Very good, and im proud of it. It supports d. H. S. s frontline personnel and essential Security Operations and maintains fiscal discipline. Specifically for customs and Border Protection, this agreement adds 42 million above the request to ensure assure 24 7 surveillance of all land, sea and air approaches. It increases air and marine flight hours from 74,000 to 95,000 per year. This agreement fully funds 23,775 Border Patrol officers to reduce wait times of passengers arriving at the Nations International airports without resorting to burdensome user fees as proposed by the president. Funds are included for 21,370 Border Patrol agents the highest Operational Force in d. H. S. History. Funds for Tactical Communications equipment and Border Security technology are increased by 20 million above the request. Substantial increases are included for targeting systems and Data Analysis to support counterterrorism efforts. For immigration and Customs Enforcement, custody and deportation are i
Are offe and erik today, no doubt eating the christmas food. We have cookies. We will have that during the break. American express is paying 70 million to settle claims it used deceptive marketing track this is practices. It will go to 300,000 customers who bought things like credit monitoring. Ular to say that the regulators say that the addons had hidden costs. Firstclass stamp will cost you . 49 starting january 26, so stock up. The increase is to save 1. 8 billion a year off of the post losses. Massive Edward Snowden says that government surveillance is worse than anything envisioned in George Orwells novel 1984. Snowden is living in russia on temporary asylum. The message aired on londons channel four. The gift that keeps on giving. Not for the government. For people who consider him a whistleblower, maybe. Catching flak after failing to deliver packages in the u. S. By christmas day. The shipper is blaming nfl ends of packages that exceeded laming an avalanche of packages that ex
Security council. As the New York Times reported at the time, quote, the elimination of the Cyber Security role is likely to increase concern of the Trump Administration shorthanded and unprepared to deal with increasing Cyber Security threats. Last night senator blumenthal said on this show the russian cyber attack made him both alarmed and scared. He could not fully elaborate because the information was classified but tonight we have a better understanding of why that might be. Politico reporting the Energy Department and National Nuclear security administration, which maintains the u. S. Nuclear weapon stockpile have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation. The Energy Department since released a statement saying at this point, the investigation has found that the malware has been isolated to Business Networks only and has not impacted the mission of National Security functions of the department, including the National Nuclear securit
Media to spread disinformation. How an election season of sabotage led to a Holiday Season of delays and other issues. The u. S. Postal service. Congresswoman katy porter will join us on that. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Its beginning the look like the single biggest hack in history. Were learning more about the breadth of it every day. You may remember back when the coronavirus pandemic first hit, many people pointed out part of the reason its implausible the part of the reason our government was so unprepared was because the Trump Administration had reached in and disbanded a White House Pandemic Response Team in 2018. Now, as more and more extremely worrying details about russias massive cyber attack on our federal government come to light, assignments worth pointing out days after getting rid of the Pandemic Response team, the white house eliminated Cyber Security coordinator. The elimination of the Cyber Security role is likely to increase
Should be derived strategically. We tend to look at strategy as linking and balancing, hence ways and means. Then we look at the results and risk. We believe that, at the end of the day, our strategy is reflected in the qdr. It is fundamentally about protecting our National Security interests. If we understand what those are and that some are more important than others, not only does this enable us to offer advice on when and how to use force, it means we can link those interests on how to allocate everincreasing means that are provided by congress. And in between the ends and the means lies the Fertile Ground of ways, and how we go about getting it all done. And how resourceful we can be in crafting those ways. The tougher we are on ourselves and how we manage a resources, the better we can conserve our ends. One of the most important ways is deterrence, which really comes in two forms. One is showing an adversary that we can deny objective. In other words, his attacks will fail. Alte