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United States Department of Homeland Security
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Its stated missions involve anti-terrorism, border security, immigration and customs, cyber security, and disaster prevention and management. It was created in response to the September 11 attacks, in fiscal year 2017, it was allocated a net discretionary budget of $40.6 billion. With more than 240,000 employees, DHS is the third largest Cabinet department, after the Departments of Defense, Homeland security policy is coordinated at the White House by the Homeland Security Council. Other agencies with significant homeland security responsibilities include the Departments of Health and Human Services, Justice and its stated goal is to prepare for, prevent, and respond to domestic emergencies, particularly terrorism. On March 1,2003, DHS absorbed the Immigration and Naturalization Service, in doing so, it divided the enforcement and services functions into two separate and new agencies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Citizenship and Immigration Services. The investigative divisions and intelligence gathering units of the INS and Customs Service were merged forming Homeland Security Investigations, additionally, the border enforcement functions of the INS, including the U. S. Border Patrol, the U. S. Customs Service, the Federal Protective Service falls under the National Protection and Programs Directorate. The Department of Homeland Security is headed by the Secretary of Homeland Security with the assistance of the Deputy Secretary, the Department contains the components listed below. Agencies, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Processes and examines citizenship, residency, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Law enforcement agency divided into two bureaus, An agency that enforces U. S. It also investigates crimes against the U. S. monetary system including the crime of counterfeiting U. S. currency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, agency that oversees the federal governments response to natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, forest fires, etc. National Protection and Programs Directorate, risk-reduction, encompassing both physical and virtual threats and their associated human elements, Federal Protective Service, Federal law enforcement and security agency that protects and investigates crimes against U. S. federal buildings, properties, assets, and federal government interests. National Cybersecurity Center In an August 5,2002 speech, President Bush said, to secure freedom in the homeland. Prior to the creation of DHS, American presidents had referred to the U. S. as the nation or the republic, also unprecedented was the use, from 2002, of the phrase the homeland by White House spokespeople. In 2011 the Department of Homeland Security phased out the old Homeland Security Advisory System with a two-level National Terrorism Advisory System, the system has two types of advisories, Alerts and Bulletins. Alerts are issued when there is specific and credible information of a terrorist threat against the United States, Alerts themselves have two levels, Elevated and Imminent. An Elevated Alert is issued when there is information about an attack. An Imminent Alert is issued when the threat is very specific, many procedures at government facilities are tied in to the alert level, for example a facility may search all entering vehicles when the alert is above a certain level. After resigning, Tom Ridge stated that he did not always agree with the threat level adjustments pushed by other government agencies
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Dick Cheney (center), then
Vice President of the United States,
Saxby Chambliss (center right), a
U.S. senator from
Georgia and
Michael Chertoff (far right), then
United States Secretary of Homeland Security in 2005
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Seal of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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President
George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2004 on October 1, 2003.
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United States Secretary of Homeland Security
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The United States Secretary of Homeland Security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the body concerned with protecting the U. S. and the safety of U. S. citizens. The secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet, the position was created by the Homeland Security Act following the attacks of September 11,2001. It did not, however, include the FBI or the CIA, on January 20,2009, the Senate confirmed Barack Obamas appointment of Janet Napolitano to be the third Secretary of Homeland Security, effective January 21,2009. Napolitano resigned effective August 2013 to head the University of California, on October 17, President Obama announced his intention to nominate former General Counsel of the Department of Defense Jeh Johnson, and on December 16 the US Senate confirmed the nomination. The current Secretary, sworn in on January 20,2017, is retired United States Marine Corps general John F. Kelly, on March 9,2006, 43rd President George W. Bush signed H. R.3199 as Pub. L. As of April 2017, there are four living former Secretaries of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection Director of U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director of U. S. Bush nominated Bernard Kerik for the position in 2004. However a week later, Kerik withdrew his nomination, explaining that he had employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny, by July 2013, Raymond Kelly had served as Commissioner of the New York City Police Department for nearly 12 straight years. They are largely the lives of men of color
United States Secretary of Homeland Security
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Incumbent
Jeh Johnson since December 16, 2013
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President of the United States
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The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The president is considered to be one of the worlds most powerful political figures, the role includes being the commander-in-chief of the worlds most expensive military with the second largest nuclear arsenal and leading the nation with the largest economy by nominal GDP. The office of President holds significant hard and soft power both in the United States and abroad, Constitution vests the executive power of the United States in the president. The president is empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves. The president is responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of the party to which the president is a member. The president also directs the foreign and domestic policy of the United States, since the office of President was established in 1789, its power has grown substantially, as has the power of the federal government as a whole. However, nine vice presidents have assumed the presidency without having elected to the office. The Twenty-second Amendment prohibits anyone from being elected president for a third term, in all,44 individuals have served 45 presidencies spanning 57 full four-year terms. On January 20,2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th, in 1776, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution. The new states, though independent of each other as nation states, desiring to avoid anything that remotely resembled a monarchy, Congress negotiated the Articles of Confederation to establish a weak alliance between the states. Out from under any monarchy, the states assigned some formerly royal prerogatives to Congress, only after all the states agreed to a resolution settling competing western land claims did the Articles take effect on March 1,1781, when Maryland became the final state to ratify them. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris secured independence for each of the former colonies, with peace at hand, the states each turned toward their own internal affairs. Prospects for the convention appeared bleak until James Madison and Edmund Randolph succeeded in securing George Washingtons attendance to Philadelphia as a delegate for Virginia. It was through the negotiations at Philadelphia that the presidency framed in the U. S. The first power the Constitution confers upon the president is the veto, the Presentment Clause requires any bill passed by Congress to be presented to the president before it can become law. Once the legislation has been presented, the president has three options, Sign the legislation, the bill becomes law. Veto the legislation and return it to Congress, expressing any objections, in this instance, the president neither signs nor vetoes the legislation
President of the United States
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Incumbent
Barack Obama since January 20, 2009 (2009-01-20)
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Presidential Seal
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Obama signing legislation at the
Resolute desk
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, successfully preserved the
Union during the
American Civil War
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United States Senate
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The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress which, along with the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, composes the legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article One of the United States Constitution. S. From 1789 until 1913, Senators were appointed by the legislatures of the states represented, following the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913. The Senate chamber is located in the wing of the Capitol, in Washington. It further has the responsibility of conducting trials of those impeached by the House, in the early 20th century, the practice of majority and minority parties electing their floor leaders began, although they are not constitutional officers. This idea of having one chamber represent people equally, while the other gives equal representation to states regardless of population, was known as the Connecticut Compromise, there was also a desire to have two Houses that could act as an internal check on each other. One was intended to be a Peoples House directly elected by the people, the other was intended to represent the states to such extent as they retained their sovereignty except for the powers expressly delegated to the national government. The Senate was thus not designed to serve the people of the United States equally, the Constitution provides that the approval of both chambers is necessary for the passage of legislation. First convened in 1789, the Senate of the United States was formed on the example of the ancient Roman Senate, the name is derived from the senatus, Latin for council of elders. James Madison made the comment about the Senate, In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people. An agrarian law would take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation, landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority, the senate, therefore, ought to be this body, and to answer these purposes, the people ought to have permanency and stability. The Constitution stipulates that no constitutional amendment may be created to deprive a state of its equal suffrage in the Senate without that states consent, the District of Columbia and all other territories are not entitled to representation in either House of the Congress. The District of Columbia elects two senators, but they are officials of the D. C. city government. The United States has had 50 states since 1959, thus the Senate has had 100 senators since 1959. In 1787, Virginia had roughly ten times the population of Rhode Island, whereas today California has roughly 70 times the population of Wyoming and this means some citizens are effectively two orders of magnitude better represented in the Senate than those in other states. Seats in the House of Representatives are approximately proportionate to the population of each state, before the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, Senators were elected by the individual state legislatures
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The Senate side of the
United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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A typical Senate desk
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Term of office
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A term of office is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office. In many jurisdictions there is a limit on how long terms of office may be before the officeholder must be subject to re-election. Some jurisdictions exercise term limits, setting a number of terms an individual may hold in a particular office. Being the origin of the Westminster system, aspects of the United Kingdoms system of government are replicated in other countries. The monarch serves as head of state until his or her death or abdication, in the United Kingdom Members of Parliament in the House of Commons are elected for the duration of the parliament. Following dissolution of the Parliament, an election is held which consists of simultaneous elections for all seats. For most MPs this means that their terms of office are identical to the duration of the Parliament, an MP elected in a by-election mid-way through a Parliament, regardless of how long they have occupied the seat, is not exempt from facing re-election at the next general election. The Septennial Act 1715 provided that a Parliament expired seven years after it had been summoned, prior to the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 parliaments had no minimum duration. Parliaments could be dissolved early by the monarch at the Prime Ministers request, the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 mandated that Parliaments should last their full five years. Early dissolution is possible, but under much more limited circumstances. Hereditary peers and life peers retain membership of the House of Lords for life, Lords Spiritual hold membership of the House of Lords until the end of their time as bishops, though a senior bishop may be made a life peer upon the end of their bishopric. The devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are variations on the system of government used at Westminster, the office of the leader of the devolved administrations has no numeric term limit imposed upon it. However, in the case of the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government there are fixed terms for which the legislatures can sit and this is imposed at four years. Elections may be held before this time but only if no administration can be formed, offices of local government other regional elected officials follow similar rules to the national offices discussed above, with persons elected to fixed terms of a few years. Federal judges have different terms in office, however, the majority of the federal judiciary, Article III judges, such as those of the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and federal district courts, serve for life. The terms of office for officials in state governments according to the provisions of state constitutions. The term for state governors is four years in all states but Vermont and New Hampshire, the National Conference of State Legislatures reported in January 2007 that among state legislatures,44 states had terms of office for the lower house of the state legislature at two years. Five had terms of office at four years,37 states had terms of office for the upper house of the state legislature at four years
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Heads of state or Heads of Government
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Gordon R. England
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Gordon Richard England is an American businessman who served as the U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and twice as U. S. Secretary of the Navy in the administration of U. S. President George W. Bush. Gordon England was born on September 15,1937 in Baltimore, Maryland and he went on to receive a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1961 and an MBA from the Texas Christian University in 1975. He was a member of several fraternities including Beta Gamma Sigma, Omicron Delta Kappa, England started his business career in 1966 at Honeywell where he was an engineer on the Project Gemini space program. He worked for Litton Industries as a manager on the E-2C Hawkeye aircraft for the United States Navy. He was also CEO of GRE Consultants, by 1977 he was employed by General Dynamics Fort Worth Division where he held various posts including Director of Avionics. England remained in that post when General Dynamics sold the Fort Worth Division to Lockheed, England returned to General Dynamics as Executive Vice President of the Combat Systems Group. He served from 1997-2001 as Executive Vice President of General Dynamics where he had responsibility for Information Systems. U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld however had decided to make corporate experience one of the key requirements in his appointees as was reported in the Washington Times and this policy led to Englands appointment alongside other leading industrialists including James Roche and Thomas E. White. England was sworn in on May 24,2001, by an instruction dated 31 May 2002, England directed all United States Navy ships to fly the first navy jack in honor of those killed in the September 11,2001 attacks. The jack is to be flown for the duration of the War on Terrorism, England left the post in January 2003 for a new position within the administration. On January 24,2003 England took up his new role as Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security in the newly formed United States Department of Homeland Security. Although Englands stint in this post was brief, a close associate quoted in the Washington Post states that it broadened his exposure to the White House and his contact base in Washington. England was recalled to again take on the role of Secretary of the Navy after just a few months following the suicide of his nominated replacement Colin R. McMillan. England was sworn in on October 1,2003 becoming only the person to hold the post twice. England made clear that The question is, Are they still threats to America, as a result of this review 38 prisoners were released due to a lack of evidence that England referred to as ‘thin files’. England was succeeded as Secretary of the Navy by Donald C, England was nominated as Deputy Secretary of Defense on May 13,2005 and immediately took up the role in an acting capacity while awaiting his confirmation. England was recess appointed to the full Deputy Secretary position on January 4,2006 by President Bush and he resigned with the incoming Obama administration. On January 22,2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told reporters he would hand off his duties to Gordon R. England during his January 23 surgery
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England in 2003
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England at the Pentagon during the
September 11 attacks in 2001.
