Sailing into Trouble
The Coast Guard's fleet is getting so old that many ships no longer can perform certain missions, the Government Accountability Office warns in a report that urges the service to set more realistic...
View ArticleHomeland official resigns over sex misconduct allegations
WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Obama administration political appointee and longtime aide to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano resigned Saturday amid allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior...
View ArticleLoan a Drone
Far from the battlefields of Afghanistan, a Predator drone was summoned into action last year to spy on a North Dakota farmer who allegedly refused to return a half dozen of his neighbor’s cows that...
View ArticleShrinking the Secret Service
Bracing for the possibility of budget sequestration next month, the Homeland Security Department is making plans to furlough as many as 1,000 Secret Service agents, officers and others employees,...
View ArticleSilence of the Lambs
Fifteen months before the Fast & Furious gun scandal was unmasked in public, Homeland Security agents along the Arizona border recognized that their colleagues at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,...
View ArticleSinking Security
A decade-long Homeland Security Department effort to better secure America’s shipping ports from terrorism using biometric identification cards has been so bungled that lawmakers should consider other...
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