Before you decide that, what with all those senior management positions open, a move into the Department of Homeland Security is good for your career, you should know that many people don't last long there.
The more than 40 local and regional intelligence fusion centers created after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to improve information sharing between the federal government and state, local and tribal law enforcement, are failing to accomplish their mission of protecting the homeland.
One-fourth of top management positions at the Department of Homeland Security remain vacant as of May 1, according to a congressional report released this week.
On April 27, 2005, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate intelligence committee that Congress should renew the USA PATRIOT Act, saying that there had "not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse." But six days earlier, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent Gonzales a report which said otherwise.
Updates to stories previously covered at Homeland Stupidity include spying, spying and more spying.
This day the rain moved in early in the afternoon, and continued well into the night, and yet people still set off their fireworks here in a city where it's, as far as I know, perfectly legal to do so. But while the star-spangled banner yet waves, the freedom it represents is a distant memory.
Preservationists are questioning plans by the Department of Homeland Security to move into the west campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital, a former lunatic asylum.
Some of you will remember the libertarian blog Hammer of Truth, which mysteriously disappeared some months ago, taking thousands of dollars of reader contributions with it. The bloggers on that site, myself included, scattered to the four winds. But last week one of them has started a new blog.
Getting security right is a challenge for the best of us. But when you put security in the hands of government, getting it right is a virtually insurmountable obstacle. Here are a few ways government made you less secure and wasted your money over the last couple of weeks.
The Bush administration has suspended a pending rule which would have required travelers re-entering the country from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean by land or sea to present passports at entry.
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