Homeland Security: Inside & Out

This week: Northcom, Coast Guard anti-terrorism unit, Canada's homeland security approach, cyberspace, and Operation Jumpstart

Tuesday, October 30, 7 p.m. CDT (KAMU 90.9 FM, College Station)

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1. Inside the Beltway.
  General Ralph Eberhart is the former commander, North American
Aerospace Defense Command and NORTHCOM, and talks about the history of NORTHCOM including why and how it was created.

2. News Media
Mimi Hall, staff writer for USA Today, discusses the US Coast Guard’s new duties for their anti-terrorism team and what they plan to accomplish.

3. Outside the Beltway
General Victor E. Renuart Jr. is the current commander, North American
Aerospace Defense Command and NORTHCOM, and discusses what exactly NORTHCOM is and how they help the department of homeland security.

4. Wild Card

Commodore David P. Gagliardi, Rear Admiral Tyrone Pile, and John D. Neily discuss Canada's approach to homeland security. They also compare the similarities and differences in approaches and discuss how both departments are working together.

5. Perspectives
Lieutenant General Robert J. Elder is commander, 8th Air Force. Elder talks about his views on cyberspace and how it's changing how the military does its job.

6. HLS at Home
Dylan Lockett discusses Operation Jumpstart, a program involving the National Guard and the Texas border control that aims to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the border.

Oct. 23: Revising homeland security strategy, what we've learned since 9/11, homeland defense journal, defeating radical Islamics, port of Los Angeles security, and homeland security education programs

Tuesday, October 23, 7 p.m. CDT (KAMU 90.9 FM, College Station)

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1. News Media, Take One

Shaun Waterman is United Press International’s (UPI) homeland and national security editor. Waterman talks about the Bush administration's revised homeland security strategy. 

2. Inside the Beltway

Stephen Flynn is a Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies. He'll discuss his keynote speech at the National Homeland Defense Foundation Seminars on the three major lessons we've learned from the September 11 attacks.

3. News Media, Take Two

Brian Lake talks about Homeland Defense Journal along with sharing who it's geared for and what his goals are.

4. Outside the Beltway

Jim Turner is a partner in the national security and public policy and legislative practices at Arnold & Porter LLP. Turner chaired a panel on defeating radical Islamics and discusses how to know your enemy and eventually keep them from being created.

5. Wild Card

George Cummings is the director of homeland security for the
port of Los Angeles. Cummings is responsible for coordination of the port’s homeland security and maritime security programs at the national, state, and local levels. He talks on the importance of the port of Los Angeles and what the responsibilities entail.

6. Homeland Security at Home

Dave McIntyre talks about his recent presentation at the National Homeland Defense Foundation, with a focus on the importance of establishing Ph.D. programs in homeland security.

Oct 16: Satellite surveillance plans, Winter Olympics problems, HSToday, Gulf Coast rebuilding project, social and behavioral sciences, media releasing classified information, and the GAO

Tuesday, October 16, 7 p.m. CDT (KAMU 90.9 FM, College Station)

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1. News Media

William Jackson is a writer for Government Computer News and will explain why DHS has delayed satellite surveillance plans in response to a growing concern about invasion of privacy and civil liberties. The surveillance plan would share imagery from U.S. spy satellites with state, local and tribal law-enforcement agencies

2. Inside the Beltway, Take One

Major General Timothy J. Lowenberg is the adjutant general of Washington and Mark Beaty is the U.S. federal coordinator for the next Winter Olympics. They will talk about security along the US-Canada border for the Winter Olympics in 2010. The main concern is how the Olympics will affect tourists traveling across the border and also how these tighter constraints will effect trade among the two nations.

3. Inside the Beltway, Take Two

Editor of HSToday, David Silverberg, will discuss the magazine and the kinds of articles it publishes.

4. Outside the Beltway

Donald E. Powell was named by President Bush as the federal coordinator of Gulf Coast rebuilding. Today, he will talk about what the aim of the project is and whether or not the Gulf Coast is returning to its original state.

5. Wild Card

Sharla Rausch is the director of the Human Factors Division of the DHS Science and Technology Directorate. Rausch will discuss applying social and behavioral sciences to homeland security and the benefits of doing so.

6. On the Road with Randy Larsen

Randy Larsen will join us from the road to talk about the tension between the media and the government in releasing classified information.

7. Homeland Security at Home

Dr. Sharon Caudle is an assistant director for homeland security with the U.S. Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Homeland Security and Justice Team and will discuss the GAO's role for homeland security.

Tuesday, October 16, 7 p.m. CDT (KAMU 90.9 FM, College Station)

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1. News Media

William Jackson is a writer for Government Computer News and will explain why DHS has delayed satellite surveillance plans in response to a growing concern about invasion of privacy and civil liberties. The surveillance plan would share imagery from U.S. spy satellites with state, local and tribal law-enforcement agencies

2. Inside the Beltway, Take One

Major General Timothy J. Lowenberg is the adjutant general of Washington and Mark Beaty is the U.S. federal coordinator for the next Winter Olympics. They will talk about security along the US-Canada border for the Winter Olympics in 2010. The main concern is how the Olympics will affect tourists traveling across the border and also how these tighter constraints will effect trade among the two nations.

3. Inside the Beltway, Take Two

Editor of HSToday, David Silverberg, will discuss the magazine and the kinds of articles it publishes.

