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	<title>Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis &#187; Rich Cooper</title>
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		<title>LTG Russel Honore’s Candor on Communications</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/03/11/ltg-russel-honore%e2%80%99s-candor-on-communications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what was one of his typically colorful appearances, ret. US Army LTG Russel Honore, the famed “Ragin Cajun” of Hurricane Katrina fame did not disappoint the assembled audience of the 4th Annual DHS University Network Summit. Before a packed hotel ballroom of PhDs, graduate students, DHS S&#038;T leaders, industry reps and more, Honore dropped one-liners and candid, colorful observations that literally had the audience roaring in laughter. Amidst the laughter though were some very frank observations about our nation’s preparedness and overall resilience posture.]]></description>
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		<title>The Comforting Feeling at NEMA</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/03/09/the-comforting-feeling-at-nema/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a comforting feeling in attending a meeting with the National Emergency Managers Association (NEMA). You are literally surrounded by some of the world’s best and brightest emergency managers in the public and private sectors.  Probably no where else in the world could you assemble the talent, experience, and character in one room and fulfill the Allstate marketing adage of “you’re in good hands.” Such was my experience last weekend at NEMA’s annual mid-year conference in Alexandria, VA. ]]></description>
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		<title>The O’Toole Budget Hearing – Steady as She Goes…</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/03/04/the-o%e2%80%99toole-budget-hearing-%e2%80%93-steady-as-she-goes%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of her first appearances on Capitol Hill since becoming DHS’ Under Secretary for Science &#038; Technology, Tara O’Toole showed herself to be in complete comfort with the issues and challenges that face her.  Her demeanor and candor at a FY2011 Budget Hearing before the House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cyber Security and Science &#038; Technology, also exhibited calm, cool and collected confidence in the programs she has inherited. This is just the reassurance that many from industry were looking for.]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the Napolitano Budget Hearings</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/02/26/lessons-from-the-napolitano-budget-hearings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone needs to buy Janet Napolitano a beer.  Or at least give her a double of whatever she wants.  After two consecutive days on Capitol Hill testifying in front of four different Congressional Committees, she’s earned it. In defending the Administration’s proposed 2011 budget, she took on a whole set of bipartisan punches and barbs from an array of political players who weren’t exactly happy with what she was trying to sell them.]]></description>
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		<title>An “Astounding” Problem – DHS Civil Service and Contractors</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/02/24/an-%e2%80%9castounding%e2%80%9d-problem-%e2%80%93-dhs-civil-service-and-contractors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the news today are reports that DHS employs more contractors than career civil servants.  Lawmakers, notably Sen. Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), have described this situation as "unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable."  The other notable word that they have used to describe this situation is “astounding.” This is a situation that has been known about for some time. If we really want to be “astounded” and have a system that is “acceptable, tenable and sustainable,” we can start by fixing the problem that created the civil service and contractor imbalance.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Calling Obama’s Cards – TSA and Collective Bargaining Rights</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/02/23/calling-obama%e2%80%99s-cards-%e2%80%93-tsa-and-collective-bargaining-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s actions by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) to represent TSA’s 40,000 screeners has upped the ante in the high stakes poker game the Obama Administration seems to have avoided playing. Will there or will there not be a union at TSA? If we are to ever move forward, the White House’s deafening silence has to end. Whatever decision it makes will have tremendous consequences and will leave some players at the poker table inflamed and outraged.]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons in Blizzard Resilience &#8211; Part II</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/02/16/lessons-in-blizzard-resilience-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two large snowstorms and a pathetically minor dusting, we can see how Washington responded to emergency weather. As FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate has so aptly put in numerous ways, “It’s time we treated the citizen as an asset and as a member of the response team, rather than as a liability,” and the 2010 Mother Nature Winter rampage has put forward some great issues that public and private sector leaders, as well as citizens, should be acting on.]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons in Blizzard Resilience – Part 1</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/02/11/lessons-in-blizzard-resilience-%e2%80%93-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/02/11/lessons-in-blizzard-resilience-%e2%80%93-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most people of the Mid-Atlantic region, I’ve spent almost a week hunkered down at home with my family watching the piles and piles of global warming stack outside my home. For as unprecedented as this weather pattern has been for the region, it has been a remarkable test of the region’s resilience. While the jury is still out on a final evaluation (since the last snow flake has yet to fall), here are some things we have learned.]]></description>
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		<title>Reid Roars But Will He Act?</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/02/02/reid-roars-but-will-he-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday morning, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV) lashed out at Senate Republicans for their on-going procedural holds on a number of the Obama Administration’s nominees for critical positions at the Pentagon, DHS and elsewhere. The only measure that counts in the homeland arena is doing the job, and it’s long past time for the Senate to do its job when it comes to voting on a number of critical nominees. ]]></description>
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		<title>Bad News From the Air Marshals</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/02/01/bad-news-from-the-air-marshals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the last several weeks haven’t been bad enough for the Obama Administration, they are about to get even worse. On Monday night’s CBS Evening News, Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian will profile a number of serious problems at the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS).  ]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Chairs at House Homeland</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/01/28/musical-chairs-at-house-homeland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change is in the air at the House Homeland Security Committee. While its Chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), is firmly in place, the people running his Subcommittees are going through a round of musical chairs.]]></description>
