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dhs would define these through a process.e the lead in performance standards and identified cyber security risks and to help create cyber security frameworks. there will be a strong incentive. the entities will want to know their approach has been approved in developing a framework unless industry fails to act. the plans love to be signed off on -- the plants will have to be signed off on. the plans. this encourages innovation as well as improving adherence to best practice by facilitating greater transparency. the main goal is to create a culture in which cyber security is part of everyday practice. the administration seeks to provide services that offer better security to government agencies and businesses. proposing to prevent states from requiring -- the proposal clarify the roles and responsibilities for setting security standards. the secretary of commerce will remain th-- dhs -- our working partnerships will be essential to ensure agencies receive information security requirements that are developed with the appropriat

the other thing i'm hame about is the team we built at dhs. the fact that going back into the prior administration, at one point three years ago, dhs had about 30 people, 30-40 people working in cybersecurity. we're up to about 260 now, and we'll be growing towards 400 by the end of fy12. we have built a significant team with significant capabilities that brings a lot to the table, some significant expertise and can leverage other sources of expertise in government including dod, the department of commerce, and the department of justice. the people piece that we have built both across government and with the private sector and within dhs is the thing i'm the most proud you have because i believe that organizations and entities succeed or fail based on the people, and so that's what is most important to me, sir. >> maybe in the category of incomplete, what are major to-do's out there for who succeeds you and the rest of us? >> sir, there are e numerable to-do's. it's an old saw, but a true one to say cybersecurity is a journey and not a destina

despite a lot of congressional effort and dhs effort, we still lack an exit system that will effectively figure out people who have overstayed their visas in real time. the dhs program that is supposed to identify visa overstays based on visitor entry and exit information, it remains a troubled and ineffective program. officials of your department have told the committee that less than half of all potential overstays identified by matching entry and exit records, in geo has just released a report that they have an overall backlog of 1.6 million potential overstay records that have not yet been processed. i am sure part of this is we have not given you the support to do that, but it is a real problem.

despite a lot of congressional effort and dhs effort, we still lack an exit system that will effectively figure out people who have overstayed their visas in real time. the dhs program that is supposed to identify visa overstays based on visitor entry and exit information, it remains a troubled and ineffective program. officials of your department have told the committee that less than half of all potential overstays identified by matching entry and exit records, in geo has just released a report that they have an overall backlog of 1.6 million potential overstay records that have not yet been processed. i am sure part of this is we have not given you the support to do that, but it is a real problem. identifying individuals who have overstayed is a crucial

they'll have to do a pivot and dhs will have to get ready and raise dhs to the highest alert level because as alan was saying, you really in the next week or two have a high risk of terrorist incompetent incidents in this country. al qaeda will be looking. there will be extremists looking for their opportunity.i so they'll have to pivot and turn on a dime. >> let me circle back to something we spoke about earlier which is why the obama administration and his national security team really are putting the pressure on the cia to try to get osama bin laden bin now more than ever. this has to do with what could happen there in that region when we pull our troops out. >> that's right. while we're in the phase of pulling troops out of afghanistan the last thing in the world this country needs, the last thing in the world this administration wants is the return of osama bin laden bin and making it look like, you know, another vietnam mistake that we spent blood and treasure only to get right back to where we were when we started and having accomplished very little or nothing. you never underestima

my first point explains how dhs works. that end, dhs is nearly 400 employees in europe working daily with government, the travel public, the aviation industry, cargo shippers and others. it is dhs's goal to expedite legitimate travel and trade, both of which are critical to the u.s. economy, while preventing the flow of illicit goods and people and lessening illegal activity. much of this activity takes place at the operations level, combatting human and drug trafficking, screening u.s. bound maritime cargo containers, assessing airports and air carriers, conducting passenger screening and forcing u.s. customs and immigration regulations and investigating cybercrimes. on my second point, terrorist travel represents one of the greatest threats to european and u.s. security, and therefore, attention and disruption are key goals. every week there are 2500 flights between europe and the u.s. they share passenger data and share information with our european partners in order to identify both known and unknown potential terroris

my first point explains how dhs works. to that end, dhs is nearly 400 employees in europe working daily with government, the travel public, the aviation industry, cargo shippers and others. it is dhs's goal to expedite legitimate travel and trade, both of which are critical to the u.s. economy, while preventing the flow of illicit goods and people and lessening illegal activity. much of this activity takes place at the operations level, combatting human and drug trafficking, screening u.s. bound maritime cargo containers, assessing airports and air carriers, conducting passenger screening and forcing u.s. customs and immigration regulations and investigating cybercrimes. on my second point, terrorist travel represents one of the greatest threats to european and u.s. security, and therefore, attention and disruption are key goals. every week there are 2500 flights between europe and the u.s. they share passenger data and share information with our european partners in order to identify both known and unknown potential terro

