security and maintenance. it included strict controls on the transfer of funds from the department of homeland security to the department of interior. only where the secretary of homeland security certifies the transfer is absolutely necessary for border security and that the department of homeland security does not have the authority to carry out the necessary activity. further, the secretary of interior must provide a detailed plan with advanced notification, allowing the economy to rejection the plan. the committee's interest was a border security, unfortunately, we're not able to balance the views and viewpoints and concerns to find a compromise in this process. for that reason, i support the lummis amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. federal public lands -- mr. poe: federal public lands have become the chosen path for drug smugglers and illegals entering the united states of america.

look strong thanks so much for having me paul department of homeland security has been dropping the ball out of as to getting domestic hate groups conservative websites like the drudge report as pointed out have come to resemble those domestic aid groups as alex sets were all over think progress noted today matt drudge often uses websites is it just that a racial rhyme wave is sweeping across the nation and that white people should be scared to death despite the fact that crime as i noted is that a forty year low one group that took notice of dredges website is an actual hate group the white supremacist council of conservative citizens which recently boasted this was one of their headlines quote drudge report currently resembles c. of c. c. or their website c. of c. c. is probably previously claimed as mark pointed out the black people are a retrograde species of humanity so not exactly the type of people you want to resemble but leave it to america's republican partisans at like the drudge report to find bedfellows with right wing extremists. crazy alert that's not a bullshit it's a mas

of a declining homeland security budget. some parts of this bill are very good. and i commend the chairman for providing adequate funding for the front line employees of the department of homeland security to continue to conduct critical operations along our borders, protect our airports and sea ports and to respond to the series of natural disasters we have experienced this spring. however, some serious gaps remain. my colleague, mr. price, has already described in great detail the dangerous reductions in our support for the nation's first responders. also slashed in this bill is the budget for research and development activities at the department. the bill approved by the full committee provides less than $400 million for the science and technology directates research and development operation account, a cut of more than 40%. at this level for 2012 s&t has informed us that many critical research efforts already under way on cybersecurity, disaster resiliencey and detection of chemical and biological threats would be halted. america's technological edge is one of our great assets, and in the fight against terrorism i believe it would be a mistake to retreat from th

it includes no funding to continue construction of the department of homeland security headquarters. the bill has reduced management to a bare minimum with reduction of 29% to leadership and management offices. the department of homeland security is an agency of 230,000 employees. the number of employees in oscm is 00 or less than a third of a percent. and funding provided is also a third of a percent for the total d.h.s. budget. this is extremely small for assets need to manage a major security department. additional reductions would prevent filling key staffing positions and thus limit the ability of the department to respond to national emergencies and provide stable leadership to the public and the nation in the event of a large disaster or terrorist event. these reductions are not compatible with running a cabinet agency. no other federal department has asked to manage such large responsibilities and operating components with such a small and stretched headquarters element. therefore, i urge the members to oppose this amendment. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of

of a declining homeland security budget. some parts of this bill are very good. and i commend the chairman for providing adequate funding for the front line employees of the department of homeland security to continue to conduct critical operations along our borders, protect our airports and sea ports and to respond to the series of natural disasters we have experienced this spring. however, some serious gaps remain. my colleague, mr. price, has already described in great detail the dangerous reductions in our support for the nation's first responders. also slashed in this bill is the budget for research and development activities at the department. the bill approved by the full committee provides less than $400 million for the science and technology directates research and development operation account, a cut of more than 40%. at this level for 2012 s&t has informed us that many critical research efforts already under way on cybersecurity, disaster resiliencey and detection of chemical and biological threats would be halted. america's technological edge is one of our great assets, and in the fight against terrorism i believe it would be a mistake to retreat from th

port of san francisco to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $7,783,556 from the department of homeland security, 2009 port security grant program fund, for the pier 27 cruise ship terminal security system at the port of san francisco. >> good morning, mr. chairman. director of homeland security at the port of san francisco. i come to request approval of an accept and expend of $7,783,556 to install and maintain the infrastructure. supervisor avalos: thank you. public comment. >> good morning. my name is douglas yepp. i would like to speak in favor of this item. i know this may bother some people but in my discussions, it seems san francisco has been overlooked as a target for terrorists. some people think that no one would dare to damage san francisco's reputation as a tolerant city, but i, among others, feel like our enemies might be bold enough to use our tolerance against us. this item should be approved, and it would be well-used, especially when there has been some emphasis on the federal level to inspect incoming cargo containers. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will close pub

