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TSA chief John Pistole said he has decided not to expand a program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners, saying he does not see any advantage to it.

Looters broke into the Egyptian Museum during anti-government protests late Friday and destroyed two Pharaonic mummies, Egypt's top archaeologist told state television.

The Security Executive Council is pleased to announce that Managing Director Bob Hayes will keynote the upcoming Great Conversation^™ event in Seattle.

Low-flying government planes, bomb-sniffing dogs, magnetometers, high-tech mobile command centers, SWAT officers, police horses or robots will all be a part of the massive annual security effort that comes with hosting the Super Bowl, which has long been considered a potential terrorist target

The U.S. Secret Service will put to bed a table-top game it uses in training and replace it with an electronic version.

The Security Executive Council is pleased to announce that Managing Director Bob Hayes will keynote the upcoming Great Conversation™ event in Seattle.

A recent survey of more than 570 U.S.-based corporate security professionals, travel managers, human resources executives, medical professionals and others reveals that 40 percent of respondents identify Latin America as the region that poses the greatest risk to their business travelers in 2011.

The Springfield-Branson National Airport wants to opt out of TSA security and go to a private company.

 

It's not perfect. The E-Verify system lets unauthorized workers slip through its filter more than half the time because it cannot spot identity theft, according to a federal report.

 

The government recaptured a record $4 billion last year from pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and other providers of care that defrauded federal health-care programs, the Obama administration reported.