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dhs.t: it sounds like a lot of arms, especially for this one aspect of infrastructure. . guest: this brings up an interesting phenomenon. 100% is a number i got this with every day i was in office. is is a difficult challenge. i knew every day that i could not stop 100% of the adversary might throw at us. public expectation might be a little bit different. perhaps they would want us to attempt to do that. i started thinking carefully and closely about the number 100. i said, let's use that against our adversary. a terrorist will most likely not attack a target if he or she is not 100% sure of achieving his or her objectives. what you're looking at in mass transit in the united states is doing enough things in combination, series, in sequence, some random, some not, so that you throw the terrorist operative -- that he or she is not sure of the environment. if there is something random, in extra dog patrol, extra manpower, an extra piece of technology. it is continuing to work on the psychol

dhs has a number of programs to address the threat. under the immigration program, dhs post officers at foreign airports to work with airlines and foreign officials to identify high risk and improperly documented travelers before boarding aircraft for the u.s.. another example is dhs collection and analysis of passenger name record. in recent years, pnr data is pivotal in cracking cases of mumbai plotter, new york city bomb plotter, and time square bomber fizal shahzad. we just passed the one year anniversary with bin laden's demise. there's ties to terrorism were officially identified through the analysis of pnr. presently, we're negotiating a new agreement with the e.u. to avoid the potential conflict with the european privacy law. dhs is not negotiating for the collection of pnr required by u.s. law, but to ensure a stable and legal environment under which it is transferred. our goal is to improve security while reassuring our allies of the commitment to protect individual privacy. we have held six negotiating sessions and hope to c

and it is the support from dhs and tsa that enables us to build these security projects forward. as for passenger screenings, from the beginning was clear the post-9/11 ciccone measures developed in our airports would not work in the subway systems in america. artist dave rapid transit and if we lose its rapidly ceased to serve customers in the region. although bart is a fairly new system or infrastructure was not designed to accommodate the equipment required to screen large numbers of passengers and current technology cannot process large numbers of passengers quickly enough for the mass transit environment. further proof of the success brought to bart by dhs and tsa are the following projects and programs. financial support for major capital projects to harden barred critical infrastructure, tsa explosive k-9, operational funding for critical asset patrol team assigned to her critical asset corridor, training for barts frontline employees on terrorism awareness and identification, viper teams to patrol critical assets and special events, real safe linking transit agencies acro

they are the dhs as part of the chicago police department transportation section. they are paired with handlers to detect explosives and or used to respond to replete suspicious items. they are trained to find and provide test explosive devices and used by trains, buses, platforms and stations. the funding has allowed the cta to leverage technology to enhance security but the human element is still critical. training for employees and the writers to be as part of a security presence is always an important part of our efforts. we've launched a nationwide ct security awareness program called transit watch which encourages passengers and employees to support anything dangerous. the see something say something campion a similar to the transit watch and provides information and instructions on the transit passengers and employees so they know what to do and who to contact. the campaign was borrowed in 2002 and encourages the writers to report any suspicious activity the observed. in addition the cta participated and continues to proceed in training a number of scenarios

when it was time to go back to dhs -- i decided i needed to be more engaged in the public debate. there's some things you cannot do as a public servant that you can do on the outside. that's how i ended up at the immigration policy center. we're all about trying to provide the kind of facts and information that helped shape the debate in the way that it supports the idea that immigration is important to america. we are part of the american immigration council, formally known as the american immigration law foundation. we work very closely with lawyers, including one of the sponsors of tonight's events. when i talk about compehensive immigration reform to people, i often like to move away from the movie analogy to the game analogy. think about it as a rubik's cube. if you get one side right, it probably means the other sites are screwed up. you cannot think about immigration as the one issue. there are so many that interact with each other. we often focus on legalization because it's such an overwhelming issue in many ways. we have so many people that are here without the appropria

