Through his DHS secretary, President Obama continues to make life in the United States more dangerous. Janet Napolitanto is doing everything she can to stop the enforcement of immigration law in the US. She has said that she will only concentrate on "criminal aliens" when enforcing federal immigration law. But wait if they came into the US illegally aren't they ALL "criminal aliens?"...
Elise Cooper for BLACKFIVE Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has written a book, Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years. This book takes readers through a range of homeland security issues from complacency among Americans to preventing cyber attacks. Blackfive.net was able to interview Secretary Chertoff about his thoughts and statements from the book. Chertoff points out...
Below, Rich wrote, “. . . an otherwise unimpressive terrorist, with some ‘luck,’ can still be deadly; Richard Reid, for instance, came very close to blowing up an air-liner mid-air.” I was reminded of something Michael Chertoff told me, when he was homeland-security secretary. This was in 2006. I quote from our interview (full piece, here ): Also, says Chertoff, the papers...
The Department of Homeland Security plans to retain the Bush administration policy of seizing and searching international travelers' laptop computers and other electronic devices at will. An ACLU attorney told The Washington Post the revised version of the policy "provides a lot of procedural safeguards, but it doesn't deal with the fundamental problem, which is that under the policy, government...
Turns out former Bush Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's new book will reveal how he was pressured to raise terror threat levels to scare America into re-electing Bush . This revelation from former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge’s new book, nabbed by Paul Bedard , might shed some light on why Ridge passed on a 2010 U.S. Senate bid. [He] was pushed to raise the security alert on...
There's a number of very good reasons why one might dislike Dick Armey , currently engaged in spreading false information about health reform. On Friday Mr Armey announced his resignation from DLA Piper, the Washington-based lobbying firm that he has advised since stepping down from Congress in 2002. Both DLA Piper, which has big healthcare clients including Bristol Myers Squibb, the pharmaceutical...
By Kurt Nimmo Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano traveled to New York to deliver a speech to the boss today. She told the Council on Foreign Relations there will be no departure from the Bush administration in regard to homeland security. It will be the same agenda with a few minor changes — for instance, the color-coded threat advisory will be chucked. The official CFR video of Napolitano’s...
From http://www.infowars.com/napolitano-reports-to-cfr-on-stasi-snoop-network/ Napolitano Reports to CFR on Stasi Snoop Network Text size Kurt Nimmo Infowars July 29, 2009 Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano traveled to New York to deliver a speech to the boss today. She told the Council on Foreign Relations there will be no departure from the Bush administration in regard to homeland security....
Remember the Buffalo/Lackawanna Six? It's now coming out that Dick Cheney urged former President Bush to ignore the Posse Comitatus Act and send the military into Buffalo to make the arrests. Bush ended up rejecting the idea. A decision to dispatch troops into the streets to make arrests has few precedents in American history, as both the Constitution and subsequent laws restrict the military from...
Today, at the "Aspen Institue Ideas Festival" a deeply knowledgeable panel discussing "Global Insurgency" included former secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Representative Jane Harman,...
Andrea Mitchell , Bob Schieffer and Katharine Weymouth are among just some of the Washingtonians flocking to Colorado this week for the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival. Hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic , the festival runs today through July 5th and this year's theme is "Ideas that Work," with programs like "Media Crack-Up" and "Living Digitally." Discussions we...
Earlier today, CSPAN television re-broadcast a discussion panel, videotaped on February28. Appearing on " The Bush Administration and September 11 " were Douglas Feith, Andrew Card, Michael Chertoff, Timothy Flanigan and Ari Fleisher, who took questions from journalists in the live audience about decision making and Constitutional issues following the attacks. Some of the defenses offered...
On January 28, ThinkProgress reported that the Department of Homeland Security published and distributed an entire book (315 pages) honoring former Secretary Michael Chertoff’s “Select Speeches” despite the fact that most — if not all — are likely available online. Moreover, this particular homage was not given to his predecessor, Tom Ridge. Days later, a [...]
In this day and age when government can’t be trusted with a set of blueprints for the new world trade center, a Canadian government official, (letter below), is taking a stand against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff plan to collect and share private personal data with other countries around the world.
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