- Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff , Secretary of Homeland Security, stated in a speech that "in setting up the new center, we've reorganized the way we combat these criminal organizations. And we really emphasized and facilitated a team approach at all levels of government and with the private sector to make sure we're bringing all the elements of national power to bear in dealing with what is a national and transnational problem."
- Emilio T. Gonzalez
Emilio T. Gonzalez, Ph.D, serves as the current Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an Under Secretary position within the Department of Homeland Security. Appointed by President Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in December 2005, Dr. Gonzalez leads an organization of more than 15,000 federal and contract employees responsible for the accurate, efficient and secure processing of immigration benefits.
- Jay M. Cohen
Jay M. Cohen is a retired Rear Admiral of the United States Navy and currently Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology of the United States Department of Homeland Security. He entered the Navy in 1968 as an ensign after graduation from the United States Naval Academy. His last assignment in the Navy was (20th) Chief of Naval Research. He retired as a serviceman on February 1, 2006.
- Kip Hawley
Editor's note: Today we unveil a new regular feature called "Five Good Questions." We'll interview an industry newsmaker about current issues and events. Our first interview is with Transportation Security Administration Administrator Kip Hawley . He has served as administrator since July 27, 2005. Hawley brings more than 20 years of transportation and technology experience to TSA, now part of the Dept.
- Robert Gates
Robert Michael Gates, born September 25 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W. Bush as Director of Central Intelligence. After leaving the CIA, Gates became president of Texas A&M University and was a member of several corporate boards.
- Thad W. Allen
Admiral Thad William Allen (born January 16, 1949) is the twenty-third Commandant of the United States Coast Guard. Allen is most well known for his widely-praised performance directing the federal response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast region from September 2005 to January 2006. Allen served as the Coast Guard's chief of staff from May 2002 until May 2006. As chief of staff, Allen was third in the Coast Guard's command structure, …
- Michael P. Jackson
On March 10, 2005, Michael P. Jackson was confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In this role, Mr. Jackson serves as DHS’ chief operating officer, with responsibility for managing day-to-day operations. Mr. Jackson served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) from May 2001 to August 2003. As Deputy Secretary, Mr.
- Philip Perry
Philip J. Perry (born 1964, San Diego County, California) is an American attorney and Bush Administration political appointee. He was Acting Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, and General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security. Perry is a member of the Federalist Society. He is currently a partner at Latham & Watkins in their litigation department.
- Julie Myers
Julie L. Myers is the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She assumed the job following a recess appointment by President George W. Bush on January 4, 2006. Myers was formerly the Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement at the Department of Commerce. In that capacity, she oversaw 170 employees and a $25 million budget. She is also the niece of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Richard Myers, …
- Daniel W. Sutherland
Daniel W. Sutherland is the current Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He was appointed to the position on April 16, 2003 by George W. Bush. He has served fourteen years with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and nearly two years with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, where he was Chief of Staff.
- James Loy
James M. Loy, Deputy Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
- Brian Doyle
Brian J. Doyle (born April 7, 1950) was the deputy press secretary for the United States Department of Homeland Security. He was the fourth highest ranking official in the department's public affairs office. He is divorced.. From 1975 to 2001, he worked on the Washington news desk for Time Magazine
- Laura Callahan
Laura Callahan is a former senior director at the United States Department of Homeland Security who was forced to resign after an investigation revealed that she and numerous other federal employees had obtained high-ranking government jobs through use of fabricated academic degrees received from diploma mills.
- Maher Arar
Maher Arar (born 1970 in Syria) is a Canadian software engineer who is perhaps the most well-known victim of the United States policy of extraordinary rendition, a process where detainees are transferred from one country to another, with the expectation that they may be tortured in the country to which they are rendered.
- Jake Brahm
Jake Joseph Brahm (born 1986) is an American grocery store clerk, blogger, and alleged terrorist. He attained notoriety when a post he made on the 4chan imageboard was interpreted as a terrorist threat by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Although doubting the credibility of the threat, the DHS warned the National Football League (NFL) of this threat via a memo which was later leaked to the press.