my first point explains how dhs works. to that end, dhs is nearly 400 employees in europe working daily with government, the travel public, the aviation industry, cargo shippers and others. it is dhs's goal to expedite legitimate travel and trade, both of which are critical to the u.s. economy, while preventing the flow of illicit goods and people and lessening illegal activity. much of this activity takes place at the operations level, combatting human and drug trafficking, screening u.s. bound maritime cargo containers, assessing airports and air carriers, conducting passenger screening and forcing u.s. customs and immigration regulations and investigating cybercrimes. on my second point, terrorist travel represents one of the greatest threats to european and u.s. security, and therefore, attention and disruption are key goals. every week there are 2500 flights between europe and the u.s. they share passenger data and share information with our european partners in order to identify both known and unknown potential terro

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it may be occurring to them now dhs has to be alerted and ready all over the country. they may want time to coordinate this before going on the air. >> we're just hearing now fox news reporting the president is putting the finishing touches on his speech on how he's going to present this to the american people, which is what the holdup has been. for those of you joining us, we've been expecting president obama to talk about the death of osama bin laden bin now this evening in a rare speech to the american people from the east room of white house, that osama bin laden bin after 10 years has been captured. it's enclear where he was found, how he was killed but word tonight is osama bin laden bin is dead, the president expected to speak any moment tonight. >> jack was right. they are trying to make sure this message is on point tonight. >> alan, you would probably suggest it's beyond just delivering the news to the american public because by anyone anyone who is near their tv is has heard the news and on the internet as well. really part of the message has to be about hom

the coast guard is under dhs. the conversation will depend on a particular job. in the immigration context, concerns often arrive as to whether racial profiling or ethnic profiling is part of -- is going on when it comes to determining which were placed to raid or how immigration enforcement is being drafted and enforced. the office for civil rights will make sure there isn't ethnicity, gender, are not the basis for drafting immigration enforcement strategy. that is based on immigration law. another context is bordered seizures and question. right now, there have been some concerns expressed that when american citizens are coming through the border from out of the country, they are being asked how often they pray. they are asked which mosque they go to. so the role of the office is to ensure that that is not happening. and if it is, to promulgate policies that prohibit that. that exposes the agency to litigation. host: for those that were being interviewed, is this a random type of selection? was it because there was a name on a less? -- on a list? guest: there h

we have a very strong partnership with dhs and tsa. my vice president for security, chief of police, has an almost daily conversation with tsa staff in terms of what we can work together to do. security grants since 2005 total almost $200 million we have used those for infrastructure protection, for bridges and for example to expand our k-9 program. are k-9 program has grown from about 23 animals and handlers to 47 today. we believe that we are probably the best in the united states with both vapor weight dogs and determining or detecting ied explosives. even one of our recent competitions, our dogs and team handlers came in first, third and forth across the country in terms of our ability. we have the ability to train and we do every single day to stay at a high level of readiness with those animals and with their handlers. we have increased their patrols. we have had a public outreach program and worked diligently with dhs and the secretary on see something, say something. we have a real safe program which really is a multistate and

again, i understand the -- dhs took about a 20% cut.ss the board for all of us and instead of whacking out various cities. >> the department of homeland security says louisiana gets other grants for port security. it said security, and it said money eliminated to cities is the result of congress's $780 million budget cuts, adding, "the highest risk cities in our country continue to face the most significant threats, and consistent with the recommendations from the 9/11 commission the fiscal year 2011 homeland security grants focus the limited resource that's were appropriated to mitigating and responding to these evolving threats. that means new york, washington, d.c., los angeles, and other major cities will keep their grant money. smaller cities like buffalo, right across the border from canada. salt lake city and indianapolis will not. republican congressman peter king, chairman of the homeland security committee, agrees with the dhs, saying main terror targets need the funds. >> i see all the analyses. i see all the threats. and cle