department of emergency management. this is a $1.2 million award, funded through the department of homeland security. through the state of california to the department of emergency management. and the department is acting as the fiscal agent. and i would be happy to answer any questions you might have about it. commissioner mirkarimi: any questions? i had mine answered in meetings we already had. so thank you for that. i think it's very straightforward. just one -- on the 700 megahertz system, which agencies within san francisco will be utilizing that system? >> supervisor, to the best of my knowledge it's all the first responder agencies, fire, police, sheriff, department of public health. commissioner mirkarimi: this will also be a complement to the current 800 megahertz system they currently use as well too,? >> it will, supervisor. commissioner mirkarimi: i'm curious, what does that look like practically speaking? they have two systems they are carrying with them in the event of an emergency? in other words, for simplistic reasons, two walkie-talkies? >> i don't believe so, supervisor. michelle fr

unfortunately the department of homeland security is not an exception when it comes to examples of government waste. the department of homeland security must oh faux cus its resources more effectively in their short history, they have become inherently wasteful, creating programs that do not make our nation any more secure. and they're not unlike any bureaucracy that's come before us. -- that's come before it. a recent audit found 32 contracts worth $34.3 billion that have been plagued by waste, abuse or mismanagement from 2001 but 2006. if we pass this amendment and force an across the board cut, d.h.s. will be forced to analyze its programs more effectively and become a more efficient agency as a result. mr. chairman, i don't speak tonight out of mere opinion. i speak tonight out of experience. you see, i used to run a bureaucracy. i used to run a bureaucracy that ran on 1987 dollars, unadjusted for inflation. and we had good results. my former security division alone because of great people, we got 300 years of jail time awarded in over -- and over $52 million in restitution. the governmen

the department of homeland security says there's no information about any attacks. >>> san francisco ce can't recall an incident of a city worker being shot on the job, but that's exactly what happened this morning. ktvu's john sasaki says it could be road rage. >> reporter: the damage shows how deadly the shooting could have been. two windows were shot. >> the suspect opened fire multiple times striking the driver one time. >> reporter: about 8:30 this morning a two man painting crew was driving a truck in the bayview and they pulled a u turn and upsetting another driver. >> in this situation, someone got a fit of road rage and took shots at an employee trying to improve the streets. >> reporter: the driver was hit in the shoulder blade. >> our driver tried to drive away and avoid altercation. in this case, it was unfortunate that suspect opened fire on the truck. >> reporter: the truck came to a stop outside a neighborhood dare care facility. >> yeah, it's really scary. >> reporter: there were seven children in the facility at the time. >> i was feeding them breakfast and i said oh,

as we cover on the show with a good fight in texas to get the state to stand up to the department of homeland security but we're seeing now this new twist on the technology the easy convenient scanning tunnels that people can just walk through and get maybe a retina scott retina scan through what's your take on this latest twist. well we predicted it well let's getting ourselves too much we didn't predict anything but almost nine years ago governor ridge did a bit of a massacre in a time a whole presentation on c.-span you're going to have to have t.s.a. federal and ministry of authorization to have a job we saw that earlier this year when the nine eleven victims of the firefighters and police will finally get medical care but if we run through a t.s.a. terror database so this is about domestic checkpoints and the federal destruction of the ninth and tenth amendment and the seizure of all infrastructure the t.s.a. now rolling out of school or put it out is this isn't a way to make what they're already doing to us a little more convenient for us i mean they're clearly comes from all of us but we exactl

similar to the open rule that was passed yesterday on the department of homeland security appropriations bill, the difference is in section 2 of this rule, it allows for a separate rule on a title addressing the department of veterans affairs. in doing so we're delivering on the speaker's promise to reduce the so-called omnibus bill, and give members the opportunity to have an up or down vote on cabinet level departments contained in the bill. part of the speaker's and rules committee chairman's is to have a more open and transparent process. in the end that's what this does. it's an open bill -- open rule that allows for debate and for amendments. i think every member of the congress was elected by a group of people in their districts, citizens in their district and they assumed that that member would be able to come and debate and offer amendments to bills at will. sometimes that's not the case. but it is the case in this particular time. every one of us come here, whether democrat or republican, liberal, moderate, conservative with the desire of affecting policy in a real way and the

