Reporting from Washington -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has decided to kill a controversial Bush administration program to use U.S. spy satellites to collect domestic intelligence for counter-terrorism, law enforcement and security, a senior Homeland Security official said Monday ...Read More
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Leaders of the Senate’s defense andhomeland security committees said they plan to investigate why aterrorism task force led by the FBI didn’t tell the Pentagonabout e-mail exchanges between Fort Hood shooting suspect NidalMalik Hasan and extremist ...Read More
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit. The move reflected Tehran's frustration with the ...Read More
WASHINGTON — Military and FBI officials appeared to miss numerous warning signs in the months leading up to the Nov. 5 killings of 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas, lawmakers said Thursday in the first congressional hearing into the ...Read More
Directives issued Thursday by federal officials advise holiday travelers to have their papers in order, suggest what kind of shoes to wear and encourage those about to travel to get seasonal and H1N1 flu shots. The federal agencies also guide travelers ...Read More
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is putting a former chief of naval operations and former Army secretary in charge of a Pentagon inquiry into the Fort Hood shootings.
"It is prudent to determine immediately whether there are internal weaknesses or procedural shortcomings ...Read More
A Senate committee on Thursday morning launched the first public hearing into the Fort Hood shooting attack with a focus on the perils of homegrown extremism and "political correctness" and with partial cooperation from the Obama administration. The Senate Homeland Security ...Read More
Atlanta - The Senate Homeland Security Committee Thursday began hearings "as serious and consequential as any it's ever undertaken," in the words of its chairman Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I) of Connecticut, into whether and how the Army missed the red ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department will give a "seal of approval" to businesses volunteering to use an electronic program to check workers' immigration status. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday the public should know which companies are following the ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. senators vowed on Wednesday not to interfere with a criminal probe of the Fort Hood shootings but said they must move ahead with their own hearing into the rampage.
Joe Lieberman, an independent who heads the ...Read More
From NBC's Amna Nawaz Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) confirmed in a press conference today, that their Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee investigation into the shootings at Fort Hood will continue, beginning with a hearing tomorrow. Lieberman said ...Read More
West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd has been around so long that nearly all lawmakers in Congress can remember reasons they love him - and many can recall how they once bitterly opposed him. The veteran Democrat on Wednesday became the longest-serving ...Read More
A top Centers for Disease Control official today conceded the government was partially at fault for leading Americans to expect more H1N1 flu vaccine than would be ultimately available.
Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases ...Read More
The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee said Tuesday that the government's failure to deal with Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's growing radicalism was similar to the intelligence community's failure to prevent the 9/11 attacks. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., made ...Read More
Pakistan is mounting an offensive against militants in a portion of South Waziristan, on the border with Afghanistan, against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group that fights inside the country. But Washington wants the Pakistani army to act to close down sanctuaries for ...Read More
Washington (CNN) -- A prison in northern Illinois is the leading contender to house detainees transferred from the federal facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, two Obama administration officials told CNN on Saturday.
Officials from the department of Defense, Justice and Homeland ...Read More
Reporting from Washington - The government has beefed up border security and workplace immigration enforcement, and now should begin the work of overhauling immigration laws, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday. "The hope is that when we get into the ...Read More
The Obama administration expects Congress to begin moving to overhaul the nation's immigration laws early next year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday, adding that improved border security and a drop in migration caused by the economic downturn make ...Read More
FORT HOOD, TEXAS - The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood made or accepted wire transfers with Pakistan, a country wracked by Muslim extremist violence, a Republican congressman said Friday. Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the ranking GOP ...Read More
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called Friday for Congress to consider an overhaul of immigration law early next year, a move that could rekindle a divisive debate during an election year. Ms. Napolitano said the immigration landscape has changed sharply since ...Read More
The Obama administration has met many of the border security benchmarks Congress set in 2007 as a prerequisite to immigration reform and now it's time to change the law, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday. Napolitano, designated by President Barack ...Read More