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England gives testimony to members of the
Senate Appropriations Committee concerning the Fiscal Year 2005 National Defense Authorization Budget Request for the
Department of the Navy.
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England with
D.C. Curtis, August 2002.
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Secretary of Homeland Security
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The United States Secretary of Homeland Security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the body concerned with protecting the U. S. and the safety of U. S. citizens. The secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet, the position was created by the Homeland Security Act following the attacks of September 11,2001. It did not, however, include the FBI or the CIA, on January 20,2009, the Senate confirmed Barack Obamas appointment of Janet Napolitano to be the third Secretary of Homeland Security, effective January 21,2009. Napolitano resigned effective August 2013 to head the University of California, on October 17, President Obama announced his intention to nominate former General Counsel of the Department of Defense Jeh Johnson, and on December 16 the US Senate confirmed the nomination. The current Secretary, sworn in on January 20,2017, is retired United States Marine Corps general John F. Kelly, on March 9,2006, 43rd President George W. Bush signed H. R.3199 as Pub. L. As of April 2017, there are four living former Secretaries of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection Director of U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director of U. S. Bush nominated Bernard Kerik for the position in 2004. However a week later, Kerik withdrew his nomination, explaining that he had employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny, by July 2013, Raymond Kelly had served as Commissioner of the New York City Police Department for nearly 12 straight years. They are largely the lives of men of color
Secretary of Homeland Security
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Incumbent
Jeh Johnson since December 16, 2013
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George W. Bush
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George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 and he is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election and he is the second president to assume the nations highest office after his father, following the lead of John Quincy Adams. He is also a brother of Jeb Bush, a former Governor of Florida who was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 presidential election, the September 11 terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bushs first term as president. Bush responded with what became known as the Bush Doctrine, launching a War on Terror, a military campaign that included the war in Afghanistan in 2001. He also promoted policies on the economy, health care, education, Social Security reform and his tenure included national debates on immigration, Social Security, electronic surveillance, and torture. In the 2004 Presidential race, Bush defeated Democratic Senator John Kerry in another close election. After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism from across the spectrum for his handling of the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina. Amid this criticism, the Democratic Party regained control of Congress in the 2006 elections, Bush left office in 2009, returning to Texas where he purchased a home in Crawford. He wrote a memoir, Decision Points and his presidential library was opened in 2013. His presidency has been ranked among the worst in historians polls published in the late 2000s and 2010s. George Walker Bush was born on July 6,1946, at Grace-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, as the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife, the former Barbara Pierce. He was raised in Midland and Houston, Texas, with four siblings, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, another younger sister, Robin, died from leukemia at the age of three in 1953. His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a U. S and his father, George H. W. Bush, was Ronald Reagans Vice President from 1981 to 1989 and the 41st U. S. President from 1989 to 1993. Bush has English and some German ancestry, along with more distant Dutch, Welsh, Irish, French, Bush attended public schools in Midland, Texas, until the family moved to Houston after he had completed seventh grade. He then spent two years at The Kinkaid School, a school in Houston. Bush attended high school at Phillips Academy, a school in Andover, Massachusetts
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George W. Bush
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Lt. George W. Bush while in the
Texas Air National Guard
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George W. Bush with his father outside the White House, April 29, 1992
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Governor Bush (right) with father, former president
George H. W. Bush and wife, Laura, in 1997
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James M. Loy
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Coast Guard from 1998 to 2002. Born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Loy earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America as a youth and was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award as an adult, Loy entered the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1960. Subsequently, he earned degrees in history and government from Wesleyan University. Loy served as a officer in the U. S. Coast Guard, served in combat as commanding officer of a patrol boat in the Vietnam War. In May 1998, Loy became the twenty first Commandant of the Coast Guard, as the USCG Commandant, Loy reacted to the September 11 attacks of 2001. In the short term, he supervised the resumption of trade throughout the U. S. after the USCG had shut down most major ports after the attacks. The code came into effect in 2004, in May 2002, the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Transportation, Norman Mineta, appointed Loy to become the Deputy Undersecretary for the newly formed Transportation Security Administration. Loy led the agency through its creation and subsequent incorporation into the Department of Homeland Security. On October 23,2003, Loy was nominated as the U. S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security by U. S. President George W. Bush, and sworn in on December 4,2003. Following the departure of Tom Ridge, Loy filled in as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security from February 1,2005, until February 15,2005, joining the exodus of leadership, Loy resigned as Deputy Secretary, effective March 1,2005. On April 7,2005, the Cohen Group announced that Loy had joined the firm as a Senior Counselor, on August 5,2005, Loy joined the Board of Directors for Lockheed Martin. In the fall of 2006 it was announced that Loy was being honored as the first Chair of the Tyler Institute for Leadership at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy, as such Loy has played a significant role in speaking and drawing other distinguished visitors to the Academy. His first class was designed to teach a group of cadets about the international shipping industry. In March 2007, the Washington Post had a feature on Loy and his relation to the U. S. Coast Guards Deepwater contract, which was awarded to Lockheed Martin in summer of 2002. When asked by the Washington Post if he ever faced improper influence on Deepwater decisions while serving as the USCG Commandant, Loy said, I will pass on giving you any kind of answer. Admiral Loy is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard List of Eagle Scouts James Loy at the Cohen Group James Loy at the U. S. Coast Guard Historians Office
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Loy during his tenure as the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Admiral (United States)
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Admiral ranks above vice admiral and below fleet admiral in the Navy, the Coast Guard and the Public Health Service do not have an established grade above admiral. Admiral is equivalent to the rank of general in the uniformed services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps has never had a hold the grade of admiral. However,37 U. S. C. §201 of the U. S. Code established the grade for the NOAA Corps in the case a position is created that merits the four-star grade. The United States Navy did not have any admirals until 1862 because many felt the title too reminiscent of royalty, such as the British Royal Navy. Others saw the need for ranks above captain, among them John Paul Jones and he also felt there must be ranks above captain to avoid disputes among senior captains. Two years later Congress authorized the appointment of an admiral from among the nine rear admirals. Another bill allowed the President of the United States to appoint Farragut to admiral on July 25,1866, when Farragut died in 1870, Porter became admiral and Stephen C. Rowan was promoted to vice admiral, there was one admiral in the interim, however. In 1899, Congress recognized George Deweys accomplishments during the Spanish–American War by authorizing the President to appoint him Admiral of the Navy and he held that rank until he died in 1917. Nobody has since held that title, in 1944, Congress approved the five-star grade of fleet admiral. The first to hold it were William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, the Senate confirmed their appointments December 15,1944. Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey got his star in December 1945. The rear admiral got his two-inch stripe and one half-inch stripe in 1866, the sleeve stripes had been more elaborate. When the rear admiral rank started in 1862 the sleeve arrangement was three stripes of three-quarter-inch lace alternating with three stripes of quarter-inch lace and it was some ten inches from top to bottom. The vice admiral, of course, had even more stripes, on their dress uniforms the admirals wore bands of gold embroidery of live oak leaves and acorns. The admirals of the 1860s wore the number of stars on their shoulders as admirals of corresponding grades do today. During the 20th century, the ranks of the modern U. S. admiralty were firmly established, an oddity that did exist was that the navy did not have a one-star rank except briefly during World War II when Congress established a temporary war rank of commodore
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A U.S. Navy admiral's flag (unrestricted line officer)
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Michael P. Jackson
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Michael Peter Jackson was the George W. Bush administrations Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, beginning in March 2005 and ending with his resignation in October 2007. Jackson studied at the University of Houston under Ross M. Lence, before returning to DOT in 2001, Jackson worked in the private sector as Chief Operating Officer at Lockheed Martin IMS’s Transportation Systems and Services. IMS’s transportation group provided high technology services to toll authorities, freight companies and 35 state governments, from 1993 until 1997, Jackson was Senior Vice President at the American Trucking Associations, where he managed inter modal, international and technology policy matters. Between 2003 and 2005, Jackson served as Senior Vice President of AECOM Technology Corporation and he has been a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute and has taught political science at the University of Georgia and at Georgetown University. In February 2009, he was elected to the board of AirTran Holdings, Inc. which, among other things, controls the regional airline, Jackson is the current CEO of leading Physical Security Information Management provider, VidSys. Jackson was confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on March 10,2005, in this role, he served as the Departments chief operating officer, with responsibility for managing the day-to-day operations. Jackson resigned this post effective October 26,2007, for financial reasons I can no longer ignore, Jackson served as Deputy Secretary of the U. S. Department of Transportation from May 2001 to August 2003. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of Amtrak and was chairman of its Audit Committee, in addition to holding three positions during the tenure of George W. Bush, Jackson also held positions for two earlier Presidents. He held several positions reporting to the Secretary of Education in the Administration of President Ronald Reagan, archived from the original on January 7,2007
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Michael P. Jackson
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Paul A. Schneider
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Paul Allan Schneider is a former Deputy Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. He previously served as the Department of Homeland Security’s Under Secretary for Management, Schneider served as Deputy Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security from June 5,2008 to February 11,2009. S. Schneider served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and he was responsible for the oversight and execution of Navy and Marine Corps research, development and acquisition programs with an annual budget in excess of $30 billion. During the administration transition he served as the acting Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 8 months, from October 1994 to June 1998 Schneider served as the Executive Director and Senior Civilian of the Naval Sea Systems Command, the Navy’s largest shore organization. In this position, he was responsible for the operations of an $18 billion a year,70, 000-person organization, including shipyards, laboratories. Schneider began his career in 1965 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as a Project Engineer in the Submarine Propulsion, from 1966 to 1981 he served in several positions in submarine design, construction and overhaul programs. His last assignment was managing the Trident ship design and the integration of weapons and he also served as Program Manager for a Submarine Advanced Technology Program. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 1981, when he served as the Deputy Director of NAVSEA’S Auxiliary Systems Sub-Group in the Engineering Directorate, during this period, he also served as Program Manager for two classified programs. He also received three Presidential Rank Awards
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Paul A. Schneider
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Barack Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have served as president and he previously served in the U. S. Senate representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008, and in the Illinois State Senate from 1997 to 2004. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state and he grew up mostly in Hawaii, but also spent one year of his childhood in Washington State and four years in Indonesia. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago, in 1988 Obama enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. After graduation, he became a civil rights attorney and professor, Obama represented the 13th District for three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he ran for the U. S. Senate. In 2008, Obama was nominated for president, a year after his campaign began and he was elected over Republican John McCain, and was inaugurated on January 20,2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, during his first two years in office, Obama signed many landmark bills. Main reforms were the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, after a lengthy debate over the national debt limit, Obama signed the Budget Control and the American Taxpayer Relief Acts. In foreign policy, Obama increased U. S. troop levels in Afghanistan, reduced nuclear weapons with the U. S. -Russian New START treaty, and ended military involvement in the Iraq War. He ordered military involvement in Libya in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi, after winning re-election over Mitt Romney, Obama was sworn in for a second term in 2013. Obama also advocated gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning climate change and immigration. In foreign policy, Obama ordered military intervention in Iraq in response to gains made by ISIL after the 2011 withdrawal from Iraq, Obama left office in January 2017 with a 60% approval rating. He currently resides in Washington, D. C and his presidential library will be built in Chicago. Obama was born on August 4,1961, at Kapiʻolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu and he is the only President to have been born in Hawaii. He was born to a mother and a black father. His mother, Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English descent, with some German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss and his father, Barack Obama Sr. was a married Luo Kenyan man from Nyangoma Kogelo. Obamas parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the couple married in Wailuku, Hawaii on February 2,1961, six months before Obama was born. In late August 1961, Obamas mother moved him to the University of Washington in Seattle for a year
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Barack Obama
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Obama with his half-sister
Maya Soetoro-Ng, mother
Ann Dunham and grandfather
Stanley Dunham, in
Honolulu, Hawaii
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Obama and others celebrate the naming of a street in Chicago after
