DHS Strains As Goals, Mandates Go Unmet- March 6, 2008 Stumping for President Bush's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest "operational control" of the nation's borders away from human and drug traffickers within five years.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/techpolicy/index_xml/~3/246927020... National Dragnet Is a Click Away- March 6, 2008 Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating the foundation of a domestic intelligence system through computer networks that analyze vast amounts of police information to fight crime and root out terror plots.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/techpolicy/index_xml/~3/246927019... Library Takes 'Talking Books' Digital- March 5, 2008 Judith M. Dixon, a clinical psychologist by training and a sophisticated techie by avocation, is helping to lead the Library of Congress into the digital age.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/techpolicy/index_xml/~3/246927022... DHS Tests of Radiation Detectors Were Inconclusive, Report Says- March 5, 2008 Department of Homeland Security tests of new radiation detection machines last year did not show whether the costly devices performed well enough to be used as planned at ports and borders to protect the country against nuclear attacks or dirty bombs, according to a new report about the process.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/techpolicy/index_xml/~3/246927023... Bush Moves to Shield Telecommunications Firms- March 2, 2008 President Bush said last week that telecommunications companies that helped government wiretapping efforts need protection from "class-action plaintiff attorneys" who see a "financial gravy train" ahead. Democrats and privacy groups responded by accusing the Bush administration of trying to shut...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/technology/techpolicy/index_xml/~3/246927024... |