- Gordon Johndroe
Gordon Johndroe is Special Assistant to the President of the United States, George W. Bush and Press Secretary of the National Security Council. Mr. Johndroe previously served as Director of Strategic Communications and Planning at the State Department, Press Secretary to the First Lady, Laura Bush and as the Press Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security.
- Stewart Baker
Stewart Abercrombie Baker (born July 17, 1947) is the Assistant Secretary for Policy for the United States Department of Homeland Security (as of 2006). Baker is the former General Counsel of the National Security Agency (1992-1994) and author of the book, "The Limits of Trust: Cryptography, Governments, and Electronic Commerce" (1998), and other publications and articles on electronic commerce and international trade.
- Elizabeth Cheney
Elizabeth Cheney Perry (born July 28, 1966), an American attorney. She is the elder daughter of United States Vice President Dick Cheney and Second Lady Lynne Cheney. She has been appointed to posts that make her influential in her own right, and she is married to Philip Perry, the former General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
- Charles E. Allen
- Richard L. Skinner
Richard L. Skinner is the current Department of Homeland Security Inspector General (since July 28, 2005). He has served the U.S. Federal government since 1969, starting at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- Ignacio Ramos
Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos is a former United States Border Patrol Agent, who shot an unarmed illegal alien and drug smuggler on the United States–Mexico border. He was convicted of causing serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and a civil rights violation.
- Rigoberto Alpizar
Rigoberto Alpizar (April 17, 1961-December 7, 2005) was a Costa Rican-born United States citizen who was fatally shot at Miami International Airport by two United States federal air marshals. Alpizar was a resident of the central Florida town of Maitland, and worked in the paint department of a Home Depot supply store. He was supposed to fly with his wife, Anne Buechner, back home to Orlando, Florida after returning from a missionary trip to Quito, Ecuador.
- Farid Essebar
Farid Essebar (born in 1987, known as Diabl0) is a Moroccan black hat hacker. He was one of the two masterminds (along with Turkish Atilla Ekici) behind the spread of the Zotob Computer virus that targeted Windows 2000 operating systems in 2005. Among the affected were CNN, ABC News, New York Times, Caterpillar, Boeing and also United States Department of Homeland Security.
- Joe Allbaugh
Joe M. Allbaugh (born July 27, 1952) is an American political figure in the Republican Party. After spending most of his career in Oklahoma and Texas, Allbaugh came to national prominence working for Texas governor George W. Bush and helping manage his 2000 presidential election campaign. Allbaugh then became a member of Bush's cabinet as Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) beginning in February 2001.
- Marisa Lino
Marisa Lino (1950) is an American diplomat. She was born in Portland, Oregon, and received an M.A. in international affairs from The George Washington University in 1972 and B.A. in political science from Portland State University in 1971. In May 1999, she received an honorary doctorate of international affairs from John Cabot University. Her career at the State Department included overseas positions in Albania, Italy, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq and Peru.
- Alfonso Martinez-Fonts Jr.
Alfonso ("Al") Martinez-Fonts Jr. has been since November 27, 2005 the Assistant Secretary for the Private Sector Office at the United States Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Martinez-Fonts is responsible for the Private Sector Office, which provides a link between the Department of Homeland Security and the private sector of the United States.
- Tracy A. Henke
Tracy A. Henke, a native of Moscow Hills, Missouri, was a government official holding held high-level positions in the United States Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security -- both tenures which had some controversy. After earning a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Missouri, Columbia, Henke joined the Justice Department on June 25, 2001, as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General (PDAAG) of the Office of Justice Programs, …
- Charles H. Ramsey
Charles H. Ramsey was the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC) from 1998-2006. A native of Chicago, Illinois, he joined the Chicago Police Department as an 18 year old cadet in 1968. After serving six years as a patrol officer, he was promoted to sergeant in 1977. He was appointed a lieutenant in 1984 and became captain in 1988.