department of defense is not in in the lead f energy security in the united states. for the federal government, that's my colleagues at the department of energy, department of homeland security, department of defense is in support of them, but let me emphasize the department of defense cannot execute its core missions in service of this nation unless we have a secure flow of commercial electric power. that's for a simple reason. the department of defense depends for its energy 99% on the commercial sector. we have no regulatory authority over it, but way are utterly dependent on the flow of that commercial power. let me talk about why that is the case. in the modern way of warfare since 9/11, our forces deployed abroad operating elsewhere depend to an increasing extent on military facilities back here in the united states to conduct and support those operations, to generate, deploy and operate forces abroad. we depend on military facilities in the states represented here today. if there is an interruption in the flow of commercial power to those facilities for a short period, they have backup power generation, but for a longer disruption of the grid, we'd be facing a

system. 100 people rallied as part of the justice for janitors campaign and claim the department of homeland security has stepped up workside enforcement aimed at hard working employees instead of the worst of the worst employers. >> this is hurting our communities. this is driving families into an underground economy. and it doesn't help our communities. >> this group saying its the only way to restore fairness. >> the way people get unemployment benefits is about to change. >> this is huge change for convenience going to safe millions of dollars. the state of california will no longer issue unemployment checks. those they will be issued electronic benefit transfer cards. prepaid debit cards. those getting checks will be able to use -- money will be able to use the cards at any place a visa debit card is accepted. >> once that money is there, you can have it deposited from that account into your checking akt or saving account and do all of your benefits, some, every two weeks or change it up a little bit, its up to the customer. >> and that includes used in casinos and out of state. you may remember

police are teaming up with the department of homeland security to tackle the problem. agents will help to identify and dismantle criminal gangs who have taken over the streets in parts of downtown san jose. >> my kids have seen people doing drugs around here. we've seen gang fights. we've come home and seen people leaking in -- laying in front of our driveway, it's awful. >> the goal is to protect the public in trying to remove those folks from the community that are there to exploit people and commit crimes. >>> the partnership comes as san jose faces 27 murders so far this year, 14 of them gang related. that compares to six gang-related homicides in all of last year. >>> growing gang violence has led to a new partnership in san jose. police teamed up with the department of homeland security to tackle those problems, as we just mentioned. there's an outrage in the fruitvale district over a controversial gang injunction. it banned five men the city says are nortanyo gang members from oakland. the men can't gather anywhere from the 460 square blocks covered by the judge

the department of homeland security says there is no information about any imminent attacks. >>> the white house still won't say where, but it is saying when president obama will join house speaker john boehner for a round of golf. it is set to happen tomorrow. both men are avid golfers. prime joe biden and ohio governor john caseic will join. the media will be allowed to take pictures but there is no promise that their scores will be made public. >>> people in this neighborhoods are willing to pay out of their own pact to increase securitiy to fight crime. >>> five fires in ten days and look at how close they are coming to homes. i want to crush more cars. i want to sell more tea cups. ♪ i need help selling bread. ♪ i want to sell more crabs. [ male announcer ] you know where you want to take your business. i want to design more buildings. [ male announcer ] in here, small business solutions from at&t can get you there. like the at&t all for less package, starting at just $70 per month, voice plus broadband. it's the at&t network. helping you do what you do... even better. >>> takin

. >> eric: department of homeland security pulled the plug on a controversial billion dollar high-tech border security system it doesn't mean the government giving up on high-tech solutions. david louie reports. >> homeland security admits the technology deployed along stretches of the border has been undependable. this is u.s. border custom video. >> right now, there is no good way how the technology performs in and of itself within the system. so this technology will allow them to decide that. >> this touch screen has been developed by san did have yia. it's part video game and analytical tool. it has tremendous potential to change the kind of technology we have at the border. everything from the low-tech chain link fence to the sensors they put in the ground to detect somebody walking on foot. >> reporter: the goal is to promote collaboration among teams to see problems from different perspectives. >> it's kind of like a football game. they are attempting to get to the goal line and they make decisions about when to hide and when to flee and run back. >> you can see how helicopters

