Then, there was Obama's equally tone-deaf decision to name Janet Napolitano to head the Homeland Security Department.
The bill gives the State Department and the Homeland Security Department the authority to waive restrictions against ANC members.
They were from local police, the FBI, even the federal Homeland Security department.
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The eight officials are among more than a dozen top managers who've left the Homeland Security Department in recent months.
The Homeland Security Department said Napolitano would donate 5 percent of her salary to foundations that benefit Homeland Security staff.
But the creation of the Homeland Security Department became highly politicized in the run up to the elections of 2002.
The Homeland Security Department would have six months to create a new border-security plan to achieve the 90 percent effectiveness rate.
This is so serious that either the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department would respond, depending on the type of attack.
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Still hung up by bickering is a bill that initially had significant bipartisan agreement: the creation of a Homeland Security Department.
The Homeland Security Department is proposing to replace the five colours with clearer language to describe the threat from terrorism, officials say.
Napolitano said top Homeland Security Department officials are embarking on a multicontinent tour to meet with international counterparts about airline and airport security.
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Obama said he was directing the Homeland Security Department to improve international partnerships to improve aviation security and boost screening at airports around the world.
The news was disclosed to senators at a closed-door briefing with the FBI and Homeland Security Department officials called to discuss Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon.
And he carried everything, as you know, from the Chinese investigation at the very beginning of his career, to the Homeland Security Department, the last thing we did.
However, a recent Homeland Security Department intelligence report, obtained by The Associated Press, concluded that there are no effective means to prevent a coordinated attack on U.S. Web sites.
Daschle said a potential roadblock to passing the proposal would be the roles of the CIA and FBI -- which have been left out of the Homeland Security Department.
After a few years of discussion about whether to upgrade the labs, the homeland security department announced in 2009 that it would move the animal-disease research to a planned Kansas facility.
Malkin is seized with several particularly pressing defects in the conduct of U.S. immigration policy and warns that, all other things being equal, the Homeland Security Department is unlikely to address them.
The attacks temporarily crippled multiple systems including those of the National Security Agency, Homeland Security Department, the South Korean Foreign Ministry, the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange, and The Washington Post.
Despite the poison's fearsome reputation, a draft of a 2010 Homeland Security Department handbook lists only one person killed by ricin, and that was a 1978 assassination in London involving injection with a ricin pellet.
The Homeland Security Department allocates funds based on what it determines are the cities at greatest risk, with New York topping a list of 10 cities that vie for the largest portion of the money.
The committee voted 35 to 16 in favor of a budget amendment that would prohibit contracts between the Homeland Security Department and non-U.S. corporations and would prevent such companies already under a government contract from receiving extensions.
The most significant revision made to the legislation was the removal of a regulatory section, opposed by Republicans, that would have required companies operating critical infrastructure to meet basic cybersecurity standards established by the Homeland Security Department.
If, as seems likely, the new Homeland Security Department is unable or unwilling to take on this task even though it will be impossible to succeed in its mission without doing so the Congress must fill the vacuum.
We can't expect to have a Homeland Security Department or an intelligence agency or 15 of them, as we have, really, to operate in an efficient, accountable, capable manner, when it's sitting in the middle of an otherwise dysfunctional government.
White House strategists see an opportunity to paint Democrats who resist the president as soft on terrorism, much as they did after Democrats objected to some aspects of the new Homeland Security Department in 2002, or to the war in Iraq in 2004.
As the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's death on 1 May 2011 approached, a joint intelligence bulletin issued by the US Northern Command, the FBI and Homeland Security Department expressed concern that al-Qaeda intended to "advance plots along multiple fronts, including renewed efforts to target Western aviation".
As Arizona governor, Napolitano signed the toughest employer sanction law in the country, hyperbolically declared a "state of emergency" along the U.S.-Mexican border and joined the clownish Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in condemning the Homeland Security Department -- the same agency she now heads -- for not doing enough to enforce immigration laws.
With regard to expansions in federal personnel, they have over the past couple years been disproportionately in the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs.
With so many cybersecurity professionals in one place, I and several senior leaders from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Commerce were able to provide in-depth explanations of the E.
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