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Secret Service, TSA, and Military Scandals Break the Public Trust When the good go bad

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Nearly a dozen U.S. Secret Service and nearly ten more U.S. military personnel are implicated in a prostitution scandal in Colombia while their boss, the President of the United States, …

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Does Homeland Security Make Good Television?

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The other night my wife and I were watching the National Geographic Channel’s program, “The Liquid Bomb Plot.”  The 2-hour program chronicled the 2006 plan of Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists …

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New People and Not So New Policies to Treat the Al Qaeda Cancer

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There is always something happening in the homeland security arena. Every day there are threats from Mother Nature, terrorists and the unforeseen that can cause the dominoes to fall in …

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TSA Search Forces Elderly Woman to Remove Diaper Please explain this, TSA

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Ever since I started writing on homeland security issues, I have tried to be fair when it comes to TSA screening.  While I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to poke fun at …

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks during a press conference on Gulf Coast rebuilding; with her are, far left, U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana; left, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate; and right, DHS Gulf Coast Rebuilding Federal Coordinator Janet Woodka. Photo by Barry Bahler/DHS.

Protecting America Women leaders in the homeland security arena

In one of her most famous letters to her husband, John, Abigail Adams admonished him to make sure that “particular care and attention” be “paid to the ladies,” so as …

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Chelsea DeCapua, a participant in the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education-managed U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Scholarship and Fellowship Program, uses geographic information systems to identify new ways to improve emergency response and disaster management in the wake of the destruction brought by the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Photo courtesy of the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.

An Education in Homeland Security

A continual search for the “best and the brightest” is a practice the U.S. government constantly strives for. Add a conflict, a life-changing moment such as September 11, or a …

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CDP students survey a simulated accident scene that poses a radiological threat. The CDP is a partner with the Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program (REPP), and students learn to respond to, and manage, radiological operations. The course also focuses on response plans and procedures for complex incidents such as a terrorist event. Photo by Shannon Arledge, CDP Public Affairs.

Center for Domestic Preparedness

In 1995, 12 people died and more than 6,000 were injured when a Japanese terrorist group released sarin gas into parts of the Tokyo subway system. Back in the United …

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