. >>> the department of homeland security putting a few of its own gang experts to work at the san jose police department. officers say there have been 14 gang related killings this year alone. shows us the new partnership is being met with some skepticism. >> starting next week, two federal agents will be working with san jose police to help bust gang members. they are paid for and will report to immigrations and customs enforcement. this has some people in the community nervous, but the chief insists this is not a witch hunt for illegal immigrants. >> we are not interested in your status. if you are causing grief in your community and you are a gang member, we will use whatever resource we have to to bring you to justice. >> the city is laying off 100 officer next week. they need the help. immigrants rights groups however are skeptical. >> there's infrastructure in place to catch the bad guys. i think we need to be clear about what this collaboration means for our community and it is about public safety. >> this will be the agent's new home. sjpd will reevaluate the partnership in six

security improvements at the port of san francisco. 8d, request authorization to accept and expend $551,552 in 2010 infrastructure protection program port security grant program funds from the department of homeland security for mass notification system security improvements at the port of san francisco near the ferry building. >> so move. commissioner crowley: second. >> is there any public comment on the consent calendar? all in favor? resolution 11-31, 11-32, 11-33, and 11-34 have been approved. >> 9a, information presentation on the port and san francisco bay conservation development commission's out reach to waterfront stakeholders regarding the waterfront special area plant and proposed amendments to the special area plan for the proposed pier 27 cruise terminal and the 34th america's cup. >> i want to welcome you to the commission. special projects manager with the port. i want to introduce this item by introducing the senior planner with the bay conservation and development commission. we have been working with bcdc staff on this project for about nine months. i would say that we are at the midpoint in this project. i want to start my presentation by giving you some history. we're here to

>> take half of the current department of homeland security bureaucracy in washington, transplant it texas, arizona, and new mexico. you'll have more than enough people to control the border. >> reporter: talk fest. mostly polite. >> we had a great field of candidates. i was very impressed. >> reporter: eight months until the new hampshire primary. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, manchester. >>> while those politicians thrust themselves into the spotlight in new hampshire, in washington troubled congressman anthony weiner was nowhere to be seen. for the latest reaction on capitol hill to the new york democrat scandal we go to brian mooar. >> reporter: as the house reconvened on monday. >> the house will be in order. >> reporter: embattled congressman anthony weiner was a no show at his capitol hill office, but his over exposure on the internet has left his political future in doubt. for now he is seeking a paid leave of absence to deal with his problems, which are mounting. over the weekend tmz.com released a new batch of photos reportedly taken in a congressional gym. president obam

security it is one of the responsibilities that the homeland department bears. it is a role that much of the government's expertise resides in other agencies than the department of homeland security. so the department of homeland security's role must be con figured to attract sufficiently high caliber cybersecurity professionals, to ensure that d.h.s. properly leverages the cybersecurity expert cease at those other agencies and tone sure sufficient independence and credibility of the cybersecurity center to perform this vital mission even as administrations change and attention to cybersecurity waxes and wanes. cybersecurity is a real and present danger so we must also plan for and minimize the interim period in which d.h.s. builds up its cybersecurity expertise, promulgates necessary regulations, and otherwise grows into any new role with which it is tasked. cyberattacks happen at the speed of light. so the best defense requires that we preposition some of our defensive capabilities. many of our nation's leading experts who have seen the dark heart of the intern

port to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately $8 million from the department of homeland security, 2009 for security grant program fund for the pier 27 cruise ship terminal security system. >> thank you. the court has asked for a short amendment to this resolution that will clarify the intended expenditures of this grant. the amendment, which should be in friday, will bring the language of the resolution into conformity with the material presented yesterday with the title of the legislation. thank you. supervisor chiu: colleagues, supervisor cohen would like to make the amendment as she has circulated. we can take that lead objection, that shall be the case. if we could take this resolution as amended same house, same call? this resolution is adopted. item 50. >> item 50, resolution authorizing the port to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately $1.6 million from the department of homeless security, 2007, supplemental infrastructure protection. supervisor chiu: same house, same call? the resolution is adopted. >> item 81 was considered by the rules committee on a

jose's police chief announced this morning his department is getting help from the federal department of homeland security. two agents from the immigrations and customs agency will join the gang task force. it's part of a six-year-old campaign called operation community shield. >> these direct -- detectives have experience in street gangs like ms13. >> san jose police said plot agents frr immigration and cuss -- from immigration and customs, they will not participate in deportations. >>> a zombie march, then pan overnight camp out at city hall. kraig debro explains. >> reporter: they wanted to emulate worker hops wanted to keep bargaining rights. >> a lot of people slept over. we want to stand in solidarity. >> reporter: later today the san jose city council hold as special agenda meeting. according to the website, the mayor will declare a fiscal and pub lick safety meeting. >> we are in a crisis that we need to drails. >> reporter: council members will begin discussing changes that would allow san jose to reduce its contribution. some union members are sceptical and suspicious. >> he's trying to cut our

