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Tom Ridge - Department of Homeland Security
Tom Ridge is Secretary of Homeland Security. According to whitehouse.gov: Prior to his current appointment, Secretary Ridge served as Assistant to the President for the Office of Homeland Security. Previously, he was a twice-elected... [more]
Tom Ridge is Secretary of Homeland Security. According to whitehouse.gov: Prior to his current appointment, Secretary Ridge served as Assistant to the President for the Office of Homeland Security. Previously, he was a twice-elected Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1995 to 2001. In addition, he was elected to Congress in 1982 and was re-elected six times. After he received his law degree, Secretary Ridge was in private practice before becoming assistant district attorney in Erie County. He also served as an infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star for Valor. He is a graduate of Harvard University and received his J.D. from Dickinson School of Law.
‘No doubt,’ says Tom Ridge, first Homeland Security secretary Former Bush official: Waterboarding is torture WASHINGTON - The first secretary of the Homeland Security Department says waterboarding is torture. “There’s just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is torture,” Tom Ridge said Friday in an interview. Ridge had offered the same opinion earlier in the day to members of the American Bar Association at a homeland security conference. “One of America’s greatest...
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Posted by BRETT LIEBERMAN, Of The Patriot-News July 24, 2008 06:45AM
Categories: Election 2008, Federal government, George Bush, Governor, Pennsyltucky blog, President, Rendell, White House
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge is again being mentioned as a short-list candidate for the Republican vice presidential nomination.
George W. Bush passed him over in 2000. Will 2008 be any different?
Republican presidential candidate John McCain ducks...
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Posted by BRETT LIEBERMAN, Of The Patriot-News June 24, 2008 06:53AM
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Tom Ridge
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge registered with the Department of Justice as a lobbyist for the government of Albania nearly two years after winning an almost half-million dollar lobbying contract, Roll Call reports this morning.
(Hat tip GrassrootsPa)
"I didn't think it was [necessary] to register," the Capitol Hill newspaper quotes the former Pennsylvania governor and...
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CQPolitics.com - This sprawling department was created after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to coordinate the activities of several different agencies that have jurisdiction over domestic security.
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff wants better protection for government computer systems. Then Einstein 2.0, a system now being tested to detect ...
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made the assessment as he attended a conference in Los Angeles of governors from the United States and Mexican border states.
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By Matthew Harwood President Bush Tuesday signed an appropriations bill funding Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programs through fiscal year 2009. ...
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced this week that it was scrapping plans for a new personnel system that would have featured ...
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The Homeland Security Department on Wednesday announced it would put an end to its new personnel system because of a provision signed into law this week that eliminates funding for the plan.
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Technology & Management Services Inc., a portfolio company of National Interest Security Company LLC, has secured an $8.2 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created to simplify the chain of command, concentrate expertise on critical threats, integrate the resources ...
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On September 29, 2008 U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and U.S. Department of Justice Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Matthew Friedrich signed an agreement on Enhancing Cooperation in Preventing and Combating Serious Crime (the PCSC...
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Although in its infancy, the next generation of passenger screening
technology being developed by the Department of Homeland Security
detects travelers' anxiety levels.
USA Today's Thomas Frank reports:
It may seem Orwellian, but on Thursday, the Homeland
Security Department showed off an early...
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