Report faults security at U.S. monuments
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Inadequate security has left national icons such as the Washington Monument and the Statue of Liberty vulnerable, according to a government report on the U.S. Park Police released Monday.
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The failure to detect uranium shipped by a news organization through two U.S. ports revealed serious deficiencies in the federal government's system for screening cargo, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general reported Thursday.
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The U.S. State Department on  Thursday warned U.S. citizens of the risks of going to Zimbabwe  where &quot;state-sponsored violence&quot; and a government crackdown  have raised security concerns.
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WASHINGTON -- Without their knowledge, millions of Americans and foreigners crossing U.S. borders in the past four years have been assigned scores generated by U.S. government computers rating the risk that the travelers are terrorists or criminals.
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An American Army report released Wednesday has found that US military personnel and contractors were involved in prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison to a greater extent than was previously thought.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is hampered by having to report to 88 congressional committees and subcommittees, the Washington Post said.
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The report from a morgue official casts doubt on the effectiveness of an American operation to reduce violence in Baghdad.
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Millions of dollars in U.S. aid  intended for Iraqi police training programs may have been lost  because of poor contract oversight, a State Department watchdog  agency said in a report.
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A Web site commissioned by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to help travelers whose names were erroneously listed on airline watch lists originally had multiple security problems that could lead to identity theft, says a congressional report released Friday.In addition, the TSA awarded the $48,816 contract for the Traveler Redress Web site based on a request for quotes with requirements that only one Web design firm could meet, says the report, released by the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The TSA&#39;s technical lead and author of a request for comments for the project was a longtime friend of the owner of Desyne Web Services and had briefly worked for the Virginia firm, the report says.&quot;This redress Web site had multiple security vulnerabilities: It was not hosted on a government domain, its homepage was not encrypted, one of its data submission pages was not encrypted, and its encrypted pages were not properly certified,&quot; the report says. &quot;These deficiencies exposed thousands of American travelers to potential identity theft.&quot;The TSA press office did not immediately respond to a request for comments on the House report. A receptionist at Desyne said the appropriate person for commenting was not available.The redress Web site went live in October 2006, and blogger Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student in informatics at Indiana University, pointed out security problems there last February. The TSA took the Desyne Web site down that month and now hosts a traveler redress form on its own Web site.&quot;This begs the question: Who are these guys, why don&#39;t they know how to use SSL, and how were they awarded this sweet contract?&quot; Soghoian wrote in February 2006. &quot;Why can&#39;t TSA do a simple form submission themselves?&quot;One of the biggest concerns raised by Soghoian and the House report is that the Desyne Web site did not use SSL encryption on its home page or on its submissions page. Travelers were asked to submit personal information, such as their Social Security numbers and birth dates. The site was not hosted on a government domain, meaning visitors &quot;lost any assurance they were visiting a legitimate government Web site,&quot; the House report says.The House report was also critical of Desyne&#39;s &quot;no-bid&quot; contract to operate the redress Web site. Desyne had done work for TSA since 2004, and as of late 2007, it continued to host the TSA&#39;s Web site where travelers could file claims for damaged property. The TSA&#39;s April 2006 request for quotes for the redress site said the design had to be consistent with the claims management site, and it had to be hosted on the same server that hosted the claims management site, the House report says.As of September, Desyne continued to operate Web sites for TSA, and the company has received more than $500,000 in business from the agency since 2004, the report says. &quot;TSA did not take action ... to sanction Desyne for poor performance,&quot; the report says.
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The U.S. State Department on Thursday warned U.S. citizens of the risks of going to Zimbabwe where "state-sponsored violence" and a government crackdown have raised security concerns.
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A report by Congressional auditors says that progress on security is mixed and political reconciliation efforts are not sufficient.
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The FBI improperly obtained credit reports and other information on individuals through errors in using its power to investigate terrorism or espionage suspects, the Washington Post reported, citing a U.S. Justice Department audit.
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By Thomas J. Prohaska  The Army and the Department of Homeland Security have been reviewing security at the site where nuclear waste from the World War II atomic bomb project is buried, it was disclosed Saturday at a public information session here.
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The Lincoln Memorial in Washington has been closed to tourists after a suspicious liquid and envelope were found, CNN reported on Monday.
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Part of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington has been evacuated and closed to tourists after suspicious items were found, a park police officer said on Monday.
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Nearly 90 percent of Army National Guard units in the United States are rated "not ready" -- largely because of shortfalls in equipment worth billions of dollars -- jeopardizing the Guard's ability to respond to crises at home and abroad, according to a congressional commission that released a preliminary report today on the state of U.S. military reserve forces....
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A U.S. Army investigation into abuse  at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq finds they resulted from failures  of leadership at the highest levels of command, the Washington  Post reported on Friday.