but they were granted a last minute stay by the department of homeland security. about 2,000 people sent letters asking for the women to stay. the lawyers say the women must fight to live in the u.s.. >>> it will be a short day of testimony today in the trial of a florida mother who is accused of killing her toddler daughter. the judge presiding over the casey anthony murder trial has to join a judges meeting. she gave conflicting testimony about how long caylee anthony's body may have been in the woods before her body was discovered. >> are you presenting an opinion that that growth in the bone could have grown for two weeks in december? >> i would suspect so. >> it's also possible it was there for a great deal longer than two weeks? >> yes. >> prosecutors are looking into information regarding an inmate who was incarcerated with anthony. prosecutors us suspect if casey anthony stole her defense from that inmate who's daughter drowned in a swimming pool. >>> if you are looking for a job, you may be in luck. the industry that is expected to see a huge hiring boom i

think this kind of information would be subject to federal government agencies like the department of homeland security and water that would have an effect on the some of the large population of middle eastern drivers in our industry, whether or not they would be tracked with the electronic tracking technology just for being, for example, muslim here. thank you very much. [applause] [reading names] >> i am a yellow cab driver. i would suggest all the regulations to be exposed should be discussed with a cabdriver as well and in a good manner. they have already informed -- we are not slaves. we would request you keep our information safe. our electronic waybill is not to be sold. the health matter, we have to look after the health batter. we don't know is the devices -- we want to understand everything before we install. the meter increase is very important right now because the economy and the market level and enterprise level which has gone up so high, i hope we can come to a conclusion. thank you. [applause] >> i've been 25 years as a cabdriver and medallion holder. she has said there are some fundame

makes sense to see us in competition with the department of justice, but rather to admit the department of justice and the department of homeland security into a satisfactory arrangement that maximizes our joint approach to the threat of border security. thatthe challenges to security posed by corruption. >> both of you are committed to working together and getting this done. that goes a long way. i appreciate secretary napolitano and her leadership on this. i know she is concerned and she knows i am concern. we need to get this done as quickly as possible. it will do nothing but be a good thing for the country. let me ask a few more questions. mr. bersin, let me start with you. on the current status of the new hires receiving polygraphs. my understanding is that you are not yet at 100% on the new hires. when will you get to 100%? >> we have polygraphed 22% of the applicants. we are currently implementing a business plan that would move us from 35 polygrapher to 52 so that we can meet the january 13 requirements set forth in the anti-corruption act. we have solicited help from other federal agencies in terms of providing polygraphers to

the department of homeland security will help avoid problems that let hackers exploit websites. the effort came about before this round of cyber attacks on sony, citigroup and the cia. microsoft is setting up an office in the clouds launching a cloud-based version of its office software. it's office 365 and has all of the applications. it will be available on line in formats from any device. trying to confront google who has stolen a small percentage of business customers with keeper web-based alternatives so companies don't have to spend time, you know more about technology, installing all of the software. >> the mcgrews moved to google docs as well. making the updates is expensive. yeah. google docs. >> good to see you. >> thank you much. every time you get a new cell phone you think you're buying the best and the fastest. every time -- by the time you figure out how to use it the companies are promoting something better and faster. how can you tell which phone is the latest and greatest? we sent scott budman to find out. >> reporter: he's on it. she's on it. we're all on our c

. >>> the department of homeland security plans to unveil new software security guidelines today aimed at preventing design flaws that led to hacking. >>> and first, it was a facebook page, and now the vatican is ready to leap further into the world of new media with this week's launch of new websites for all the latest pope-related news and information. >>> well, tony stewart and brian vickers put on a show in nascar. plus the phillies' roy halladay adds another ten-win season to his already impressive resume. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> and the weather story of the week is going to be the incredible heat from texas to the desert southwest. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> very good morning to you. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, the l.a. dodgers rallied in the ninth against the angels, but it was a crushable play that stole the freeway series spotlight. here's nbc's mario solis with an early look at all your sports headlines. >> good morning. to say it's been a rough year for the l.a. dodgers wo

