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Author Archive: Richard Cooper

An “Astounding” Problem – DHS Civil Service and Contractors

Amidst the news today are reports that DHS employs more contractors than career civil servants. Lawmakers, notably Sen. Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), have described this situation as "unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable." The other...

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Calling Obama’s Cards – TSA and Collective Bargaining Rights

Yesterday’s actions by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) to represent TSA’s 40,000 screeners has upped the ante in the high stakes poker game the Obama Administration seems to have avoided playing. On one side of the...

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Lessons in Blizzard Resilience – Part II

If you talk to any parent in the National Capital Region, odds are they are at their wits end with having their children stuck at home for nearly a week and a half. After two large snowstorms and a...

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Lessons in Blizzard Resilience – Part 1

Like most people of the Mid-Atlantic region, I’ve spent almost a week hunkered down at home with my family watching the piles and piles of global warming stack outside my home. For as unprecedented as this weather pattern has...

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Reid Roars But Will He Act?

On Tuesday morning, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV) lashed out at Senate Republicans for their on-going procedural holds on a number of the Obama Administration’s nominees for critical positions at the Pentagon, DHS and elsewhere. While the Senate...

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Bad News From the Air Marshals

If the last several weeks haven’t been bad enough for the Obama Administration, they are about to get even worse. On Monday night’s CBS Evening News, Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian will profile a number of serious problems at...

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Musical Chairs at House Homeland

Change is in the air at the House Homeland Security Committee. While its Chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), is firmly in place, the people running his Subcommittees are going through a round of musical chairs.Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)...

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DHS Cyber and Rodney Dangerfield: Looking for Respect

The late, legendary comedian Rodney Dangerfield long complained about getting “no respect.” After attending Wednesday morning’s Government Executive Leadership Series breakfast, “Cyber Security: Who Leads,” DHS may feel like using Rodney’s most memorable line to describe its placement...

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TSA After Southers: Now What?

With the nomination of Erroll Southers to be the next Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now in tatters, the question has to be raised, “Now what?” If we do the forensics on why Southers will remain in...

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Do We Have Your Attention Now? – Google’s Roar to Exit China

Do We Have Your Attention Now? – Google’s Roar to Exit China

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