Frank Rich’s recent article, When Privacy Jumped the Shark in New York Magazine, carries the opener: Note to Edward Snowden…
Homeland Security
5 Missions, 14 Goals and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Obama officials present a strategic redefining of Homeland Security’s mission By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February…
Too Many Dolts to Connect
U.S. was more focused on al-Qaeda’s plans abroad than for homeland, report on airline bomb plot finds By Karen DeYoung…
Out of Date, Never Implemented and Revised Six Times–Homeland Security at Work
TSA manual misstep leads to discipline By Spencer S. Hsu Thursday, December 10, 2009 The Department of Homeland Security has…
Sunnis Laying Low in Iraq and Waiting for the Pullout
A changing of the guard, in the form of General Petraeus handing over the keys to General Odiermo, presages by…
Homeland Security–Losing Your Money at $1.5 Million an Hour
Congress Says DHS Oversaw $15 Billion in Failed Contracts By Dana Hedgpeth Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 17, 2008;…
Seven Years after 9-11, Time to Get over It
The annual national hysteria over the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon is in full cry.…
Border Security–Accepting the Fabric of Fear
–> We are not a fearful nation, nor (if we reject Michael Chertoff’s continuing effort to scare us to death)…
Sophisticated Analysis–a DHS Oxymoron
Citizens’ U.S. Border Crossings Tracked Data From Checkpoints To Be Kept for 15 Years By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff…
Robert Gates, the Right Man at a Very Late Time in the Game
Bob Gates has done a great many things right in his brief tenure as Secretary of Defense. Not the least…