Since the alleged bombing attempt, various agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department, have been criticized for not paying more attention to the father's warnings.
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In early October, Ambassador Alan Wendt of the State Department and the director of the Defense Technology Security Agency, William Rudman, made an important tour of European capitals.
Timberman said the State Department teams working out of the provincial capital, Hillah, were grounded most of the time because the State Department regional security officer would not permit them to travel despite their high-priced security personnel and armored vehicles.
Last Wednesday, the head of the state department's diplomatic security division, Richard Griffin, resigned after a report said there should be far tighter supervision of private security personnel in Iraq.
Earlier this month, Ms Rice ordered that a member of the state department's own security staff accompany all Blackwater-escorted diplomatic convoys and that video cameras be installed in the firm's security vehicles.
He's holding up 70 nominees, among them top intelligence officials at the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security.
At 1:00 a.m. on Friday, Brennan and Senior Director Nicholas Rasmussen of the national security staff held a secure video teleconference to discuss the threat with officials from across the intelligence community, including NSA, CIA, TSA, NCTC and FBI, as well as the FAA, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, Northern Command, the Coast Guard and other White House officials.
Other agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and state and local law enforcement authorities, are participating.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, told Fox News Monday that the state plans to sue the Department of Homeland Security to get access to the federal citizenship database so that it can better determine who is voting legally.
Secretary MICHAEL CHERTOFF (Department of Homeland Security): We have asked state and local leaders and transportation officials to increase their protective measures including additional law enforcement, police, bomb-detecting canine teams, increased video surveillance and increased numbers of inspection of trash receptacles and other storage areas.
And as is of course appropriate, these kinds of issues are handled in the State Department by security professionals.
The Department of Homeland Security would build the lab at Kansas State University to replace a facility at Plum Island, N.
Putting aside the holes in the GAO's "preliminary report", the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly observed that federal, state, and local response capabilities were overwhelmed by the size and scope of Hurricane Katrina.
In its response to a draft of the GAO study, the State Department says security upgrades since the 1998 bombings have prevented terrorist attacks at U.S. diplomatic posts in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Austria.
The federal government remained at a "heightened state of vigilance, " but the Department of Homeland Security has no plans to raise the national terrorism threat level, Secretary Janet Napolitano said.
Joining me to discuss the way the, the way forward and how we're going to do it is someone who works at the White House, the Senate, State Department and the former Director of Intelligence at National Security Council, Philip Bobbitt, good morning Philip, as everybody said it's not that Bobbitt, you are Philip Bobbitt.
The U.S. Embassy in Bangui suspended operations Friday "as a result of the deteriorating security situation, " the State Department said in a statement.
The state-run centers were funded by the Department of Homeland Security after the Sept. 11 attacks to address the lack of interagency information sharing.
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For example, E-Verify denied employment to Juan Carlos, a naturalized U.S. citizen, after the State Department failed to notify the Social Security Administration of his status change.
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Also muddying the case are assurances of immunity initially given to the guards by State Department diplomatic security agents, who were investigating the incident before the FBI tried to interview them once it took over.
The new department would also give state and local agencies one point of contact for homeland security issues.
After the 1998 bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the State Department found that 85% of its overseas posts had lax security, exposing them to the risk of terrorist attack.
Mr Romney said Mr Biden's statement in the recent vice-presidential debate that the administration was not told about requests for extra security in Libya contradicted the sworn testimony of state department officials.
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Rose Gottemoeller is Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security and Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance at the Department of State.
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Protecting information on the Internet is a responsibility of U.S. corporations and their security tools, not the State Department.
Her comments in both the Senate and House hearings clarified an earlier misunderstanding between the State Department and CIA. At the time of the attack, State Department officials believed they had a formal arrangement with CIA for backup security, while CIA didn't think there was a formal responsibility.
After Wednesday's ceremony at the US state department, Croatia's ambassador said his country intended to assume its share of the security burden in Afghanistan, where Nato leads the 55, 000-strong International Security Assistance Force (Isaf).
Clinton detailed what the State Department has done to begin implementing the 29 recommendations of the Accountability Review Board to improve security at diplomatic posts in high-threat areas, in addition to a few of her own.
Jeffrey Feltman -- an assistant secretary of state who is the department's top official on the Middle East -- and National Security Council official Daniel Shapiro traveled to Damascus twice in recent months in an effort to improve ties with Syria.
"U.S. citizens are encouraged to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness, " the State Department said.
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