ShoreBank co-founder Milton Davis in 1998
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Obama in his official portrait as a member of the United States Senate
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Jane Holl Lute
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Jane Holl Lute served as the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 through 2013, after having been confirmed by the U. S. Senate on April 3,2009. Previously, Lute was the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, before that she was Assistant Secretary-General for Mission Support in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations since August 2003. Currently, Lute is the President and CEO of the Arlington-based Council on CyberSecurity and Senior Advisor of Measure, on 5 January 2014, she was appointed Special Adviser for Relocation of Camp Hurriya Residents Outside of Iraq by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. On 8 February 2016, she was appointed Special Coordinator on Improving the United Nations Response to Sexual Exploitation, Lute graduated from Montclair State University in 1978 and received her commission as a U. S. Army second lieutenant through Seton Hall Universitys ROTC program. She is a member of the Virginia Bar, from 1991 to 1994, she served as director of European Affairs in the National Security Council staff at the White House. Between 1994 and 1999, Lute headed up the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict and was a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars. Before that, she served as Executive Director of the Association of the United States Army’s project on the role of American Military Power in 2000, on January 23,2009, President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Jane Holl Lute as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. She left the department on April 9,2013, the Undersecretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate Rand Beers was named as her acting replacement. Since leaving the Obama administration, Lute has joined as member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, Jane Holl Lute is married to Lt. Gen. Douglas E
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Rand Beers
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Rand Beers was the current Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the President of the United States. He previously served as acting Secretary of Homeland Security following the resignation of Secretary Janet Napolitano on September 6,2013 until Jeh Johnson assumed that office on December 23,2013. As Under Secretary, Beers direct the Departments integrated efforts to reduce risks to physical, cyber, Beers has served as Counselor to Secretary Janet Napolitano since January 21,2009 and will continue in that capacity while directing the activities of NPPD. Before his appointment, he was the co-leader of the Department of Homeland Security Transition Team for the incoming Obama administration, prior to the 2008 election, Beers was president of the National Security Network, a Washington, D. C. Beers began his career as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in Vietnam. He entered the Foreign Service in 1971 and transferred to the Civil Service in 1983 and he was Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. He resigned from the NSC Staff in March 2003, retired from government service in April 2003, Beers earned a bachelors degree from Dartmouth College and a masters degree from the University of Michigan. Beers stirred up controversy with remarks he made at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress in June 2008, the event, dubbed McCain University, was a comprehensive effort to illustrate John McCains policy proposals in the context of the 2008 Presidential Election. McCain, a captured U. S. Navy aviator, was a prisoner of war of the North Vietnamese government for several years, beerss comments elicited widespread criticism from conservative observers such as Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove, as well as a variety of right-wing blogs
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Alejandro Mayorkas
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Alejandro N. Mayorkas is a Cuban-American lawyer who served as the Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security from Dec.23,2013 to Oct.31,2016. He is a partner in the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, Mayorkas practices in the areas of civil and criminal litigation, internal investigations, cybersecurity, crisis management and strategic counseling. Mayorkas was born in Havana, Cuba in 1959 and his parents arrived, with him and his sister, in the United States in late 1960 as political refugees, following the communist takeover of the island led by Fidel Castro. He lived in Miami, FL before his family moved to Los Angeles, CA, Mayorkas earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. He received his Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1985 and he lives with his wife and two of his three daughters in Washington, DC. Mayorkas was the United States Attorney for the Central District of California from 1998 to 2001, according to the Washington Post, this job involved overseeing prosecutions for public corruption, immigration, narcotics trafficking and money laundering. According to Politico, Mayorkas had phoned the White House to argue that Vignali should be released, apparently in answer to a request by Vignalis father, a well-known Los Angeles businessman. Unknown to Mayorkas, Vignalis father had been suspected of trafficking by federal law enforcement. Mayorkas apologized, saying, It is reasonable to expect someone in my position would do his or her due diligence to learn that information. In 2008, Mayorkas was selected as a member of Barack Obamas Justice Department review team and that same year, the National Law Journal named Mayorkas as one of the 50 most influential minority lawyers in America. He became the head of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2009 and he was nominated for the post by President Obama in April 2009 and was approved by the United States Senate in August of that year. As of 2011, the USCIS was the largest immigration bureau in the world, in June 2013, President Obama nominated Mayorkas as the Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security. Mayorkas role in managing the EB-5 Visa program was questioned by an Inspector Generals report, a meeting with former GreenTech Automotive executive and Virginia governor-elect Terry McAuliffe was also questioned. On December 16,2013, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on Mayorkas nomination to cut off a filibuster by Republican senators, on December 19,2013, the Senate voted 55-45 for cloture on his nomination. The next day, the Senate confirmed Mayorkas in a 54-41 vote, Mayorkas reports to Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson. Mayorkas announced his last official day with DHS is 10/28/16
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The Honorable Alejandro Mayorkas
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Donald Trump
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Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States. Prior to entering politics he was a businessman and television personality, Trump was born and raised in Queens, New York City, and earned an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He then took charge of The Trump Organization, the estate and construction firm founded by his paternal grandmother, which he ran for four. During his real career, Trump has built, renovated, and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos. Besides real estate, he started several ventures and has lent the use of his name for the branding of various products. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1996 to 2015, and he hosted The Apprentice, as of 2017, Forbes listed him as the 544th wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of $3.5 billion. Trump first publicly expressed interest in running for office in 1987. He won two Reform Party presidential primaries in 2000, but withdrew his candidacy early on, in June 2015, he launched his campaign for the 2016 presidential election and quickly emerged as the front-runner among 17 candidates in the Republican primaries. His final opponents suspended their campaigns in May 2016, and in July he was nominated at the Republican National Convention along with Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate. His campaign received unprecedented media coverage and international attention, many of the statements he made at rallies, in interviews, or on social media were controversial or false. Trump won the election on November 8,2016, in a surprise victory against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. His political positions have been described by scholars and commentators as populist, protectionist, Trump was born on June 14,1946 at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Queens, New York City. He was the fourth of five born to Frederick Christ Fred Trump. His siblings are Maryanne, Fred Jr. Elizabeth, and Robert, Trumps ancestors originated from the village of Kallstadt, Palatinate, Germany on his fathers side, and from the Outer Hebrides isles of Scotland on his mothers side. All his grandparents, and his mother, were born in Europe and his mothers grandfather was also christened Donald. On a visit to his village, he met Elisabeth Christ. He died from the flu pandemic of 1918 and Elizabeth incorporated the family real estate business, Elizabeth Trump and Son, which would later become The Trump Organization. Trumps father Fred was born in the Bronx, and worked with his mother since he was 15 as a real estate developer, primarily in the New York boroughs of Queens and he eventually built and sold thousands of houses, barracks and apartments
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Donald Trump
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The Trump Organization owns, operates, develops and invests in real estate around the world such as
Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago.
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Trump Tower, at 725
Fifth Avenue, in
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National Cyber Security Division
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NCSD also provides cyber threat and vulnerability analysis, early warning, and incident response assistance for public and private sector constituents. NCSD carries out the majority of DHS’ responsibilities under the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, the FY2011 budget request for NCSD is $378.744 million and includes 342 federal positions. The current director of the NCSD is John Streufert, former chief information security officer for the United States Department of State, strategic Objectives To protect the cyber infrastructure, NCSD has identified two overarching objectives, To build and maintain an effective national cyberspace response system. To implement a management program for protection of critical infrastructure. Priorities Continued development of the EINSTEIN system’s capabilities as a tool in protecting the Federal Executive Branch civilian departments. Development of the National Cyber Incident Response Plan in full collaboration with the private sector, NCIRP ensures that all national cybersecurity partners understand their roles in cyber incident response and are prepared to participate in a coordinated and managed process. Increase the security of automated systems that operate elements of the national critical infrastructure. US-CERT provides a single, accountable focal point to support federal stakeholders as they make key operational and implementation decisions, uS-CERT funds also support the development, acquisition, deployment, and personnel required to implement the National Cybersecurity Protection System, operationally known as EINSTEIN. EINSTEIN is a warning system that monitors the network gateways of Federal Executive Branch civilian departments. As of March 2012, EINSTEIN3 is currently being staged for roll-out to federal agencies for those that have reached a high TIC compliance, the National Cybersecurity Center is a component of US-CERT’s budget. Outreach and Programs promotes opportunities to leverage the cybersecurity investments of public, outreach and Programs enables governance and assistance in setting policy direction and establishes resource requirements for NCSD’s complex activities. NCSD has been plagued by problems, having had multiple directors that resign after serving only short terms. Robert Liscouski ran the division initially while a permanent director was sought, amit Yoran became director of NCSD in September 2003 and helped set up the division, but after only a year in the job, left abruptly in October 2004. One of the deputy directors, Andy Purdy, assumed the position of interim director within a week of Yorans departure. In 2006 upon Andy Purdys departure Jerry Dixon took on the role as Acting Director in December 2006 until officially appointed to the position as Executive Director in January 2007. Upon Dixons departure in September 2007 Mcguire took on the role of Acting Director until March 2008 which the USSS assigned Cornelius Tate to be the current Director of NCSD. An audit of the division, conducted by DHSs inspector general Clark Kent Ervin, cast a negative view on the divisions first year
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Rear Admiral
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Rear admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the admiral ranks, in many navies it is referred to as a two-star rank. It originated from the days of naval sailing squadrons and can trace its origins to the Royal Navy, each naval squadron would be assigned an admiral as its head, who would command from the centre vessel and direct the activities of the squadron. The admiral would in turn be assisted by a vice admiral and this has survived into the modern age, with the rank of rear admiral the most-junior of the admiralty ranks of many navies. In some European navies, and in the Canadian Forces French rank translations, in the German Navy the rank is known as Konteradmiral, superior to the flotilla admiral. In the Royal Netherlands Navy, this rank is known as schout-bij-nacht, denoting the role junior to the squadron admiral, the Royal Australian Navy maintains a rank of rear admiral, refer to Australian Defence Force ranks and insignia. Since the mid-1990s, the insignia of a Royal Australian Navy rear admiral is the Crown of St. Edward above a crossed sword and baton, like the Royal Navy version, the sword is a traditional naval cutlass. The stars have eight points, unlike the four pointed Order of the Bath stars used by the army, prior to 1995, the RAN shoulder board was identical to the Royal Navy shoulder board. The Royal Navy shoulder board changed again in 2001 and the Australian, rear Admiral Robyn Walker AM, RAN became the first female admiral in the Royal Australian Navy when she was appointed Surgeon-General of the Australian Defence Force on 16 December 2011. In the Royal Canadian Navy, the rank of rear-admiral is the Navy rank equivalent to major-general of the Army, a rear-admiral is a flag officer, the naval equivalent of a general officer. A rear-admiral is senior to a commodore and brigadier-general, and junior to a vice-admiral and lieutenant-general, the service dress features a wide strip of gold braid around the cuff and, since June 2010, above it a narrower strip of gold braid embellished with the executive curl. On the visor of the cap are two rows of gold oak leaves. Konteradmiral is an OF-7 two-star rank equivalent to the Generalmajor in the German Army, see also The Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard is the naval component of the Military of Guyana. As such, the ranks of the Coast Guard are naval ranks similar to the practice in the respective Coast Guards of Jamaica and Trinidad, the rank of rear admiral was first awarded to chief of staff commodore Gary Best on August 19,2013. The rank insignia consists of two silver pips with green highlights, beneath a crossed sword and baton, all surmounted by the gold-colored Caciques crown with red, the Indian Navy also maintains a rear admiral rank senior to commodore and captain ranks and junior to vice admiral ranks. The rank insignia for a rear-admiral is two stars beneath crossed sword and baton, all surmounted by Emblem of India, worn on shoulder boards, before Islamic Revolution The Iranian Imperial Navy. After Islamic Revolution The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy, also known as the Iranian Navy, a rear admiral in the Pakistani Navy is a senior and two-star rank naval officer, appointed in higher naval commands. Like most Commonwealth navies, the rear admiral rank is superior to commodore, however, the rank is junior to the three-star rank vice-admiral and four-star rank admiral, who is generally a Chief of Naval Staff of the Navy
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US Navy Rear Admiral
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David Heyman