- Delon Dotson
Delon Dotson is an expatriate American technologist and businessman who has played key roles in several businesses, including Netscape Communications and MP3.com. He is currently CEO and founder of PalmTree Technology. Dotson's entrepenuerial career begin as a founder and CEO of a technical outsourcing firm located in southern California. He moved on from that to Netscape Communications, …
- Elfriede Rinkel
Elfriede Rinkel was a guard at the Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin. She worked at the camp from June of 1944 until April 1945 handling an SS-trained guard dog. She was not a member of the Nazi party. She left Germany for the United States and was admitted as an immigrant on or around September 21 1959 in San Francisco, California. At a German-American Club in San Francisco she met German Jew Fred William Rinkel and they married.
- Jeremy Hutchinson
Jeremy Hutchinson is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives. When he was first elected in March 2000, at the age of 25 (see below), he was the youngest member of the Arkansas General Assembly. Hutchinson was subsequently re-elected three times. Hutchinson is a Republican and serves on the Judiciary and Insurance and Commerce committees. He also serves as vice-chair of the Joint Energy Committee.
- Sage Walker
Sage Walker is a science fiction writer based in New Mexico. She contributed to the Wild Cards series and won the Locus Award for her first novel, "Whiteout". She attended a United States Department of Homeland Security conference on science and technology.
- Rebecca L. Ediger
Rebecca L. Ediger (born September 13, 1952) Deputy Assistant Director/Administration, Office of Human Resources and Training, United States Secret Service, United States Department of Homeland Security. Ms Ediger was born in Newton, Kansas. A native of Peabody, Kansas and graduate of Peabody-Burns High School, Ms.
- Marcus Sachs
Marcus H. Sachs directs the Washington operations of SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory. He was born in Lahore, Pakistan on October 4 1959 and moved to Tallahassee, Florida with his parents and younger brother in 1961. He grew up in Tallahassee and graduated from Godby High School in 1977.
- Rob
I'm a military brat who happened to end up in Maine because of some... interesting circumstances. I work for the United States Department of Homeland Security as a Transportation Security Officer at PWM. As you can probably see from my musical interests, it varies.
- George Rocheny
MY NAME IS GEORGE BEST KNOWN AS ROACH, G-ROCK, OR G.W.... IM 20 YEARS OLD... LIVE IN GREEN BAY WISCONSIN... BORN AND RAISED IN BAYONNE, NJ... I LOVE NY... JUST LIKE EVERY1 ELSE... I'M CURRENTLY LIVING IN GREEN BAY, WI WITH MY OWN PLACE... GO TO THE GYM ALOT... POWERLIFT... SCHOOL... WORK FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.. NETHING ELSE YOU WANNA KNOW SEND ME A MESSAGE AND ASK OR IM ME ON AIM AT ROACH2O... PEACE.
- Marc Swartz
About Me: I am not your typical well-educated 41 year old, over achieving male seeking my soul mate and lifetime partner in crime! What sets me apart is as follows:In my spare time, you will find that I am a voracious reader (can recite Shakespeare), a wonderful chef and have a sense of humor that just does not quit (Dennis Miller and Eddie Murphy look out!). My personal hobbies include cooking, sailing, scuba diving, canoeing and flying.
- Brian Trenner
If you knew me you probabally couldn't describe me, so why should i even try.
- Enrique
I actually invented humor in all its forms. Puns, Jokes, Lymrics, one-liners, you name it if its funny I invented it. I get royalties every time anyone says or does something funny, and as such I am the richest man in the world. I own the majority shares in both microsoft and macintosh. I also own the seatle sea hawks and wayne gretski. On the weekends I enjoy relaxing in my secluded castle on my private continent next to my personal ocean. I am a compulsive liar.
- Joe D. Whitley
Joe Whitley served as the first General Counsel to the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the highest ranking legal official in the department. At DHS he oversaw approximately 1,500 lawyers and 400 support staff from numerous agencies, including the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, Border and Transportation Security, the Transportation Security Administration, Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, and Emergency Preparedness and Response (FEMA).