Agriculture Close To Avoiding Furloughs
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Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senators Leery of Unfunded Tornado Relief
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Watch list dispute highlights U.S.-Canadian tensions
February 27, 2007 The U.S. government believes that Maher Arar, a Canadian telecommunications engineer, has ties to terrorists, and it has placed his name on a U.S. watch list that bars him from entering the country. That alone would be unremarkable because U.S. watch lists contain thousands of names -- except that the ...
Expansion of local intelligence-sharing centers sparks controversy
February 13, 2007 To bolster homeland security, Democratic lawmakers want state and local governments to expand their intelligence-gathering, a goal supported by the Bush administration but one that some civil libertarians and privacy advocates say borders on domestic spying. As part of the Democrats' first-100-hours legislative push, the House passed a bill that ...
Guarding Turf
February 7, 2007 Among the many management challenges that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has inherited -- besides the Iraq war -- is what to do about his predecessor's predilection for turf poaching. Under Donald Rumsfeld, Special Operations forces and defense components stepped up their intelligence efforts, particularly through covert actions abroad aimed at ...
ADVICE+DISSENT: Intelligence File Guarding Turf
February 1, 2007 As Defense secretary, will Robert Gates put the CIA back on track? Among the many management challenges that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has inherited-besides the Iraq war-is what to do about his predecessor's predilection for turf poaching. Under Donald Rumsfeld, Special Operations forces and defense components stepped up their intelligence ...
Career officials hope new chiefs will stabilize spy agencies
January 12, 2007 The graybeards of spycraft are smiling: After two years of turnover and uncertainty in the top ranks of the U.S. intelligence establishment, which saw such outsiders as a former congressman and a career ambassador elevated to high posts, four of their own are now in control or soon will be. ...
ADVICE+DISSENT: Intelligence File The British Are Coming!
January 1, 2007 Intelligence firm picks up former CIA chief George Tenet on its march into the U.S. market. In October, George Tenet, the last director of central intelligence, emerged from his mostly quiet retirement to announce he had accepted a new job. The British defense and intelligence firm QinetiQ (pronounced kin-ET-ic) snatched ...
Chertoff discusses goals, responds to critics
December 20, 2006 In February 2005, Michael Chertoff stepped down from a lifetime appointment to the federal bench to lead one of the most far-flung and disjointed bureaucracies in the federal government. Only six months into the job, Hurricane Katrina put the Homeland Security Department's disaster planning and response mission to the test ...
Worldly View
December 20, 2006 In 2004, Internet giant Google made John Hanke an offer he couldn't refuse. The Silicon Valley video game entrepreneur had built a software program called Keyhole, which let users "fly over" 3-D maps of points on the globe. Google bought Keyhole -- for an undisclosed sum -- hired Hanke, and ...
Chertoff: Traveler screening program wasn't a secret
December 8, 2006 Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says it should not surprise people that for years his department has searched for terrorists among tens of millions of airline passengers, cross-checking travelers' personal data against terrorist watch lists and analyzing them for potential terrorist activity. "I've talked about the collection of this data ...
ADVICE+DISSENT: Intelligence File Worldly View
December 1, 2006 Geospatial agency shifts with the times: buys images, gives them away. In 2004, Internet giant Google made John Hanke an offer he couldn't refuse. The Silicon Valley video game entrepreneur had built a software program called Keyhole, which let users "fly over" 3-D maps of points on the globe. Google ...
