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WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Monday reassigned the leader of the Transportation Security Administration and directed the agency to revise airport security procedures, retrain officers and retest screening equipment in airports across the country. The TSA’s acting administrator, Melvin Carraway, is being reassigned to a different job in the Department of […]

Jeh Johnson is another of President Barack Obama’s high-profile African-American picks appointed to top positions in the presidential Cabinet. Johnson, who served as general counsel for former President Bill Clinton, was sworn in as the Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security in December 2013. He is the first Black person to assume the role. […]

For the first time in history, three African Americans selected by President Barack Obama could simultaneously manage high-level federal operations that shape national and global law enforcement policies while also protecting America against terrorists. It’s no coincidence – and it’s a rare moment in the nation’s history. Obama has carefully assembled a qualified team of […]

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President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate Jeh Johnson to lead the Department of Homeland Security. If confirmed, Johnson would become the first African American to hold the post. Johnson would succeed Janet Napolitano, who resigned in July to become president of The University of California. Johnson, whose uncle was a member of […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling back a trusted counterterrorism adviser from his first term by nominating former top Pentagon lawyer Jeh Johnson as secretary of homeland security. Obama plans to announce Johnson’s nomination Friday. He must be confirmed by the Senate before taking over the post most recently held by Janet Napolitano, […]