directives on cyber security and the northern border strategy.
These action directives instruct specific offices to gather information, review existing strategies and programs, and to provide oral and written reports back to her by mid February. In the coming days, [...]
On Tuesday at the inauguration, members of the U.S. Secret Service’s elite countersniper unit will be out in force, taking roof-top positions along Pennsylvania Avenue and elsewhere as the presidential motorcade glides past throngs of people for the swearing in of Barack Obama.
The Secret Service doesn’t mind you knowing they are up there. In [...]
As the world grapples with the economic meltdown, one may think that this would result in cuts in global spending on homeland security. However, experts say this is not the case and expenditure on homeland security is expected to triple to $178 billion (Dh653bn) by 2015.
Over the years, the security-related spending has expanded to include [...]
The controversial security and surveillance website Cryptome.org has obtained a “threat assessment” document for inauguration week [Zip file], prepared jointly by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and others, looking at the dangers to Barack Obama and to the spectators at tomorrow’s swearing-in. (As noted at Swampland, it’s an unclassified document, intended for use by [...]
The last Super Bowl hosted by Tampa was in 2001, the year that marked the end of the era of innocence. The game was played just eight months before terrorists attacked; it was a time of relaxed security, when law enforcement officers mostly tried to keep drunken fans from falling over the railings.
Since those days, [...]
f, as expected, a record crowd turns out for Barack Obama’s inauguration, Washington will be ready with the largest number of security people ever assembled in the nation’s capital.
The U.S. Secret Service is overseeing a security force of more than 40,000 people, including 7,500 active duty soldiers, 10,000 National [...]
The Department of Homeland Security outpaced a long list of others in generating negative responses from its nearly 10,000 responding employees. It had one of the highest numbers of respondents who disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement, “My work gives me a feeling of personal accomplishment.” Ditto for the statement, [...]