we have a very strong partnership with dhs and tsa. my vice president for security, chief of police, has an almost daily conversation with tsa staff in terms of what we can work together to do. security grants since 2005 total almost $200 million we have used those for infrastructure protection, for bridges and for example to expand our k-9 program. are k-9 program has grown from about 23 animals and handlers to 47 today. we believe that we are probably the best in the united states with both vapor weight dogs and determining or detecting ied explosives. even one of our recent competitions, our dogs and team handlers came in first, third and forth across the country in terms of our ability. we have the ability to train and we do every single day to stay at a high level of readiness with those animals and with their handlers. we have increased their patrols. we have had a public outreach program and worked diligently with dhs and the secretary on see something, say something. we have a real safe program which really is a multistate and

what are the positive benefits for the state if dhs were to make administrative changes? is that the best action that the white house could take as at this juncture? >> i have made the same plea to justice not the sue arizona when -- and i had substantially less grounds than mark does. they have learned from the precedent. they've tried to thread the needle. whether they have done it perfectly or not, i don't know. the bottom line is we have a crisis. we have, i hope it's clear, a group of people who want to send a message to washington. want to see something happen. it's true. tamar said in arizona, you might not think this, we have the same breakdown, people are for 1070 for reform, two concepts you probably can't comfortably hold in the same pot. that's how people feel, nonetheless. they're very frustrated. both with the attempts to reform the visa system. and with what's perceived as other federal failures. what i would say is, absent a congressional action, which would be a nice thing right now, and if we could work together in a bipartisan way to make that happen, t

it was in this report that the gao quotes dhs as reporting that the terrorist threat of the northernrder is hired giving -- given the broad expanse of area with limited law- enforcement present. the gao also went on to say that dhs reports networks of illicit criminal activity between the two countries. the vast majority of trade and travel between the u.s. and canada obviously is legitimate. we do not want to impede that legitimate travel and trade, but that is one reason i am such a reporter of the operation stone garden. it allows for joint operations that are a multiplier for the federal government as well as helping state, county, and local law enforcement. i truly do not understand in light of d.h.s. own assessment that the terrorist threat is higher on the northern border and that there is significant criminal activity. why is the administration year after year trying to restrict operation style garden to just the southern border? >> if i might discuss the measures that are ongoing at the northern border that are not captured in the december gao report. the northern border is

the dhs program that is supposed to identify visa overstays based on visitor entry and exit information, it remains a troubled and ineffective program. officials of your department have told the committee that less than half of all potential overstays identified by matching entry and exit records, in geo has just released a report that they have an overall backlog of 1.6 million potential overstay records that have not yet been processed. i am sure part of this is we have not given you the support to do that, but it is a real problem. identifying individuals who have overstayed is a crucial component to our security, our borders, and making our immigration system credible and real to the law. to me, it is unacceptable that we are still unable to systematically identify people who have overstayed, so i hope you will be able to talk about that and what the department is doing about it in your testimony. one final point, and in the midst of everything else we have to do here, i hope will be able to discuss this. as we began a series of hearings on border security, by at least have the goal

. >> and we've got to figure out a way to get information that is sufficient to give tsa and dhs the sense that the people that we are doing minimal screening on, represent the least threat to focus our attention, our resources on those individuals who we know could represent a threat. trusted traveler programs. advanced information. better data. better systems. better sharing of information is a critical piece of this. we have to address the legislation. the legislative issue, as you pointed out. i think, you know in terms of that report, there are many, most of that report i would be in total -- now, the problem is how do you bring that report and the information in that report to fruition and put this in the hands of the men and women who are on the front lines? and you know, i've heard people say, you know, how can disney keep people standing in line for three hours, with a smile on their face, waiting to go into space mountain? well, those people in that line, for three hours, are not going to be faced with searching their personal belongings and i don't think there is any conce

according to the dhs bulletin they envisioned sabotages a railw railway.y didn't say whether there were further plans. no bull horn or speeches. president obama spent the day in new york to lay a wreath at the ground zero site and to honor those who lost their lives there. vicky nguyen has more on this emotional but low-key visit. >> reporter: president bahama with former new york mayor rudy guiliani first went to the firehouse hit hardest on 9/11, engine 54 lost 15 men. >> whether we say we will never forget, we mean what we say. >> reporter: the president never said osama bin laden bud praised the s.e.a.l.s who got them. >> they were doing it in part in the name of your brothers lost. >> reporter: christopher was kimmed in the collapse on 9/11. his mom and dad invited today to join the president. >> he acted as the commander in chief, and i'm very proud to be an american and he did the right thing. >> obviously, he paid close attention and he made a decision that could have cost him seriously if it did not work out. >> reporter: the president stopped at

