department of homeland security

Chertoff: Illegals 'Degrade' Environment

Monday October 1, 2007 10:01 PM

By EILEEN SULLIVAN
Associated Press Writer

Secretary Michael Chertoff of Homeland Security
WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday defended the construction of a fence along the southwest border, saying it's actually better for the environment than what happens when people illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico line.

Homeland Security deputy secretary resigns, citing personal financial reasons

By Associated Press
Monday, September 24, 2007

WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department’s second-in-command resigned Monday, citing personal financial reasons.

Michael P. Jackson, the department’s deputy secretary, has had a major hand in running the large department, particularly in putting in place the current management team. In an e-mail to staff Monday, Jackson said, "The simple truth, however, is that after over five years of serving with the president’s team, I am compelled to depart for financial reasons that I can no longer ignore."

Jackson makes $168,000 a year. His resignation is effective Oct. 26.

US doles out millions for street cameras

Local efforts raise privacy alarms

By Charlie Savage,
Globe Staff
August 12, 2007

Feeling you're being watched? There's every chance you are..
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security is funneling millions of dollars to local governments nationwide for purchasing high-tech video camera networks, accelerating the rise of a "surveillance society" in which the sense of freedom that stems from being anonymous in public will be lost, privacy rights advocates warn.

Costs Skyrocket As DHS Runs Up No-Bid Contracts
$2 Million Security Project Balloons to $124 Million

By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 28, 2007

The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Department of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running.

Over the next year, the cost of the no-bid arrangement with consultant Booz Allen Hamilton soared by millions of dollars per month, as the firm provided analysts, administrators and other contract employees to the department's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection offices.