During a Senate hearing on immigration reform, Tuesday, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions butt heads with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano over the performance of ICE officials. Under his tough questioning, he was able to get her to admit
Sen. Ted Cruz questioned Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about the border security measures contained in the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Tuesday.Cruz asked, “If there are no objective metrics, if it
Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) said on Tuesday that law enforcement may have known in advance about the Boston Marathon suspects’ bombing plans. Speaking to local Atlanta Channel 2 Action News, Chambliss said, “There now appears that may have been some
In testimony before the Senate on Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that while DHS knew about Boston bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev traveling to Russia last year, but didn’t know anything about his return or thereafter. After Senator Lindsay
AP: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that her agency knew of alleged Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s trip to Russia last year even though his name was misspelled on a travel document
(AP) Napolitano to talk immigration before Senate panelBy ERICA WERNERAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublican senators skeptical of new immigration legislation and of the Obama administration’s record on border security are getting a chance to question Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Napolitano is appearing
Reports indicate Canadian police and intelligence agencies have thwarted a terror plot and made arrests in Montreal and Toronto. Details are scant, but it appears those arrested had been under surveillance for more than a year. The investigation was reportedly
Although the MSM has dropped the story, several conservative news outlets continue to report news about the Saudi national who was briefly considered a “person of interest” and was later cleared after the Boston bombing, last week. Here, at Breitbart,
The ostensible plan to guarantee border security that was part of the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform proposal isn’t turning out to be what its sponsors promised. Pro-reform Republicans pledged that if border security had not increased in five years
George Stephanopoulos discussing the Boston bombing. with Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, was on ABC’s This Week this Sunday morning, April 21, 2013
CBS: Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani and former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge discuss the connections between 9/11 and the bombings at the Boston Marathon and agree that America must remain vigilant despite ramped up security
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Friday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), a member of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight,” urged his Senate colleagues and members of the media at the immigration bill hearing to not tie the bill to
(AP) Judiciary Committee takes up immigration billBy ERICA WERNERAssociated PressWASHINGTONA far-reaching new immigration bill is getting its first test at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where opponents of the legislation will be able to face off with its authors. The
In a column published late Wednesday, conservative author Ann Coulter ripped Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for his support of the “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill. “When Republicans start lying like Democrats, you can guess they are pushing an idea
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who has apparently never actually visited the Drudge Report, has now sounded off on the veracity of the Drudge Report. When Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) asked Napolitano about reports linked at the Drudge Report to
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano questioned Rep. Jeff Duncan’s (R-SC) description of the Drudge Report as “reputable news source.”
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan’s question Duncan: “We have someone who’s being deported due to national security concerns. We’ve got this guy who was there, we know he was there…and yet we’re going to
The Obama Administration cut the budget for domestic bomb prevention by 45%, according to former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection Robert Liscouski. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Liscouski said under President George W. Bush the Department
An article published on CNN’s website makes an unproven claim that pressure cooker bombs like the ones used at the Boston Marathon terror attack are a “signature” of “right-wing extremists.” The article says (emphasis added) : A senior U.S. counterterrorism investigator told
The 17-page document laying out the forthcoming bipartisan Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration reform legislative proposal shows the senators are fully entrusting the Department of Homeland Security with all steps of border security. The document shows that the Secretary of
The head of the House Democratic Caucus, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA), said on Tuesday that the sequester’s $85 billion slowdown in the rate of federal spending growth is hurting Boston’s ability to respond to Monday’s terrorist attack, which claimed at
We are finally getting small but solid pieces of information related to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing. This means we have moved ever so slightly from speculation to clues. As of now, though, nothing is definitive. The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Representatives of Congress, the FBI, and Boston law enforcement gave conflicting and unclear information about what they knew or did not know–or would reveal–about potential suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing Monday that killed three people and injured at least
The Department of Homeland Security has not issued a terror alert in response to Monday’s bombings in Boston. On the Department of Homeland Security’s National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) website, the administration says: “There are no current alerts.” According to
