Who's in charge of Homeland "SECURITY"?????
371055
This is too funny,  My understanding is that the Assistant Press Secretary is taking a leave of absence to spend more time with his family.  Just another Christian Republican?  Oh and HeckuvaJob Brownie's Boss is Micharl Chertoff, ( former District Judge )
603922
The present Government!!!
342672
I think this ZOD guy is the only one, to include the Congressmen and Senators who voted for it in the first place, who has actually read the Patriot Act. Maybe we should put him in charge, I know I'd feel better.
955505
Sometimes there aren't even guards at the crossings.  The border security is a joke up north.  Bush has moved everybody south, to stop illegal immigration, yet nobody is patrolling the northern border.  While I don't like either, I'd rather have illegal immigrants sneaking in than terrorists.
262380
I was never thrilled with this "faith based org" thing that our president made up. It actually is unconstiutional. Mix of church and state. Others will argue (mostly religious people) that mix of church and state really means the government cannot have a church, even though that was not the way the law was intended.\n\nfaith based should not fall under homeland security, it does not match up with what HLS does. If it is run by faithbased orgs, we will have some other WWII Germany on our hands and we certianly dont want religion dictating what our government does, that leaves room for discrimination of faiths other than christian ( note all these orgs are christian)\n\nI seriously think that the faith based laws need to go away, it is discriminatory.
201760
I think this is what you are referring to: \n\nBERKELEY, CA — A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities." \n\nThe contract — announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR — calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when. \n\nTo date, some newspapers have worried that open-ended provisions in the contract could lead to cost overruns, such as have occurred with KBR in Iraq. A Homeland Security spokesperson has responded that this is a "contingency contract" and that conceivably no centers might be built. But almost no paper so far has discussed the possibility that detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law. \n\nThese are interesting times.
533402
Right out of the Gestapo play books. Bush has appointed the his SS General to be in charge of everything. He fired Porter Goss you know. Bush wants to put the National Guard on the borders now and keep the Americans trapped inside. Stalin did it with his Berlin Wall for 50 years, why not George Bush.
265559
This is currently a very open question - it is virtually impossible to make even just a good guess. \nNames that are being mentioned are Minister Mosiuoa Patrick ("Terror") Lekota or the Finance Minister, Trevor Manuel. But it may very well be someone else.
65
I don't have an article, but I was listening to NPR last night, and the commentator was saying the evacuation was really bungled due to an organization and communication problem. No one took charge and said, hey I'm running the show, get 2000 buses and send them down, because no one felt they were in charge. FEMA, State & local police, National Guard, all were not sure what the other guys were doing and so waited for overall direction, which never really came.
137126
Protection of our domestic borders are probably the weakest link in our current defenses against terrorism. I can't agree to turn over management of our largest ports to a country from whom terrorists and terrorist funding has come.\nNo matter how confident you are of those whom are in charge, everyone has their price and thus are prone to corruption. I simply would feel more confident if those in charge were not from the United Arab Emirate...that's all!~
553458
It is the governmet's reaction to terrorists that scares me the most. they are taking all my rights away, one by one, using terrorism as an excuse. if I didn't know better, I would say the U.S. gov. is treating terrorists like Nazi Germany treated Jews.
20854
big brother is always watching, regardless. and bush isnt the one doing it. it is usually the military. they just prefer to have all fingers pointing at the president. he is nothing but a puppet anyway.
15271
Oh my gosh! We are less safe. We have created more hatred against us then ever before! With over 3 million illeagles crossing our borders last year, how can we be safer? Can we really trust our country in the hands of the most corrupt administration in History? With what we have spent toward the war of lies(iraq), just think of the improvments we could have made to homeland security! Remember the responce to Katrina, that was run under homeland security! That was a real good examle of how protected we are! I could ramble on forever about the sorry state our country is in, but I know most wont listen(thats why Bush was elected the 2nd time, we all know the first was a sham!).
649248
First of all their is no such thing as the INS. This government agency was disbanded many years ago. \n\nNow there is the US Custom and Border Protection Agency, these are the people in charge of the border.\n\nAlso there is the USCIS, United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, these are the people who process the immigration paperwork.\n\nAlso there is the state department which grants the visas overseas.\n\nAn agency can only be as good as it's leaders so if you are looking for someone to blame you need only to look at this so called republican administration who's answer to every problem is to create more bureaucracy.
208789
How did 12 Million Mexicans get inside of America with Bush's fool-proof Patriot Act anyway? The news says 2 Million of them got in America in the last 3 months. What the hell! How many Arabs came in with them? What the hell! So do you really think there is a National security threat defcon-5 in America? What the hell! Do you think somebody has been feeding America alot crap all along, like say "ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS" and the whole Bush Administration? Myself I am really sick of there abuse and crap they spew out of there mouths. Bill Frist, Republican from Tennessee said he was going to do something about it without G.Dubya's help. So the Republicans are back-peddling on the own Administration on this issue right now. You can't blame anything on the Democrats; because they don't have any vote the Congress is total majority Republican. It's their problem and their fault with their fool-proof Patriot Act. America was never in any threat at all, and the Republicans played the Fear Card on Americans. That's real Bull, and they need punished for it. I call it Treason, Bush should be Impeached for being the biggest lier in the history of America.
563112
I was originally as surprised by this unexpected announcement last Friday as you were, planksheer. But as one of your subsequent questions indicates, we may have the answer: the "new" Watergate scandal. I think goss was up to his neck in the illegal gambling and prostitution ring that was being operated by these upper level ANP swine and bush threw him over the side as soon as his intelligence people made him aware of the facts -- and especially the consequences. \n\nThat said, bush may well not have been happy with his hand-picked appointee's track record at the agency. Reports suggest goss routinely butted heads with old guard CIA officials who basically refused to cooperate with him (and who can blame them?). Clandestine organizations like that operate best when upper level officials are more or less on the same page and no one is out to make waves or set himself up as potentate, as goss apparently attempted to do. We should know more about all of this as leaks begin spouting (i.e., very soon).\n\nAnd I share your concerns about this new appointee, gen. michael hayden. He is thick as thieves with Dr. Evil (aka dick cheney) and that alone is enough for me to wish him to never make it out of committee. The fact that he headed up the illegal domestic spying program would, in normal times, be enough for him not even to be under consideration. Indeed, he'd likely be fighting his way through court trying to avoid prison time. This country -- or at least the government alleged to represent us -- in its present state is clinically insane.
165068
I'm not quite sure what you are getting at but since 9/11 Homeland Security which has immigration under its jurisdiction does just that.