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David Jonathan Heyman is an English film producer and the founder of Heyday Films. In 1999, he secured the rights to the Harry Potter film series and went on to produce all eight installments. He is the son of John Heyman, producer of such as The Go-Between and Jesus, and Norma Heyman. His paternal grandparents were German Jews who left Nazi Germany and emigrated to England prior to World War II and he went to Westminster School and, following graduation, he decided to study abroad. He earned a degree in Art History from Harvard University in the U. S. in 1983, Heyman got his start in the film industry as a production assistant on David Leans A Passage to India, and in 1986, Heyman became a creative executive at Warner Brothers. In 1997 Heyman returned to London and founded his own production company, other notable productions during this time include the 2007 blockbuster I Am Legend and the 2008 films The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Is Anybody There. and Yes Man. The film grossed more than US$700 million worldwide and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture and he also produced the 2013 comedy Were the Millers and the 2014 family film Paddington, for which he was nominated for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. In 2013 it was announced that Heyman will produce the upcoming Warner Bros. film adaptation of J. K, rowlings Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which will be released on 18 November 2016. He is also set to produce Fables, based on the book series. He was announced as the producer of the fantasy film Queen of the Tearling, starring Emma Watson, Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights and will distribute the film. Heyman lives in Pimlico, London, and is married to interior designer Rose Uniacke
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Heyman in July 2009
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William H. Webster
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William Hedgcock Webster is an American attorney, jurist, and current Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. He was born in St. Louis in 1949, after serving as a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II, he joined a St. Louis firm, but left private practice soon after to begin a long and illustrious career in public service. He was a United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri from 1960 to 1961, five years later, President Jimmy Carter appointed him as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Then in 1987, President Ronald Reagan chose him to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and he led the CIA until his retirement from public office in 1991. Since then, Webster has practiced law at the Washington D. C. office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy where he specializes in arbitration, mediation, in 2002 he was the first chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Webster resigned less than three weeks after the PCAOB was set up, Webster received numerous honors and awards for his service. Washington University granted him the Alumni Citation for contributions to the field of law in 1972, in 1984, he received the U. S. Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official, in 1999 the School of Law created the Webster Society, an outstanding scholars program. Furthermore, he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the law school in 1977. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat named him Man of the Year and he also received honorary degrees from several colleges and universities. In 1991, he was presented the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in June 2008 Webster received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree as well as honorary doctorates from The Institute of World Politics and National Intelligence University. He received the William J. Donovan Award from The OSS Society in 2005, additionally, he served as chairman of the Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and he served as Co-chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. In 2009, he was named to head an independent investigation of the FBIs actions surrounding the Fort Hood shooting and he was married for 34 years to Drusilla Lane Webster, and the couple had three children, Drusilla, William H. Webster, Jr. and Katherine. Following Mrs. Websters death in 1984, he was remarried in 1990 to the former Lynda Clugston, on March 3,2002 the University of California, Santa Barbara, held a debate titled National Security vs. The guest speakers were Mr. Webster and American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen, during the debate, Mr. Webster made the following statement, which has since gained some popularity, Security is always seen as too much until the day its not enough. He also stated Order protects liberty and liberty protects order, William H. Webster at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center. Institute of World Politics Appearances on C-SPAN
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Alan Bersin
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Alan D. Bersin served as the acting Commissioner of U. S. Customs and Border Protection. Acting Commissioner Bersin was placed by President Barack Obama on March 27,2010 as a recess appointment, as Acting Commissioner, Mr. Bersin oversaw the operations of CBP’s 57, 000-employee work force and managed an operating budget of more than $11 billion. Bersin formerly served as the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs, Bersin currently serves as Assistant Secretary of International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, a position he assumed on January 3,2012. He previously served as the chair of the committee of the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. Bersin was born in 1946 to a Jewish family in Brooklyn and he attended public schools and Hebrew school in New York City. He received an A. B. in government from Harvard College, in 1974, he obtained a J. D. degree from Yale Law School. From 1995-1998, Bersin served as the Attorney General’s Southwest Border Representative and his appointment in 1998 as Superintendent of Public Education in San Diego City Schools put him in control of the eighth largest urban school district in the U. S. In 2005, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him as Californias Education Secretary, in 2007, the nonprofit electronic journalism outlet voiceofsandiego. org reported that Bersin was considering a run for City Attorney of San Diego. On April 15,2009, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the appointment of Bersin as DHS Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and he will lead the effort to make our borders safe while working to promote commerce and trade. Bersins recess appointment in 2010 was effective only until the end of the session of Congress. Through the rest of 2010 and 2011, Republicans in the Senate refused to hold a hearing on the nomination. Napolitano said, I want to thank Alan Bersin for his leadership over the past two years as the CBP Commissioner. During his tenure, CBP has taken steps to secure our borders while facilitating legal travel. Commissioner Bersin has helped set CBP on a path to continuously adapt and seek new and innovative ways of keeping our country –, even ones destined for sensitive military equipment. Mr. Bersin was elected with overwhelming support from the approximately 170 member countries in attendance and this year’s assembly also saw the largest U. S. delegation in history, reflecting the important role INTERPOL plays in international security, and in the security of the United States. DHS currently utilizes INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Document database every day to verify the documents of travelers seeking to enter the United States. Mr. List of U. S. executive branch czars
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Arif Alikhan
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Arif Alikhan is the Deputy Executive Director for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Fire/EMS at Los Angeles World Airports. He is also responsible for all fire and emergency services at LAWAs three airports. Alikhan is a former Distinguished Professor of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the National Defense University, College of International Security Affairs in Washington and he teaches and lectures on a variety subjects involving homeland and national security issues for U. S. military and civilian security professionals. And is an expert on U. S. government homeland security. Alikhan was appointed to the Obama Administration in 2009 as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the United States Department of Homeland Security. C, arif Alikhan was born in 1968 after his parents emigrated to North America from Pakistan and India in the late 1960s. He is one of several accomplished South Asian Americans appointed to the Obama Administration, and is a highly regarded public servant in the homeland security, counter terrorism, and law enforcement fields. Alikhan graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Ecology and he studied criminal justice, criminology and legal studies and conducted research in environmental analysis. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and was appointed Commissioner of Campus Safety by the Associated Students of UC Irvine and he later attended Loyola Law School, Los Angeles where he graduated with honors and was the Chief Articles Editor of the Loyola Law Review. Admitted to the California State Bar in 1993, he worked as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Ronald S. W. Lew, United States District Judge, Central District of California, in Los Angeles and then as an associate for the law firm of Irell and Manella, Alikhan has received awards from numerous federal law enforcement agencies including the FBI, U. S. Secret Service, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, arif has served with distinction as both an Assistant U. S. Attorney and as Vice Chairman of the Intellectual Property Task Force. Arif leaves behind a legacy of work, innovative thinking. These are characteristics that he will bring to his new position, Alikhan received high marks for his accomplishments as Deputy Mayor of the City of Los Angeles from many including Mayor Villaraigosa. “I wish him luck as he assumes this new role with the Obama Administration, alikhans efforts to hire 1,000 new LAPD officers resulted in the highest deployment level in LAPD history before Alikhan left for Washington. Fire Departments Professional Standards Division, and helped secure over $400 million in homeland security, Alikhan was appointed to DHS in June 2009 and is responsible for developing and coordinating department-wide policy issues involving the vast array of missions assigned to DHS. His team of scientists, analysts, attorneys, and economists work on issues ranging from counter-terrorism and information sharing to emergency management, Alikhan has served on several boards including the University of Southern Californias CREATE Center for Homeland Security Government Advisory Committee. He was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at USCs Gould School of Law where he taught criminal procedure, in 1997, he was named one of the top 40 California attorneys under the age of 40 by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and California Law Business
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Alikhan at the EOC opening
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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
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Citizenship and Immigration Services is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security. It performs many functions formerly carried out by the former United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. The stated priorities of USCIS are to promote national security, to eliminate immigration case backlogs, USCIS is headed by a director, currently James McCament, who reports directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security. USCIS is charged with processing immigrant visa petitions, naturalization petitions, asylum applications and it also makes adjudicative decisions performed at the service centers, and manages all other immigration benefits functions performed by the former INS. The enforcement of immigration laws remains under Customs and Border Protection and Immigration, USCIS focuses on two key points on the immigrants journey towards civic integration, when they first become permanent residents and when they are ready to begin the formal naturalization process. USCIS handles all forms and processing materials related to immigration and naturalization and this is evident from USCISs predecessor, the INS, which is defunct as of May 9,2003. USCIS currently handles two kinds of forms, those relating to immigration, and those related to naturalization, forms are designated by a specific name, and an alphanumeric sequence consisting of one letter, followed by two or three digits. Forms related to immigration are designated with an I and forms related to naturalization are designated by an N. USCIS official website is USCIS. gov, the site was redesigned in 2009 and unveiled on September 22,2009. The redesign made the web page interface more similar to the Department of Homeland Securitys official website, the last major redesign before 2009 took place in October 2006. Also, USCIS runs an online appointment scheduling service known as INFOPASS and this system allows people with questions about immigration to come into their local USCIS office and speak directly with a government employee about their case and so on. This is an important way in which USCIS serves the public, USCIS maintains a blog entitled The Beacon as well as the @uscis Twitter account. Unlike most other agencies, USCIS is funded almost entirely by user fees. Under President George W. Bushs FY2008 budget request, direct congressional appropriations made about 1% of the USCIS budget, the total USCIS FY2008 budget was projected to be $2.6 billion. USCIS consists of 19,000 federal employees and contractors working at 223 offices around the world, the INS was widely seen as ineffective, particularly after scandals that arose after September 11,2001. On November 25,2002, President George W. Bush signed the Homeland Security Act of 2002 into law and this law transferred the Immigration and Naturalization Service functions to the Department of Homeland Security. Immigration enforcement functions were placed within the U. S. Customs and Border Protection at the border and Ports-of-Entry while U. S. Immigration, the immigration service functions were placed into the separate USCIS. USCIS was formerly and briefly named the U. S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, on March 1,2003, the INS ceased to exist and services provided by that organization transitioned into USCIS. Eduardo Aguirre was appointed the first USCIS Director by President Bush, in December 2005, Emilio T. Gonzalez, Ph. D. was confirmed by the U. S. Senate as the Director of USCIS, and he held this position until April 2008
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United States Coast Guard
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The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the countrys seven uniformed services. This has happened twice, in 1917, during World War I, created by Congress on 4 August 1790 at the request of Alexander Hamilton as the Revenue Marine, it is the oldest continuous seagoing service of the United States. As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton headed the Revenue Marine, by the 1860s, the service was known as the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service and the term Revenue Marine gradually fell into disuse, the modern Coast Guard was formed by a merger of the Revenue Cutter Service and the U. S. Life-Saving Service on 28 January 1915, under the U. S. Department of the Treasury. As one of the five armed services, the Coast Guard has been involved in every U. S. war from 1790 to the Iraq War. As of 2014 the Coast Guard had over 36,000 men and women on duty,7,350 reservists,29,620 auxiliarists. In terms of size, the U. S. Coast Guard by itself is the worlds 12th largest naval force. Because of its authority, the Coast Guard can conduct military operations under the U. S. Department of Defense or directly for the President in accordance with Title 14 USC 1–3. The Coast Guards enduring roles are maritime safety, security, to carry out those roles, it has 11 statutory missions as defined in 6 U. S. C. §468, which include enforcing U. S. law in the worlds largest exclusive economic zone of 3.4 million square miles, the Coast Guards motto is the Latin phrase, Semper Paratus. In a 2005 article in Time magazine following Hurricane Katrina, the author wrote, the Coast Guards most valuable contribution to may be as a model of flexibility, and most of all, spirit. Wil Milam, a swimmer from Alaska told the magazine, In the Navy. Practicing for war, training for war, in the Coast Guard, it was, take care of our people and the mission will take care of itself. The Coast Guard carries out three basic roles, which are subdivided into eleven statutory missions. Both agencies maintain rescue coordination centers to coordinate this effort, and have responsibility for military and civilian search and rescue. The two services jointly provide instructor staff for the National Search and Rescue School that trains SAR mission planners and coordinators, previously located on Governors Island, New York, the school is now located at Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown at Yorktown, Virginia. The NRC also takes Maritime Suspicious Activity and Security Breach Reports, details on the NRC organization and specific responsibilities can be found in the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan. The Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement database system is managed and used by the Coast Guard for tracking pollution, the five uniformed services that make up the U. S
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A boatswain's mate watches from the side port door as
Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf's Over-The-Horizon small boat departs to receive personnel from Coast Guard Cutter Chandeleur in 2008.