. >>> david pryce one of the best pitchers in the american league but thanks to the dh i bet you didn'tn trot in baseball. look at him go. with interleague play we can only hope he gets deep in an actual game and bust out a routine when it comes. >>> washington high school baseball team will take on balboa for the city title. if the eagles come out on top we may have to rename 30 second avenue title town. >> always had a winning feeling around here. we want to continue and make everyone proud. >> reporter: t th is was the scene in november when the washington football team blew out balboa to win the turkey game. then in march the eagles won the basketball crown for the first time in 29 years. now it is up to baseball to complete the triple crown. a fete that has not been accomplished in the league's 87- year history. >> around the school everyone is talking about it and the teachers are into it. everyone wants the triple crown. so it will be something special if we can get it. >> always talking about it. we know we are capable of doing it. definitely makes it more fun knowing that and g

homeland security and dhs have urged local police departments to be on extra vigilance and many haveone so on their own. we saw it first in new york city and seeing it in philadelphia and here in washington, police at subway stations and on trains and around sensitive sights in the financial districts and anything where they think that could be targets of opportunity or iconic targets that somebody might want to try to attack. the threat, of course, the current threat that the country has faced, if you look at the attacks in the country, thomas, for the last couple of years, it has not been inspired by bin laden or even directed by al qaeda, the traditional al qaeda that has been hiding out in pakistan. the bigger threat is thought to be the al qaeda group in yemen who does not take orders from bin laden or the taliban in northern pakistan who apparently has something to do with the threat that we were chasing a year ago which is the attempt to set off a car bomb in times square, so that the professionals in the field don't expect that in the short run in the immediate term that the

. >> no one really knows what will happen now, but the fbi and dhs today issued the intelligence bulletin putting law enforcement agencies across the country on alert and even issuing a warning on a global scale. >> we must take this opportunity to renew our resolve and redouble our efforts. >> secretary of state is hillary clinton warned bin laden's death does not end the war on terror. >> in afghanistan we will continue taking the fight to al qaeda and their taliban allies. >> some intelligence officials believe bin laden's death is a major blow to al qaeda saying the group will have a hard time recovering. michael ohanlon of the brookings institute argued the global organization has shown resilience and said al qaeda and affiliates could use osama bin laden bin's death as an excuse to speed up plans for an attack. >> that's entirely possible to try to satisfy their emotional desire for revenge or try to intimidate us into not going after the no. 2, al-zawahiri. >> following bin laden's death messages have been posted on websites claiming revenge saying anyone that thinks jihad has ende

so, tom, what do you know about the dhs warnings or alerts, intelligence alerts that are out there. homeland security authorities are telling us at nbc news that there is no reason to believe that there is an imminent attack. deep in mind that the terror alert changed in the last couple of mothers you may recall that we have the color-coded system and you have orange whenever you're at the airport. the laid oat pa says we're at orange. that's been done away with. they felt that it was just too confusing so they're now three levels and nothing which is where we are right now, elevated and something that they believe is imminent, something that may happen immediately. we are still at nothing. in other words, there is tow no reason for us to believe anything will happen any time soon. you may have freelancers out there or people that feel inspired or that they may need to take retribution or that they may act. >> will we not see security changed, but know that it's happening anyway? >> that is entirely possible. what you are likely to see at airports around the country is an elevated p

we have not heard anything yet from the department of homeland security but a former dhs official tells me that they have had plans on the shelf for some time that they could pull off in the event of bin laden's death that would involve heightened protection around transportation hubs and the like. this official stresses that this is not about protective measures, that there is going to be a big step up in intelligence and intelligence gathering. bin laden he points out has had ten years to prepare for this eventuality and there's been some belief in the u.s. government that he may have deployed people here, may have sleeper cells in position here in the united states who would on his death be triggered into action. so you can imagine that the intelligence community is going to be looking very hard at people already on their radar and they will be looking additionally for others. the big concern that these may be lone wolf guess, much harder to detect than people who are working in groups. another thing that has been pointed out to me is the question of succession. what happens now? as

