as a team they both worked closely with the department of homeland security, the san francisco police department, and the police department response team to make sure the grant funding was adequate and readily available to execute the exercise. working together to maintain constant communication with the department of homeland security, staff, and kept them abreast of all of the ongoing activities, making sure that all of their concerns and issues were taken care of immediately. in addition they personally hosted the deputy general manager of the department of mass transit division and the director of security events programs that came to specifically observe the exercises from various different locations to monitor the urban shield exercises. outstanding professionalism and warm hospitality are the words that best describe these individuals and the support they provided for this event. on that note i would like to ask the director of transit services to present the awards. congratulations. >> good afternoon, directors. what have to say is simply this. it depends on the people the to

- so he knows firsthand, and that in addition to the department of treasury, after the organization he went to the department of the homeland security and oversaw himself and close to 500 lawyerv in different divisions of they r department of homeland security. so he has lots of knowledge of many different perspectives. i'm happy to introduce my fellow partner, baruch weiss. .applause] >> thank you all.i t i think we're going to have a sanel that is interesting this afternoon. we had this morning. if you recall, we are going to be discussing the issues that arise in prosecuting and defending cases that involve the leak or disclosure of classified information. i am going to introduce, of course, as is traditional, our terrific bunch of panelists that you will see in a moment. what i'm going to do first is give you a little bit of a sense of what we are going to discuss, and i think you appreciate the we have to discuss it all the more. what we are going to discuss really feeds off what you will hear this morning, and that is we are going to assume that there was a disclosure of classified information by a government official to a jou

seemed to be asking the question who is behind the push for heightened security meet michael chertoff head of the department of homeland security from two thousand and five to two thousand and nine we could deploy this scanning the scanning machines that we currently are beginning to deploy in the u.s. that were given to see what someone has concealed underneath their quote here today he's the co-founder of the church off group a security and risk management firm whose clients include wrap a skit on one of the. biggest manufacturers of body imaging screening machines i know you've been an advocate of this technology for a long time correct but just in the interest of full disclosure i also want to point out in your current role as a security consultant you are representing some of the companies who manufacture that technology kharab actually correct ok so perhaps chertoff interest in body scanners and security isn't just about protecting the american people using his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these backscatter scanners are going to make us safer he stands to

caller: you have been talking with the department of homeland security and the department of defensext gen. i'm wondering, how much are you working with the industry itself, like the airlines on this kind of work? guest: is very close work. i think earlier, i mentioned that we work with an industry task force last year to identify the industry's perspective on, as we roll out next gen, what are the things that we can do to ensure that industry is able to take advantage of the benefits of it. more recently, we have formed a nextran advisory committee made up of industry stakeholders to advise the faa on what we call the business of next gen. what are the things that we need to think about as we roll it out nationwide? and how does the industry, the airlines, the other users of the system, how do they need to react, or what are they concerned about and would like to see us do as we move to this system? it is a close working relationship and sometimes, when you are in this consultative processes, it seems like they take longer, but you have a much better results at the end. host: in thi

jon: scott webber, who was senior counsel to michael chertoff when he was head of the department of homeland securitythis note, it is crossing the wires from reuters news service that five terror suspects arrested in paris this week is suspected of conspiring to launch an attack in france, one of them was prepared to die, all five suspects are french and included one woman. jenna. jenna: lots of developments, and breaking news around the world. we have this fox news alert. violent protests in the streets of london. tens of thousands of students, clashing with police there over proposed tuition hikes, and other government cutbacks, you're seeing some of the protests on your screen now, video from the events of the day. joining me on the phone from central london, the national union students vice president susan nash, the national union of students is the group that organized this protest. so susan, we've heard that some of the protestors have gotten violent, there have been some reports of folks going to the hospital. what are your thoughts on how the protests went today? >> the majority of the protes

