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First off, the likely plan is to break off the agency from the Department of Homeland Security, a move that would in itself help restore the pride FEMA folks felt when it was an independent agency.
Second, there’s increasing talk that former director James Lee Witt, who took over the then-troubled agency at the start of [...]

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Published on 23-11-2008
Tom Burghardt
Vigilant Shield 09: A Cover for Illegal Domestic Operations?
On November 17, U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) concluded Vigilant Shield 09 (VS09), described in a press release as a training exercise focused on “homeland defense and civil support.”

1. Obama taps Arizona governor for homeland security: report…
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s top choice to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing multiple sources.

2. George Bush snubbed at G20 Summit…
CNN: George Bush snubbed at the G20 Summit. Everyone greeting each other and shaking hands, but [...]

1. Iraq Provincial Elections On For Jan 31st…
Finally, Iraqi authorities have confirmed the date of long-postponed provincial elections. There will be a roughly two month campaign season and elections on January 31.
2. Four More Years of Keith Olbermann…
MSNBC has voted for four more years of Keith Olbermann and the top-rated “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” it [...]

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October 07, 2008
The government should not be building predictive data-mining programs systems that attempt to figure out who among millions is a terrorist, a privacy and terrorism commission funded by Homeland Security reported Tuesday. The commission found that the technology would not work and the inevitable mistakes would be un-American.

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Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday October 2, 2008
‘Ridiculous’ to think program doesn’t violate Posse Comitatus, ACLU lobbyist tells Raw
The Department of Homeland Security has been given the money it needs to begin turning international spy satellites within the country’s borders, despite lingering fears about the program’s lack of focus and the potential for it to infringe upon [...]

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The Homeland Security Department will lead President Bush’s largely classified governmentwide cybersecurity initiative, an agency official said on Monday morning.

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The Sunday Times reports Stephen Payne, a Bush pioneer and a political appointee to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, was caught on tape offering access to key members of the Bush administration inner circle in exchange for “six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.”

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By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 6, 2008; A10
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s office has reopened its investigation of the government’s treatment of Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian who, after being falsely named as a terrorist, was seized in September 2002 and sent to Syria, where he was tortured.

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05-31-2008
InfoWars
Kurt Nimmo
In the recovered footage posted here, citizen journalists get a chance to question Oliver North about REX 84 and COG, the supposed plan for the continuity of government in the wake of a terrorist attack or natural disaster. For daring to do so, these citizen journalists, bearing media credentials, were assaulted at the Kentucky [...]