making the carter examines the way the dhs test for airline security. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> next, prime minister's questions from the british house of commons. one year after forming a coalition year met with the liberal democrats, british prime mr david cameron defended his government's position on reforming the national health service and reducing the debt. members also asked the prime mr. questions on cyber security, support for military families, and cuts for monday emergency services. this is just

and he rattled off a collection of agencies, cia, dhs, fbi, national terrorism center, et cetera, thatng together to comb through this material. and to answer your question, yes, they are going to release those videos at the end of this briefing in the next half hour or so. >> was it explained -- the real strategy here of why to release this video? is this to show the world that this is the closest thing we can show you to the guy that we just targeted, the man that we just killed is indeed that of osama bin laden? this is his cache? or does it have more to do with trying to intimidate or weaken the al qaeda network as a result of the leader of that network being killed? >> i think that there are a variety of things going on. i think they want to rattle the situation of other senior al qaeda leaders and say, we have information, we're taking action on it. they want to say to the world, this was unquestionably osama bin laden. not only do we have all these materials, but they gave new details of how they identified him using facial recognition procedures and dna. and then he had one ama

it was in this report that the gao quotes dhs as reporting that the terrorist threat of the northern border is hired giving -- given the broad expanse of area with limited law- enforcement present. the gao also went on to say that dhs reports networks of illicit criminal activity between the two countries. the vast majority of trade and travel between the u.s. and canada obviously is legitimate. we do not want to impede that legitimate travel and trade, but that is one reason i am such a reporter of the operation stone garden. it allows for joint operations that are a multiplier for the federal government as well as helping state, county, and local law enforcement. i truly do not understand in light of d.h.s. own assessment that the terrorist threat is higher on the northern border and that there is significant criminal activity. why is the administration year after year trying to restrict operation style garden to just the southern border? >> if i might discuss the measures that are ongoing at the northern border that are not captured in the december gao report. the northern border

>> we have a very strong partnership with dhs and tsa. vice-president for security and chief of police had a daily conversation with tsa staff. security grants total almost $200 million and we have used those for infrastructure protection and also to expand our k9 program. it has grown from about 23 animals and handlers to about 47 today and we believe that we are the best in the united states. even one of our recent competitions, our dogs and team handlers came in first, third, and forth across the country in terms of our ability. we have the ability to train and we do every single day tuesday at a high level of readiness. -- every day to estate at a higher level of readiness. we have had a public outreach program and have worked diligently with dhs and the secretary. see something, say something. it is an effort to immediately mobilized and provide assistance from all the community resources that are available for security and enforcement and we have been able to demonstrate being able to set that up in a very short period of time. we a

guest: dhs really likes the dogs. they consider them a real asset, and there has been more money going into them, canine teams. there hasn't really been a steady, and congress is always criticizing tsa and other agencies for this. can my explosives detectors find something better than a dog? but the dogs are considered extremely reliable, and they're putting more money into them. host: do we know how many dogs approximately? guest: i think there is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 dogs now at dhs. that is just a blind guess. host: 4 lauderdale, florida. republican line. caller: i am a frequent-flier. i travel for business, and one of the things i have noticed is that a lot of articles speak about the ineffectiveness of the tsa as it relates to private security firms. an article that i read mentions that private security firms and the tsa are not very effective at finding the exact things they are there to detect. it seems awfully odd that if you have all this money going into an agency whose purpose is to find an

the dhs program that is supposed to identify visa overstays based on visitor entry and exit informationit remains a troubled and ineffective program. officials of your department have told the committee that less than half of all potential overstays identified by matching entry and exit records, in geo has just released a report that they have an overall backlog of 1.6 million potential overstay records that have not yet been processed. i am sure part of this is we have not given you the support to do that, but it is a real problem. identifying individuals who have overstayed is a crucial component to our security, our borders, and making our immigration system credible and real to the law. to me, it is unacceptable that we are still unable to systematically identify people who have overstayed, so i hope you will be able to talk about that and what the department is doing about it in your testimony. one final point, and in the midst of everything else we have to do here, i hope will be able to discuss this. as we began a series of hearings on border security, by at least have the goal o