police there are teaming up with the department of homeland security to tackle the problem. two immigration agents will help to identify and dismantle the criminal gangs who have taken over the streets in parts of downtown san jose. >> my kids have seen people dealing drugs around here. it is awful. we have seen gang fights. we have come home and seen people laying in front of our driveway. it is awful. >> it is a myriad of strategies, and really the ultimate goal is to protect the community and protect the public and try and remove those folks from the community that are there to exploit people and commit crimes. >> this new partnership comes as san jose faces 27 murders so far this year. 14 are gang-related. by comparison, just six gang-related homicides in just last year. >>> there is outrage in the fruit veil district. the judge's approval of a controversial gang injunction. it bans five men, the city says, that are nor tane yo -- norteno gang members from east oakland. they can't gather in the 450 square blocks covered by the ruling. it imposes a curfew between 10:00 p.m

of bypassing a voter approval. >>> san jose's police department is getting help from the feds in fighting gang violence. today, the police chief announced two agents from the department of homeland security will be joining san jose's gang task force. tell exactly from immigration and customs enforcement. the police say they will not participate in deportation and focus strikely on stopping gangs. >>> new at 7:00. more than 100 people are awaiting to find out if they will be offered a job at the newest grocery stores, fresh and easy is hiring up to 30 people for the new store on 3rd street in the bay view neighborhood. the company held a job fair at the opera house, applicants filled out applications and made their best pitch. the store is scheduled to open in august. >> i am glad they are opening up this store and giving people in the neighborhood a chance to have a job. >> the company spokeswoman says they expect to make their decision as soon as possible. many of the applicants we spoke to praised fresh and easy for providing a new option to shop for healthy food in their neighborhood. >>> new concerns about the debt crisis in europe sent wall street lower today. the dow dropped 115 po

couldn't imagine happening on american soil she has since filed a complaint with the department of homeland security so we all feel safer now that ninety five year olds died of cancer after being humiliated before they board an airplane that's very really. after the break i'll tell you why the iowa energy forum is not what they say. it's. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here in the uk. i think on the beat of one well. we never got that that says stupid can you say get ready because their freedom. you know sometimes you see the story and the scene so. you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realize that everything you saw. i'm sorry is a big. anywhere of the big oil front groups the american petroleum institute which is made up of all the big wigs of the oil industry like exxon mobil b.p. chevron they're up to something in iowa where a handful of republican candidates for president are campaigning right now as investigative reporter relief fund in progress has uncovered it merican petroleum institute has created an astr

the fbi and the department of homeland security say while there's no specific or credible terror threats, travelers and people attending large-scale celebrations are still warned to be diligent about the possibility. >>> high-level white house meetings did little to move debt talks forward. republican leaders are flatly refusing to consider raising taxes.s. but the administration remains hopeful that a significant deal can be reached. >>> and disturbing, new details are emerging about tucson shooting suspect, jared laufer in and his behavior behind bars. and the woman that laugher in is accused of shooting made her first appearance in a crowd since the attack. congresswomama gabby giffords, accompanied her husband, mark kelly, to an awards ceremony last night. giffords arrived in a wheelchair. and stood up and hugged kelly when he received his award. big night for both of them. >>> not such a warm and fuzzy feeling for part of the nation's weather. showers and thunderstorms in the east coast. the heaviest downpours in the carolinas and georgia. drenching rain spreads into mississippi. sc

in your opinion do you think the department of homeland security is doing all that it showed to deny terrorist safe havens to today? -- thank you for the question, mr. congressman. there's an enormous amount that can be done with the department of state and defense. there was always more to do, and i think it becomes a question of leadership in partnership with congressmen and the departments of state and defense to determine whether the priorities, direct resources and to command nimble so always to be prepared to shift from resources as the circumstances warrant. >> in your testimony you said you do work closely with the departments of state in your offense to be cut defense what has the state department coordinated efforts with dhs personnel overseas? >> i think -- thank you for your question. i think we cooperate very closely on the ground of the embassy's overseas typical of the personal, i.c.e., tsa and others are part of the country team and partner with the of the members of the country team with the department of justice, department of defense and others who are in the law en

