Woodrow Wilson Center Holds Discussion Titled "From Cyber to Immigration, Terrorism to Disasters: Securing America in the Next Administration" (Congressional Quarterly)

• [January 24, 2013] The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Aspen Institute co-hosted a discussion between Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO of the Wilson Center, and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, titled "From Cyber to Immigration, Terrorism to Disasters: Securing America in the Next Administration."

Zbigniew Brzezinski: Obama must 'stand up' to Netanyahu (Washington Jewish Week)

• [November 11, 2012] "Two days after the election that returned President Barack Obama to the White House for a second term, and a week before the latest explosion of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski offered his take on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Brzezinski, who served under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981, spoke Nov. 8 to a Washington audience of 75 foreign ambassadors and other dignitaries at the Aspen Institute's Ambassadors' Security Roundtable Luncheon. Moderating the discussion was CNN foreign affairs correspondent Jill Dougherty. In his speech, the 84-year-old retired diplomat said Obama ought to stand up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - both on the issue of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and on Iran's nuclear weapons program."

Larsen: We Have Fallen Into Failure of Imagination (BioPrepWatch)

• [November 19, 2012] "[Col. Randall] Larsen, a retired member of the U.S. Air Force, spoke before the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. He pointed out that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently referred to the destruction of the Jersey Shore as unthinkable. Larsen said, however, that the DHS has provided 15 disaster scenarios to local, state and federal officials, one of which is a Category IV hurricane hitting a metropolitan area[...]"

Bioterrorism Remains Real Threat a Decade After Anthrax Attacks, Expert Says (The Star Ledger)

• [November 15, 2012] Dr. Leonard Cole, adjunct professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and director of its Terror Medicine program, testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence with Col. Randall J. Larsen on the government's level of preparedness in the event of a biological terrorist attack.

Experts Warn of Reduced Resources for WMD Response (Global Security Newswire)

• [November 16, 2012] "A government-ordered report released on Thursday found that federal resources dedicated to preparing the United States to respond and withstand a WMD attack had been reduced in a number of areas. The study produced by the Aspen Institute at the request of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano raises the question of whether the country more than a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks is backsliding in efforts to prepare for an unconventional strike on the homeland, particularly an act of biological terrorism."

Homeland Security and International Engagement (C-SPAN)

• [January 17, 2012] At the winter AHSG Meeting, Homeland Security Security Janet Napolitano, former National Security Adviser (Ret.) General James Jones, and former Deputy and Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin discussed the role that DHS can and should play internationally and the current threat picture. While discussing Iran, General Jones asserted that 2012 was the year that the U.S. would have to deal with Iran "one way or the other." The program includes questions for the panel from the audience.

Former CIA chief: Military is 'bad option' against Iran (CNN)

• [January 17, 2012] Former CIA acting director John McLaughlin said the United States can engage Iran through diplomacy, sanctions or military action, but warned the latter choice "would be a very bad option."

Former CIA Official: Al-Qaeda in Yemen Still Nimble (The Washington Post)

• [January 17, 2012] "Their operation that sent Abdulmutallab here in December of 2009 was something -- it was a pick-up game. It took about a month to get that thing going," McLaughlin said Tuesday during an event on homeland security at the Woodrow Wilson Center. "They're cheap: The package-bomb operation, by their own estimate, cost them about AHSG page,200. And they have a strategy, which is a thousand cuts. So, basically, attack us where they can."

USA Pledges to Keep Cooperating (The News)

• [January 18, 2012] "We will work hand-in-hand with whomever is in power. We have good relationships on many different levels with Mexico," said the secretary in a lecture on Tuesday at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, referring to the July 1 presidential election.

EU Will Keep Fighting Together (Excelsior [in Spanish])

• [January 18, 2012] During a lecture at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of U.S. Homeland Security, said "We have good relations there (in Mexico) at different levels. President Calderon is doing a truly heroic effort to try to fight the cartels in this country, our neighbor. It's a very violent struggle."

Cooperation with Mexico Will Continue, Whoever Wins: EU (Cronica de Xalapa [in Spanish])

• [January 17, 2012] "I think we'll work with whoever is in power (in Mexico). We have good relations there at different levels," said Napolitano to question the moderator of a forum in which he participated at the Woodrow Wilson Center in around the priorities of EU internal security.