Politics / Tags / Security

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Mar 8, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- President Obama tapped a former Army general Monday to lead the Transportation Security Administration... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Mar 8, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- President Obama has tapped a retired major general with 33 years in the Army to lead the Transportation Security Administration, sources have told CNN... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Feb 24, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Department of Homeland Security has more contractors working for it than full-time employees, a situation two members of Congress said Tuesday was "unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable.".. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Feb 18, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Nearly 180 Department of Homeland Security weapons were lost -- some falling into the hands of criminals -- after officers left them in restrooms, vehicles and other public places, according to an inspector general report... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jan 26, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The federal government got a mixed report card Tuesday from a commission that assessed progress toward implementing national security measures in the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jan 5, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- President Obama meets with his security officials today for an update on the inquiry into security lapses that allowed a bomb suspect to board a U.S.-bound flight... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Dec 30, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Transportation Security Administration extended through at least Wednesday heightened security measures in the aftermath of a failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner, the agency said... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Dec 9, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The pair who slipped through security and greeted President Obama at his state dinner will invoke the Fifth Amendment if subpoenaed, their lawyer said... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Dec 3, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The couple accused of crashing a state dinner at the White House last week have been asked to testify Thursday before the House Committee on Homeland Security... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Dec 2, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The couple who allegedly showed up uninvited to last week's state dinner for the Indian prime minister insists they didn't crash the party, but the White House disagrees... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Nov 10, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- White House National Security Adviser Retired Gen. Jim Jones issued a rare public statement Monday vehemently denying media reports that suggest U.S. President Barack Obama has privately decided to send close to 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Oct 2, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- The Department of Homeland Security will hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years to help protect U.S. computer networks, an Obama administration official said... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Sep 24, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A rare meeting of U.N. Security Council heads of state, led for the first time by a U.S. president, adopted a resolution focused on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons Thursday... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Sep 23, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Wednesday denounced the structure of the U.N. Security Council, criticizing the permanent seats and veto power granted to a limited number of nations... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Aug 21, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge says he blocked an effort by senior Bush administration officials to raise the nation's terror alert level in the days before the 2004 presidential vote. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld strongly advocated raising the security threat level to "orange" after Osama bin Laden released a pre-election message critical of the president. Ridge says he was "incredulous," because additional security precautions had already been taken... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jul 13, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- President Obama has ordered national security officials to look into allegations that the Bush administration resisted efforts to investigate a CIA-backed Afghan warlord over the killings of hundreds of Taliban prisoners in 2001... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jul 8, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Plainclothes investigators sent to test security at federal buildings in four U.S. cities were successful in smuggling bomb components through guard posts at all 10 of the sites they visited, according to a government report... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Nov 9, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- Less than three years ago, Bernard Kerik stood proudly at a White House podium, being introduced as President Bush's pick to head the Department of Homeland Security. Now Kerik stands to face what could be the decisive chapter in a downfall as stunning as.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Oct 31, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- All State Department security convoys in Iraq will now fall under military control, the latest step taken by government officials to bring Blackwater Worldwide and other armed contractors under tighter supervision. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice a.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Oct 30, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Private US security contractors accused of shooting dead 17 innocent Iraqis may have been offered partial immunity by the US state department, say reports. Unnamed officials said the offer was unauthorised and could make it much more difficult to prose.. Read More