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The official seal of the United States Coast Guard, adopted in December 1966.
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Aviation Survival Technician assisting with the rescue of a pregnant woman during
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Robert J. Papp, Jr.
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Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr. is a retired United States Coast Guard admiral and served as the 24th Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard. He led the largest component of the United States Department of Homeland Security, with 42,000 active duty,8,200 Reserve,8,000 civilian, Papp is a 1975 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy. Additionally, he holds a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval War College and he has also served as commander of a task unit during Operation Able Manner off the coast of Haiti in 1994, enforcing United Nations sanctions. Additionally, his task unit augmented U. S. Naval Forces during an American intervention in Haiti, papps assignments ashore have included the Commandant of Cadets staff at the U. S. Until May 2010, Papp served as Commander, Coast Guard Atlantic Area in Portsmouth, Virginia and Commander and he served as the operational commander for all U. S. In this role, he was also Commander, Defense Force East and provided Coast Guard mission support to the Department of Defense and he assumed those duties in July 2008. Papp was promoted to admiral and succeeded Admiral Thad Allen as the U. S. Coast Guards commandant in a change of command ceremony on May 25,2010, on May 30,2014, Papp was succeeded by Admiral Paul F. Zukunft. On July 16,2014, U. S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced the appointment of retired Admiral Robert Papp to serve as U. S and he retired from this position in January 2017 to become a lobbyist for a shipbuilding company. Papp is a native of Norwich, Connecticut and he is married to the former Linda Kapral of East Lyme, Connecticut. The couple has three daughters, three granddaughters, and two grandsons, on July 30,2005, Papp was inducted into the Reserve Officers Association Minuteman Hall of Fame in recognition of dedicated service to the nation in support of the U. S. Coast Guard Reserve. He was presented the Distinguished Public Service Award of the National Maritime Historical Society in 1998 for his service as the Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, in 2005 he was presented with the Native Sons Award by his home town of Norwich, Connecticut. Papp accepted the 2010 Naval War College Distinguished Graduate Leadership Award from the Naval War College during a ceremony held at the Washington Navy Yard on May 6,2010. In a cover story published in the February 2012 issue of Military Officer. Additionally, Admiral Papp was presented with the Dwight D. Eisenhower award in 2013, organization of the United States Coast Guard Official website Appearances on C-SPAN
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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U. S. Customs and Border Protection is the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security. It is charged with regulating and facilitating trade, collecting import duties, and enforcing U. S. regulations, including trade, customs. CBP is the largest law enforcement agency in the United States and it has a workforce of more than 45,600 sworn federal agents and officers. It has its headquarters in Washington, D. C, more than 21,180 CBP Officers inspect and examine passengers and cargo at over 300 ports of entry. Over 2,200 CBP Agriculture Specialists work to curtail the spread of pests and plant and animal diseases that may harm America’s farms and food supply or cause bio-. Over 21,370 Border Patrol Agents protect and patrol 1,900 miles of border with Mexico and 5,000 miles of border with Canada. Nearly 1,050 Air and Marine Interdiction Agents prevent people, weapons, narcotics, nearly 2,500 employees in CBP revenue positions collect over $30 billion annually in entry duties and taxes through the enforcement of trade and tariff laws. In addition, these employees fulfill the trade mission by appraising and classifying imported merchandise. These employees serve in such as import specialist, auditor, international trade specialist. The primary goal of the CBP Canine Program is terrorist detection and apprehension, the CBP Canine Program is critical to the mission of the Department of Homeland Security, To Protect the Homeland. The program conducts the largest number of working dogs of any U. S. federal law enforcement agency, k-9 teams are assigned to 73 commercial ports and 74 Border Patrol stations throughout the nation. There are 327 officially designated ports of entry and an additional 14 pre-clearance locations in Canada, Ireland, the Middle East, Bermuda and the Caribbean. CBP is also in charge of the Container Security Initiative, which identifies, CBP assess all passengers flying into the U. S. CBP also works with the U. S. Food and Drug Administration to screen high-risk imported food shipments in order to prevent bio-terrorism/agro-terrorism. S. CSI is implemented in 20 of the largest ports in terms of shipments to the U. S. The Secure Electronic Network for Travelers Rapid Inspection program allows pre-screened, NEXUS is a similar program on the countrys northern border with Canada. An agreement with Canada allows CBP to target, screen, under Section 596 of the Tariff Act, CBP is required to seize and forfeit all merchandise that is stolen, smuggled, or clandestinely imported or introduced. CBP is also required to seize and forfeit controlled substances, certain contraband articles, in conjunction with the Department of State and the Bureau of the Census, CBP has put in place regulations that require submission of electronic export information on U. S. Munitions List and for technology for the Commerce Control List, CBP uses advance information from the Automated Targeting System and the Automated Export System to identify cargo that may pose a threat
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Immigration inspectors, c. 1924
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W. Ralph Basham
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William Ralph Basham, Jr. has served at the head of four of the eight US Department of Homeland Security agencies, including as Commissioner of U. S. Upon leaving government service in April 2009, Basham founded Command Consulting Group, in 2008, Basham was conferred the rank of Distinguished Executive by former U. S. President George W. Bush. In October 2013, Basham was awarded the Founders Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Border Patrol Foundation, a native of Owensboro, Kentucky, Basham received a bachelors degree from Southeastern University in Washington, D. C. He is married to the former Judith OBryan and has three children, Paige, Craig, and Billy, and twelve grandchildren, bashams career with the United States Secret Service began in 1970, when he was appointed a Special Agent in the Washington Field Office. He rose rapidly to the level while serving in a variety of assignments reflecting the Services diverse interests. In January 1998, Basham was appointed Director of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center by President Bill Clinton, the center, located in Glynco, Georgia and Artesia, New Mexico, provides training for nearly all of the nations federal law enforcement officers, including Secret Service agents. The FLETC also serves the state, local and federal law enforcement communities with training programs tailored to their specific needs, among his responsibilities at TSA, Basham oversaw the hiring of federal security directors for the nations 429 major airports. On January 27,2003, Basham returned to the agency as the director, President George W. Bush nominated Basham as Commissioner of CBP on January 30,2006. Basham was confirmed by the United States Senate in May 2006, CBP is responsible for border security and trade, including the United States Border Patrol and inspecting persons and items entering the United States through its ports of entry. Basham was a proponent of the Global Trade Exchange, an intelligence-driven supply-chain data-mining effort that was one of three components of CBPs Secure Freight Initiative
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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ICE has two primary components, Homeland Security Investigations and Enforcement and Removal Operations. ICE is charged with the investigation and enforcement of over 400 federal statutes within the United States, ICE is led by a director who is appointed at the sub-Cabinet level by the President, confirmed by the Senate, and reports directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security. ICE is the second-largest criminal investigative agency in the U. S. government after the FBI, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was formed pursuant to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 following the events of September 11,2001. Consequently, ICE is the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Protective Service was later transferred from ICE to the National Protection and Programs Directorate effective October 28,2009. In 2003, Asa Hutchinson moved the Federal Air Marshals Service from the Transportation Security Administration to ICE, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is responsible for identifying and eliminating border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security vulnerabilities. ICE has an estimated 15,000 employees in 400 domestic and 50 international offices, the organization is composed of two law enforcement directorates and several support divisions each headed by a director who reports to an Executive Associate Director. The divisions of ICE provide investigation, interdiction and security services to the public, HSI agents can be requested to provide security for VIPs, and also augment the U. S. Secret Service during overtaxed times such as special security events and elections, HSI was formerly known as the ICE Office of Investigations. HSI has more than 6,500 special agents, making it the largest investigative entity in the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Intelligence is a subcomponent of HSI that employs a variety of special agents and Intelligence Research Specialists to facilitate HSIs tactical and strategic intelligence demands. Collectively, these intelligence professionals collect, analyze, and disseminate intelligence for use by the elements of DHS. The Office of Intelligence works closely with the components of other federal, state. HSI agents assigned to FIGs generally focus on Human Intelligence collection, International Operations, formerly known as the Office of International Affairs, is a subcomponent of HSI with agents stationed in 60 locations around the world. HSIs foreign offices, known as Attaché Offices, work with governments to identify. Seventeen HSI field offices maintain a Special Response Team that operates similarly to a federal SWAT element for the area of responsibility. There is also a team of instructors and coordinators stationed full-time in Columbus and these teams primarily deploy to handle high-risk operations, but also assist in events such as Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake 2010, and other natural disasters around the globe. SRT is a collateral duty open to HSI agents assigned to an office with a certified team, to qualify, candidates must pass a physical fitness test, qualify with multiple firearms by shooting 90% or better in full tactical gear, and pass an oral interview process. If a candidate passes these stages and is voted on the team, they are then designated Green Team members. Green Team members are sent to the SRT certification school at Fort Benning, Georgia
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HSI San Diego Special Response Team (SRT) members aiding rescue efforts during
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John P. Torres
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John P. Torres was acting assistant secretary of homeland security for U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was appointed on November 17,2008, Torres began his law enforcement career with the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1986. During his time in the former INS, Torres played several key roles, early in his career, Torres was a decorated member of a highly successful undercover investigative unit in Los Angeles. In 1992 during the Los Angeles riots, he was assigned to duty at the Newton, in 1999, Torres was designated the INS investigative lead for the railway serial killer investigation of Rafael Resendez-Ramirez in Texas. In 1997, Torres was assigned to the FBI Headquarters International Terrorism Operations Section, following the 9/11 attacks, Torres returned to Washington and was assigned to the subsequent investigation at FBI headquarters. From March to November 2008, John Torres was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Operations for U. S. ICE, from June 2005 to March 2008, John Torres was the Director of the Office of Detention and Removal Operations for ICE within the Department of Homeland Security
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31.