$100 billion this year in afghanistan and that's actually the amount that we sent on the department of homeland securityd. so like when you're getting your pat-down on the airport on thanksgiving holiday all of that. i think that we're in overkill mode in afghanistan. realign our priorities to yemen and to pakistan and other places, too. >> pete and brian othis subject of bin ladin, i've got to show you president bush being questioned on this subject by jay leno last night. >> i was determined to bring justice to those who attacked our country. and worked that way for 7 1/2 year years. [ applause ] >> why do you think that we haven't been able to find osama bin laden? why has this alluded us? >> if we knew where he was we'd have him and he's hiding in a very remote part of the world, i guess. >> and that remote part of the world is presumably the federally administered tribal area in pakistan, where we still aren't and where i wish we were. pete, thank you for your service. i may disagree with you on this but i applaud with what you do for your country. i brian, i don't know that the predator drones are

-- was the most resistant and the highest threshold in terms of intensity of security and accuracy of security was the department of homeland security because we'd end up dealing with the governors and the mayors and the police chief so again i'd like to think there's some comfort in knowing that it was always rigorous, vigorous debate and we met more often not to raise -- and concluded not to raise the threat level than on the occasions when i would go in and tell the president the recommendation was to raise it. >> a couple more quick questions on the threat side on international specifically. and i've raised the ire of a number of my european colleagues on this. but the passenger name record, pnr, agreement which was negotiated with the eu through 2014. there's been some changes between the commission and the parliament that are re-opening this agreement. for privacy concerns, no one suggests that the privacy concerns aren't significant. they are. but if you look at pnr beyond anecdotally, i mean, it did play a role in stopping faisal shahzad or time square bomber. it was a cbt officer who ultimately got him who he escap

parts, governor ridge also was instrumental and, obviously, drove the creation of the department of homeland security. this brought together 22 different departments and agencies and with a common mission, a unified mission, and secretary ridge served as the first homeland security adviser. so lots of firsts and all very successful. so it is a privilege to have governor ridge -- >> some people may think i can't hold a job. >> not at all. [laughter] and i might note, the last time he spoke at a very public event here was the first year anniversary of the department of the homeland security. thank you for joining us again. the purpose for today is to have a conversation, to get a sense of where we see the threat environment, where we see priorities that need to be addressed and where governor ridge sees the future, to a large extent, occurring. and he and i will have a conversation, but then we want to be able to draw upon all of you in terms of questions. and let me also welcome our c-span audience who is watching live. we've got a number of television cameras here, so, governor, let me start with the

department of homeland security secretary, janet napolitano, to halt the deportation of immigrants students who could earn legal status under the dream act. it has the support of the house and senate leadership, all the relative committee shares, and our military leaders, including colin powell. in 2010, before the national hispanic caucus, president obama stated he would do whatever it takes to support the efforts to pass this bill, so he can sign it into law on behalf of students seeking a college education and those who wish to serve in our country's uniform. it is the right thing to do. steve li is a junior in city college who aspires to be a health care worker. he graduated from george washington high school as well as hoover middle school, where he was an editor and reporter for the school newspaper and ran on the track and cross-country team. he is scheduled to graduate in september 2011. he entered the u.s. when he was about 12 years old and was ordered removed from the united states to peru when he was 14. he has no knowledge of the deportation because he was a derivative beneficia

they have an om budsman, the department of homeland security has privacy officials.less than 86 subcommittees that have oversight responsibility and jurisdiction. so tsa is certainly a scrutinized and watched agency for just about everything it does. >> look at the time of year. people are traveling with their kids. do these rules apply to children? >> children under 12 are exempt from the screening process, so that shouldn't be a problem. and i do think that everybody should keep in mind that this is a heavy travel season. it is also a season that we know historically where terrorist chatter goes up. there is an enhanced risk out there right now. what it really takes is tsa and the traveling public cooperating with each other to make sure that the passenger experience is best for everyone. >> bottom line, if people go through the scanner, will that keep the pacing of this crazy, hectic travel season a bit more on target? >> absolutely. it will. >> thank you for all that. tom blank, appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> new this morning, nato has formally agreed to hand o

