Overseeing the Overseers

Calming the Chaos

Homeland Security officials have lamented the myriad Congressional committees that have oversee their agency. The Center for Strategic and International Studies took a look at how to solve that problem with a panel discussion called “Congressional Chaos: Oversight in the Next Administration.” The participants included Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Partner at Monument Policy Group and former Majority Staff Director and General Counsel at the House Committee on Homeland Security; David Olive, Co-Founder, Olive Edwards, & Cooper; and Mike Russell of the Minority Staff on the House Homeland Security Committee. James Carafano, Senior Research Fellow for Defense and Homeland Security, at the Heritage Foundation, moderated the discussion.

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More Economic Names

President-elect Barack Obama announced the creation of an Economic Recovery Advisory Board and named Paul Volcker and Austan Goolsbee as members. He also took some questions from the media about the economy.

How to Be a Yes Man (or Woman)

Federal News Radio’s Max Cacas told you about a speech from Bob Lentz at last week’s Security 2008 event. In today’s highlights, Lentz talked about the nature of securing information, and focusing on saying “yes” instead of “no” to new applications.

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Wall Street Problems Connected to the Pentagon

There’s a connection between the problems on Wall Street and the Pentagon. Harlan Ullman, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the National Defense University, is writing about it in his Washington Times column today, and he talked about it.

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