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Homeland Security

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Wired Blog

The nation's centralized terrorist watch list is used to screen 270 million individuals every month now contains more than 700,000 entries, but remains marred by duplication, erroneous information, incorrect tracking codes and poor coordination

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Economist

The authorities also seem to have trouble implementing policies already in place. Government reports suggest that airline security procedures are remarkably ineffective, routinely failing to catch explosive materials carried by undercover agents.

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AP

The Homeland Security Department has given up on one of its broadest anti-terrorism data-mining tools after investigators found it was tested with information about real people without the required privacy safeguards. Known as ADVISE and begun in

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AP

The Homeland Security Department has failed to meet even half of its performance expectations in the 4 years it has been in existence, congressional auditors concluded in a draft report. Maritime security is the only area which saw improvements, the

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Free Market News

Emergency Responders and 9/11 family groups who lost loved ones on 9/11 blast Presidential Candidate Rudolph Giuliani's new "plan" for protecting America from terrorism and emergencies in the future. This "plan" is a concocte

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WESH.com

The 265th is part of Operation Noble Eagle & is being deployed for the next year. They have been ordered by the president to the nation's capital, where they will operate high-tech weapons systems against potential air threats.

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www.iht.com

Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers sued NASA and the California Institute of Technology on Thursday, challenging extensive new background checks that the feds began requiring in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

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Game Spot

(I'm glad to see taxpayer money being spent wisely) Now, the Dept. of Homeland Security is using game technology to help shore up defenses at home. ABC News is reporting that for the past year, the government agency has spent $600,000 funding Gr

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Christian Science Monitor

From late 2004 until mid-2006, a little-known data-mining computer system developed by the US Dept of Homeland Security to hunt terrorist, weapons of mass destruction, and biological weapons sifted through Americans' personal data with little reg

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James Bovard

But when it comes to hits and errors on terrorists, Uncle Sam could not qualify even for a tryout for the minor leagues. The federal government has had far more strikeouts than people realize when it comes to terrorist suspects.

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Gov Exec Blog

Much was made of Homeland Security Dept Sec Michael Chertoff's comment last week that residents of states that fail to follow the Real ID Act's requirement to issue more secure driver's licenses will be required to show a passport

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Government Executive

The Homeland Security Dept on Wednesday announced broad changes for using a database that collects and stores information on foreign travelers to the US. In one of the biggest changes, the dept plans to regularly share information with US intelligen

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Washington Times

Dept of Homeland Security adminstrators - fearing additional scrutiny - concealed from federal investigators information-sharing breakdowns that left the US vulnerable to terrorists, internal DHS memos and e-mails show. The documents obtained

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Baltimore Sun

Should have seen this one coming. Once the federal government had rationalized its authority to violate the privacy of Americans by tapping their phones, reading their email, surveying their library selections and poking throught their bank records

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Freedom in our Time(Will Grigg)

Let it not be said that the disastrous and unjustifiable Iraq war has failed to yield commercial spin-offs. Just as the first Gulf War famously prompted the Chinese General Staff to begin a crash modernization of the People's Libertation Army

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Boston Globe

The Department of Homeland Security is funneling millions of dollars to local governments nationwide for purchasing high-tech video camera networks, accelerating the rise of a "surveillance society" in which the sense of freedom that stems

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Financial Times

US business travelers and tourists flying to the European Union are facing the threat of the same laborious registration requirements that Washington has demanded of Europeans in the latest US security crackdown.

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CNN

New legislation will require visitors to the US to register their travel plans 48 hours before departing for the US. The agreement -- signed by the US and the European Union -- will allow the US Dept of Homeland Security(DHS) to continue using

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