and hidden in print toner cartridges on cargo planes, today the department of homeland security announced new stepped-up security measures for international shipping. >> we're making lots of changes to the system on an on going basis, passenger and cargo, all designed to be risk-based, intel based and all designed to enhance safety. >> a ban on cargo from somalia has been added to the stop already in effect on packages from yemen. any cargo designated high risk must receive enhanced screening. since many of the hundreds of thousands of packages shipped every day or transported on passenger flights, no high-risk cargo, including toner or ink cartridges over 16 ounces, will be allowed in either checked or carry-on bags on domestic flights or international trips to the united states. international carriers like u.p.s., dhl and federal express are all being pressed to report shipping manifests to homeland security prior to departures to help identify potentially risky cargo. >> we're doing targeted screening, we're doing intel risk-based evaluation, we're doing the kinds of common sense thing

the department of homeland security was monitoring this situation because they did not know if this wasctually a real terrorist threat. >> terry mcsweeney joins us live at the bay bridge toll plaza to continue our coverage. terry? >> things are back to normal here on the bridge. in fact, i think you could say things are better than normal. and they were all morning long. it looked like it was going to be a great commute, probably because of the veterans day holiday but suddenly about 7:00 things went in the wrong direction. take a look at something you don't see every day. that's the toll plaza at the bay bridge and there's nobody there. last time i saw it like that the bridge was closed because part of it had come down in the lane. california highway patrol closed all approaches to the bay bridge. not one car there. after officers cleared it slowly one by one they were turning cars around. a rare sight. the traffic that would have been clogging those lanes was clogging wecht bound lanes of any other freeway you could find, 580, 80, 24, et cetera. we found some of the people stuck in th

we think at the very least, the department of homeland security should make available the studies theyon. let the public decide. let people have more say about all this. they're just being told by tsa they have to go through all of it. >> it's like the chicago stockyards. mark rotenberg, good luck with your efforts and thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you. >>> the warning from the mayor of london to former president bush, do not come to great britain because we may have to arrest you for torture just as we did general pinochet. strawbe, blueberry muffin. yeah, a little family reunion. [ wind rushes ] whoa! whoa! whoa! whoa! we're cereal here! what? just cooling it down. enough said. gotcha. safety first. whoo-hoo! watch the whole grain! [ female announcer ] try kellogg's® frosted mini-wheats® hot. just add warm milk and you've got a hot way to keep your kids full and focused all morning. oops. dude your eight layers are showing. [ female announcer ] mini-wheats® hot. keeps 'em full, keeps 'em focused. [ male announcer ] what does it take to excel in today's business world? our pr

at a press conference today the secretary of the department of homeland security also defended the agency'sfull body x-ray scanners and more aggressive patdown searches. critics have compared it to a virtual strip search and claim the new patdowns are too invasive. >>> well, one man has actually become the poster child of the fight against that increased airport security. john tyner refused to take the body scan. his reaction to that more aggressive patdown made him an internet sensation. you see, he made a cell phone recording of the whole thing. >> if you touch my junk, i'm going to have you arrested. >> the engineer was not allowed to board his flight after refusing the pat down. when he tried to leave the airport, he was detained. >> tried to leave the airport when i was met by another tsa agent who told me that i had to return to the skraeng area and finish the screening because it was apparently against federal law to begin the screening process but not to finish it. >> his blog says he left the airport but only after being threatened with a lawsuit and a $10,000 fine for failing to c