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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The agencys primary purpose is to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the resources of local and state authorities. The governor of the state in which the disaster occurs must declare a state of emergency and formally request from the president that FEMA, FEMA also provides these services for territories of the United States, such as Puerto Rico. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, or the Space Shuttle Columbia in the 2003 return-flight disaster, in addition to this, FEMA provides funds for training of response personnel throughout the United States and its territories as part of the agencys preparedness effort. Federal emergency management in the U. S. has existed in one form or another for over 200 years, a series of devastating fires struck the port city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, early in the 19th century. The 7th U. S. Congress passed a measure in 1803 that provided relief for Portsmouth merchants by extending the time they had for remitting tariffs on imported goods and this is widely considered the first piece of legislation passed by the federal government that provided relief after a disaster. Between 1803 and 1930, ad hoc legislation was passed more than 100 times for relief or compensation after a disaster, examples include the waiving of duties and tariffs to the merchants of New York City after the Great Fire of New York. After the collapse of the John T, fords Theater in June 1893, the 54th Congress passed legislation compensating those who were injured in the building. After the start of the Great Depression in 1929, President Herbert Hoover had commissioned the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, the purpose of the RFC was to lend money to banks and institutions to stimulate economic activity. RFC was also responsible for dispensing federal dollars in the wake of a disaster, RFC can be considered the first organized federal disaster response agency. The Bureau of Public Roads in 1934 was given authority to finance the reconstruction of highways and roads after a disaster. The Flood Control Act of 1944 also gave the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authority over control and irrigation projects. This agency would oversee disasters until its incorporation into FEMA in 1978, over the years, Congress increasingly extended the range of covered categories for assistance, and several presidential executive orders did the same. In time, this array of agencies themselves underwent reorganization. One of the first such federal agencies was the Federal Civil Defense Administration, functions to administer disaster relief were then given to the President himself, who delegated to the Housing and Home Finance Administration. Subsequently, a new office of the Office of Defense Mobilization was created, then, in 1978 an effort was made to consolidate the several singular functions, FEMA was created to house civil defense and disaster preparedness under one roof. This was a controversial decision. FEMA was established under the 1978 Reorganization Plan No,3, and activated April 1,1979, by President Jimmy Carter in his Executive Order 12127. In July, Carter signed Executive Order 12148 shifting disaster relief efforts to the new federal-level agency, FEMA was also given the responsibility for overseeing the nations Civil Defense, a function which had previously been performed by the Department of Defenses Defense Civil Preparedness Agency
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President
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FEMA vehicle provides communications support after a major hurricane.
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Craig Fugate
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William Craig Fugate is the former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Orphaned as a teenager, Fugate propelled himself into emergency services in Alachua County, Fugate was born at Jacksonville Naval Air Station to William Roland, a senior chief petty officer in the U. S. Navy, and Carol Charlotte Fugate. In 1970 at the age of 11, he lost his mother, the appointment from the opposing party was considered a favorable indication of the respect Fugates career had earned. He was criticized for the lack of ice, water, and he was awarded the National Guard Association of Florida Hall of Fame in 2006. Fugate was considered for the position as Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency by President Bush after sharp criticism, later, due to Fugates experience with Floridas extreme weather, he was appointed as the FEMA director in May 2009 by President Barack Obama. In 2010, as Director of FEMA, he oversaw a record of eighty-one disaster declarations and he was criticized in 2012 by Brown for his early response to Hurricane Sandy in which he positioned recovery resources prior to the storms arrival. In response, Fugate said that he emphasized the importance of building codes. Fugate is known for his Waffle House Matrix, whereby he determines the level of attention a disaster area requires based on whether the Waffle House is open at the emergency services arrive. Fugate told the New York Times that, Waffle House has a simple operation philosophy. His theory is that if a Waffle House is open, keep driving, if its damaged but serving a limited menu then the community needs help. If its closed, then it means that the situation is really bad, as Administrator, Fugate instituted thunderbolt exercises into FEMAs preparations. At random, Fugate will walk into the operations center and declare a fake disaster. Fugate spearheaded efforts to incorporate digital media into federal emergency management and he led the effort to develop smart phone apps allowing users to report disasters with photos and use GPS to identify the location. Fugate married his wife Sheree in 2002 and they live in Gainesville. Outside of government he is also the founder of disastersrus. org, Fugate is a licensed amateur radio operator. His FCC call letters are KK4INZ and he earned his Technician Class license in 2010. He upgraded to General Class in 2014 and he is a member of the Alexandria Amateur Radio Club. He was a speaker at the 2014 ARRL Convention in Hartford
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United States Secret Service
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The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency under the U. S. Department of Homeland Security. Until 2003, the Service was part of the U. S. Department of the Treasury, the Secret Services initial responsibility was to investigate counterfeiting of U. S. currency, which was rampant following the U. S. Civil War. The agency then evolved into the United States first domestic intelligence and counterintelligence agency, the Secret Service has two primary missions, investigation of financial crimes and physical protection of designated protectees. After the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley, Congress also directed the Secret Service to protect the President of the United States, Protection remains the other key mission of the United States Secret Service. From 1997 until 2013, legislation became effective limiting Secret Service protection to former Presidents, President Barack Obama signed legislation reversing this limit and reinstating lifetime protection on January 10,2013. The Secret Service investigates thousands of incidents a year of individuals threatening the President of the United States, the Director of Secret Service is appointed by the President of the United States. With a reported one third of the currency in circulation being counterfeit at the time, Chief William P. Wood was sworn in by Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch. It was commissioned in Washington, D. C. as the Secret Service Division of the Department of the Treasury with the mission of suppressing counterfeiting, the legislation creating the agency was on Abraham Lincolns desk the night he was assassinated. At the time, the other federal law enforcement agencies were the United States Park Police. Post Office Departments Office of Instructions and Mail Depredations, and the U. S. Marshals Service, the Marshals did not have the manpower to investigate all crime under federal jurisdiction, so the Secret Service began to investigate everything from murder to bank robbery to illegal gambling. After the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901, Congress informally requested that the Secret Service provide presidential protection, a year later, the Secret Service assumed full-time responsibility for presidential protection. In 1902, William Craig became the first Secret Service agent to die while serving, the Secret Service was the first U. S. domestic intelligence and counterintelligence agency. Domestic intelligence collection and counterintelligence responsibilities were vested in the Federal Bureau of Investigation upon the FBIs creation in 1908, the Secret Service assisted in arresting Japanese American leaders and in the Japanese American internment during World War II. Secret Service is not a part of the U. S, on October 16, the day of the summit, Burnham discovered a man holding a concealed palm pistol standing at the El Paso Chamber of Commerce building along the procession route. Burnham signaled a Texas Ranger, Private C. R. Moore, in 1950, President Harry S. Truman was residing in Blair House while the White House, across the street, was undergoing renovations. On November 1,1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, approached Blair House with the intent to assassinate President Truman, Collazo and Torresola opened fire on Private Leslie Coffelt and other White House Police officers. Though mortally wounded by three shots from a 9 mm German Luger to his chest and abdomen, Private Coffelt returned fire, as of 2017, Coffelt is the only member of the Secret Service killed while protecting a US president against an assassination attempt. Collazo was also shot, but survived his injuries and served 29 years in prison before returning to Puerto Rico in late 1979, in 1968, as a result of Robert F. Kennedys assassination, Congress authorized protection of major presidential and vice presidential candidates and nominees
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Secret Service Special Agents and Special Officers (foreground) protecting the
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Secret Service agents in response to the assassination attempt of
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Mark J. Sullivan
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Mark J. Sullivan was the Director of the United States Secret Service from May 31,2006 to March 27,2013. Sullivan succeeded W. Ralph Basham and was sworn in as the 22nd Director of the Secret Service on May 31,2006 and he was succeeded by Julia Pierson on March 27,2013. Born to Francis and Clare Sullivan in Arlington, Massachusetts, Sullivan is the oldest of six children and he attended Saint Agnes School, then Arlington Catholic High School, and received his B. A. in criminal justice from Saint Anselm College in 1977. He is married to the former Laurie Bell and has three daughters. S, department of Housing and Urban Development. In 1990, Sullivan began working at the Fraud Division in Washington, one year later, in 1991, Sullivan was assigned to the Presidential Protective Division. In 1996, he was made Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Office of Protective Operations, from 1997 to 1998 he was the resident agent in charge of the Columbus, Ohio, office. After being special agent in charge of the Counterfeit Division from 1998 to 1999, in July 2000, Sullivan was made a Deputy Assistant Director in the Office of Protective Operations. In 2002, he was reassigned to the position of Deputy Special Agent in Charge of the Vice Presidential Protective Division, a year later, he was reassigned to the position of Deputy Assistant Director, Office of Human Resources and Training. In 2006, Sullivan was appointed by George W. Bush to the position of Director of the Secret Service, on February 1,2013, Sullivan announced he was retiring after 30 years with the agency to be effective February 23. After his retirement, Sullivan partnered with Noah Kroloff, Dennis Burke, David Aguilar, John Kaites and Jerry Reinsdorf to found Global Security, in April 2012, a scandal involving the Presidents security detail received international press attention. As of April 24, nine employees had resigned or retired and this continued for at least several days and according to some accounts, months. The neighbors eventually moved away, they said partly because of the intimidation
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Transportation Security Administration
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The Transportation Security Administration is an agency of the U. S. Department of Homeland Security that has authority over the security of the traveling public in the United States. It was created as a response to the September 11,2001 attacks, chiefly concerned with air travel, the TSA employs screening officers in airports, armed Federal Air Marshals on planes, and mobile teams of dog handlers. The use of enhanced screening procedures has caused controversy. S, Congress, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 19,2001. Originally part of the United States Department of Transportation, the TSA was moved to the Department of Homeland Security on March 9,2003, the TSA was created as a response to the September 11,2001 attacks. Its first administrator, John Magaw, was nominated by President Bush on December 10,2001, the organization was charged with developing policies to protect U. S. transportation, especially in airport security and the prevention of aircraft hijacking. TSA Screeners represent a case of a large scale staffing project completed over a period of time. The only effort in U. S history that came close to it was the testing of recruits for the forces in the First World War. TSA screeners, during the period from February to December 2002,1.7 million applicants were assessed for 55,000 positions. With state, local, and regional partners, the TSA oversees security for highways, railroads, buses, mass transit systems, pipelines, however, the bulk of the TSAs efforts are in aviation security. The TSA is responsible for screening passengers and baggage at more than 450 U. S. airports, private screening did not disappear under the TSA, which allows airports to opt out of federal screening and hire firms to do the job instead. Such firms must still get TSA approval under its Screening Partnership Program, among the U. S. Schulz – Sonoma County Airport, and Jackson Hole Airport. When TSA was established by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act in the Department of Transportation, following the TSAs transfer to the Department of Homeland Security, the position was reclassified as the Administrator of Transportation Security Administration. The position has also referred to as the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for the Transportation Security Administration. There have been six administrators and several acting administrators in TSAs history and they screen people and property and control entry and exit points in airports. They also watch several areas before and beyond checkpoints, TSOs carry no weapons, and are not permitted to use force, nor do they have the power to arrest. Transportation Security Officers provide security and protection of air travelers, airports and aircraft in a courteous, performing searches and screening, which may include physical interaction with passengers, conducting bag searches and lifting/carrying bags, bins, and property weighing up to 70lbs. Controlling terminal entry and exit points, interacting with the public, giving directions and responding to inquiries. This may include application of risk-based security screening protocols that vary based on program requirements. Key Requirements for Employment Be a U. S, a handful of airports also have a retention bonus of up to 35%
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TSA headquarters located in
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VIPR team working cars waiting to board a ferry in Portland, Maine
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John Pistole