for instance the dhs is trying to interact with state and local law enforcement, literally hundreds of thousands of people. they're obviously interacting with the leadership, but potentially a mighty force of gatherers of intelligence, if you can do this well and we are still feeling our way. i don't have anymore questions. i want to thank the three of you. has been a very valuable session for us. it really brought to bear the quite remarkable and long experience you have all had. you know, we are going to continue these hearings and stepped-up and decide whether we think there is any legislation proposed in a session of congress to better achieve the purposes for which the original legislation was adopted or whether this is a matter where we ought to just agree on a report or even, in part public and impart maybe just to meet with some of the key players and say hey we have taken a look at this, and here is what we really think based on a what we agree you ought to be focused on now. doesn't require a new law but it does require attention and coordination. with that i thank you. the r

host: what's the relationship between dhs and state and local entities? guest: mostly, across the country, we now have a homeland security effort of the state and local level across the united states. there are people designated with the critical infrastructure and protection portfolio. we have a connection between the policy, plans come in programs at the federal level and the state and local government level. state and local is tied to the federal grant process. host: not only are they trained, but they also receive money. guest: yes, and the homeland security grant programs are ones that i more or less controlled. it's targeted at high risk facilities and making sure there are state and local law enforcement and first responder communities tied into the emergency response plans of certain specific target sites we are really worried about. there's a component in the federal grant program that take critical infrastructure presence in a jurisdiction into account in terms of how much money is allocated to that particular jurisdiction from the various homel

for instance the dhs is trying to interact with state and local law enforcement, literally hundreds of thousands of people. they're obviously interacting with the leadership, but potentially a mighty force of gatherers of intelligence, if you can do this well and we are still feeling our way. i don't have anymore questions. i want to thank the three of you. has been a very valuable session for us. it really brought to bear the quite remarkable and long experience you have all had. you know, we are going to continue these hearings and stepped-up and decide wheher we think there is any legislation proposed in a session of congress to better achieve the purposes for which the original legislation was adopted or whether this is a matter where we ought to just agree on a report or even, in part public and impart maybe just to meet with some of the key players and say hey we have taken a look at this, and here is what we really think based ona what we agree you ought to be focused on now. doesn't require a new law but it es require attention and coordination. with that i thank you. the recor

department of homeland security issued a statement on the security breach at lockheed martin saying dhsof the incident and together with the department of defense it has been in contact with the company to offer assistance in determining the extent of the incident performing analysis of available data in order to provide recommendations to mitigate further risk. so this is a huge concern. a lot of people, experts have pointed out that the united states is still quite vulnerable in this area, candy. >> enough to make you want to go back to the phones and a memo. >> the old-fashion way, huh? >> thanks, lisa. >>> hackers are not the only ones that want to see what you've been up to on the web. increasingly, law enforcement agencies are looking for clues on the internet to help them solve crimes. dan simon tells us the law is not very clear on what they can and cannot do. >> reporter: facebook allows users at any time to adjust privacy settings. you can make your photos and personal information available to only friends instead of everyone. but that doesn't guarantee that it will always be

as a vital component of dhs we want to support the department's mission to safeguard cyberspace.ith great understand of how the criminal world operates the secret service had to the strategy that had a tremendous impact in terms of disrupting and hispanic underground network. we use this knowledge of criminal networks to adopt our response to the challenges posed by financial crimes in the 21st century. breaking up is criminal networks requires a highly court made law enforcement approach focused on constant innovation and tactics to meet these emerging threats. secret service continue develops technical expertise to track down and successfully infiltrate, investigate and prosecute with our partners cyber criminals who pride themselves on their knowledge and technical prowess. in many cases law enforcement has learned the tricks and techniques that cyber criminals use to hide their identities and their crimes, and in turn develop countermeasures that allow the perpetrators to be apprehended and prosecuted. a central component of our approach is a training provider to our electron

because the pentagon actually dwarfs the dhs in budget and size.e pentagon handles a lot more military overseas operations. before 9/11 the pentagon's budget was sitting at $300 billion. we actually stayed at that level for 15 years. then boom, 9/11 hit, and that spending seriously surged. the budget last year was at $700 billion. you have to remember, a lot of that went to fighting the wars in iraq and afghanistan. >> alison, i've got to ask you here. obviously we're all happy that bin laden's been captured. we see the big results, that the money has paid off. but can this spending go on with the budget crisis that we're dealing with, at those levels? >> you know, with our debt issues, front and center these days, i'll tell you what, everything is on the table right now when it comes to the budget cuts. president obama is proposing cuts in defense spending. it can really be a tough sell, because no one wants to be soft on terrorism since 9/11, but we're in extraordinary times where we can cut the deficit at this point. analysts say they're seeing