now seeing is the department of homeland security and others in the united states are looking at the rformance of this worm. and saying, with our critical infrastructure, are there vulnerabilities could that be exploited the same way? the real concern, michael, you'll see some people out there who will take the code associated with stucks net, maybe work it on the edges and launch it in a different way. so once something is shot into cyberspace you can never bring it back and that's why you have that problem. >> on that question, i also read that it's extended beyond iran, india by way of example. so how do we prevent stucks net from entering the united states? >> well, the biggest issue though is what it's going after. it's going after these electroconverters in the century fuges. you could have a computer that's connected with stucks net but it's not going to impact its performance unless it's a computer associated with those types of functions so over 100,000 known infections. worldwide. what it's actually hurting it was only those things that it was originally targeted. these prog

cnn received some comments from a senior department of homeland security official who said that, quotee mood at dhs is anger over the way the media is playing the story. what do you think the media is getting wrong here? >> anderson, i think it's an issue about partnership and security and how best we can meld those two significant issues in a way that provides the best possible security for the traveling public. i wouldn't describe it as anger per se, i think it's just a matter of trying to do the best possible job we can to inform the traveling public that what the men and women of tsa are doing are proper security screening to ensure the best possible safety for every person, every member of the traveling public. >> the senior homeland security official also told us regarding the tsa screener in san diego, quote, he was accosted and verbally abused by a member of the traveling public. the fact that some in the media would hail the traveler as a folk hero is shameful. do you think he's being held as a folk hero? >> i don't know about that, i just know the men and women of tsa are tra

napolitano protesting the measures and clark kent irvin is former inspector general for the department of homeland securitythe bush administration. he's now director of the aspen institute's homeland security program, and he sits on an advisory council for secretary napolitano. welcome to you both. kate, let me begin with you. tsa chief john pistol, secretary napolitano say these new... measures are absolutely necessary to deal with the emerging threat that is posed on airlines. what is your response to that? >> well, we don't believe that the body scanners are effective at catching the kind of bombs that terrorists would most likely be using which would be cavity bombs or bombs hidden below one-tenth inch of skin. we're concerned about radiation issues. we feel these measures are absolutely unamerican and too intrusive for the flying public to handle on an ongoing basis. most people have not been through the scanners or the patdowns yet. they're about to find out over the thanksgiving and christmas holiday just how horrifying it is. our group is receiving about a thousand emails and hot line calls a day f

condensation trail, was left by a jet airliner, that after checking with the f.a.a., department of homeland security, the navy, the air force, and the north american air defense command. mcwest, who runs a web site devoted to contrails, knew it was an airplane the moment he saw the video. >> it's coming more or less straight towards you, and it's in level flight. it's not climbing. it's not descending. it's probably around 35,000 feet. >> reporter: how can that be when it looks for all the world like it's climbing into space? well, look at this photo of another contrail that caused a minor internet sensation last new year's eve. no airliner can climb like that, right? wrong. look at it from the side. >> the same contrail, the looks like a rocket, but from the side, it just looks like a contrail passing by. >> reporter: now go back to the video of the mystery missile. >> i've got a fairly good idea that it was u.s. airways flightitatey 8 from hawaii, honolulu, to phoenix. >> reporter: he's a web-cam photo of flight 808 taken yesterday evening. compare that to a still frame from the mystery video shot

what you're now seeing is the department of homeland security and others in the united states are lookingnce of this worm and saying, with our critical infrastructure, are there vulnerabilities that could be exploited the same way? and i think the real concern, michael, is that you're going to see some people out there who will take the code, work it on the edges and launch it in a different way. once something is shot into cyberspace, you can never bring it back and that's why you have that problem. >> on that question, i also read that it's extended beyond iran. india, by way of example. so how do we prevent this from entering the united states? >> well, the biggest issue is what it's going after. it's going after electric converters in the centrifuges. you could have a computer that's infected with stucksnet but it's not going to impact its performance unless it's a computer associated with those types of functions. in terms of what it's hurting, it's only those things that it was originally targeted, the programable logic controllers. >> bob, it reminds me, as well, as the taking out

