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The Department of Homeland Security will turn 1 year old March 1, but the past year has not been without challenges, one official said today. Janet Hale, homeland security undersecretary for management, told members of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association that the past year has been extraordinary and that standing up the department has been one of the "largest management challenges the federal government has ever seen." Hale was the keynote speaker for the opening day of AFCEA's 2004 Homeland Security Conference here. She said when the department was stood up in March 2003, some 180,000 employees had...

Former Breitbart executive and current White House chief strategist Steve Bannon will be able sit in on any National Security Council or Homeland Security Council meeting thanks to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Saturday.President Trump’s executive order reorganized the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council. The National Security Council was founded in 1947 and is a forum where top officials meet to discuss matters of national security and foreign policy.Bannon is not only invited to every attend every NSC and HSC meeting now, but also is designated as a regular attendee to the NSC Principals Committee. This...

Top military leaders in the Pentagon and in the field are growing increasingly frustrated by the tight constraints the White House has placed on the plans to fight ISIS and train a new Syrian rebel army. As the American-led battle against ISIS stretches into its fourth month, the generals and Pentagon officials leading the air campaign and preparing to train Syrian rebels are working under strict White House orders to keep the war contained within policy limits. The National Security Council has given precise instructions on which rebels can be engaged, who can be trained, and what exactly those fighters...

Chairman received donations from firms appearing at hearingAt a hearing in late March, the nation's credit card companies faced the threat of expensive new rules from an unlikely regulator: the House Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). The committee had never before dealt with credit card issues, but Thompson warned Visa, MasterCard and others that Congress might need to impose tighter security standards costing millions of dollars to protect customers from identity theft. Behind the scenes, some of Thompson's staff members sensed a different motive -- an attempt to pressure the companies into making political donations to...

Lois Farrakahn Nation Of Islam & the arrest of black radical Muslims in serios terror-plots on US land marks (arrest in Miami)So we know by now that the 7 arrested are black radical Muslims, Lois Farrakahn the dangerous racist, any questions?FBI raids targets in domestic terrorism probe CNNSeven Arrests in Alleged Plot to Attack US Buildings KXTV

<p>At the end of his nine-hour drive from Ohio, Andrew Mitakides rolls through the brick-columned gates of Virginia's Hampden-Sydney College. Etched in stone on one column is a Latin mission statement: "Huc venite iuvenes ut exeatis viri." Come here as youths so that you may leave as men.</p> <p>Mitakides passes students in blazers and ties, who wave at him as he drives down College Road past cupola-topped brick buildings and pathways that angle and arc beneath canopies of oak. Birch trees edge a fishing pond. A 180-year-old dormitory looks like it was imported from Colonial Williamsburg.</p>