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Michael Chertoff headed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in its early years, from 2005 to 2009. As the third largest cabinet branch, with 218,000 employees, DHS controls immigration, borders, and even protects the president. Chertoff talked recently with NEWSWEEK's Jerry Guo about his tenure and new dangers facing the country. Excerpts:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano offered a blunt assessment this week about domestic terrorism -- a term she described only as "man-caused incidents or disasters" just nine months ago.
On his second day in office, President Obama pledged to create "an unprecedented level of openness in government" -- an executive memorandum that his administration now says does not apply to calls for his social secretary to testify on Capitol Hill.
The White House is being accused stonewalling as Congress investigates the party-crasher security breach at President Obama's first state dinner last week.
Three Secret Service officers have been put on administrative leave after the security breach at last week's White House dinner, an episode President Barack Obama said hasn't shaken his confidence in his protectors.
If White House social secretary Desiree Rogers survives this week's withering attacks for her role in last week's state dinner security breach, she'll have gotten by with a lot of help from her friends in the West Wing.
The head of the Secret Service asserted Thursday that the security breach at last week's White House state dinner was an aberration but has put three uniformed officers on leave. President Barack Obama says his confidence in the agency remains unshaken.
US lawmakers Thursday probed security lapses that allowed an uninvited couple to gate crash an exclusive White House reception last week as the secret service admitted it had made a mistake.
Rep. Bennie Thompson got the memo. n a high-profile House hearing yesterday, Mr. Thompson, D-Miss., the House Homeland Security Committee chairman, squashed Republican efforts to subpoena White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and put the blame for Tareq and Michaele Salahi's uninvited entry into the Nov. 24 White House state dinner squarely on the Secret Service.
The Secret Service chief testifies on how a couple crashed the White House event. Three agents are on paid leave. The White House security procedures in place during last week's state dinner had been used at times during past administrations without problems, the Secret Service director said Thursday as he tried to explain how a Virginia couple managed to talk their way into one of the most ...
Las Vegas is a capital for both parties and party crashers. Entire industries have sprung up on the Strip devoted to the partnership of swanky party places and those who control access beyond the velvet rope. So when Rep. Dina Titus took her seat Thursday at the Homeland Security Committee hearing on the White House party crashers, she had a few things to say about the case of Tareq and Michaele ...
WASHINGTON -- Meet the people who stand between us and the terrorists. The most powerful government on earth yesterday was held hostage by four ninnies -- a Secret Service chief who looked like a scared bunny, a stonewalling presidential social se...
Three Secret Service agents who allowed a pair of publicity hogs to crash President Obama's first state dinner have turned in their earpieces and badges, officials said yesterday. "The individuals identified have been put on administrative leave,"...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. Homeland Security Department announced plans to partner with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority on a new biological terrorism study.
WASHINGTON — The head of the Secret Service accepted full responsibility Wednesday for last week's security breach at President Barack Obama's first state dinner, but insisted that the president and Vice President Joe Biden were never in danger from a party-crashing couple who shook hands and posed for pictures with them.
Law enforcement officials — not tailgaters — were getting stoked Thursday outside Land Shark Stadium, rolling out an impressive display of equipment to protect Miami's postseason football trifecta: the Orange Bowl, Pro Bowl and Super Bowl No. 44.
