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[New Articles on frontpagemag.com] FrontPage Magazine - Symposium: Aviation Security -- in the Future: In every single one of these affected countries the government established some type of extra-judicial internal security agency (like DHS) in which government actors, using the mantra of, “in the interests of state security”, essentially could do whatever it wanted without the benefit of a legislative branch giving them specific legal authority to conduct itself in a specific and limited manner, nor was there appropriate judicial review. Basically government sanctioned thugs doing whatever they thought best, things like: imprisonment without trial, people disappearing, mass arrests, blatant killings, unrestricted surveillance etc.

[Public Intelligence] Iran recount ordered as rival rallies are planned after bloodshed ...: DHS has since developed and implemented certain capabilities, but still has not fully satisfied aspects of these responsibilities and needs to take further action to enhance the public/private partnerships needed to adequately protect cyber critical infrastructure. GAO has also previously reported on significant security weaknesses in systems supporting two of the department’s programs, one that tracks foreign nationals entering and exiting the United States, and one for matching airline passenger information against terrorist watch-list records.

[Department of Homeland Security News] DHS: Testimony of Acting Under Secretary Bradley I. Buswell ...: Developed a handheld device software application that retrieves digital photographs from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to enable law enforcement personnel away from their office or vehicle to quickly query, retrieve, and view California driver’s license photographs on a range of handheld devices (PDAs), greatly enhancing their ability to positively identify individuals in the field. This application was certified by California Department of Justice, and nearly 500 federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel throughout Southern California are currently participating in its operational testing.

[Georgetown Security Law Brief] DOJ Report: FBI failing to maintain accurate terrorist watchlist: 03/16/09: The Los Angeles Times reports that passengers making airline reservations soon will be required to provide their birth date and their sex in addition to their names as part of aviation security enhancements the 9/11 Commission .

[GAO Legal Products - Brief] GAO-09-243 Freight Rail Security: Actions Have Been Taken to ...: 2001, attacks, Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security. Act of 2001 (ATSA), which created and conferred upon TSA broad responsibility for securing all modes of transportation, including the freight rail system.

[Information Security Resources] Financial Sector Cybersecurity Issues : Information Security Resources: From a corporate perspective, while banking and finance sectors have been more proactive and forward thinking as well as far more advanced than most sectors, cyber security is still perceived too often simply as an IT cost center rather than as an enterprise wide risk management issue with serious financial implications. The silo specific view of cyber issues, fueled by antiquated corporate structures and attitudes results in an insufficient analysis of the true needs and values associated with cyber security.

[Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis] Secure Flight is a Milestone Achievement - A Credit to All Parties ...: One key reason for the tragedy of 9/11 was that the terrorists defeated both the intelligence and physical screening methods then in place.  A key lesson we learned is the need to know more about individuals who book a ticket on a passenger airline.  This is addressed in the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) which is the law that created TSA.  It called for the enhancement of the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS).  This was considered the intelligence side of the aviation screening program.

[Public STINET RSS Feeds] THE FRAMEWORK FOR US- CANADA DEFENSE AND SECURITY COOPERATION: Most available US material on US-Canada relations falls into two categories. First, political theorists, such as Robert Keohane and Joseph .

[Member Posts] Organizing for America | Kay 's Blog: BUY AMERICAN, IT'S A MATTER ...: With the military’s use of contractor-dog teams in Iraq and Afghanistan increasing the need for qualified canines, it makes sense to boost domestic breeding of top-line dogs. The U.S. is currently paying an average of $3,000-4,000 for each European dog, and could simply expand the breeding of top bloodline U.S. dogs for the same price. 

[Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis] Closing of the American Border | Security Debrief - a blog of ...: While the recounting of turf wars is not pretty in the rear-view mirror, it is encouraging that Alden makes a real effort to understand the stresses DHS was under and the fact that its officials put in herculean efforts to do what they thought was best for the country.

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For June 4, 2009: (sold one, bought another for about the same price, as part of relocation) in mid 2006, and found this blog a few months later. Though it’s not a struggle - knowing what I know now I would have just done a straight sale only then, even though it would have included a quite large cap gains tax hit.

[The TSA Blog] The TSA Blog: New Security Technologies Make Airport Debut: Phil wrote: "I have repeatedly asked: where has TSA published a list of all the rules and regulations that TSA will subject someone to if that person wishes to cross a U.S. Government checkpoint at an airport en route to the gate from which his domestic flight will depart, not including laws that the person is required to abide by outside of the airport checkpoint (i.e., just those rules and regulations that apply specifically at the checkpoint)." Google 49CFR 1540, these are the rules and regulations regarding individuals at an airport accessing the "sterile or secured areas". This Code of federal Regs also goes through Security Responsibilities of employees and other persons, submission to screening and inspection, interference with screening personnel and carriage of weapons and incendiaries by an individual through a checkpoint.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Homeland Security Cost-Benefit Analysis: But they have created an environment where no politician who wants to get elected or re-elected can ever speak out against plainly stupid "security" measures like watchlists and the TSA's War on Shoes, Toiletries, and Water, let alone suggest that "do nothing" might sometimes be the most cost-effective and efficacious security measure. Any politician who dares to utter a peep in opposition what the junta asks for will face a Republican attack machine that spends millions of dollars to tell voters that he or she is "soft on terrorism." Thus Barak Obama casts his vote in favor of giving the Unitary Executive the power to wiretap anyone he wants whenever he wants, and also to kill any lawsuits against telephone companies that might reveal the extent to which the junta violated the law.

[The TSA Blog] The TSA Blog: What It Takes to be a Transportation Security Officer: As of today they are trying to make our flying quite a bit safer.I have seen some bevery appreciatetive of what they do--walking away making the screener feel aLL THE MORE SATISFIED WITH THEIR JOBS.And then there are the ones who dont care and find the screeners annoying.I am glad I can get on the plane feeling safe--so hats off to the screeners who make it all possible!They are there to do their jobs enforced by the government--and are following their directives.TSA didnt make our world what it is today--they are only there to improve it!

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] Somali Pirates and International Shipping Interests - a few things ...: “Halo is clearly not a line of demarcation like many barriers being deployed today in response to the Cole, but rather a formidable boom standing an impressive 8ft out of the water,” according to Kirk Lippold, CDR, USN (ret), commander of the Cole during the attack and an advisor to HMDS.

[Public STINET RSS Feeds] Untitled: national-level organizations interact in national security policymaking and execution: Assume that the president is going to travel to Moscow to try to persuade the Russian president to collaborate on a missile defense arrangement. ...

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