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A leading Republican on the House oversight committee is demanding answers from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on why a 6-year-old girl was given an “enhanced” pat-down at an airport by TSA agents, an incident Napolitano defended as conducted “professionally and according to the protocols.” (more)

The shock of a video of a Transportation Security Administration screener patting down a 6-year-old child has drawn anger and even a subsequent potential legislative response. But the TSA’s actions were not improper, says Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Terror alerts from the U.S. government will soon have just two levels of warnings — elevated and imminent — and those will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances. Color codes are out; Facebook and Twitter will sometimes be in, according to a Homeland Security draft obtained by The Associated Press. (more)

With the nation’s looming fiscal crisis, soaring energy costs, and a tense situation in the Middle East, this might seem like an odd time for Congress to mount a full-court press for a bill designed to advance the well-being of Charlie Sheen and his Hollywood colleagues. That’s precisely what’s happening this week with new House hearings on the anti-piracy bill known as COICA. (more)

Under grilling by top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa at a hearing Thursday on special political reviews of document requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) submitted by journalists, watchdog groups and lawmakers, Obama administration officials defended the process saying, in the words of a top lawyer, the practice was “sound managerial practice.” (more)

A persistent myth about President Obama is that he is pro-immigration. Obama’s rhetoric may be pro-immigration, but his actions reveal that he is the most anti-immigration president in generations. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading House Republican warned the Obama administration on Thursday about demoting a federal worker who complained to her agency’s internal watchdog that political appointees were interfering with records requests by journalists and others. (more)

Earlier this year, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said, “It is inaccurate to state, as too many have, that the border is overrun with violence and out of control.” She continued, “This statement — often made only to score political points — is just plain wrong.” While I recognize and acknowledge that the secretary and I come from different political parties, I do have to wonder if we live on the same planet. (more)

The threat of homegrown terror is real, as the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas vividly illustrated. Today the House Committee on Homeland Security, under the chairmanship of Congressman Peter King (R-NY), held a critically important hearing on “The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response.” Predictably, the liberal media is up in arms condemning the hearing and politically correct liberal groups have likened it to modern-day McCarthyism. (more)

With the showdown between top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Janet Napolitano heating up, Napolitano has dispatched a 21-man team to respond to Issa’s document and testimony requests, a DHS source says. (more)

New information about a showdown between top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa and Department of Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano shows numerous attempts by Issa to obtain cooperation by the Obama administration in releasing documents and testimony related to political interference with Freedom of Information Requests at the agency. (more)

In the latest sign of an increasingly antagonistic stand by Democrats against top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa, President Obama declined a request for a top economic adviser to testify before an oversight panel about the president’s economic stimulus law. (more)

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has invited members of the House and Senate leadership to visit the U.S.-Mexico border and see the White House’s latest efforts to curtail drug and weapon smuggling and illegal immigration. (more)

The terrorist threat to the United States may be at its most “heightened state” since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and al-Qaeda and its affiliates are placing increased emphasis on recruiting Americans and other Westerners to carry out attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said at a congressional hearing Wednesday. (more)

The threat of terrorism is at “its most heightened state” since the 9/11 attacks nearly a decade ago, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today. (more)

When folks are asked about the central tenets of President Obama’s 2008 campaign, phrases such as “unprecedented transparency,” “post-partisan,” and “hope and change” regularly come up. (more)

What did top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa know, and when did he know it? (more)

Rep. Ed Royce, California Republican, is planning to introduce a national-level version of contentious Arizona state Senate Bill 1070, The Daily Caller has learned. Royce, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee’s Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade subcommittee, told TheDC his legislation would give state-level cops and local law enforcement nationwide the authority to enforce federal immigration laws. (more)

1.) Everybody wants something from Obama’s SOTU — For two weeks now, yammer-faces and pols have rattled off what they’d like from tonight’s State of the Union address. The only thing they haven’t asked for is the moon. In an interview with The Daily Caller, Democratic Sen. Mark Warner added his own demands to the growing list of things Obama must pay lip service to during his address. “What I hope he says – and I think this will make some folks on my side upset – even if he has an innovation and growth agenda … just growth alone isn’t going to get us out of this problem,” Warner said. “We’re going to have to take on the size and role of government” and “the stuff that’s popular” like entitlement and defense spending. “You’ve got to earn good faith by showing willingness to do spending cuts,” Warner said. “There is some value in short term cuts that will at least show that we’re serious about doing something.” Obama’s more likely to promise the moon. (more)

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently visited Israel to learn about Israel’s airport security measures. She was quick to say, however, that Israel’s security measures should not be adopted in America. Her reasoning? Israel has only 7.3 million people, while America has 310 million. Israel has only one major international airport and 11 million overall airline travelers each year, while America has 450 international airports and 70 times the number of airline passengers as Israel. (more)