for instance the dhs is trying to interact with state and local law enforcement, literally hundreds ofthousands of people. they're obviously interacting with the leadership, but potentially a mighty force of gatherers of intelligence, if you can do this well and we are still feeling our way. i don't have anymore questions. i want to thank the three of you. has been a very valuable session for us. it really brought to bear the quite remarkable and long experience you have all had. you know, we are going to continue these hearings and stepped-up and decide whether we think there is any legislation proposed in a session of congress to better achieve the purposes for which the original legislation was adopted or whether this is a matter where we ought to just agree on a report or even, in part public and impart maybe just to meet with some of the key players and say hey we have taken a look at this, and here is what we really think based on a what we agree you ought to be focused on now. doesn't require a new law but it does require attention and coordination. with that i thank you. the re

for the first time, dhs on manned aircraft aerial to belize cover the entire southwest border from california providing critical aerial assistance to personnel on the ground. actions taken at the southwest border are being supplemented by critical security improvements at the northern border, including additional border patrol agents, technology and infrastructure, as well as strong, serious, and strategic enforcement of immigration laws in the interior of the united states. as someone who has lived most of for life in border states as worked as a public official dealing with border-related issues since 1993, i can say from personal experience that the steps that have been taken constitute the most comprehensive and dedicated effort to strengthen border security that our country has ever deployed. host: chris strohm, the secretary mentioned steps she had taken. he mentioned a program that started during the bush administration -- you mentioned a program that started during the bush administration. what were the reasons for the secure border initiative? guest: delays and cost overruns. the gov

host: is there a coordination effort between dhs and these other countries?: there is certainly a coronation at the highest level -- a coordination at the highest levels. there's a tremendous amount. host: grand rapids, michigan, thank you for holding on. are you go ahead go ahead. caller: i worked down there about 45 years ago. i went down there with some dogs. they could get the whole border fixed now. the way we did it, we got the pot that then. you could tear down the wall, do away with three-quarters of the men, and put 400 dogs there, and i could guarantee you no one will come across with pot or mexicans. guest: i think that would be a revolution to the people in the department who have been using all sorts of electronic technology, people, dogs, any matter of detection. the southwest problem is a real problem. host: linda on the line for democrats. caller: i often wonder how some nitwit with a very good scientific brain could not put together a remote control airplane or something that applies -- that flies and fly it over a football stadium. you could

this is something that really is a to-do in the future to work further with dhs to try to understand better what's going on. but you can see in the year 2005, by comparing their total number of people in the country who were, other than legal aliens, but from the beginning of 2005 at the end of 2005, there was a big jump up. so we had not on the order of 600,000, but about a million increase in the number of folks in that status. in 2008, then we had the reverse. 2008, was, of course, the first year of a recession. and you can imagine that first year of recession when unemployment rates are starting to rise rapidly t becomes harder for a lot of people to find jobs, if you were residing in a country other than legal status, you might find yourself wanting to find another place to go, because it might be hard to get benefits to carry you through. if you've been working especially in the underground economy. okay. we're moving along in time here. so let me move quickly on a couple of these slides to get to now what happened in terms of the slower economic growth in this year's trustees'

>> there is actually coming from being at the dhs for seven years, i really kind of a familiar with the emergency management protocols, and during the disasters in the united states the red cross is the lead for missing persons, and we seek to support that. but there are other efforts such as the google missing persons finder because that convinces the amount of missing persons databases that currently are created. so when this a crisis people create well-meaning technology tools like missing persons database is could be and what google did is collapse that down into basically won the was able to be propagated all over the internet which was really helpful. but -- if you have a family member that is missing, the american red cross is the place as well as fema asks people to go towards so we want to support the local response efforts. >> ms. brown, tell us about the need for universal data formatting. i think i understand that sort of in layman's terms what that means. >> is that working? good with databases, that at microphones. so, psif which is the standard heather was referring to is