ABOUT:
Defense policy analysis, commentary and discussion.Rob Margetta is Editor of CQ Homeland Security. He has served as a homeland reporter for CQ since 2007, focusing on congressional action, the federal budget, border security and immigration, air travel and aviation security, disaster relief and maritime affairs and the Coast Guard. He has also done in-depth reporting on homeland security science and technology and the security industry that has developed in the years since 9/11.
Prior to joining CQ, he worked as a crime reporter in at the Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts. His previous experience includes working as a reporter at the Providence Journal.
A Massachusetts native, he received a BA from The College of William and Mary and an MSL from Georgetown Law.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s decision to leave the Cabinet this fall means President Barack Obama will have to find a replacement just as deliberations over an immigration overhaul may reach their peak.
Top law enforcement and intelligence officials fiercely defended the Obama administration’s sweeping surveillance programs on Capitol Hill Thursday, emphasizing their legality, their record of success in thwarting terrorist attacks and the many opportunities lawmakers have had over the years to alter the programs that some are now criticizing as too intrusive.
In the Twitter age, apparently lawmakers don’t even need to wrap up their hearings before responding to news reports they don’t like, as BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray discovered Wednesday.
Organizers of President Barack Obama’s second inauguration say they’ve made changes in security and logistics that should prevent some of the problems seen in 2008, but the size of the crowd, expected to be vastly smaller than four years ago, could be the biggest factor that determines how smoothly things run.
Lawmakers concluded weeks ago that the possibility of passing a cybersecurity bill this session is gone, finished, dead and buried. Except it might not be, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said Friday.
Immigration policy, a background issue for much of the presidential campaign, played a significant role in Tuesday night’s presidential debate, with both President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney going on the offensive.
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