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5 Jul 2016, 10:26 am by Susan Hennessey
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act does give the Secretary of Homeland Security some additional teeth in bringing federal agencies in line on cybersecurity standards—though classified information and national security systems are exempt. [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 6:00 am by Paul Rosenzweig
To begin with homeland security (the activity, not the department) does not have the benefit of having been developed with a robust theoretical foundation for practice. [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 9:48 am by Angelo A. Paparelli
  Regulations of the legacy agency, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and the current Department of Homeland Security immigration components — U.S. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 11:08 am by Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Congress has further authorized the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish immigration enforcement policies and priorities. [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 11:40 am by Caitlin Gilligan, Rishabh Bhandari
Senate Homeland Security Committee that “The Islamic State’s international appeal has become untethered from its military performance on the ground,” suggesting that military gains in Iraq and Syria won’t be enough to defeat the Islamic State. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 10:37 am by Benjamin Wittes
At other times, it might mean information sharing coordinated by the Department of Homeland Security, diplomatic pressure from the State Department, intelligence operations from the U.S. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 5:20 am by Immigration Prof
Judicial Watch announced that it obtained 693 pages of Department of Homeland Security records revealing that Secretary Jeh Johnson and 28 other agency officials used government computers to access personal web-based email accounts despite an agency-wide ban due to heightened... [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 12:00 pm by John Elwood
The VRA is an obscure federal law known only to Appointment Gnomes in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (I was one), angry members of Congress who swear that the executive branch is abusing the act, and the acting officials who serve tenuously under it. [read post]
11 Jun 2016, 11:15 am by Benjamin Wittes
This week, Suzanne Spaulding—Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) at the Department of Homeland Security—joined me on the podcast in an interview in front of a live audience at a DHS cybersecurity conference. [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 11:36 am by Rishabh Bhandari, David Hopen
The Homeland Security Committee voted to approve a bill that would turn the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) into an “operational agency,” similar to TSA, writes Defense One. [read post]
7 Jun 2016, 11:30 am by Alan J. Borsuk
Baker, a lawyer from Washington and former first assistant secretary for policy of the Department of Homeland Security. [read post]
12 May 2016, 12:30 pm by The Federalist Society
This case relates back to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which set forth special criteria to direct how DHS should exercise prosecutorial discretion in enforcing federal immigration laws against certain young persons. [read post]
7 May 2016, 11:23 am by John Bellinger
  There are some legitimate reasons for the growth, including an increase in the size of the Situation Room staff and incorporation of the Homeland Security Council staff (created as a separate staff during the Bush Administration after the 9-11 attacks to coordinate interagency homeland security activities, including by non-NSC agencies, such as HHS and DoT) into the NSC staff in 2009. [read post]
7 May 2016, 10:35 am by Cody M. Poplin
In their conversation, Kayyem, who served as Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the Department of Homeland Security, distills lessons from her years of government service, outlining a number of smart, measureable guidelines that every American citizen can follow in order to enhance his or her own security preparedness. [read post]
5 May 2016, 4:52 pm by Rick St. Hilaire
They concluded that the evidence formed "probable cause to believe that ISIS has committed genocide, and that the Department of State should make a referral to the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice and the Security Council of the United Nations. [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 11:58 am by Elina Saxena
” According to State Department sources, the number of militants fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is at its lowest in two years. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 7:11 am by Helen Klein
On April 17, 2015, the Periodic Review Board consisting of representatives from the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, and State; the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence determined continued law of war detention of Al-Sabri does not remain necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States. [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 4:18 am by Timothy P. Flynn
So it was yesterday at the High Court in Washington, D.C. for argument in the case of United States v Texas, posing an important immigration policy question that tests the very limits of executive branch power.This case presented an evenly divided Court -down one justice following Justice Scalia's sudden death in February- with the task of passing muster on President Obama's innovative immigration policy; a series of recent executive directives made through the Department of… [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 5:37 pm by Mark Walsh
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is here, as is Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, whose department is now home to the federal government’s immigration enforcement agencies. [read post]