You know? And I smiled about that. Since Homeland Security folks are surveilling Black Lives Matter and people who are doing social justice work, they're organizing themselves to train themselves to amp up
While I was doing the work on the series, I was in the Boise, Idaho, airport one day, coming back from the Idaho Intelligence Fusion Center, which is a place where the Department of Homeland Security has funded intelligence fusion centers in all the states and sometimes more than one in each state, to begin putting together the intelligence on counter-terrorism or on terrorists. And a lot of the places like Idaho don't really have a lot of business in terrorism, so they
Then the judge can say, yep, totally likely that this is looted. And that can help Homeland Security do their job better. But it's a major issue, and we're just trying to give governments better information.
a huge deal and these days most of these agencies they couldn't even function without the contractors. The Department of Homeland Security , that, they run on more contractors than federal employees. So you know it's a huge part of what they do.
the number one thing that goes with theory of mind is in fact empathy is in big brother uh Homeland Security notwithstanding uh in 2009 uh is a great
And then last year, I was in the White House, where I worked in the National Security Council in their counterterrorism group. I got there one week before the 9/11, crisis. Helped build a new Homeland Security plan for the whole country." Without missing a beat, Eric, she points and she says, "Nothing you said qualifies you to be in the classroom." Now, hey, I don't have a big ego or anything, but my ego shrank in size that day as she sent me packing.
But there's also nutritional information on some of our patients. It's the Department of Homeland Security who run the interviews around the world.
I want and within minutes he says well I've got I've got kids as young as 11 years old Ballard a former Homeland Security agent now heads up operation Underground Railroad a nonprofit group that rescues trafficked kids after that first meeting the Colombians asked him
the elevator up, and go to work. So I had the whole kind of Homeland Security style process getting here today. And so we started the site in 2003 basically as an answer to the eHarmony, highly prescriptive soulmate-oriented dating model.
When you can only call something stuff, but you know it's important, that's not a good place to be in. Or the former Secretary of Homeland Security , the agency that is ostensibly in charge of cybersecurity on the civilian side for the United States-- who has actually now taken over as Chancellor of the university system out here in California --who proudly talked
IBM has been very clear that Watson is going into health care now. I assume that's less controversial than Homeland Security or something. Really, our mass information collecting and processing software, it's just going to cure cancer.
But one case which-- and I'm not making up the name-- it was called Operation Mummy Curse, which it may be the coolest thing I ever do in my life. Anyway, working with Homeland Security , they've made a bust of this gorgeous sarcophagus that had been sawed in half and sent through the postal service, dating to around 2,600 years ago.
We don't want to just partner with Wells Fargo. We don't want to simply march in parades with the Homeland Security . That's why we protest at gay pride parades.
And he has a graduate certificate in cybersecurity strategy from Georgetown University. He's currently a Senate fellow for the Republican Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee supporting cybersecurity. It goes without saying that I've been in awe of Maurice for the last 20 years.
I did and then I saw and I couldn't I couldn't believe what I was saying and I I applaud the you us government's efforts um leading the way I believe in this fight especially Homeland Security investigations the group I worked with and uh just just great programs they're they're pushing out the reason I created
He was on duty a few blocks from the World Trade Center and witnessed the attacks and the Maritime evacuation of the city. He shot aerial photographs of Ground Zero and the Homeland Security efforts underway there for several weeks, retired from the Coast Guard in 2012, and was telling me last night how much he missed it.
They massively reduced their environmental footprint. My classes look just like the Department of Homeland Security " because in a typical class, if the circle is me as a professor, and the triangle is the class period, I'm bringing
And this Crime Center, which has just walls of video screens connected to hundreds of cameras that are set up throughout Memphis to watch people. It was funded in part by the Department of Homeland Security . And what they want to do now, they're on a couple camp, they're on a big campaign, it's called See Something, Say Something.
It would take me 12 to 14 hours to get to the US. And then I would almost always spend two to three hours in random check in Homeland Security with this silly smile on my face.
you had to go through your journey of discovering what this was um can you kind of take us through and in the CBS um introduction it kind of mentioned your initial background in in the CIA and Homeland Security can you walk us through the creation of UR and and how you came about yeah it was um I didn't
That's when I got on the phone and started calling the Department of Homeland Security , the Red Cross, FEMA, and saying, well, actually I
All right. They fired the administrator from the Homeland Security Department who was in charge of the project.
They massively reduced their environmental footprint. You don't have to be the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to implement these things.
Coburn uh where he focuses on budget and Appropriations uh he was formerly on the homeland security and government Affairs
but he was a very senior, very high up person at the Department of Homeland Security who was watching this
But it's definitely helping to fuel their efforts. So the idea that we can track looting and identify where it's going on and then share that information with organizations like Homeland Security , I should say this is the one good thing I think they do without being overtly political at present.
So we have been working very closely with FAA, Department of Homeland Security , Department of Defense, Department of Interior.
Janet Napolitano, as she retired from her post as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security ,
recently wrote a story for them in January, because about a year ago Homeland Security contacted me.
changes very quickly. Now in society, we tend to do almost the opposite when we're threatened. After 9/11, the first thing we did was create the Department of Homeland Security which is almost the opposite organization. It's a top down, stacked up organization where everything has to run up and down this org chart to get anything done.
And then, later on, coming into Homeland Security , talking at the FBI Academy in Quantico, talking to agents, putting their personalities in place.
As one of the early members of the US Digital Service, Hana was a director with the Department of Homeland Security , where she worked on the National
Now, there are certain art theft crimes-- violations that the FBI, Homeland Security , and other national, international police departments look into.
I don't know how many million they have, but I talked to the head of the Department of Homeland Security for the state of New York.
Taking these systems we have, that have become somewhat unresponsive, and making them much more adaptable and responsive again. I never say anywhere in this book or anywhere I talk about like, "Yeah, we've just got to tear down the Department of Homeland Security " or "Tear down the Department of Defense and build them up as this adaptable organization" because I'm not into perfect solutions.
They massively reduced their environmental footprint. Finally, as a last example, in my own classes as a professor, I have for years been putting up this mocking diagram of the Department of Homeland Security and chuckling about it
on that. Stephenson's lectures worldwide on data liberation, writes great books and also articles and blog post on data and other issues including homeland security and environmental
There's one, there's one county, I think it's in Texas, which has actually developed an app, so that if you get the app and then you see somebody who's suspicious you could write out, you can fill it out right then and there and click and mail it in to the Department of Homeland Security of that state and they can maybe act on it. There's a reference in the book to a family who was Middle-Eastern looking and they were taking a picture of a fireboat at in the Balboa harbor and they are now in this, in the database