evolving threats, one of the implications is to recognize that even when you have the department of homeland security have the third largest international footprint the bandied federal department. i have travelled to 20 countries, several of them multiple times. what we do need to do is recognize that with the ever evolving nature of the threats confronting us, we have to get away place where every part of our society is cognizant of the kinds of threats that are out there and empowered to take common sense steps to help counter that. how do we do that? first of all, we tried to reduce some of what i have just spoken about to a short phrase. the short phrase i want you to walkout of here with, and this is the first one, homeland's security begins with hometown security. all of us are now stakeholders in the effort to keep families and communities, our businesses, our social networks, secured and a resilient. what does that mean? we have to have a distributed sense about security. how does that take a fact? what are some of the indicators? there are four key parts. we now have 72 fusion centers throug

certainly with our diplomats and the members of other inner agency elements such it is a treasury department, state department, department of homeland security who also play very important roles in the fight against extremism. . at the highest point and in afghanistan where we have some 2,000 or so. those techniques that are judged to be humane. s each of those commands conducted by some of our special operations forces. they have been judged by a gold standard at that interer national organization. those techniques do work. we do gain very important. it's very rare they don't elicit information we are after in these cases. i strongly support the continued exercise noting that the cia does not do interrogations or hold detainees. also, i would submit to this body and to policy makers that there may be consideration of a special case. i do think there is a need to address the possibility. you have the individual in your hands you know placed the nuclear device in the empire state building and he knows the code to set it off. something more than the normal technique employed in such a case. i would submit that would be helpful if that kind of

department of homeland security is reportedly trying out new technology that may identify a terrorist before a crime is even committed think pre-crime minority report style of the program is called the future attribute screening technology or fast and the h.s. has been conducting tests for several months at an undisclosed location in the northeast u.s. according to nature dot com the technology uses remote sensors to measure a person's heart rate and their eye movement and it uses that data to determine their mindset so essentially they're saying that they can sense if they're going to commit some sort of crime so we've actually come to the time in our surveillance obsessed nation where did chess' watching distopian tom cruise movies for ideas. for our guards. or. to. serve more troops to place here for six. hours. so let me give you a few more details the thing is kind of like a polygraph but also measures your heart rate and steadiness of gaze as you're walking through that terminal and that's just great because i know i get a little bit nervous when i go through that old porno scan

they're teeming wupt department of homeland security and two agents will help attack and dismantle criminal street gangs. >> it's frankly a mirror yid of strategies. the goal is to protect the community and the public in trying to remove those folks from this community that are there to commit crimes. >> the partnership as san jose faces 27 murders so far this year. 14 of them gang related compared to six gang related homicides in all of last year. >> and we can't sit on those tables in there. because we're afraid to get shot or killed. >> the ice agents are offering free federal help when police department is facing historic layoffs because of the budget crisis. the police chief says the agents are not interested in peoples' immigration status. >> they're working on criminal investigation autos some critics of the partnership says the move erodes trust police were just beginning to rebuild in many communities. >> these people have articulated they're deep abiding concerns about the police cooperation with federal agents when it kim comes to immigration to. bring them into that situation to

i am charles edwards, acting inspector general for the department of homeland security. k you for inviting me today to testify about the role of the effort to eliminate corruption in thus cdp workforce at securing the nation's borders. the smuggling of people and goods across the nation's porter is a large scale business dominated by organized criminal enterprises. the mexican drug cartels today are more sophisticated and dangerous than any other organized criminal groups. these torture and brutality to control their members and intimidate or eliminated those who may be witnesses or informants to devotees. the drug trapping or additions also turn to corrupting the dhs employees. border corruption and pact national security. the corrupt employee may accept a bribe for lobbying what appears to be undocumented aliens into the u.s. while unwittingly helping the terrorists into the country likewise what seems to be drug contraband with the weapons of mass destruction such as chemical or biological weapons. oig has made the investigation of corruption a top priority. in accorda

department of defense is not in the lead for energy security in the united states. for the federal government, that's my colleagues at the department of energy, department of homeland security, department of defense is in support of them. but let me emphasize the department of defense cannot execute its core missions in service of this nation unless we have a secure flow of commercial electric power. and that's for a simple reason. the department of defense depends for its energy, 99% on the commercial sector. we don't own the commercial sector. we never will. we have no regulatory authority over it. but we're utterly dependent on the flow of that commercial power. let me talk a little bit about why that's the case. in the modern way of warfare, since 9/11, our forces deployed abroad fighting in afghanistan and iraq, operating elsewhere, depend to an increasing extent on military facilities back here in the united states, to conduct and support those operations, to generate, deploy, and operate forces abroad, we depend on military facilities and the state's represented here today. and if there's an interruption in the flow of commercial power to those facilities, fo