This fall the Transportation Security Administration’s Transportation Worker Identity Credential, or TWIC cards kick in. These employment cards are supposed to ensure that non-citizens working in the U.S. aren’t terrorists.

But TSA, which is part of the Dept. of Homeland Security, has sent out rejection letters to ...

The Washington Post’s Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein have part two in a series that started Sunday on detained U.S. immigrants. These immigrants are sent to obscure compounds run by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm.

The 33,000 detainees look ...

The Department of Homeland Security has given Boeing billions of dollars to construct a border security program. But the Government Accountability Office concluded in February that the 28-mile “virtual fence” built by Boeing, in Arizona, did not meet the contract’s requirements and shouldn’t be replicated elsewhere.

Now, ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other government agencies will begin collecting the DNA of all citizens arrested for a federal crime as well as all detained immigrants. This is expected to increase the current database, which includes only federal crime convicts, from 140,000 to 1.2 million.

The ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been under fire from Congress for misusing its power to issue “national security letters.”  The letters enable the FBI to subpoena information such as telephone and credit card bills from U.S. citizens if deemed relevant to intelligence activities.

The ...

The Washington Post’s Robert O’Harrow, Jr. reports on “fusion centers”—information-sharing networks run by state government’s in the name of fighting terrorism. The Department of Homeland Security has given a total of $254 million in the last four years to enable these centers to collect a ...

More on FOIA: the Treasury Dept. complied yesterday with a federal judge’s order to release complaints about their “Specially Designated Nationals List.” The list is meant to catalogue citizens linked with drug trafficking and terrorism.

But according to the Department’s own estimate, 90,000 consumers, whose names are identical or ...

Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal has put together a powerful overview of the National Security Agency's information-gathering activities, and those of domestic security agencies, including the FBI.  Gorman notes that the NSA's efforts "have evolved to reach more broadly into data about people's communications, travel and finances in ...

There is a growing disconnect between get-tough-at-the-border political rhetoric and public policy that has not been sufficiently funded by the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection division. The result, according to the Washington Time’s Jerry Seper, is local communities devoting precious law enforcement resources to rounding up undocumented immigrants.

Spencer S. Hsu of the Washington Post, who has covered the Department of Homeland Security since its March 2003 creation, provides elements of a fifth anniversary overview today. Hsu writes that, “The evolving 208,000-worker, $38 billion agency remains hindered by the crisis-of-the-moment environment, in which the rush to fulfill each new mandate or meet every threat undermines its ability to hold a strategic course and deliver promised results.”