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John S. Pistole is the former Administrator of the United States Transportation Security Administration and a former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is currently the President of Anderson University, Pistole was born in 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a graduate of Anderson University and the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Pistole practiced law for two years before joining the FBI in 1983. Since the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, John Pistole has been involved in the formation of terrorism policies during the Bush, on 14 April 2004, Pistole testified before the 9/11 Commission at its 10th public hearing on a panel, Preventing Future Attacks Inside the United States. On 16 June 2004, Pistole testified before the 9/11 Commission at its 12th public hearing. The page on the 9/11 Commission website does not include Pistoles name, and the PDF transcript does not list him as a participant and he discussed threat levels of a possible attack by Al-Qaeda in 2004, as well as other topics. On 23 August 2004, Pistole testified before Congress about changes the FBI made in response to the 9/11 Commission. Pistole and Valerie E. Caproni were the two FBI officials who approved a memo laying out the FBIs policy on the limits to the interrogation of captives taken during the United States war on terror, Pistole served as Deputy Director of the FBI from October 2004 to May 2010. As Deputy Director, Pistole was second in command within the FBI, on 16 November 2010 Pistole defended his agencys new extensive pat-down procedures and Advanced Imaging Technology as necessary. On 21 November 2010, Pistole acknowledged new TSA screening procedures are invasive and uncomfortable, many questions raised by American citizens regarding this policy remain unanswered and Pistole has remained silent regarding significant constitutional objections. After a February 2011 attempt by a TSA VIPR team in Savannah to search passengers disembarking from an Amtrak train, on October 16,2014, Pistole announced that he would retire as TSA Administrator effective December 31,2014 and take a position in academia. On October 27,2014, he was elected to be the president of his alma mater, Anderson University in Anderson. On March 2,2015 John Pistole began his presidency as Anderson Universitys fifth president
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Pistole and Homeland Security Secretary
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John Pistole Anderson University
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Daniel W. Sutherland
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Daniel W. Sutherland is the former Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U. S. Department of Homeland Security. He was appointed to the position on April 16,2003 by George W. Bush, in addition, he served as the first Executive Director of the Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission. He has also served at the White House, with the Domestic Policy Council, at the Department of Education, he handled cases relating to racial discrimination and disability law. He has also numerous articles and speeches. Sutherland graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and the University of Louisville, daniel W. Sutherlands Department of Homeland Security biography
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Daniel W. Sutherland
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Tom Ridge
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Prior to this, Ridge was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and the 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party, Ridge was born in Munhall, Pennsylvania and raised in veterans public housing in Erie, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Harvard University with honors, Ridge served in the U. S. Army during the Vietnam War and he then returned to Pennsylvania and completed his Juris Doctor degree at the Dickinson School of Law, graduating in 1972, and entered private practice. As Assistant District Attorney in Erie, Ridge ran for Congress in his district and he then ran for Governor in 1994, despite being little-known outside of northwest Pennsylvania. He won the election, and was reelected in 1998 with the most votes for a Republican governor in Pennsylvania in more than half a century, as Governor of Pennsylvania, Ridge is credited for statewide advances in economic development, education, health care and the environment. Following the September 11,2001, terrorist attacks, U. S. President George W. Bush named Ridge the first Director of the newly created Office of Homeland Security. In January 2003, the Office of Homeland Security became an official Cabinet-level Department, the Department of Homeland Security and he served in these roles for Bushs first term as President, then retired and returned to the private sector. Since re-entering the private sector, Ridge has served on the boards of The Home Depot, The Hershey Company and Exelon Corporation and as an advisor to Deloitte & Touche. Ridge is also the founder and CEO of Ridge Global, LLC, Ridge spent time campaigning with Senator John McCain during his 2008 bid for the presidency and was believed by some to have been on the short list of potential running mates. Ridge was born in Munhall, Pennsylvania, in Pittsburghs Steel Valley and his parents were Laura and Thomas Regis Ridge, who was a traveling salesman and Navy veteran. Ridges maternal grandparents were Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia, Ridge was raised in veterans public housing in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was educated at St. Andrews Elementary School and Cathedral Preparatory School and he earned a scholarship to Harvard College, where he paid his way through with construction work, played intramural baseball and football, and graduated with honors in 1967. After his first year at the Dickinson School of Law, he was drafted into the United States Army, where he served as an infantry staff sergeant in the 23rd Infantry Division during the Vietnam War. He earned the Bronze Star, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation with Palm, and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Later, he was offered a commission as an officer but turned it down when he learned that it would require a year of service. A ruptured appendix cut short his tour and he returned home in 1970, since then Ridge has had a hearing aid in his left ear. After returning to Pennsylvania, he completed his Juris Doctor degree at the Dickinson School of Law, graduating in 1972 and he became Assistant District Attorney in Erie County, Pennsylvania in 1980 and prosecuted 86 cases in two years. In 1982 he successfully ran for a seat in Congress from northwestern Pennsylvania, Ridge was notable as the first enlisted Vietnam combat veteran elected to the U. S. House
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Tom Ridge
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Congressman Ridge during the
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Tom Ridge and
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Tom Ridge at rally for John McCain
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Michael Chertoff
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Michael Chertoff is an American attorney who was the second United States Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush. He was the co-author of the USA PATRIOT Act and he previously served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as a federal prosecutor, and as Assistant U. S. Attorney General. He succeeded Tom Ridge as U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security on February 15,2005, since leaving government service, Chertoff has worked as senior of counsel at the Washington, D. C. law firm of Covington & Burling. He also co-founded the Chertoff Group, a risk-management and security consulting company, Chertoff was also elected as Chairman of BAE Systems for a three-year term, beginning May 1,2012. Chertoff co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Centers Immigration Task Force, Michael Chertoff was born on November 28,1953 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. His father was Rabbi Gershon Baruch Chertoff, a Talmud scholar and his mother is Livia Chertoff, an Israeli citizen and the first flight attendant for El Al. His paternal grandparents are Rabbi Paul Chertoff and Esther Barish Chertoff, Chertoff went to the Jewish Educational Center in Elizabeth as well as the Pingry School. He later attended Harvard College, graduating in 1975 and he studied during his sophomore year at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. He attended Harvard Law School, and worked as an assistant for John Hart Ely on his book Democracy. After graduating magna cum laude in 1978, Chertoff clerked for appellate judge Murray Gurfein for a year, next he clerked for United States Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. from 1979 to 1980. He worked in practice with Latham & Watkins from 1980 to 1983 before being hired as a prosecutor by Rudolph Giuliani. Chertoff worked on Mafia and political corruption–related cases, in the mid-1990s, Chertoff returned to Latham & Watkins for a brief period, founding the firms office in Newark, New Jersey. Chertoff has been a resident of Westfield, New Jersey, in September 1986, together with U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudolph Giuliani, Chertoff was instrumental in the crackdown on organized crime in the Mafia Commission Trial. In 1990, Chertoff was appointed by President George H. W. Bush as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Among his most important cases, in 1992 Chertoff achieved conviction of second-term Jersey City mayor Gerald McCann on charges of defrauding money from a savings, McCann served two years in federal prison. Chertoff was asked to stay in his position when the Clinton administration took office in 1993 and he was the only U. S. Attorney who was not replaced due to the change in administrations. He continued to work with the U. S. Attorneys office until 1994, no charges were brought against the Clintons. In 2000, Chertoff worked as counsel to the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee
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Michael Chertoff
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Secretary of State
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Janet Napolitano
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She has been president of the University of California system since September 2013, shortly after she resigned as Secretary of Homeland Security. Prior to her election as governor, she served as Attorney General of Arizona from 1999 to 2003 and she was the first woman and the 23rd person to serve in that office. Napolitano is the 1977 Truman Scholar from New Mexico and she has been the first woman to serve in several offices, including Attorney General of Arizona, Secretary of Homeland Security, and president of the University of California. Forbes ranked her as the ninth most powerful woman in 2012. In 2008, she was cited by The New York Times to be among the women most likely to become the first female President of the United States, some political commentators suggested that a possible candidacy in the 2016 election. She has also discussed as a contender for appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court. Janet Napolitano was born on November 29,1957, in New York City, the daughter of Jane Marie and Leonard Michael Napolitano and her father was of Italian descent and her mother had German and Austrian ancestry. She is the oldest of three children, she has a brother and sister. She was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Albuquerque, New Mexico and she graduated from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, where she won a Truman Scholarship, and was valedictorian. In 1978, she studied for a term at the London School of Economics as part of Santa Claras exchange programme through IES Abroad and she then received her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law. In 1991, while a partner at Lewis and Roca LLP, in 1993, Napolitano was appointed by President Bill Clinton as United States Attorney for the District of Arizona. As U. S. Attorney, she was involved in the investigation of Michael Fortier of Kingman, Arizona and she ran for and won the position of Arizona Attorney General in 1998. During her tenure as general, she focused on consumer protection issues. While still serving as general, she spoke at the 2000 Democratic National Convention just three weeks after having a mastectomy. Napolitano recalls that the pain was so unbearable that she couldnt stand up, work and family helped me focus on other things while I battled the cancer, says Napolitano. I am very grateful for all the support I had from family, friends and she was Arizonas third female governor and the first woman in the United States to be elected governor to succeed another elected female governor. She was also the first Democrat popularly elected to the governorship since Bruce Babbitt left office in 1987, in November 2005, Time magazine named her one of the five best governors in the U. S. As Governor, Napolitano set records for number of vetoes issued
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Janet Napolitano
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Napolitano speaks during the second day of the
2008 Democratic National Convention in
Denver, Colorado.
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Napolitano announcing a border security task force.
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Napolitano discussing security at a
Super Bowl XLIV press conference. The Super Bowl is designated as a
National Special Security Event by Homeland Security.
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Jeh Johnson
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Jeh Charles Johnson is an American civil and criminal trial lawyer, who was the fourth United States Secretary of Homeland Security 2013 to 2017. He was the General Counsel of the Department of Defense from 2009 to 2012 during the first Obama Administration, Johnson is a graduate of Morehouse College and Columbia Law School, and is the grandson of sociologist and Fisk University president Dr. Charles S. Johnson. Johnsons first name is taken from a Liberian chief, who saved his grandfather’s life while he was on a League of Nations mission to Liberia in 1930. Johnson served as Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1989 to 1991, from 1998 to 2001, he was General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force under President Bill Clinton. He was elected a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2004, on January 8,2009, he was named by President Barack Obama to be General Counsel for the Defense Department. In December 2012, he resigned this position effective at the end of the year to return to private practice, ten months later, on October 18,2013, Johnson was nominated by President Obama to be Secretary of Homeland Security. For the Inauguration of Donald Trump Johnson was chosen as the designated survivor, Johnson was born in New York City, the son of Norma, who worked for Planned Parenthood, and Jeh Vincent Johnson, an architect. On March 18,1994, Johnson married Susan Maureen DiMarco, the pair grew up across the street from each other in Wappingers Falls, New York. They have two children, Natalie Johnson and Jeh Charles Johnson, Jr, on September 11,2001, Johnson experienced firsthand the 9/11 attacks in New York City. After the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, Johnson wandered the streets of Lower Manhattan, today, he recalls in many speeches his experience during the 9/11 attacks. Johnson began as an associate at Paul, Weiss in November 1984, in 1989, he left to serve as an assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, a position he held until the end of 1991. In that position, Johnson prosecuted public corruption cases, Johnson returned to Paul, Weiss in 1992 and was elected partner at the firm in 1994. In 1998, Johnson was appointed General Counsel of the Air Force by President Bill Clinton after confirmation by the U. S. Senate, as General Counsel, Johnson was the senior legal official in the Air Force and Governor of Wake Island, in the Pacific Ocean. His tenure coincided with Operation Allied Force in 1999 and he was awarded the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service for his efforts. After his service in the Clinton administration, Johnson returned to Paul, Weiss in 2001, Johnson was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York City Bar Association. From 2001 to 2004, he served as chairman of the City Bar’s Judiciary Committee, Johnson was active in Democratic Party politics, as a fundraiser and adviser to presidential campaigns. On January 8,2009, then President-elect Barack Obama announced Johnsons nomination as Department of Defense General Counsel, on February 9,2009, he was confirmed by the Senate. In 2009, Johnson was heavily involved in the reform of military commissions, in November 2010, following an extensive study, Johnson and General Ham reported that the risk to overall military effectiveness of a repeal would be low
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The Honorable Jeh Johnson
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Johnson swears in
Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense.