of tougher security standards from the feds. our justice correspondent pete williams is at the department of homeland security tonight. pete, i know part of what's going to be regulated are these toner cartridges. but you have to play the odds. what are the chances the terrorists are going to use them again? >> reporter: they say here at homeland security, brian, that they can't rule that out. these rules do extend the pan on all cargo shipments from yemen, which is where those two packages last month came from. and they apply as well now to somalia. another country where al qaeda is operating. starting today, all cargo shippers cannot put high risk cargo on passenger planes. which carry about a third of air cargo coming into the u.s. what's considered high risk will depend on intelligence about the sender and the content, and all packages sent by mail overseas must be screened individually. now, for those cartridges, airline passengers from now on cannot carry toner or ink cartridges that weigh over a pound on any passenger flight, and this applies to any flights operating domestically as well as those coming in from

in the last five years, the department of homeland security says predators have netted 40,000 pounds drugs and nabbed 7,000 illegal immigrants. we are expanding the manpower resources. >> reporter: he wants more pilots to keep the predators flying around the clock, claiming nothing else provides this kind of immediate intelligence. >> my boss in washington, d.c. can log on and say "what are we looking at right now?" >> reporter: you can feed this picture in realtime to the command center? >> yes. >> reporter: the program is expensive. each predator costs around $18 million and the aircraft has limits. they're only cleared to fly inside a narrow zone along the border and can't fly at all in bad weather. still, to gasho, the air fleet is essential. >> this is sovereign u.s. soil and i think we need to defend it as such. >> reporter: and congress is sold. a fourth predator is on its try the mexican border. bob orr, cbs news, fort huachuca, arizona. >> couric: overseas, president obama finally made it to indonesia after postpone ago visit to his one-time home on three different occasions

the department of homeland security and the federal emergency management agency should expand informationaring with appropriate government agencies and non-governmental organizations to enable the delivery of recovery services. the department of homeland security and federal emergency banishment agency should pre-identify and credential additional local and out-of-state voluntary and non-governmental organizations and networks that provide disaster assistance to children and families. >> a question on 1.3. do we ever discuss the question of what we mean by timeliness. i'm just coming back to what the chairman pointed out in terms of when certain things happen or don't happen. my timing is maybe an unacceptable delay so i'm just trying to -- because that kind of wording lends itself to complete lack of clarity and never-ending non-completion of different tasks. >> the areas have been discussed on metrics. i don't believe there is a specific. i think the issue was that good information is on the actual needs that promotes an appropriate response to the right people to the right amount of ti

. >>> the department of homeland security reached out to jewish organizations after last week's thwarted bomb attempt. in a national conference call, homeland security warned jewish leaderso be on guard against suspicious activity and advised them how they can work closely with law enforcement. >>> fear and mourning continue among christians in iraq after this week's deadly attack on a catholic church in baghdad. more than 50 people consider killed, and more than 70 wounded. religious leaders around the world denounced the violence. al qaeda said it will continue to target christians in iraq. the christian population has fallen sharply since the iraq war began. some estimate the number decreased by nearly half. dropping from approximately a million to 600 thousand. in haiti religious aide groups are scrambling after hurricane tomas brought heavy rains to the already devastated country. aide workers were trying to stop an outbreak of cholera that claimed hundreds of lives and left thousandsmore sik. may fe itill lead to the spread of water carrying cholera bacteria. >>> and now we look at

. >>> the department of homeland security says it's open to changes in new security procedures that somesengers say go way too far. over the weekend, a traveller in san diego complained an inner thigh pat down amounted to sexual assault. he recorded this exchange with the security agent. >> i don't understand how a sexual assault be made. >> this is not considered a sexual assault. >> it would be if you weren't the government. >> some travelers say the pat downs are humiliating and the new body scanners reveal far too much under clothing but others say better safe than sorry. >> i would rather you be innocent and get on the plain safely than not. >> with recent car bomb threats, they make no apologies. >>> harry potter all abuzz after viewing a sneak peek of a new movie. it's the 7th and last adventure in the series. >> in fact, tonight 800 lucky fans got an exclusive screening. that's where we find brittany morehouse live. did it live up to all of the fancy trailers we've been seeing? >> reporter: i heard it was awesome. scary. suspenseful at times. and those are just the screams for ha

