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Industry sources tell TIME that in the past few months there have been at least a dozen incidents of no-fly passengers mistakenly being allowed to fly. The situation is overstretching law-enforcement personnel, who must scramble to respond to each incident. The nofly list now has 20,000 names, and up to 300 new ones are added daily. There are dead people and people in prison on the list. At least 1,000 names are duplicates. Checking the unwieldy list has caused airline computer systems to crash. The TSA will not comment on specific incidents, but spokesman Mark Hatfield...
...Justice Department was nearly as stunning. On Wednesday, the Justice Department's point man on government accountability, H. Marshall Jarrett, wrote to Congress saying that he was shutting down his review of the NSA spying probe because his staff was denied access to the agency's files and personnel...
...festivities were delayed for the Oval Office announcement of the resignation of CIA Director Porter Goss. That gave McClellan one last bombshell. Seven minutes into the briefing, he had suddenly mentioned that the President would have "a pool coverage announcement" on "a personnel-related matter" 50 minutes hence...
Then there was the X factor in Goss's departure: his judgment about people. After bringing with him a boarding party of staff members who seemed to specialize in mishandling personnel matters, Goss promoted Kyle (Dusty) Foggo to be the CIA's executive director and top budget chief. Foggo is now at the center of a growing investigation into a federal bribery case that has already sent former California Congressman Randy (Duke) Cunningham to prison for more than eight years. A source close to the investigation tells TIME that the Justice Department is investigating reports that one of Cunningham...
...must first “define and implement a comprehensive national preparedness system.” More specifically, Townsend advocated the creation of a new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security and the strengthening of the department’s field resources through a homeland security university where personnel could receive training in crisis management. “We must first eliminate bureaucratic red tape” to truly create “unity of effort,” she said. The second aspect of Townsend’s preparedness plan emphasized the role of local communities, rather than...