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Secretary of State
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Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
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The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers serves as an interagency law enforcement training body for 91 United States government federal law enforcement agencies. The stated mission of FLETC is to. train those who protect our homeland and it also provides training to state, local, campus, tribal, and international law enforcement agencies. Through the Rural Policing Institute and the Office of State and Local Training, it provides tuition-free and low-cost training to state, local, campus, additionally, it operates two other residential training sites at Artesia, New Mexico, and in Charleston, South Carolina. It also operates an in-service re-qualification training facility in Cheltenham, Maryland, for use by agencies with large concentrations of personnel in the Washington, the FLETC has oversight and program management responsibilities for the International Law Enforcement Academies in Gaborone, Botswana, and Bangkok, Thailand. It also supports training at ILEAs in Hungary and El Salvador, studies conducted in the late 1960s revealed an urgent need for training by professional instructors using modern training facilities and standardized course content. Congress authorized funds for planning and constructing the Consolidated Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, in 1970, the CFLETC was established as a bureau of the Department of the Treasury and began training operations in temporary facilities in Washington, D. C. The permanent location of the center was planned for the Washington. However, a construction delay resulted in Congress requesting that surplus federal installations be surveyed to determine if one could serve as the permanent site. In May 1975, after a review of existing facilities, the former Naval Air Station Glynco was selected. In the summer of 1975, the newly renamed Federal Law Enforcement Training Center relocated from Washington, D. C. and began training in September of that year at Glynco, Georgia. Glynco is the site and main campus for the FLETC. On March 1,2003, FLETC formally transferred from the Treasury Department to the newly created Department of Homeland Security, the move reflected the centrality of the FLETCs mission in support of the unified homeland security effort. The FLETCs parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, supervises its administrative, as an interagency training organization, FLETC has professionals from diverse backgrounds to serve on its faculty and staff. Approximately one-third of the staff are permanent FLETC employees. The remainder are federal officers and investigators on short-term assignment from their parent organizations, partner Organizations have input regarding training issues and functional aspects of the Center. Agencies take part in curriculum review and development conferences and help develop policies and directives, title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Homeland Security. Spring 2013, Vol.42, Issue 1, pp. 15–19, december 2010, Vol.76, Issue 12, pp. 556–558. 2012, Vol.7 Issue 4, pp. 478–488, 4/4/2014, Vol.6 Issue 14, pp.15
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Coast Guard Investigative Service Special Agents conduct firearms training at Glynco
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Aerial view of FLETC in 1982.
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FLETC sign
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DHS Office of Operations Coordination
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The Office of Operations Coordination and Planning is a component of the headquarters of the United States Department of Homeland Security. In accordance with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8, OPS is facilitating a Federal interagency planning effort to address various national contingencies, the Office is headed by Richard M. Chávez, the Director for Operations Coordination and Planning. Information is shared and fused on a basis by the two halves of the Office, the Intelligence Side and the Law Enforcement Side. The two halves function in tandem, the Intelligence watch floor gathers intelligence and decides how it contributes to the current threats in a given area. The Law Enforcement Side tracks law enforcement activities across the country that may have a terrorist nexus and this information from the two halves accurately depicts the nation’s threat environment at any moment. The NOC coordinates information sharing to help deter, detect, and prevent terrorist acts, Information on domestic incident management is shared with Emergency Operations Centers at all levels through the Homeland Security Information Network. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Homeland Security
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Deputy Secretary
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DHS Office of Health Affairs
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The Office of Health Affairs is a component within the United States Department of Homeland Security. OHA provides health and medical expertise in support of the Departments mission to prepare for, respond to, the current Assistant Secretary is Katherine Brinsfield, MD, MPH. The Office of Health Affairs is led by an Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Health Affairs, the Assistant Secretary serves as the principal advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security on medical and public health issues. OHA leads the Department’s workforce health protection and medical support activities, OHA also leads and coordinates the Department’s biological and chemical defense programs and provides medical and scientific expertise to support DHS preparedness and response efforts. DHS Office of Health Affairs official website
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DHS Office of Health Affairs
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DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate
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The National Protection and Programs Directorate is a component within the United States Department of Homeland Security. NPPDs goal is to advance the Departments national security mission by reducing and eliminating threats to the Nation’s critical physical and cyber infrastructure. The NPPD is led by the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for National Protection and Programs, the current Under Secretary is Suzanne E. Spaulding. NPPD collaborates and shares information with Federal, State, local, tribal, international, responsible for overseeing the National Cyber Security Division. These efforts help to ensure that essential Government missions, public services, further, personnel conduct criminal investigations, provide regular security awareness training to stakeholders, and provide support to major events. US-VISIT supplies the technology for collecting and storing data, provides analysis, updates its watchlist. The Office of Cybersecurity and Communications has the mission of assuring the security, resiliency, includes the National Cyber Security Division. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center coordinates responses to attacks and is headquartered in Arlington. The Office of Infrastructure Protection leads the national effort to reduce risk to the United States critical infrastructures. In doing so, the Department increases the level of preparedness. The Office of Risk Management and Analysis serves as the Department’s Executive Agent for national risk management, according to the presidents proposed Fiscal Year 2013 budget the Office of Risk Management and Analysis may be transferred to DHS Office of Policy. According to the Presidents proposed Fiscal Year 2013 budget the US-VISIT program may be transferred to Customs and Border Protection and Immigration, however, through proposed 2013 Continuing Resolutions, both the House of Representatives and Senate rejected the Presidents proposal for full transfer of the program. Instead, the Senate establishes the Office of Biometric Identity Management under NPPD, with US-VISITs mission operations moving to Immigration, likewise, the House proposed keeping the US-VISIT Program as-is under NPPD
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DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate
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Federal Protective Service (United States)
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The Federal Protective Service is the police division of the National Protection and Programs Directorate of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The FPS is a law enforcement agency, and employs approximately 900 law enforcement officers. They are given 3 weeks of training under FPS, the FPS was formerly a part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement until October 2009, when it was transferred to the National Protection and Programs Directorate. The Federal Protective Service is a branch of the National Protection and Programs Directorate, as the police force of the Secretary of Homeland Security, FPS is responsible for policing, securing and ensuring a safe environment in which federal agencies can conduct their business. FPS does this by investigating threats posed against over 9,000 federal facilities nationwide, fPSs work focuses directly on the interior security of the nation and the reduction of crimes and potential threats to federal facilities throughout the nation. Uniformed FPS officers/inspectors and special agents respond to calls for assistance, conduct investigations and provide crime prevention tips, all federal facilities under FPS control receive a thorough building security assessment on a recurring schedule. Based on the findings and working with the agencies housed in the facility, security countermeasures are added or adjusted and this allows for tailored security for each individual facility versus a one-size-fits-all approach. FPS law enforcement officers also undergo training, depending on their assignment to special units within the service. Prior to the establishment of the seat of government, the commissioners hired six night watchmen to protect the designated buildings the government was intended to occupy. FPS traces its origins to the appointment of these six night watchmen, FPS has resided in a number of different agencies over the years. The act of June 1,1948, authorized the Federal Administrator to appoint special policemen for duty in connection with the policing of all buildings owned and occupied by the United States. In 1949, Congress enacted the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, the FPS force, known at the time as the United States Special Police, came under the supervision of the Protection Division of the Public Building Service. Initially, the function of FPS was protection, as an integral part of building operations. By 1960, the mission of FPS became the first line of defense against bomb threats, bombings, vandalism, mass demonstrations, in 1980, Fidel Castro instigated a wave of emigration from Cuba to the United States using the harbor town of Mariel for debarkation. The thousands of refugees were eventually distributed to military installations in several states, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Border Patrol were understaffed to provide civilian law enforcement officers needed to maintain order within the installations. Federal Protective Officers from across the country frequently served in the camps, more recently, the role of the FPS officer has undergone further changes. The FPS has shifted its emphasis from the guard post concept of security to a mobile police patrol. FPS contracts private security companies to guard fixed posts, the Civil Service Commission developed standards for FPS applicants, which included background investigations, and physical examinations
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A FPS SUV seen in 2010, an
ICE shield is included in this vehicle's
livery.
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Patch of the Federal Protective Service
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Federal Protective Service vehicle.
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United States Federal Protective Service color guard
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Office of Biometric Identity Management
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United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology is a U. S. Customs and Border Protection management system. US-VISIT is accessed by 30,000 users from federal, state, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and biometric Entry and Exit operations which became a part of U. S. Customs and Border Protection. U. S. Department of State consular officers and U. S. Customs, citizens between the ages of 14 and 79, with some exceptions, when they apply for visas or arrive at major U. S. ports of entry. CBP officials have the ability to check the person seeking entry against several lookout databases using the Interagency Border Inspection System. In 2009, DHS announced that it had completed an upgrade from two-fingerprint to ten-fingerprint scanners at major U. S. ports of entry, the upgrade, which began in 2007, is intended to make the entry process faster and more accurate. Initially, only visitors who required a visa inserted in their passport were included in the US-VISIT program, however, since September 30,2004, visitors eligible for the Visa Waiver Program have also been required to use the US-VISIT program. Beginning January 18,2009, most non-U. S, citizens are subject to US-VISIT requirements. The United States and Canada have special agreements for visa-free travel, U. S. citizens are not required to be digitally fingerscanned or photographed when they enter United States territory. The Department of State began issuing passports to its citizens in 2006. The program has been funded by Congressional appropriations of $330 million in fiscal year 2004, $340 million in 2005, $340 million in 2006, for fiscal year 2010, Congress appropriated $373.7 million and directed that $50 million be used to implement a biometric air exit capability. In fiscal year 2007, A total of 46,298,869 entries recorded at air, of these,236,857 were identified as possible overstays. The manual vetting system led to 273 U. S. Immigration, the databases resulted in 25,552 hits for consular officers overseas adjudicating visa applications. There were 11,685 biometric watch-list hits at the ports of entry, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services used the system to screen those who apply for immigration benefits, creating 31,324 hits. Critics contend that the system is too inaccurate to be an effective solution, barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Unions Program on Technology and Liberty, states that the watch list is bloated and full of inaccuracy, calling the policy a total failure. He stated, Whether or not the loss of liberty is worth the security gained is not a question — because no security is gained, the consulting company Accenture is the lead contractor for US-VISIT. The selection of Accenture in 2004 was controversial due to the location of the companys headquarters, in 2000, Accenture was created and incorporated in Bermuda, as a separation of global business consulting services from the financial consulting services of Andersen Consulting. Because Accenture was created in 2000, and because Andersen was not previously incorporated, Brazil has requested to be exempted from this measure, and failing this, has implemented a similar program of fingerprinting and photographing American citizens entering Brazil. The Brazilian program commenced in Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo in January 2004, on November 20,2007, Japan implemented J-VIS, an immigration and border management system similar to the US-VISIT system
Office of Biometric Identity Management
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A person using a US-VISIT scanner
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DHS Science and Technology Directorate
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The Science and Technology Directorate is a component within the United States Department of Homeland Security. DHS-ST serves as the research and development arm of the Department as it fulfills its national security mission, the current Under Secretary is Dr. Reginald Brothers. The five areas within AOS are, Operations Research and Analysis, SAFETY Act, Standards, Technology Transition Support, ONL executes two programs, Construction and Laboratory Operations. Includes customer-focused and output-oriented RDT&E programs that balance risk, cost, impact, the six areas within RD&I include, APEX Research and Development, Border Security, Chemical, Biological, and Explosive Defense, Counterterrorism, Cyber Security, and Disaster Resilience. This includes the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, the three areas within University Programs are, Centers of Excellence, Education Programs, and Minority Serving Institutions. S&T is led by the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science, the current Under Secretary is Reginald Brothers, who was appointed by President Barack Obama on April 7,2014. The Under Secretary is assisted in the management of the Directorate by a Deputy Under Secretary, the Science and Technology Directorate is organized into four groups which work together to ensure each aspect of the Directorates work is given the appropriate amount of emphasis. The Human Factors Division applies the social and behavioral sciences to improve detection, analysis, the Under Secretary for Homeland Security Science and Technology currently administers a number of publicly available programs to promote independent development of homeland security technologies. In October 2011, the won the Open Source for America 2011 Government Deployment Open Source Award for the program. Virtual USA S&Ts Website on DHS. gov S&T organizational chart S&T2011 Strategic Plan
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DHS Science and Technology Directorate
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HSARPA
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Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency is a part of the Science and Technology Directorate at the United States Department of Homeland Security. Much like DARPA in the Department of Defense, HSARPA is tasked with advanced projects to advance the technology needed to protect the US, some of the chief beneficiaries of HSARPA are the Customs and Border Protection, and the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. HSARPA manages a portfolio of solicitations and proposals for the development of homeland security technology. HSARPA invests in programs offering the potential for revolutionary changes in technologies that promote homeland security and it also accelerates the prototyping and deployment of technologies intended to reduce homeland vulnerabilities
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Deputy Secretary
