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Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner W. Ralph Basham and former Customs and Border Protection Chief of Staff, Thad Bingel, shared their extensive knowledge of the U.S.-Mexico border fence controversy and immigration policy with U.S. News earlier this week.

To read the full article, please go to GOP Uses Border Fence as Immigration Distraction for 2012 in U.S. News & World Report.

On October 8, W. Ralph Basham, former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, participated in a panel at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. with the current CBP Commissioner, Alan Bersin, and the first CBP Commissioner, Robert C. Bonner.

To read the full article, please go to Former CBP Commissioner Has Few Kind Words for Congress in the NDIA's National Defense Magazine.

On September 10, Mo McGowan of Command Consulting Group was featured on NBC's "Two N. Texans Helped Shape Post-9/11 Air Security."  Mr. McGowan and Mr. Wansley reflect on 9/11 and how that day irrevocably changed America's approach to air security.

 

 

Larry Wansley, former director of American Airlines, and Mo McGowan, a corporate security expert who helped create the Transportation Security Administration talk about the changes since the Sept. 11 attacks.

To read the full article, please go to Two N. Texans Helped Shape Post-9/11 Air Security on NBC.

Command Consulting Group principal, Joseph W. Hagin, was quoted in the Businessweek article, "It’s Time to Rethink Counterterrorism Spending" on September 7.

After the destruction of the World Trade Center, the public was gripped with fears of a second attack, and the Bush Administration believed that another strike “would have been catastrophic to the economy,” says Joseph W. Hagin, then Deputy White House Chief of Staff. “People forget what it was like...Consumer spending had declined dramatically, especially in major cities. People were afraid to get on airlines. It was pretty desperate.” In an attempt to boost confidence, Bush implored the public to go shopping, and had dinner at Morton’s The Steakhouse in downtown Washington to “signal to the country that it was O.K. to get back out there and spend money,” Hagin says.

To read the full article, please go to It’s Time to Rethink Counterterrorism Spending on Bloomberg Businessweek.