CIA Director Leon E. Panetta has appointed Gerald P. Hamilton, a senior officer in the National Clandestine Service, to lead the agency’s diversity programs, including its public outreach efforts. Hamilton will head the new Employee Resource Center, which was created to combine, focus and increase the capabilities of existing offices responsible for promoting diversity and [...]

Discussing the role of law enforcement as a counterterrorism tool, Assistant Attorney General David Kris said to win over the terrorists threatening the United States, the nation needs to use all available tools consistent with the law. “We must, in other words, be relentlessly pragmatic and empirical,” Kris said last Friday at the Brookings Institution [...]

President Barack Obama wrote a letter to congressional leaders, requesting them to move quickly to build momentum for economic recovery. In his letter, Obama stated that the small-business legislation he called for “includes a new lending initiative to help creditworthy firms access loans through community banks and innovative state partnerships,” in hopes  small businesses gain [...]

Army service members around the country will be celebrating today, as it marks the 235th birthday for the United States Army. On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress approved the creation of the Continental Army. Twenty two thousand militiamen in Massachusetts and 5,000 in New York comprised that first Army. Today, 235 years later, the [...]

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius last week joined first lady Michelle Obama in her effort to raise awareness of childhood obesity by launching the Let’s Move Cities and Towns initiative. Addressing the audience at the U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, Okla., Sebelius encouraged local officials to adopt [...]

After reports about incidents with Google’s Street View cars mistakenly gathering personal data submitted over WiFi networks, hackers accessing email addresses of more than 100,000 iPad owners, and wireless and WiFi networks making consumers’ private data accessible, the Federal Communications Commission is now warning members of the public about how easily their information can be [...]

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee released a new proposal that would grant President Barack Obama and the administration significant authoritative powers over the cyber networks in an event of a cyber attack. The bill is called The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 and is designed to “establish a [...]

Understanding the root of terrorism is key to stopping it, Under Secretary of Defense Michèle Flournoy said yesterday speaking at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C. Delivering a keynote at the center’s fourth annual conference “Shaping the Agenda: American Security in the 21st Century,” Flournoy spoke about the importance of identifying [...]

Graduates of the National Defense University were given a few words of advice during their graduation commencement speech delivered by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen. A theme of precision, power and the understanding of how to combine the two elements were a key points in Mullen’s address. He [...]

A year after Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal took charge of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, he reviewed the progress achieved there over the past 12 months and provided his perspective for the year to come. Meeting with reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the Army general said although work remains to be [...]