The Department of Homeland Security’s physical footprint in Washington is as sprawling as its mandate. DHS doesn’t have a single headquarters. Rather, it has dozens of offices for the agencies that fall under its control.
Monthly Archives: July 2009
A Smooth Road Ahead for Sotomayor
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham perhaps best summed up the confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, noting on the first day of the proceedings that barring a “meltdown” by the nominee, she was all but assured of confirmation to the nation’s highest court. But Graham and others in the GOP were clearly not enamored of...
Declassified Documents Reveal KGB Spies in the U.S.
During one of the most high-profile spy cases in U.S. history, onetime State Department official and accused Communist spy Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury based in part on several rolls of film found inside a pumpkin on a Maryland farm. In 1975, when the film was declassified, one roll was revealed to be...
Sotomayor Hearings Likely To Focus on Gun Rights
It may be the case, as GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham told Sonia Sotomayor on the opening day of her confirmation hearings, that her ascension to the country’s highest court is a lock, baring a “meltdown” by the nominee. But that doesn’t mean that the minority party won’t have tough questions for President Obama’s first...