significant step forward in the memorandum of understanding between the department of defense and the department of homeland security a pretty clear division of responsibility here. dod has responsibility obviously of defense websites and our offensive capacity and defensive capacity. department of homeland security for these civilian infrastructure and the federal government nondefense websites. but dod and, of course, nsa have such extraordinary capabilities that they can now inform what dhs does. i appreciate that. our committees are going to continue to work together. i was actually very proud yesterday that all the witnesses agreed that it was the -- a group at the department of homeland security more than anybody in the private sector or anywhere else that actually had the comprehensive capability to unravel the puzzle if you will. but we need your help and i appreciate your commitment to that, general. i look forward working with you on both committees. thank you both for your service to our country. you're both just extraordinarily prepared for this next assignment that the country has asked of you. general

department of homeland security secretary, janet napolitano, to halt the deportation of immigrants students who could earn legal status under the dream act. it has the support of the house and senate leadership, all the relative committee shares, and our military leaders, including colin powell. in 2010, before the national hispanic caucus, president obama stated he would do whatever it takes to support the efforts to pass this bill, so he can sign it into law on behalf of students seeking a college education and those who wish to serv

the psa and department of homeland security announced increased security measures heading into the holiday travel season. passengers get a more personal pat down, where officers use the front of their hands to search for weapons or explosives hidden in private areas. that is if they opt out of a full body skin, where officers are able to peer underneath clothing. >> i think it is too invasive. it is the way people are hiding things on their bodies. i would rather have the personal putdown, i think. >> the homeland security secretary said the changing measures are about keeping passengers save. >> it is being done for passenger safety and security, and because of the changing threat environment we have had. >> we found only one traveler at the airport tonight who said they had gone to a body skin or a pat down. >> no problems. i just walked through and was not uncomfortable. we were treated well everywhere we went. no problems at all. >> it does not appear the controversy over increased security measures will go away soon. some travelers rights groups have threatened to boycott scanners and

. >>> the department of homeland security's terror warnings are about to go color-blind. after 9/11, the government introduced this color-coded terror alert system. critics say it's too vague. the current threat level, yellow, hasn't changed in four years. it may be replaced by a two-stage system for elevated threats and imminent threats. >>> on the "cbs money watch" this morning, wall street is closed for the holiday. overseas asian markets edged up in light trading. japan's nikkei added half a percentage. hong kong's hang seng also closed higher. alexis christophorous has other business news. >> reporter: retailers hope you'll hit the stores before you've even had your thanksgiving feast. a growing number of retailers are open today to give consumers a jump-start on their holiday shopping. sears is open for business on this day for the first time in its 124-year history. other stores open for business today include kmart, old navy and toys "r" us. >>> well, traders are thankful for a fresh batch of encouraging economic news. applications for unemployment benefits are at

was the most resistant and at the highest threshold in terms of intensity of security and accuracy of security with the department of homelandecurity because we ended up dealing with the governors and the mayors and the police chief. so again, i like to take some comfort in knowing it was always rigorous, vigorous debate and we met more often not to raise the threat level than on the occasions when i would go in and tell the president the recommendation was raised. >> a couple more quick questions on the threats on the specifically. and i've raised a number of my european comments, but the passenger range network, pnr, which was negotiated with the e.u. through 2014. there have been some changes between the commission and the parliament that are reopening this agreement. for privacy concerns and no one suggested privacy concerns are significant. they are. if you look at pnr beyond anecdotally, it did play a role in stopping faisal shahzad or times square bomber. it was acb t. officer who intercepted and that the airport. najibullah zazi, which if we were to put a light meter on the threat since 9/11, i think that zazi is bli