national security

Donald Trump's accusation that President Obama and Hillary Clinton are "founders of ISIS" is not only a good example of his reckless fear-mongering but also his complete lack of understanding about true threats to national security.

InfoTeK Corp., a Hanover-based cybersecurity firm, announced Friday it acquired the assets of SilverRhino LLC, a cybersecurity firm that specializes in information technology services for federal agencies..

By Lorraine Mirabella

Sep 2, 2016

As the Obama administration prepares to change the way it enforces immigration laws, top officials have been conducting weeks of shuttle diplomacy, touring the country to try to re-enlist police chiefs and mayors in the cause of deporting people convicted of crimes.

Gov. Larry Hogan's office said an online threat claiming the Islamic State has a terror cell based in Maryland preparing to launch an attack is not credible. Doug Mayer, a spokesman for Hogan, said officials are aware of the reports and that Maryland's director of homeland security has been in touch with federal authorities.

By Ian Duncan

May 7, 2015

It will be the first major update to the Defense Department's strategy for cyber operations in four years, in which time computer security has become a more visible issue after major attacks on American businesses including Sony Picture Entertainment late last year.

By Ian Duncan

Apr 23, 2015

The ACLU lawsuit against the NSA this week seeks to establish a balance between security and privacy but the outcomes of previous such cases are not encouraging

Gen. David Petraeus joins a long, embarrassing line of national security principals who have flouted information security rules and gotten off relatively easily, revealing a double standard within the security community.

A thief had stolen a rare 16th-century book from Italy. It was Marty Hamlin's job to find it, and help bring it home.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Mar 9, 2015

Republicans should win the public over in Department of Homeland Security funding decision

Frank resorts to some unconventional methods to get America Works up and running, firing the head of the Department of Homeland Security, temporarily taking over that position himself

University authorities relinquished Ferrante Imperato Napolitano's "Historia Natural" to federal authorities in 2013, two years after it was purchased at auction

By Mary Carole McCauley

Feb 26, 2015

WASHINGTON -- As the Department of Homeland Security braces for the possibility of a shutdown at the end of the week, Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin introduced legislation on Tuesday that would provide retroactive pay for any workers furloughed because of a lapse in funding.

Do you blame Republicans or Democrats for Congress' failure thus far to pass a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security?

The determination of conservative Republicans to thwart Barack Obama at every turn was clear from the first days after his election in 2008, as their Senate leader Mitch McConnell publicly vowed to make him "a one-term president."

By Jules Witcover

Feb 23, 2015

Thousands of immigrants in Maryland will have to wait to apply for relief from deportation under the Obama administration's new executive actions after a federal court ruled that the president exceeded his authority, an outcome that is likely to lead to more court battles and partisan rancor on Capitol Hill.

House Republicans must stop holding DHS funding hostage over Obama's executive order on immigration

A political brawl over funding the Department of Homeland Security is troubling local officials in Maryland, who rely on millions of dollars in grants from the agency to pay for firefighter gear, emergency planning and training.

By John Fritze

Feb 14, 2015

President Barack Obama unveiled a nearly $4 trillion budget proposal on Monday that would boost spending on infrastructure, medical research and education — and that stoked an ongoing fight with congressional Republicans over how to pay for those priorities.

By John Fritze

Feb 2, 2015

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama revived his call Thursday for an end to deep cuts in federal spending, an appeal that fell squarely in the divide between Republicans in Congress who want to rein in costs and those who want to boost the Pentagon's budget.

Republican credibility on national security was obliterated by the Bush-Cheney administration, and their reckless, strategically disastrous, $2 trillion invasion of Iraq. And now House Majority leader John Boehner has put a nail in the coffin of GOP weakness on major national security issues with his flippant and dishonorable invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the Congress of the United States on the most critical foreign policy issue now facing the United States:

House effort to tie DHS funding to a reversal of President Obama's immigration orders looks like another empty gesture from the GOP

ACLU raises concerns over homeland security appointee

Gov.-elect Larry Hogan picked as homeland security director a former Maryland State Police superintendent who oversaw controversial and prolonged surveillance of death penalty and anti-war activists.

By Erin Cox

Jan 13, 2015

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, a member of the House intelligence committee for a record 12 years, lost his seat on the panel Thursday when House Democratic leaders appointed a replacement.

By Ian Duncan

Jan 8, 2015

Rabia Chaudry, who fights for the rights of American Muslims, founded a nonprofit and has been awarded a New American Foundation fellowship for national security. But for fans of "Serial," she's best known as the person whose planted the seed for the hit podcast with producer Sarah Koenig.

By Julie Scharper

Dec 18, 2014

A proposed wind farm in Somerset County would endanger national security and must be scrapped or altered.

James J. Cain Jr., a retired National Security Agency official whose career spanned more than four decades, died Saturday at his Severna Park home of pancreatic cancer. He was 76.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Nov 11, 2014

U.S. faces a challenging fight against a dreaded disease in West Africa

The officials who are responsible for safeguarding the nation's intelligence secrets are trying to figure out how to better vet millions of employees and contractors with security clearances, after auditors found that some of those workers owed more than three-quarters of a billion dollars in unpaid taxes.

Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, who was shot to death last week as he visited Afghanistan's national military academy in Kabul, was laid to rest Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery.

While potential cuts of up to nearly 4,300 military and civilian jobs at Aberdeen Proving Ground are far from a done deal, Harford County leaders stressed the need Monday evening for local residents to get an early start on letting the Army know about the impact any such cuts will have on the region's largest employer and on their community.

WASHINGTON — A policy unveiled by Gov. Martin O'Malley that was intended to reduce the number of non-criminal immigrants deported from the Baltimore jail is facing scrutiny from advocates who say it contains loopholes so large it will inevitably fall short of that goal.

Thousands of child migrants from Central America are crossing our southern border fleeing violence, poverty and civil war at home; the U.S. must deal with them humanely

Federal officials are eying a vacant office building in Baltimore's west side as a potential shelter for children caught attempting to enter the country illegally.

Helicopter crews from the Maryland National Guard are flying night surveillance missions along the Rio Grande to spot unauthorized crossers and to guide Border Patrol agents to their hiding places. It's the battalion's second deployment to South Texas in the last two years.

Gov. Martin O'Malley announced today that the Baltimore City Detention Center will no longer automatically honor requests from the federal government to hold immigrants for deportation — making it one of a handful of jurisdictions in the country to take a more discerning approach on the issue.

Former President Bill Clinton delivered the annual Forrestal Lecture at the Naval Academy on Tuesday afternoon as part of a foreign affairs conference.

Dan McCall sells a lot of T-shirts, coffee cups and other gear that tweak the government, so his products parodying the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security were pretty typical fare. Until the cease-and-desist letters hit.