Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s a like a drone for the ocean. Homeland Security is testing a six-foot-long robotic fish that is designed to find contraband in a ship’s hull, The Rancher reports. Equipped with sophisticated sensors, the BIOSwimmer is shaped like a tuna and highly maneuverable. Serving as the launching ground for the robotic fish…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com How prepared is Homeland Security to handle terrorism threats? On the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Senate panel will ask that question as it examines the department and interviews former lawmakers and past DHS officials, including the first Homeland Security secretary, Tom Ridge, the Washington Post reports. The…
Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton New York Times Op-Ed No single event in the last half-century has had a greater effect on American national security policy than the terrorist attacks that occurred 12 years ago today. When we co-chaired the 9/11 Commission, which was set up in 2002 and issued its report…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who served longer than either of her two predecessors, will step down at the end of today to become the first female president of the University of California. “It’s challenging; it’s very rewarding. Because the things you do really impact human lives,” she said in an interview…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After more than four years of as the head of the Homeland Security Department, Janet Napolitano defended her tenure in one of the government’s newest departments, The Los Angeles Times reports. “Some have said that being the secretary of DHS is the most thankless job in Washington,” Napolitano said at the National…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal lawmakers are calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to respond to a Reuters report that showed the NSA was supplying the DEA with surveillance information about domestic, non-terrorism cases, Reuters reported Monday evening. Five Democrats in the Senate and three congressmen want to know if the DEA – as reported – passed NSA…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Homeland Security employee who was exposed for hosting a racist website that advocates for a race war was placed on paid administrative leave while the agency investigates, the Huffington Post reports on Monday. Ayo Kimathi, acquisitions officer for ICE, forecasts on his site, War on the Horizon, forecasted an “unavoidable, inevitable…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When Michelle Colby was a child, she wanted nothing more than to become a veterinarian, The Washington Post reports. She wended her way through school and studied at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. Still, she wanted more and became the agriculture defense branch chief for the Department of Homeland Security’s…
