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Tag: Homeland Security
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Nation & World
‘Governor, I don’t know what’s going on, but there are body parts all over the street’
Ten years after the Boston Marathon bombing, former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and homeland security expert Juliette Kayyem talk about what we learned from that tragedy.
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A ‘new phase’ of global terrorism
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson spoke to students at Harvard Kennedy School about the complex efforts that go into national security, particularly in the wake of terrorist attacks.
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Nation & World
The law before and after 9/11
Michael Chertoff, former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, outlines the security paradigm shift in the run-up to 9/11 and the factors to consider when creating a new legal architecture to fight terrorism.
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Nation & World
Lessons of the hunt
Harvard foreign policy experts say the death of Osama bin Laden is a blow to al-Qaeda, and a sign of the vitality and persistence of U.S. anti-terror expertise. But it will also renew the debate over U.S.-Pakistan ties and may even set the stage for a season of reprisals against American interests.
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Nation & World
Planning for disasters
A panel discussion that included some of the top leaders in American homeland security and the military pondered the nation’s readiness for unexpected disasters.
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Kayyem named Homeland Security assistant secretary
Juliette Kayyem, undersecretary of homeland security for the commonwealth of Massachusetts, has been named assistant secretary of intergovernmental programs of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Kayyem, who is a former executive director at Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, is also a current member (on leave) of the Belfer…
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Security chief cautions against complacency
If Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was politically wounded by his department’s response to Hurricane Katrina, he showed no sign of it during his forceful lecture Feb. 6 at the Kennedy School of Government.
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Government holds seeds to its own reform
The seeds of a new, more efficient government able to nimbly handle the challenges of a new century are sprouting in the corridors of today’s slow-moving bureaucracy, according to Elaine Kamarck, a lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Harvard scientists contribute to National Academy terrorism report
A new report by a National Academy of Sciences panel co-chaired by Harvard Emeritus Professor Lewis M. Branscomb calls for the United States to take immediate steps, such as better protection of nuclear weapons and materials, to reduce its vulnerability to terror attacks. The report also outlines urgent areas for future research.