4. Outside the Beltway

Donald E. Powell was named by President Bush as the federal coordinator of Gulf Coast rebuilding. Today, he will talk about what the aim of the project is and whether or not the Gulf Coast is returning to its original state.

5. Wild Card

Sharla Rausch is the director of the Human Factors Division of the DHS Science and Technology Directorate. Rausch will discuss applying social and behavioral sciences to homeland security and the benefits of doing so.

6. On the Road with Randy Larsen

Randy Larsen will join us from the road to talk about the tension between the media and the government in releasing classified information.

7. Homeland Security at Home

Dr. Sharon Caudle is an assistant director for homeland security with the U.S. Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Homeland Security and Justice Team and will discuss the GAO's role for homeland security.

Oct. 9: Detecting liquids at airports, Operation Aaberich, FISA updates, preventing bioviolence, new technology from DHS’ command control, and collaboration between Lawrence Livermoore and the Institute for National Security, Education and Research

Tuesday, October 9, 7 p.m. CDT (KAMU 90.9 FM, College Station)

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1. News Media
Mimi Hall, a staff writer for USA Today, describes  a new detection method for 3 oz. liquids at airports. Currently, all liquids, gels and aerosols must be in three-ounce or smaller containers and the guideline has caused a lot of problems with air travelers as they are screened to get onto flights. With the new SENSIT technology, Hall discusses how a new MRI process can determine immediately what type of liquid is present and allow for faster lines and much safer screening processes.

2. Inside the Beltway, Take One
John Goetz writes for Spiegel Online International. He discusses Operation Alberich, which involved a joint CIA and German task force in Berlin working to stop one of the biggest terrorist threats to ever hit Europe.

3. Inside the Beltway, Take Two
Pam Hess is a Pentagon correspondent for United Press International and updates us on the hearings pertaining to the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) amendment and breakdown new information on al Qaeda and where we stand in Iraq.

4. Outside the Beltway

Barry Kellman is a professor of international law and is director of the International Weapons Control Center at the DePaul University College of Law. His new book, "BIOVIOLENCE:  Preventing Biological Terror and Crime," describes how diseases such as smallpox, anthrax or Ebola might be used for hostile purposes and the rapidly increasing threat that biological weapons pose to the U.S. and the world alike.

5. Wild Card
Dr. Dave Boyd serves as the division head of command, control and interoperability at DHS and the director of the Office for Interoperability and Compatibility. Boyd discusses technology advances in the field by telling us a few ways DHS is making command, control and interoperability more efficient.

6. On the Road with Randy Larsen
Co-host Randy Larsen will join Dave McIntyre in prioritizing the different  threats-nuclear bombs, radioactive, biological, chemical-and rate them in terms of how relevant they are present day. Larsen is currently touring the country talking about his book, "Our Own Worst Enemy: Asking the Right Questions About Security to Protect You, Your Family, and America."

7. Homeland Security at Home
Marvin Adams, associate vice president for research and a professor of nuclear engineering at Texas A&M University, talks about the collaboration between Lawrence Livermoore National Security and the Institute for National Security, Education, and Research. The institute will collaborate with LLNS to develop educational and research programs in three areas: detection and prevention of the proliferation of nuclear and radiological weapons; large-scale computer simulations of complex physical processes; and homeland and international security. 

Oct. 2: NSA hacker protection, defending civil liberties, detecting nuclear threats, changes in the world's hot spots, moving technology from the lab to the field, and the challenges of DHS spending

Tuesday, October 2, 7 p.m. CDT (KAMU 90.9 FM, College Station)

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1. News Media

Siobhan Gorman, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, will discuss the National Security Agency's (NSA) newly developed role in helping the government protect its communications networks from terrorists and hackers.

2. Inside the Beltway, Take One

Michael Tigar is currently a research professor of law at American University. Tigar will take us through his new book, "Thinking About Terrorism: The Threat to Civil Liberties in Times of National Emergency."

3. Inside the Beltway, Take Two

Tom Bourne works with the Department of Homeland Security's Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. The DNDO is charged with improving the nation’s capability to detect and report unauthorized attempts to import, possess, store, develop or transport nuclear or radiological material for use against the United States. Bourne will discuss the DNDO's training courses and seminars.

4. Outside the Beltway

Alexander Nicoll is the editor of the newly released Strategic Survey 2007, the annual global strategic assessment by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. World affairs through mid 2007 were dominated by the effects of America’s profound loss of authority, IISS says in the survey. The book found that, following the failure to impose order on Iraq, ‘the weak pillar in the world’s security architecture was plain to see, and leaders across the globe sought to take advantage, or to protect themselves from the consequences’.

5. Wild Card

DHS Director of Transition Bob Hooks will explain the department's role in moving new homeland security technology as quickly as possible from the lab to the field. One example:  Equipping vehicles along the nation's borders with laptop computers to provide for instant, up-to-the-minute data.

6. Homeland Security at Home

Cindy Williams,  a principal research scientist in the Securities Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will talk about the distribution of DHS funding and the problems DHS faces in trying to allocate enough funds to deal with the nation's top challenges in homeland security.

7. On the Road with Randy Larsen
Co-host Randy Larsen will discuss his ongoing book tour and take us through some of the questions he's received from listeners along the way.