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Homeland Security Watch » Threat, risk, and opportunity at Aspen
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News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security. July 23, 2015. Threat, risk, and opportunity at Aspen. Filed under: General Homeland Security. 8212; by Philip J. Palin on July 23, 2015. Wednesday night Jim Comey, the FBI Director, provided an update on the terrorist threat to the United States. As has been well-reported elsewhere. This morning I heard something, if not exactly new, an angle less often considered. Appropriately, I think, this configuration influenced the Secretary’s answe...
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Homeland Security Watch » HLS Watch Contributors
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News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security. Jessica R. Herrera-Flanigan. Ms Herrera-Flanigan also served as Senior Counsel at the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she led a team of prosecutors who specialized in cybercrime from 1999 to 2003. She was one of the government’s leading experts on critical infrastructure protection, CFIUS, and electronic evidence gathering. Philip J. Palin. And has served as an instruct...
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Homeland Security Watch » Cyber: still lost at sea
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News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security. July 25, 2015. Cyber: still lost at sea. Filed under: General Homeland Security. 8212; by Philip J. Palin on July 25, 2015. Norbert Wiener’s neologism — cybernetics — draws on the classical Greek term for helmsman or steersman or guide to highlight our odyssey across vast largely uncharted and emergent currents of human-machine interface. I will give you my high-level, overly reductionist and annoyingly analogous take-aways. When our hero finally...
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Homeland Security Watch » Empowering positive narratives
http://www.hlswatch.com/2015/07/24/a-specific-concept-for-fostering-positive-narratives
News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security. July 24, 2015. Filed under: General Homeland Security. 8212; by Philip J. Palin on July 24, 2015. Mr Leiter suggested this would be an appropriate way for private sector technology firms to take some responsibility for their unintended role in online terrorist operations. I could not tell if this concept was related to Secretary Johnson’s Thursday comments ( see prior post). 8211; –. 4 Comments ». Comment by William R. Cumming. The threshhold iss...
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Homeland Security Watch » HHS emPOWER Map – how many rely on electric powered medical equipment in your community?
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News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security. July 21, 2015. HHS emPOWER Map – how many rely on electric powered medical equipment in your community? Public Health and Medical Care. State and Local HLS. 8212; by Arnold Bogis on July 21, 2015. HHS has developed an online tool. Kristen Finne, a Senior Policy Analyst with ASPR at HHS, explains in a blog post. As many of the people who use electricity-dependent equipment are Medicare beneficiaries, the HHS emPOWER Map. Beyond the total number of...
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Homeland Security Watch » Friday Free Forum
http://www.hlswatch.com/2015/07/24/friday-free-forum-113
News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security. July 24, 2015. Filed under: General Homeland Security. 8212; by Philip J. Palin on July 24, 2015. 8 Comments ». Comment by William R. Cumming. July 24, 2015 @ 8:25 am. Several items for discussion:. 1 My first and last formal prediction for outcome of November 2016 Presidential race. IMO the candidates based on a number of factors including money will be a Republican ticket of Jeb Bush and John Kasich and they will trounce Hillary Clinton and?
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Homeland Security Watch » Friday Free Forum
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News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security. August 7, 2015. Filed under: General Homeland Security. 8212; by Philip J. Palin on August 7, 2015. 6 Comments ». Comment by William R. Cumming. August 7, 2015 @ 6:42 am. My new weekly graphic of interest to may but which may have or may not have a relationship to HS and EM [for better minds than mine to analyze and discuss]:. Http:/ www-personal.umich.edu/ mejn/election/2012/. Comment by William R. Cumming. August 7, 2015 @ 6:57 am. Pew Foundati...
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Homeland Security Watch » Danger: It is clear. Is it present?
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News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security. August 6, 2015. Danger: It is clear. Is it present? Terrorist Threats & Attacks. 8212; by Philip J. Palin on August 6, 2015. Above: Photograph by Manu Brabo (AP) of an arrest in San Salvador from the Executioners of El Salvador. In The New Yorker. Each year roughly 700,000 legal immigrants enter the United States. Illegal immigration is tough to track, but net inflows — number entering minus number returning — are credibly estimat...Since 2012 it...