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		<title>DHS Cyber and Rodney Dangerfield: Looking for Respect</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/01/27/dhs-cyber-and-rodney-dangerfield-looking-for-respect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The late, legendary comedian Rodney Dangerfield long complained about getting “no respect.”  After attending Wednesday morning’s Government Executive Leadership Series breakfast, “Cyber Security: Who Leads,” DHS may feel like using Rodney’s most memorable line to describe its placement in the federal cyber world. In what was a first-class discussion of the challenges and issues compounding the federal and international cyber-security environment, nary a word was mentioned about DHS and the role they play in leading the country’s cyber security efforts.  ]]></description>
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		<title>TSA After Southers: Now What?</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/01/22/tsa-after-southers-now-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the nomination of Erroll Southers to be the next Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now in tatters, the question has to be raised, “Now what?” f we do the forensics on why Southers will remain in Southern California instead of TSA Headquarters in Arlington, VA, I think it is safe to say that for all of his testimony faults and the petty politics that caused his nomination to collapse, its more than apparent that it was the White House that doomed the nomination from the start. If we’ve seen anything of their first year in office, this is not an Administration with much ability to make unpopular or tough positions, let alone a willingness to fight to put people into positions that serve the nation’s interests. Rather than actually leading and staking positions beyond rhetorical campaign platitudes or using the powers and authorities they have, the Obama Administration is apparently unable or unwilling to answer tough questions or lacks the ability to fight for people who are willing to serve.]]></description>
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		<title>Do We Have Your Attention Now? – Google’s Roar to Exit China</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/01/14/do-we-have-your-attention-now-%e2%80%93-google%e2%80%99s-roar-to-exit-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been no secret that our various cyber networks have been susceptible to attack, and public reports on this have basically been greeted by the conventional up and down head-bob followed by the expedited and innocuous statement, “Yes, this is serious.” While there is nothing wrong with those reactions and the attention is surely warranted, something has dramatically changed, and it’s screaming on headlines across the country - Google is threatening to leave China.]]></description>
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		<title>Dropping the Ball: Federalizing a National Moment</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/01/13/dropping-the-ball-federalizing-a-national-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the country’s various homeland and intelligence agencies begin to implement the post-Delta Flight 253 changes ordered by the President, it is becoming painfully obvious that we are falling into the same post-9/11 reaction – we are federalizing a national moment. If we are to be a resilient and resourceful nation, the private sector must play a key role in the strategic response and corrective actions following an event such as that on Flight 253.]]></description>
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		<title>Erroll Southers in the Washington Post: When the Headline Doesn’t Match the Story</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2010/01/04/erroll-southers-in-the-washington-post-when-the-headline-doesn%e2%80%99t-match-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a January 1 front-page story in the Washington Post, TSA Administrator-nominee Errol Southers is described as having misled Congress about accessing confidential records. The article chronicles Southers’ clarification of testimony about how he had accessed a database to gain information on his estranged wife’s new boyfriend over twenty years ago when he was with the FBI. If all you read was the headline, you may think Erroll Southers was some rogue who knowingly went out and lied to Congress for some nefarious purpose. If you read the whole story though, the Post’s use of the word “misled” is a real-stretch. ]]></description>
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		<title>Petty Politics, Poor Priorities and Protecting Us from Terror</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/12/28/petty-politics-poor-priorities-and-protecting-us-from-terror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time when we truly need one of our country’s best on the job to help protect us, we can’t put Errol Southers into place at the TSA because of the bipartisan pettiness that has engulfed the U.S. Senate. The Obama Administration needs to make a full-court press to get Southers confirmed, and provide the TSA with permanent leadership.]]></description>
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		<title>Here We Go Again – Spending On Infrastructure Without a Plan</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/12/09/here-we-go-again-%e2%80%93-spending-on-infrastructure-without-a-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the drive home, I heard the WTOP/CBS news reporters talk about how the President was once again considering the building and re-building of portions of our nation’s infrastructure as a means to put the millions of unemployed and under-employed Americans back to work. I couldn’t help but feel, “Here we go again.” It’s no secret that our country’s infrastructure is in dreadful shape, but my sense of deja vu at hearing the President’s interests in infrastructure was met by the realization that we are about to commit the same old sins and mistakes we’ve been making for years.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking them in the Eye: The Obama Speech</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/12/02/looking-them-in-eye-the-obama-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the long-belabored deliberations of his war-council concluded and the decision to deploy 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to get the job done now revealed, I think it is worth noting the importance of the “how” and “where” of last night’s speech. While there are many on the ‘right’ and ‘left’ who will find fault with whatever the President had to say, I give him an enormous amount of credit for taking his orders directly to many of the men and women who will be charged with implementing them.]]></description>
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		<title>Party-Crashing Salahi Couple Provide a Chance for House Homeland’s Moment in the Sun</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/12/01/party-crashing-salihi-couple-provide-a-chance-for-house-homeland%e2%80%99s-moment-in-the-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been observed by many over this past year that the House Homeland Committee has lost a lot of its ‘umph.’ That will change on Thursday morning and all because of two egocentric, reality TV wannabes who showed up uninvited to places they don’t belong. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson has called the entire Committee membership together to grill U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan and America’s newest pariahs, Tareq and Micheale Salahi.]]></description>
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