From HS Daily Wire:
It’s not everyday that a government agency beats a Congressional deadline, but TSA just has. Congress mandated through the 9/11 law that 50 percent of cargo on passenger carrying aircraft be screened by February 2009 and 100 percent of cargo be screened by August 2010; And now, four months before the first [...]
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A war of words has broken out between the House Homeland Security Committee and DHS over the mandate to screen 100 percent of U.S.-bound cargo at foreign ports.
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson sent Secretary Michael Chertoff two letters in recent months chastising DHS for not living up to the mandate.
On Oct. 3, Chertoff responded [...]
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McCain and Obama differences on intelligence
From Bloomberg.com:
John McCain and Barack Obama agree that the next president needs to shake up U.S. spy operations. That’s where the similarity ends.
Whoever wins Nov. 4, the next president must overhaul a $47.5 billion intelligence effort, spread through 16 agencies, that’s still struggling seven years after failing to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks and six [...]
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