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House Republicans vote to increase funding for Homeland Security
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $39 billion Department of Homeland Security spending bill for next fiscal year that would boost its funding by nearly $1 billion, shifting deeper cuts into other domestic agencies. The measure passed on a 245-182 vote largely along party lines in the Republican-controlled…
Pat Robertson joins ammo conspiracy theory: Feds ‘going into battle… against us’
Televangelist Pat Robertson on Thursday became the latest conservative voice to promote the conspiracy theory that the government was buying millions of rounds of ammunition to use against the American people. For months, conservative sites like Alex Jones’ Infowars have been pushing reports like: “Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks…
Homeland Security chief calls for immigration overhaul after mass releases
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano affirmed that security at the U.S.-Mexico border is tighter than ever and encouraged a more comprehensive approach to immigration report in an interview with ABC News on Thursday. “We’re putting mobile surveillance so that we can move around and watch and we have increased the…
Deferred action for undocumented immigrants offers ‘lawful presence’: Homeland Security
The federal government somewhat clarified the confusing status of certain undocumented youth on Friday. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, updated its website on Friday, which now says that for those youth who qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), “your period of…
Homeland Security faces lawsuit over details of domestic drone flights
SAN FRANCISCO — The Electronic Frontier Foundation said Wednesday it has sued the US Department of Homeland Security to obtain details about Predator drones on loan to domestic police departments. EFF Internet freedom and privacy champions contended that they filed suit in federal court in San Francisco because the DHS…
House passes Homeland Security bill with meaningless anti-abortion rider
Republicans in the House of Representatives attached an anti-abortion rider to a Homeland Security spending bill Thursday. The provision would do nothing to change existing policy and is unlikely to make it past the Senate, but it is seen as sending an election-year message to the lawmakers’ conservative constituents. In…
WATCH LIVE: House committee debates FISA reauthorization
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security on Thursday will consider the re-authorization of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2008. Watch this live video from C-SPAN, broadcast May 31, 2012. …
Homeland Security probing cyber attacks on U.S. gas pipelines
A campaign of cyber attacks has been targeting US natural gas pipeline operators, officials acknowledged, raising security concerns about vulnerabilities in key infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security “has been working since March 2012 with critical infrastructure owners and operators in the oil and natural gas sector to address a…
Foiled al-Qaeda plot likely to lead to new airport security regulations
The disruption of a plot by al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula to attack a US-based jet using what is being billed as an “improved” underwear bomb is likely to lead to increased security at American airports, the chief White House adviser on terrorism has indicated. John Brennan, the deputy homeland…
Congress calls Nepolitano to grill her about Secret Service scandal
Lawmakers will grill Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano about the US Secret Service next week, as the Senate’s top Democrat blasted the “stupid” agents at the heart of the scandal Thursday. And furious Republicans said President Barack Obama should be held responsible for reasserting the necessary discipline in the elite…
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