Department of Homeland Security

the Department of Homeland Security is expected to announce tomorrow that it will ban all laptops and other large devices (like tablets) from being held in the cabin on flights originating in Europe.  Expect a world-wide ban soon .....

In the normal course of events, the announcement by DHS that it would ban large electronic devices from direct flights originating at ten airports in the Middle East would excite a great deal of comment.  Technologists would speculate as to the nature of the potential new bomb threat.  Intelligence-types would be curious as to the provenance of the intelligence -- was it SIGINT or HUMINT?  Law and policy folk would ask about the legal underpinnings and debate the policy's scope and wisdo

Wherein Donald Trump does his best Barack Obama impression ....

President-Elect Trump has a broad immigration and border security agenda (at least according to his campaign promises).  How much of it can he actually achieve?  Most of it.  We examine the details.