Showing posts with label Operation Linebacker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Operation Linebacker. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Perry bizarrely still claiming 60% drop in border crime

›
The Austin Statesman on it's "Truth-O-Meter" page , which fact checks statements by politicians in Texas political races, gave...
2 comments:
Friday, February 05, 2010

Border pork wrong priority for federal stimulus funds

›
I'm disappointed to learn of plans to spend federal "stimulus" money on Governor Perry's pet border-security pork program...
17 comments:
Monday, October 20, 2008

Elected Sheriff receiving Governor's border security funds allegedly worked for Gulf Cartel

›
Yet another elected Texas Sheriff has been ousted on corruption charges, this time Starr County Reymundo Guerra who was allegedly helping th...
3 comments:
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

National Guard corruption highlights border security challenges

›
Two of the National Guard troops deployed in 2006 by Gov. Perry as part of Operation Linebacker have been convicted of helping smuggle ille...
7 comments:
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Fusion Centers in Texas: "What we have here is a failure to communicate"

›
One product of the 80th Texas Legislature was giving after-the-fact approval in HB 13 (amended at the end of session into SB 11) to Governo...
4 comments:
Friday, May 25, 2007

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead: Why HB 13 Died and Why it Doesn't Matter

›
Governor Perry's homeland security bill, HB 13 , died today on a point of order called by Rep. Lon Burnam. For you non-parliamentarians ...
1 comment:
Thursday, May 24, 2007

Texas Criminal Justice News Roundup

›
Just a quick tour around the web revealed several interesting items that may interest Grits readers: Blame and Innocence Via Burnt Orange Re...
6 comments:
Monday, May 07, 2007

No, Chairman Swinford, they're not Byrne grants!

›
Chairman David Swinford was dead wrong to tell the Texas House that new federal money contemplated in HB 13 would go through the Edward Byr...
5 comments:

Most states don't run homeland security money through Governor

›
UPDATE The Texas House of Representatives will consider the Governor's homeland security bill HB 13 again today, and a key issue facing ...
1 comment:
Sunday, May 06, 2007

Swinford's line in the sand on HB 13 makes no sense

›
So since when does Congressman John Culberson get a vote in the Texas House of Representatives when he can't even get his bills passed i...
6 comments:
Thursday, May 03, 2007

How David Swinford's Bad Day Made HB 13 A Better Bill

›
After I called it the Governor's Great Homeland Security Power Grab this morning, the debate over HB 13 was as bizarre today as it was...
9 comments:

HB 13: The Governor's Great Border Security Power Grab

›
The Governor's big homeland security bill, HB 13 by Swinford , heads to the House floor today and if I had my druthers they'd shoot ...
1 comment:
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Border police chiefs dislike Governor's homeland security bill

›
Police chiefs on the border don't like the Governor's homeland security bill, HB 13 by Swinford , AT ALL. Kuff has their letter and ...
Monday, April 23, 2007

Farrar: HB 13 won't secure border, risks letting political concerns interfere with law enforcement

›
Legislation passed out of the House State Affairs Committee last week puts too much power in the Governor's hands and improperly orders ...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

Where is press coverage on these big stories?

›
Since I've been tracking criminal justice topics at the Lege so closely, I thought I'd mention several recent stories covered here o...
17 comments:
Friday, April 13, 2007

DPS: Open criminal case data given to Northrop Grunman, never received back

›
A critical exchange occurred this afternoon at the House State Affairs Committee regarding Chairman David Swinford's beleaguered HB 13 (...
4 comments:

Don't Do It!! Perry moves to consolidate intelligence gathering in Governor's office

›
Another major Gubernatorial power grab lies waiting in the wings related to border enforcement in the form of HB 13 by Swinford , which will...
6 comments:
Thursday, April 12, 2007

CPPP tells a tale of two prison budgets

›
The Center for Public Policy Priorities has published a side by side analysis (pdf) of the Texas House and Senate budgets, and I thought I...
Monday, April 02, 2007

DPS and Governor's border operations don't coordinate, at all

›
The Governor's Operation Linebacker/Rio Grande/Wrangler/etc. hasn't been coordinating efforts funded under the program with the Depa...
3 comments:
Saturday, February 24, 2007

What is the Sheriff's Association Lege Agenda?

›
The Odessa American reports today that Midland Sheriff Gary Painter was in Austin lobbying on behalf the Sheriffs Association this week. H...
7 comments: